To wish you a joyous Thanksgiving. 1910. English. Toronto Reference Library, Arts Department
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 last week from the world of #envhist, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Irish,” “Climate,” and “Environmental.”
- It was a busy week on NiCHE!
- Jim Clifford has a new blog post on Canadian timber exports to the UK in the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.
- Dale Barbour reviewed Michèle Dagenais’s Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History.
- Heather Green announced plans for the NiCHE New Scholars in Fall 2018.
- And Esme G. Murdock previewed her recently-published article, “Unsettling Reconciliation: Decolonial Methods for Transforming Socio-Ecological Systems,” on the need for the reconciliation process to include relations to land.
Military History
- The latest two profiles in LAC’s series on Victoria Cross recipients in WW1 are for:
- In honour of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the end of WW1, Maclean’s has published more than 66,000 different covers of their latest issue, each one dedicated to a Canadian who died in WW1.
- Peter Macdiarmid has created amazing images by merging recent photographs with archival images of Canadians during WW1.
Archaeology
- If you remember from last week, I mentioned the recently discovered anvil block from the Franklin Expedition, and how it was found in the Glenbow Museum. There is more info here.
- There is possible new evidence on the first English expedition to North America, in 1499 led by William Weston.
- Laura Suchan and Jennifer Weymark have published a new blog post on the Durham Region Area Archives Group, about the Dead Man’s Penny memorial death plaque. This was a plaque given to families who had lost loved ones in WW1 to place on their gravestones.
- The latest issue of the Dig It column is here, and is by Joanne Hammond. In it, she talks about the archaeology of salmon fishing.
- Do you know what people did in the 1600s with winter corpses? Robyn Lacy is here to tell you!
History Education
- Krista McCracken posted a new blog post about how they adapted Roxanne Panchasi’ Extreme Footnotes exercise for their course on public history.
Transnational History
- The Canadian International History Committee has released another blog post to accompany a new digital briefing book on Canada at the end of the Korean War. The accompanying blog post is by Andrew Zhao.
- The Junto interviewed L.H. Roper about the publication of their new book, Advancing Empire: English Interest in Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- Chantal Richard published the first of a two-part series on how the Acadians were portrayed in English-language newspapers in late nineteenth-century New Brunswick. The first post focuses on the vocabularies of identity.
- This week LAC profiled the Jamaican Canadian Association fonds, and highlighted the involvement of Jamaican Canadian women in the organization.
- Kassandra Luciuk’s latest blog post for the Beyond Borders blog is a must-read on divisions within the Ukrainian Canadian community.
- I’m not going to comment on the recent election in Quebec, because I bet you can guess what I think, but I would point you to Steven High’s op-ed on why oral history is so important if we are to truly understand the diverse nature of Quebec’s population, and why Quebecers need to learn to listen to each other to better bridge these divides.
- The next Heritage Minute is filming in Vancouver right now, and will focus on the Asahi baseball team!
Indigenous History
- All week long the UofA Law Faculty blog has been discussing how Indigenous peoples’ rights have been restricted or denied historically and how these rights remain restricted in the present, with posts on:
- They also discussed the origins of Orange Shirt Day, and why the holiday is so important.
- There were several Twitter threads this week on Orange Shirt Day, many with very personal stories. I have conflicted feelings about including them in the roundup, since they are not my stories to share. However, Joanne Hammond did put together a Twitter essay with a story she was told to pass on. Highly recommended. Content warning.
- Blair Braverman wrote an important Twitter essay on how the Canadian government drove the Qimmig dogs to extinction, in order to force Inuit to abandon their traditional lifestyles.
- The Inuvialuit Living History Project brought a collection of Inuvialuit artifacts to a school in Inuvik for students to learn from. Love this!
- The latest MISHI reflection on Active History was by Carolyn Podruchny, and focused on Anishinaabe worldviews and the importance of clans and families in Anishinaabe culture.
- Two curators at the Carleton University Art Gallery worked for two years to create an exhibit showing the work of acclaimed Inuk artist, Alootook Ipellie.
- This is a great article about how a group of Chippewas left the Great Lakes region in the 1800s and, later joined by a group of Cree led by Chief Little Bear (son of Chief Big Bear), moved to north central Montana to find a safe place to practice and preserve their culture and language. Just be warned that this is an American piece, and therefore uses American terminology for Indigenous peoples.
- Niigaan Sinclair (Anishinaabe) has written a fantastic new piece on the smallpox epidemic that ravaged Indigenous communities in what is currently known as southern Manitoba in the 1780s, and how Winnipeg grew on top of the graves of the victims. If his investigation about the location of the largest burial mound is correct, most of downtown Winnipeg is a burial ground. Must read.
- While crafting a meangingful apology to Sixties Scoop survivors, Saskatchewan is being guided by the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Saskatchewan.
- Allana Mayer has written a new blog post for Our Digital World on the colonization and decolonization of Lacrosse. This blog post was based on her Beyond 150 presentation, which she name dropped, and expands it to discuss the importance of digitizing historical sources relating to First Nations history.
- Stephanie Danyluk and Katya MacDonald have posted part two of their Active History series on the Justice for Our Stolen Children camp. Part two focuses on the history of Prairie tipi encampments.
- The latest blog post from the Beyond the Spectacle blog post is by Jack Davy on the Denney family, and how settlers perpetuated fraudulent narratives with Indigenous “characters” for commercial purposes.
- Find out how Inuit women are revitalizing Inuit tattooing traditions.
New France/British North America
- In the latest Borealia blog post, Jean-François Palomino explored the important role that maritime cartography played in French colonialism, specifically along the St. Lawrence River in the 18th century.
Political History
- The Catholic Archbishop has asked for forgiveness from the Mi’kmaq for the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. Joanne Hammond explained how this is a massive problem.
Social History
- Find out how the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 impacted Newfoundland and Labrador, particularly among the Inuit.
- Also on the Spanish Flu this week is a new piece for Historic Nova Scotia by Aaron Larter and Joanne McCarthy O’Leary on how Halifax responded.
- And finally, find out how two soldiers who stopped in Winnipeg led to the death of 1,200 people from Spanish Flu.
- The latest Flickr album from LAC features images of labels for children’s recordings from 1918 to 1962. See the images themselves here.
- Mica Jorgenson shared this awesome bread recipe she found in her research, from 1908.
- Scott Price has a neat history of how class struggle played out in Winnipeg’s streetcars.
- Also from LAC this week is a new blog post about Canadian unemployment insurance stamps, from the Denny Leong collection.
The History of Gender and Sexuality
- Valerie Korinek previewed her newest release, Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities in Western Canada, 1930-1985 over on Notches this week!
- Female shipbuilders in WW2 were honoured this week as part of Parks Canada’s Hometown Heroes program. The CBC piece on the event focused specifically on a Mi’kmaw shipbuilder known as Mrs. Martin (or may have also been known as Malti, the Mi’kmaq name for Martin).
- As part of Women’s History Month in Canada, the federal government and Queen’s University have launched the Women of Impact in Canada gallery, celebrating the accomplishments of Canadian women. See the gallery itself here.
Local History
- Vancouver’s own Hobbit House is being demolished. ::sad face::
- The latest building profiled by Heritage Winnipeg this week is the Massey Building.
- A group of students from Langara College have created a neat exhibit with the City of Vancouver Archives called “Merging Time,” showing past and present images of spaces around the city. You can see some of the images here.
- The latest blog post from the Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto blog looks at the relationship between the Toronto and Hamilton’s dioceses.
- This is in honour of the new blog from the Diocese of Hamilton Library and Archives.
- Do you know the history of Calgary’s Memorial Park Library?
- Ryerson University looked back at the history of Athletics and Intramurals at their institution from 1948 to 1993.
- Eve Lazarus was back with Part 3 of her series on the North Shore’s Spirit Trail. In this edition, we visit Lonsdale Quay.
- Whistorical shared Dick Fairhurst’s memories of Whistler.
- Chris Ryan shared the story of the Sandringham Apartments in Ottawa.
Digital and Public History
- Max FineDay (Sweetgrass First Nation) has written a really powerful piece responding to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy ad that ran — which claimed that residential schools caused no harm — and explaining why denials of this kind are so poisonous.
- Stratford has found a really neat use for heritage bricks from a recently demolished building.
- The City of Edmonton Archives has just launched a new website. See it for yourself here.
- The UBC Digitizer’s blog is continuing their series on web archiving with a look at how to plan a web archiving project.
- Check out this really cool initiative from Transcribimus on transcribing the minutes of Vancouver City Council.
- Find out the crucial role that archives (and history!) can play in protecting human rights.
- The Hansard is now online, and fully searchable, back to 1901. Check it out yourself here.
- Mlle Canadienne discussed the challenges of selecting fabric when creating historical reproductions.
Doing History
- The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick are in the process of digitizing Anglican registers from Fredericton diocese going back to the 1790s.
- McGill Library Matters explains why professors’ fonds are important.
- With NAFTA 2.0 now settled, there have been some changes that will impact historians, particularly with respect to the new copyright rules. More info here.
- Emily Lonie is back for another year to wrap up #AskAnArchivist Day 2018!
- I’m not sure if the latest Unwritten Histories blog post counts as Canadian history, but since this is my roundup, I make the rules! Muahaha. In it, I talk about the importance of considering historical writing as a creative endeavour.
- And if you liked it, be sure to check out Krista McCracken’s latest podcast episode on overcoming creative blocks. Believe it or not, this was not planned! We have just been working together so much lately that we’ve undergone a mind meld.
Miscellaneous
- The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for physician and journalist, François de Martigny.
- Apparently someone stole some Hamilton Tigers football jerseys back in 1915, and a collector has just found a lawyer’s request for them to be returned.
Podcasts
- Do you know about The Secret Life of Canada podcast? They’ve just joined CBC and have published their first new episode, on the HBC Blanket.
- In the latest episode of the Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Liz Covart spoke with Katharine Gebner about her book, Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World.
- And in the latest Know History podcast, Andrew Burtch discussed his work at the Canadian War Museum.
- The latest episode of History Chats featured Jessica Van Horssen discussing “A Town Called Asbestos.”
Calls for Papers
- The University of Lethbridge has issued a CFP for their June 2019 conference, “The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies.” The conference is focused particularly on Indigenous and migration politics as well as contemporary border issues. Proposals are due October 15.
That’s all for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and a happy Thanksgiving! I also 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 a brand new blog post. See you then!
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