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The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.
Missed last week’s roundup? Check it out here!
- Borealia turned one year old this week!
- I missed this last week, but you can now listen to last year’s CHA panel, entitled “Canada’s Transnational Humanitarians: Aid, Advocacy, Development, and Faith in the Pre-Digital Age,” on the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History website.
- There is a new book on the history of lesbian communities in Canada, by University of Manitoba professor Liz Millward.
- Active History is back this week with all new articles! Up first is a new article by Alan MacEachern. MacEachern discusses new findings announced in Nature that overturn the theory that Indigenous peoples migrated along a corridor from Alaska to Montana around 14,000 to 15,000 years ago. Many were quick to claim that the Bering Land Bridge theory was dead, but MacEachern urges restraint. (Read the Nature article here.)
- This week on Unwritten Histories, we have our monthly roundup of Best New Articles! This month I read the latest issues of Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Journal of Canadian Studies, BC Studies, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, and three individual articles. Find out which articles were my favourites!
- A new issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History is out, including a piece on Indigenous peoples and food in the North since 1945 by Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay, and Lori Chambers.
- Tina Loo, Laurence Monnais, and Natalie Zemon Davis have all been elected to the Royal Society of Canada! Well deserved!
- Are you a new scholar working in the field of environmental history in Canada? NiCHE (and the 2016/2017 New Scholar’s Representative, Mica Jorgenson) has some news and wants to hear from you!
- Kristine Alexander has a new article out in the latest issue of History Compass, called “Childhood and Colonialism in Canadian History.” It looks great! Also in this issue is a two-part review from Jeffrey L. McNairn on the recent flood of books on Upper Canada.
- Library and Archives Canada has digitized images from the construction of 395 Wellington, home to LAC itself and has provided some fascinating insights into the building’s history.
- The Canadian Network on Humanitarian History has released its latest bulletin, with lots of information about current and upcoming projects.
- There is a new exhibit up from the Virtual Museum, focusing on memories of the Women’s College Hospital of Nursing. I just love this website.
- The Recipes Project annual Teaching Series has premiered. In the first instalment, Ian Mosby talks about teaching the taste of Canadian history using Depression Cake.
- The Acadiensis Blog is also back with new content this week! Their latest blog post, by Jane Jenkins, focuses on the uneven implementation of public health reform in New Brunswick in the late 19th century. Jenkins uses this example to show that we must consider region when doing historical analysis, since national narratives tend to focus on Ontario and present an inaccurate picture for the rest of Canada.
- Sean Graham, of the History Slam podcast, is also back with a new episode, this one on American journalism. Graham interviews Matt Pressman on the topic. Can anyone really make sense of American journalism? 😉
- Pete Anderson has a new article out on the Ottawa Central Experimental Farm in the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Urban Research!
- LAC has also uploaded a new album this week, this time of cooking images. One of them is the picture for this week’s roundup!
- In her latest blog post, Krista McCracken writes about the Blanket exercise and why it’s such a great teaching tool. The Blanket exercise was developed in the 1990s as a tool to teach Canadian history from an Indigenous perspective.
- Owen Temby and Jessica van Horssen talk about the latest special issue of Urban History Review/Revue histoire urbaine, which they guest edited. It looks awesome, and you can look forward to reading about it in the next Best Articles post!
- Elsbeth Heaman has a new blog post on Active History. She discusses some of the parallels between the election and tenure of Wilfrid Laurier and Barack Obama. It’s a fascinating comparison. Fun fact, I took Pre-Confederation Canadian history at McGill with Elsbeth Heaman in my first semester of undergrad.
- Also on Active History this week, Mark Leier takes a humourous look at Karl Marx and Confederation. This could make for a fascinating discussion in the classroom.
- The Great War Centre is profiling photographer Elsie Holloway and her family studio, Holloway Studio. Holloway and her family photographed many of the volunteers from the Newfoundland Regiment who wanted their portraits taken before they went off to war.
- Vintage Everyday has the story behind the “Wait for Me, Daddy!” photograph from WW2.
- Continuing with their series profiling Canadian Victoria Cross recipients, the Discover Blog takes a look at Sergeant Leo Clarke.
- Renaud Séguin, also writing for the Discover Blog, tells the story of the first German submarine that was sunk by the Royal Canadian Navy.
- Anne Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki have a new article out this week as well, looking at 50 years of historiography on the subject of oral history.
- Canadian History in the News
- Archaeologists in the Halifax area are looking for help from the public. They are trying to determine the origin of a stone structure called the Bayers Lake Mystery Walls.
- Archaeologists have just found what they believe to be a Protestant cemetery dating from 1799 to 1852 in Montreal. So cool!
- This Labour Day The Tyee posted excerpts from the amazing Graphic History Collective’s latest book, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle. An exhibition of the book has also just premiered in Hamilton.
- September 6th marked the anniversary of the beginning of television in Canada in 1952! Radio Canada talks about this historic event and shows some really cool early ads.
- A huge collection of historical items is being auctioned off at Christie’s on September 14th, including a Stetson hat presented to Winston Churchill by the city of Calgary. He seems to have actually worn the hat too.
- A Métis cemetery located in Winnipeg has been razed to provide pasture for cows. Who thought this was a good idea?
- Meanwhile, a residential school cemetery in Regina is being considered for heritage designation.
- Mount Allison is going to pay tribute to the first woman in the British Empire to receive her bachelor’s degree. Grace Annie Lockhart received her degree in science in 1875 from Mount Allison. The university is organizing an event to take place at her gravesite in PEI on September 18th. Learn more about Lockhart’s life here.
- Did you know there used to be a replica of Lester B. Pearson’s study at Laurier House, in Ottawa? Created from family artefacts in 1974, the Pearson Collection was removed in 2014 and returned to Library and Archives Canada for being “confusing to visitors”. No one’s quite sure what happened, though the decision appears to have been politically motivated. History? Political? Who knew? 😉
- Canadian Geographic profiled three Canadian contributions to the Space Race, the Black Brant research rocket, the Alouette satellite, and the Apollo 11 landing gear. So cool!
- Did you know that there were 392 Canadians (including 56 Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) men, mostly from the Kahnawake band in Quebec, and 30 Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) men from Manitoba and Northern Ontario) that went on the 1884-1884 Gordon Relief Expedition to Egypt? The expedition was led by General Garnet Wolseley, former commander of the Red River Expedition — the military force sent by John A. Macdonald to stop the Riel Rebellion. Historical irony?
- The Two Row Times talked with professor Sidney L. Harring on the real history of the establishment of the village of Hagersville, Ontario.
- APTN has a new series called Wild Archaeology, which explores the archaeological record of the Indigenous peoples of North America., with archaeologists Dr. Rudy Reimer (Squamish) and hosts Jenifer Brousseau (Ojibway/French) and Jacob Pratt (Dakota/ Saulteaux). The first episode takes viewers to the high mountains of Squamish Nation to see an ancient Thunderbird pictograph and obsidian artefacts. Catch up on the first episode online with the link above! I watched it and I’m totally hooked! The show looks at history with both reverence and humour. I particularly liked it when Reimer said the key to hiking was “don’t get schmucked.” I die.
- The BC government is investing two million dollars to repatriate Indigenous remains and artifacts, including those held by the Royal BC Museum. This is great!
- The Aylmer-Malahide Museum & Archives of Ontario has a new exhibit all about fashion in the 1950s!
- The Jewish Museum and Archives of BC is launching a new program, the South African Diaspora Oral History Project, to document the experiences of Jews from South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Namibia who contributed to the BC Jewish community. They are looking for volunteers to conduct these interviews!
- Inside Toronto profiled a family mill built in Etobicoke in the early 1800s.
- Canadian Geographic talked to some of the teens involved in the Wings of Courage project, in which two replica Sopwith Pup Biplanes from WW1 were constructed as part of a documentary series.
- The Third Avenue United Church is close to becoming the next Saskatoon heritage property.
- George Green, Vice-President, Indigenous Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Parks Canada is inviting members of the Canadian Archaeological Association to submit Canadian candidates for the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. They are also looking for members to sit on an advisory committee to review these submissions.
- Universal Music Canada has donated the archive of EMI Music Canada to the University of Calgary. You can check out some of the artefacts from the collection in the announcement as well. Damn, why is Calgary so far away…
- Gord Downie is planning to release an album and a graphic novel inspired by the story of Chanie Wenjack, a victim of the residential school system. Proceeds from the project will go to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.
- The Saanich Archives have just received an amazing new collection of artefacts and documents, including a full uniform and cigarette case, belonging to WW1 veteran Richard Grenville Rice.
- The deadline to nominate a Japanese Canadian historic site in BC has been extended to November 30th!
- Some amazing artefacts that were found at an ancient Thule site in Nunavut (and mentioned in a previous roundup) have been recovered. They will be exhibited for two weeks in Pond Inlet before being sent south for preservation. The Ancient Thule were the precursors to the Inuit. The artefacts include animal bones, a blue seed bead, and a possible arrowhead.
- As part of the 130th anniversary of the Royal BC Museum, they have digitized all of their annual reports up to 2010. Check them out here!
- Historica Canada has just released an education portal, complete with education guides on a range of topics. I will totally have to review this now for a future Historian’s Toolkit!
- Allan Levine shows how little our attitudes towards immigrants have changed over the past 100 years, despite our official dialogue around multiculturalism.
- The Historicist takes a historical look back on Labour Day.
- While the city contemplates changes to the sign bylaws, take a look at some of Vancouver’s iconic billboards.
- Sarah Parcak was back in Point Rosee for three weeks of excavation on the possible Norse site. Nothing so far. Take a look behind the scenes on the site with my three part series on Vikings in the News.
- Efforts are underway to document the history of an African Nova Scotian church, the East Preston United Baptist Church. Songs and stories are being recorded that have been passed down in families since the late 1700s.
- You may remember the archaeological dig going on at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry a few weeks ago. This weekend a mother and son team found a 1.2m rail from one of the oldest locomotives in Canada!
That’s all for this week. Don’t forget to check back on Tuesday for a brand new blog post. I’ve got something special in store for you!
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