Three tourists photographing a marmot on a trail along the edge of Lake O’Hara. August 1963. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton. Library and Archives Canada.
The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.
Missed last week’s roundup? Check it out here.
Environmental History
- The most commonly-used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Que,” “Liberty,” and “Falwell.”
- Ruth Sandwell spoke to The Sunday Edition about the last major Canadian energy transition: from wood to fossil fuels and hydroelectricity.
- I’m still traumatized from reading the Handmaid’s Tale several years ago, so I haven’t seen the tv show. But this week on NiCHE, Daniel Macfarlane and Sean Kheraj examined how the show portrays the journey between Canada and the US.
Military History
- The latest Soldier Spotlight on the South Peace Regional Archives blog featured Michael Cashaback, who served as a blacksmith, cook, and provost in WW2 with the Canadian Army.
- Last week I mentioned that Maxine Bredt was profiled on this year’s Veterans’ Week poster. CBC spoke with Bredt about her experiences during the Italian campaign and women in the military.
- Andrew Burtch published a new piece with The Ottawa Citizen about Canadian peacekeepers in Cyprus in the summer of 1974.
Archaeology
- Brienna French published a new piece on the Woodland Cemetery History blog about some of the surprises she and Robyn Lacy found while conserving gravestones.
- Pierre Desrosiers published a new piece on the Canadian Museum of History website about the most important archaeological moment in their life, excavating an Inuit semi-subterranean sod house in Qikirtajuaq that was more than 700 years old.
- CBC profiled metal detectorist, Tim Barkasy, who has searched all along the southern parts of Vancouver Island.
- Memorial University profiled the work of Derek Wilton, and how he is using laser ablation to study archaeological samples of local copper, which was an important trade item for local Indigenous peoples.
- Teacups!!
History Education
- Danielle Kinsey published a new piece on the CHA Learning and Teaching blog about how managing TAs is graduate teaching.
- Arn Keeling published the second post in their series on NiCHE about the history and future of mining in Quebec and Labrador, and the MinErAL Network and REXSAC Nordic Centre of Excellence fieldschool.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- This week on his blog, Patrick Lacroix published testimony from Emory J. Randall about labour and capital relations in Manchester, New Hampshire, particularly in relation to Franco-Americans.
Indigenous History
- Cree Grand Chief Abel Bosum is asking the mayor of Montreal to return a 160 year old ceremonial beaded hood, which has been housed in the Lachine Museum since 1948.
- Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s claim to government land in the Bruce Peninsula and the waters around it as well as their request for compensation for the government’s violation of Treaty 72 has gone to court.
- In their latest post, the Archives of Montreal looked at how settlers have represented Indigenous peoples in the area currently known as Canada, particularly in prints, paintings, and other creative works.
- BAnQ published a list of various initiatives they have undertaken in partnership with other organizations to preserve Indigenous history in the area currently known as Quebec.
New France/British North America
- While more specifically about the US, this piece from the New York Times about the involvement of nuns in the trade of enslaved peoples is also relevant to Canadians.
- And this week on Unwritten Histories, we published the fourth post in our summer series on Acadian history. This latest one is by Elizabeth Mancke, on the legal ramification of the deportation of the Acadians.
Political History
- On its fiftieth anniversary, LAC looked at the history of Canada’s Official Languages Act, including their relevant digitized holdings.
Social History
- Both the CBCand the Globe and Mail looked back at previous (including historical) police hunts for fugitives in Canada. Because reasons.
- McGill University Archives shared their collection of material related to outer space.
- Sophie Hicks was back this week on Active History with another post in her series on food history in Canada. This week, she looked at English Canada and the Yorkshire pudding.
- This week BAnQ’s Instantanés looked at how the civil registers in Quebec show the impact of the Spanish Flu pandemic in the province.
- BC Food History’s latest blog post was on the Albion Iron Works of Victoria, known mostly for making early stoves.
Local History
- In honour of BC Day, the UBC Digitizer’s blog shared some items from their collection documenting the early history of British Columbia.
- This week Whistorical looked at the building of the Delta Mountain Inn.
- Thanks to a tip from Jak King, I can now share posts from the Grandview Heritage Group, which is dedicated to preserving the history of the Grandview neighbourhood of Vancouver. Their latest post featured a new version of their database with information on roughly 5,000 properties from the area.
- Heritage Winnipeg took a look at the history of the Gregg building.
- The Quebec City Archives shared images from the Québec 84 celebration, the 1984 celebration of the 450thanniversary of the arrival of Jacques Cartier.
- Adam Bunch published a new Twitter thread on the history of Alexandra Biriukova, the architect who designed the art deco home of Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris.
- The Globe and Mail profiled ten iconic Canadian buildings that have been lost to history.
- I’m not sure how a giant clock disappears, but apparently Toronto is missing one.
- The Retroactive blog announced that two historic building from Lethbridge’s Chinatown have just been added to the list of Provincial Historic Resources.
Digital and Public History
- Mark Altaweel explored how scientists can use GIS and historical photographs to map changes to the landscape.
- The Abenaki Museum in Odanak, Quebec has just finished building a replica of a nineteenth century Kwigw8mna. No mention about whether or not the local Abenaki communities were involved.
- This year marked the seventh annual Freedom Train ceremony, commemorating all those who escaped enslavement through the Underground Railroad.
- A row of teepees were installed in Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square to honour residential school survivors, alongside a life-sized replica of a turtle sculpture by Solomon King that will eventually be installed in the square. Content warning: some limited discussion about residential schools.
- In honour of a new exhibit at Buckingham Palace on the 200thanniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, CBC looked back at her influence on Canada. Although anyone who knows anything about Victoria knows that she was more anti-feminist than feminist…
- The Royal City Music Project founder, Glenn Parfitt, is in the process of donating his collection of material related to Victoria’s music history from 1950s to the present to the University of Victoria.
- Someone stole a ferry captain uniform from the Wood Islands Lighthouse Museum in PEI.
- Paleontologists looked back at the discovery of the T-rex fossil that was named “Scotty,” twenty-five years ago in Saskatchewan.
- The Digitized Okanagan History project has announced that the Boundary Historical Society Reports are not available online.
- Krista McCracken wrote a new blog post on the portrayal of archivists in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones in the latest post in Active Histories’ ‘Historians at the Movies’ series.
- The Virtual Museum of Canada premiered a new community stories online exhibit this week. Produced by Lougheed House, the exhibit is called “Conflicting Loyalists: The Hardisty Family Legacy,” and looked at the legacy of Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed (Métis).
- And, coincidentally, Lougheed was also the subject of the latest Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry.
- In honour of the ceremony which will designate Shiloh Baptist Church and cemetery a provincial heritage site, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix spoke with Crystal Mayes, a descendent of one of the founders of the church, Mattie Mayes, as well as historian Lesley Briggs, about the occasion. I do not know what is up with the URL though…
- If you live in Winnipeg, you may want to participate in a new survey from the city about the Welcoming Winnipeg initiative, examining how colonialism has shaped their public monuments and place names, and how best to deal with this issue.
- Our Digital World updated their digitization resource list, which includes our roundups!
Doing History
- The latest Unearthed post was published in NiCHE this week, and profiled Hereward Longley.
- Sarah Troy has written the latest post from Pier 21’s blog, about why your grandparents are such a great source of history, and why you need to interview them.
- Lydia Wytenbroek reflected on their experience at the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History’s sixth annual meeting and workshop on their blog this week.
- The Congrès de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française has released the program and registration information for their upcoming annual meeting.
- Ndali Maureen Ugboma shared their recent experience as a practicum student at the Ontario Jewish Archives on their blog this week.
Podcasts
- The latest episode of the Maple Stars and Stripes podcast featured part two of their look at the Museum of Work and Culture, which also documents the history of Franco-Americans in New England.
- Eve Lazarus posted the latest episode of the Blood, Sweat, and Fear podcast, on the 1947 hunt for fugitive Walter Pavlukoff. Content warning: description of mass shooting, violence.
- Rebecca Goodwin spoke with the folks over at Gradcast about her work with Inuvialuit Living History.
- Notice History’s latest podcast episode launched a new series taking listeners on a virtual cross-country tour. The first episode highlights some of the best heritage sites and museums on the East Coast.
If you’re paying really close attention, you’ll see that I’m kinda on a kick of featuring roundup images with people taking pictures. Too meta? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this week’s roundup. If you did, please consider sharing it on the social media platform of your choice. And don’t forget to check back on Tuesday for the next post in our Acadia series. See you then!
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