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Reconciling Chignecto: The Many Stories of Siknikt

July 16, 2019 / / 0 Comments
A map dating from the 1750s which shows the Chignecto Isthmus, and various features including Acadian dykes.

This map, A DRAUGHT of the ISTHMUS which joyns Nova Scotia to the Continent with the Situation of the ENGLISH and FRENCH FORTS & the Adjacent BAYS and RIVERS, was drawn at some point between 1751 and 1755. The sites marked “O” are captioned as: “Dykes levelled by the English from which the Indeans used to Fire at the Vesells as they came up the River Mesiguash” and the villages in red, all Acadian, are indicated as those “burned by the Indeans.” Those villages were burned in September of 1750, when the British took control of the region. (There is also an indescribable image of an Indigenous person shaking hands with a European, behind the cartouche.) This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. , https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z5039

Welcome to the second post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Anne Marie Lane Jonah, historian for Parks Canada and editor of the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. This is the second post of a six week series which is also being posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here. Enjoy!

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Best New Articles from May/June 2019

July 12, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Colourful pile of assorted books

Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?

 

Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.

 

This month I read articles from:

Here are my favourites:

*Special thanks to Carly Ciufo and Shannon Stettner for their help on this piece!

 

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Pointe Sainte-Anne: The Continuity of a Destroyed Eighteenth-century Acadian Village

July 9, 2019 / / 11 Comments
A map of the Saint John River drawn by royal surveyor Charles Morris in 1765.

“Map of the River St. John in the Province of Nova Scotia, exhibiting the grant to officers &c. in 1765, with other patents.” Charles Morris (1765) Library of Congress

Content Warning: The history of Pointe Sainte-Anne’s displacement is violent, and mentions specific instances of violence and murder; in particular, child death & torture. Proceed with caution.

 

Editor’s note: This blog post has been cross-posted on Acadiensis and Borealia, along with the rest of the series; be sure to check them out!

As I mentioned in the last blog post, today we will be starting with general overview with the history of Pointe Sainte-Anne, the events of 1759, and what we are attempting to achieve with the exhibit at the FRM.

But first, we need to emphasize that the history of Pointe Sainte-Anne obviously does not begin with the French at all, but with the Wəlastəkwiyik. Sainte-Anne (and thereby Fredericton) is located on Wəlastəkwiyik territory, which was never ceded. The first thing we aim to do with our exhibit is disabuse ourselves of the notion that the Acadians always peacefully co-existed with the local indigenous people. They did not. Although Acadians mostly managed to avoid outright war with the indigenous communities nearest to them, that doesn’t mean they didn’t outright displace them, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the local indigenous communities benefited from their presence.[1]

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Summer Series – Introduction to Acadian History

July 9, 2019 / / 4 Comments
Image of the burning and plundering of Grimross, by Thomas Davies (currently held by the National Gallery of Canada)

“A view of the burning and plundering of Grimross” by Thomas Davies, National Gallery of Canada (Digital image from Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to our summer series on Acadian history! We are very excited to be presenting this special six- week series, cross-posting on Unwritten Histories, Borealia, and  Acadiensis, and in collaboration with the Fredericton Regional Museum, the York Sunbury Historical Society, an Open Academy grant from the Royal Society, the UNB Departments of History and French, the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, the Institut d’Études Acadiennes, and Historica Canada.

The blog series is the result of an exhibit, which will be opening this summer at the Fredericton Region Museum (FRM), and which myself and Dr. Chantal Richard of the UNB French Department have been coordinating – Dr. Richard as Curator, and myself as Research Director, along with many more wonderful folks. The exhibit originated in numerous conversations between Chantal and myself about how lacking Fredericton was in terms of public education and knowledge of its Acadian history. Everything you see around here is Loyalist history . Beyond a few street names, and the name of the French school here in Fredericton, there is very little acknowledgment of the complex history of Saint-Anne, the Acadian village that existed in this location until its destruction in 1759. In an effort to get some traction behind the notion of revamping the history of Acadians in Fredericton, we organized a lecture series. The series has been far-reaching, and has included so many excellent speakers, including Dr. Andrea Bear-Nicolas, Fidèle Thériault, Dr Greg Kennedy, and many more.

In honour of this series, we have invited several of the presenters to share their presentations here in blog-post form. Here’s what you can look forward to seeing over the series:

We hope that you will enjoy this series as much as we will! And don’t forget to stay tuned for my blog post, coming later today!

Guest Post: Family History and Immigrant Identity: The Perks and Pitfalls of “Insider” Status

July 2, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Image of a white chair on a black background

 

Note from Andrea: Today we have a very special guest post from Kassandra Luciuk! This post originated as remarks that she delivered at the Coptic Canadian History Project’s Third Annual Conference, “Who Am I? Who Are We? Family, History, and Immigrant Identities,” as a discussant for the “Familiar Dilemmas and Ethnic History” panel. The panel itself included presentations by Pamela Sugiman (“The Stranger in my Family’s History: Reflections on the Telling of Japanese-Canadian History”); Roberto Perin (“Perin Peregrenations”); and Gabriele Scardellato (“The Catelli Clan in Montreal, 1845-1895”.)

Kassandra Luciuk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

 

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Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – Summer 2019

June 28, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Image featuring the covers of six books featured in this post

Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French.

Unfortunately, due to a surplus of projects (my dissertation, a museum exhibit and lecture series which you will be hearing all about this coming July thanks to an exciting collaboration with Borealia and Acadiensis, etc.), I sort of missed the fact that June happened. So, to make up for the missed month, please accept this bumper-bonus of Upcoming Publications, with a slightly different format – first, all the publications in Canadian history from the month of June, followed by Upcoming Publications for the months of July and August. That’s right, the entire summer, covered in one post!

To see the releases from our last post, click here.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

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New Project: A Crowdsourced List of History Journals

June 25, 2019 / / 0 Comments

If you’ve been reading this blog for quite some time, you may remember that back in September 2016, I put together a guide to peer-reviewed Canadian history scholarly journals.My goal in creating this guide was to respond to frequent student questions about how to determine whether a source they were using for their paper was in fact peer-reviewed. Several students have specifically requested a list of journals that frequently published Canadian history material as a useful tool.

Creating additional guides for other areas has been at the back of my mind ever since. I even got a request for one on medical history that I totally intend to get to one of these days. But as is so often the case, other issues took precedence, and before I knew it, it was June 2019. I had been throwing around the idea of creating a guide for journals covering North American history before 1800-1850. But as anyone who specializes in this area knows, trying to define the parameters of such a list is a potential nightmare. When I was discussing this with Keith Grant, Stephanie Pettigrew, and Daniel Samson, Stephanie raised the idea of a crowdsourced a list. Basically, we would provide the spreadsheet, and would encourage folks to help fill it in however they would like. And so, a new project was born! And don’t worry, we will be coming out with the guide soon, along with a lengthy discussion about why it’s so hard to define.

 

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