Man tagging Canada goose, Kingsville. November 1954. Chris Lund. Credit: Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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Special thanks to Anne Dance, Tina Adcock, Stephanie Pettigrew, Lee Blanding, and especially Lynne Marks for their help with this piece.
Content Warning/Trigger Warning: antisemitism, racism, violence
In the wake of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, I wrote a Twitter essay sharing some thoughts and feelings. To my surprise, it gained a lot of attention, and I am overwhelmed by the resulting outpouring of love and support. However, since Twitter isn’t an ideal medium for a nuanced discussion of history, I was also debating putting together a blog post. A number of individuals expressed interest in more information about the racial identity of Jews and the history of antisemitism[1]. There seems to be overwhelming support for this idea, so here we go. While I’ll be repeating a lot of what I’ve said already, if you want to see the original Twitter thread, just go here.
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Special thanks to Andrea Eidinger and Michelle Desveaux for their help with this post.
Happy Halloween! As a historian of witchcraft and blasphemy, this is really my time of year. Last year’s Halloween special was such a hit that we decided to put together another one. Rather than discuss witchcraft cases at large in New France, this year we’ll be looking at the 1742 trial of François-Charles Havard de Beauford – lawyer, soldier, public entertainer, and sorcerer. – a true jack of all trades who was arrested for performing a divination spell.
A jolly Halloween. 1909. English. Toronto Public Library. Public Domain.
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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:
- American Review of Canadian Studies48, no. 2 (2018)
- BC Studies 198 (Summer 2018)
- Journal of Canadian Historical Association28, no. 1 (2017)
- Revue de l’histoire de l’Amérique française71, no. 3-4 (Winter/Spring 2018)
- Urban History Review45, no. 2 (Spring 2017)
- Individual Articles:
- Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz, “Indigenization as Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: Navigating the Different Revisions for Indigenizing the Canadian Academy,” AlterNative 14, no. 3 (2018): 218-227.
- David Scott & Raphaël Gani, “Examining Social Studies Teachers’ Resistances Towards Teaching Aboriginal Perspectives: The Case Of Alberta,” Diaspora, Indigenous, And Minority Education 12, no. 4 (2018): 167-181.
- Kurt Korneski, “’A Great Want of Loyalty to Themselves,’: The Franco-Newfoundland Trade, Informational Empire and Settler Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of World History29, no. 2 (June 2018): 145-183.
- Whitney Wood, “’Put Right Under:’ Obstetric Violence in Post-war Canada,” Social History of Medicine, First Look, (August 2018): 1-22.
Here are my favourites:
Young man speaks to two women on the front steps of an old stone building. October 1959. Chris Lund. Credit: Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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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. To see the releases from last month, 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.
Today we have a special guest post from Sarah York-Betram! She posted a version of this piece on her Instagram late last week, and was kind enough to transform it into a blog post.
A scholar from Treaty Six Territory, Sarah York-Bertram is a Canadian historian and PhD candidate at York University specializing in the socio-legal histories of the Canadian Prairies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In 2013, the Mikisew Cree First Nation challenged the Harper Government’s 2012 omnibus legislation on the grounds that the legislation could impact the First Nation’s constitutionally protected rights to hunt, trap, and fish in Treaty 8 territory. They argued that, as per their longstanding treaty rights, the Crown had a duty to consult them when contemplating actions or decisions that may affect their rights as Indigenous people and their treaty rights. The omnibus legislation made significant changes to the Fisheries Act, Species at Risk act, and the Navigable Waters act, reducing government oversight of lands and waters. Opposition to the omnibus legislation and the Harper government’s approach to relations with the Indigenous peoples sparked the Idle No More movement in 2012.
Man and woman selling apples in baskets, Quebec. (1955-1963]. Credit: Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Library and Archives Canada.
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When you live on the West Coast like I do, attending conferences can be somewhat tricky. They don’t tend to come this way very often. And as anyone who is flying out to this year’s CHA knows, it is really expensive to fly across the country. This situation is still more complicated when it comes to international conferences, many of which tend to be held in Europe. So I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that the International Federation for Research in Women’s History would be coming to Vancouver in 2018. For those who have never heard of this organization, the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (or IRFWH) is an international organization dedicated to encouraging, coordinating, and facilitating research on women’s history all across the world. Holding the conference in Vancouver wasn’t originally the plan – the 2018 conference was supposed to be held at Santa Barbara, but ongoing travel restrictions made it impractical to host an international conference in the US right now, so conference organizers, specifically Eileen Boris, moved the conference north. And guess which lucky blogger got to go? Why me, of course. 😉 So, in today’s blog, I’m going to take the opportunity to reflect on my experiences, discuss some of the cool papers I saw presented, and how the theme of storytelling connects us all.