Tourists on hand for a sightseeing bus ride through the city of Montréal. June 1950. Chris Lund. National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired.
The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.
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Week of May 20, 2018
Environmental History
- The most commonly used words in the field of #envhist over the last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were “Hwëch’in,” “Tr’ondëk,” and “Klondike.”
- Caitlynn Beckett has posted a recap of the recent NiCHE New Scholars meeting, on the subject of the environmental legacy of Canada’s nuclear history.
- Join Jessica DeWitt as she discusses the best articles from the world of environmental history from the last month.
- Ben Bradley had a new post over on NiCHE about how Banff responded to hippies and their illicit encampments in the 1960s during tourist season. Spoiler alert: think “you kids get off my lawn!”
- Sarah York-Bertram put together another amazing Twitter essay on lilac history, and she kindly referenced my own blog post on the subject from last year!
- And speaking of lilacs… anyone interested in lilac history in Alberta?
Military History
- The LAC blog profiled a new collection, the Joseph Gaetz fonds, containing letters he wrote to his then-fiancée, Jean McRae, during WW2.
- This week, the Canadian Centre for the Great War blog took a look at popular music on Canada’s home front in 1918.
- Parliament has voted to honour Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Sharpe, Canadian MP and WW1 veteran, with a bronze plaque.
- Do you know the story of then-Private Léo Major, a Montrealer who fought in both the Second World War and the Korean War?
- The remains of three WW1 Canadian soldiers who died at the Battle of Hill 70 have just been identified.
- Serious questions remain after former soldier, Al White, says that he watched over forty barrels of Agent Orange being buried at CFP Gagetown.
- Help Kamloops raise money to honour veterans on memorial street signs.
Archaeology
- The UVic Anth367 field course blog is back up and running. Once again, the students are focusing on the Emanu-el cemetery in Victoria, BC.
- David wrote about his experiences on Day 1, and why Jews leave small stones at gravesites.
- Steven reflected on Jewish history in Victoria .
- Janet discussed what we can learn from cemeteries like this one.
- A new excavation project has begun at the Ambassador Bridge site in Windsor. The site is owned by Walpole Island First Nation, and they, along with the bridge staff, are working together to do the archaeological assessment.
- The Museum of Ontario Archaeology explains the difference between conservation and preservation.
History Education
- In his annual review of the state of the field in advance of the CHA Annual Meeting, Tom Peace looked at academic calendar descriptions of first and second year Canadian history courses. And don’t miss the important discussion later in the thread!
- And Carly Ciufo previewed the CHA panel, “’So, What Will That Get You?’ Becoming a Historianin a Changing Job and Academic Market.”I was so pleased to participate as a discussant!
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- The last Japanese-Canadian tenement building in Vancouver is under threat. The building was constructed by Genya Yada in 1912.
- Tony Wong has written an op-ed for The Star on the need for North Americans to learn important lessons from the exclusion of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- The “garment worker’s scheme” was an initiative that brought 1,000 Holocaust survivors to Canada to work as tailors. Find out about the man who launched the project, and how his son is trying to track down the tailors and their descendants.
- Christine Chevalier-Caron visited the new exhibit, Shalom Montréal: Histoire et contributions de la communaté juive, and wrote about her experience.
- Allana Mayer has written a new post for Active History on the completion of a new digital history collection, “Ontario’s Multicultural History,” reflecting on lessons learned and on moving this material into classrooms.
- Harvey Amani Whitfield has written a new blog post for the Acadiensis blog on the story of Dick Hill, a Black Loyalist who was re-enslaved in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and sent to the West Indies.
- Bashir Mohamed has posted a draft article based on a previous Twitter essay on Stanley Petherbridge and the historic discrimination of Black Albertans.
Indigenous History
- In the most recent post in Active History’s series on the Manitoulin Island Summer Historical Institute, Violet King (of Mi’kmaq heritage) discussed her personal experiences at the Institute as an Indigenous woman, and how Indigenous women can be community leaders and play a central role in healing and education.
- Joanne Hammond shared some thoughts on the renaming of the Emily Carr painting, ‘Indian Church,’ and why it could have been an opportunity for education.
New France/British North America
- And with this final review from Russell Potter and Stephen Smith, AMC’s The Terror has come to an end.
- And don’t miss their final reflections on the series!
- Russell Potter explained the scene from The Terror featuring Lieutenant Little with chains hanging from his face, and how this story is drawn directly from Inuit testimony of the Franklin Expedition. What’s more, he explains the importance of this story, told by Inuit women, including Ogzeuckjeuwock.
- Patrick Lacroix completed his series on King George III as a late Stuart.
Social History
- The Canadian Museum of History shared this image of the Empress of Ireland’s fog bell.
- Don Wright spoke with the National Post about his CHA paper on the history of Canadian symbols. This is the same talk I mentioned in this week’s blog post, reflecting on the 2018 CHA Annual Meeting!
- Carley Bower has written a wonderful blog post for Active History on home sewing, fashion, class, and agency, from the 1890s to today. I am also a sewist, and so is my mother, so this really hit home for me.
Political History
- This week on Instantanés, BAnQ takes us back to the historic summit held at the Manor Richelieu in May 1977, where members of the newly elected PQ government as well as bureaucrats, journalists, union members, and others met to discuss the future of Quebec.
The History of Gender and Sexuality
- This week on the University of Toronto blog was a guest post by Julia Pyryeskina on her research on gay and lesbian activism in Toronto in the late 1970s, with a particular focus on the right-wing Anita Bryant protests.
- Find out the important role that lesbian pulp fiction played in the lives of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, in both Canada and the United States. And the star of this piece is the interview with Reva Hutkin!
Local History
- Priest Rock, where Jesuit missionary Father Pacific recorded his travels through New Brunswick in the early 1900s, has lost many of its carvings to vandalism and neglect.
- Vintage Everyday posted seventy images of early 1960s Toronto.
- Whistorical looked back on the history of the Alta Lake School Gazette, published from 1975 to 1994.
- Eve Lazarus shared the story of the Point Ellice Disaster on her blog this week, the worst transit accident in Canadian history. You may remember this incident from my previous blog post on Victoria Day.
- The Heritage Winnipeg blog shared the history of the McGregor Street Armoury.
- Look back on the week of May 24th in 1980s Whistler.
Digital and Public History
- CHA 2020 may be two years off, but there is a cool new app on the history of London, Ontario for us to experience when we get there!
- A new poll shows that that Canadians are visiting museums, galleries, and historic sites more and more each year.
- Check out the digitized Greater Vancouver Regional District Planning Department Land Use Maps Collection.
- Julia M. Gossard wrote some absolutely lovely things about the Twitter conference that Krista McCracken and I organized, Beyond 150! I’m not crying, it’s just dust in my eyes….
Doing History
- Welcome to the new editor of Histoire Engagée, Philippe Néméh-Nombré!
- Find out about some of the cool gems in BAnQ’s ephemera collection.
- Find out about the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library collection of Canadian culinary materials, particularly those items featured in the ongoing exhibit, “Mixed-Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada.”
- More here.
- The results of the Government of Canada Survey of Heritage Institutions for 2017 have just been released.
Miscellaneous
- Canadian survivors of CIA brainwashing experiments conducted at Montreal hospitals between 1943 and 1964 have come together to ask for a public apology and compensation from the Canadian government.
- DNA test kits are now being used to solve crimes. Find out how genetic genealogy helped to solve this BC cold case. And incidentally, it was also used to catch the Golden State Killer!
- The Manitoba Food History History Project was profiled in the Winnipeg Free Press! Note to self: always ask for a food truck in future SSHRC grants.
- The mystery of the Canadian photograph in California has been solved!
- Here are the latest new entries from the Canadian Encyclopedia:
- McGill Library is celebrating convocation season by looking back at its own convocations in years past. They seemed to have skipped my year though…
Podcasts
- In the latest History Chats episode, Steve Penfold spoke on “Why We Shouldn’t Talk About Confederation in 2017.”
- This week’s episode of Historical Reminiscents, on representations in public history, is a must-listen.
- The first episode from Preserves: The Manitoba Food History Podcast is by José Barrera, and examines how salsa and other traditional foods helped Salvadoran immigrants adapt to their new lives in Manitoba.
- In the latest episode of Nature’s Past, Sean Kheraj spoke with several graduate students, including friend of the blog, Jessica DeWitt, about why they chose to go into environmental history.
- In this week’s episode of the Witness to Yesterday podcast, Patrice Dutil spoke with Marc-André Ethier about history education in Quebec.
Better Late Than Never
- Check out these really neat coloured videos of Saskatoon in the 1930s.
- This choir is working to revive the music of 18th century Quebec nuns.
Week of May 27, 2018
Environmental History
- Andrew Watson gave an overview of this year’s Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS), on “Prairie Landscapes and Environmental change in the 20th century.”
- The most commonly used words in the field of #envhist over the last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were, “Bison,” “Canada,” and “Sterlite.”
- Sean Kheraj wrote a great piece on the complicated history of pipelines for NiCHE, that was also picked up by The Conversation!
- Jessica DeWitt also shared her comps notes for Robert Boyd’s edited collection, Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest.
- NiCHE and Borealia have organized a new series on the environmental history of the early modern period! Kicking off the series is an introduction by Claire Campbell.
Military History
- The remains of a Canadian WW1 soldier found at a construction site in northern France have been identified as Private John (Jack) Henry Thomas.
- A handmade letter opener from WW1 has been stolen from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Museum and Archives. The blade itself is also a mystery; it is likely trench art by a Canadian soldier.
- This week on the Canadian Museum of History blog was a short post on their recent acquisition of two Victoria Crosses.
Archaeology
- This week on the UVic Anth367 field course blog:
- Laura W. shared some of the emotions she experienced while working at Emanu-el.
- Holly discussed how the class learned about 3D modelling as a method of documenting artifacts.
- And Anna and Alex discussed the importance of photography as a method of recording history.
- Alas, there is no evidence of a Norse presence at Point Rosee. For those who want a refresher on why this is not actually a surprise, check out my three-part series with Teva Vidal on Norse history in Canada.
- Archaeologist Jason Jeandron says that a planned project at Fredericton’s Officer’s Square needs an archaeological excavation first.
- As for why this is so important, it’s because not all developers comply with regulations requiring this work.
History Education
- There were two new posts in the Beyond the Lecture series this week!
- First up was a fantastic new piece by Janis Thiessen on learning assessment, and what academics can learn from high school pedagogy.
- Next Mark Leier explained The Paper Airplane Game and how he uses it to teach about power and class in the division of labour. I just love this.
- While on the Junto, this piece by Carla Cevasco on teaching about material culture will be of interest to Canadian historians as well. They had me with Mrs. Potts.
Transnational History
- Find out about the winners of the 2017 Wilson Institute for Canadian History prizes!
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
Indigenous History
- CBC spoke with Amy Bombay (Rainy River First Nation in Ontario) about her research on epigenetics, and the genetic legacy of residential schools.
- The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is waiting for more than 3,000 documents relating to residential schools from various Catholic orders.
- The premier of Alberta has apologized to Sixties Scoop Survivors.
- Joanne Hammond shared some of the things she’s doing to contribute to Senator Murray Sinclair’s #Next150 challenge.
- Muskowekwan First Nation is trying to save its former residential school building from demolition.
New France/British North America
- This week, Russell Potter explored the legendary tomb of Sir John Franklin, and Inuit stories about where it might be.
- Tabitha Renaud wrote a great piece on early language barriers between Indigenous peoples and European explorers in the sixteenth century, calling on historians to consider the reliability of statements like “it seemed to me” in explorer’s journals and the challenges of a communication barriers.
- Cora Jackson explored the role of justices of the peace in Loyalist New Brunswick.
- Patrick Lacroix discussed some of the earliest Canadien immigrants to the US, the Canadians of Clinton County. Significant communities of French-Canadians remain in the US, particularly around the border, to this day.
- Join Joanne Hammond as she traces the BC real estate crisis back one-hundred-sixty years to the Great Land Grab of 1858.
- This week, the Nova Scotia Archives profiled the Chipman Family Papers in a really neat Twitter essay.
- The Toronto Public Library looks back on the history of the Loyalists.
Social History
- John Willis has written a new post for the Canadian Museum of History blog on the children who died in the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. 1914 was not a good year for ships.
- Alan Cross has written an op-ed for Global on why Canada needs to honour its musical heritage.
Political History
- In honour of the then-upcoming Ontario Election, the Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto blog looked back at religious lobbyists in elections-past.
The History of Gender and Sexuality
- The BC Gay and Lesbian Archives, which existed from 1976 to 2018, has donated their holdings to the City of Vancouver Archives.
- More here.
- Evie Ruddy launched a new audio walking tour in Regina called “Queering the Queen City,” which premiered this week. The tour showcases seven sites of significance in Regina’s queer history.
- Three time capsules have been discovered during the renovation of the YW Calgary, put in place when the building was still the YWCA.
Local History
- LAC has posted a new Flickr album, featuring images of Point Pelee National Park and Pelee Island. Check out the images themselves here.
- Check out the week of May 31st in Whistler in the 1980s.
- Whistorical also took a look at the original condo-building boom in Whistler.
- Eve Lazarus looked back on the history of Vancouver’s Neptoon Records.
- While the Vancouver As It Was blog shared some of the history of Spencer’s department store, also of Vancouver.
- This week, Instantanés looks back at the plaque-laying-ceremony for author Louis Hémon in 1938.
- Check out these five important moments from Ryerson University’s history.
Digital and Public History
- Go behind the scenes at LAC, and find out what it’s like to be a reference archivist!
- Global News spoke with Sarah Farquaharson as she retires from a career as costume designer and her position as head of the costume department for Calgary’s Heritage Park.
- The Canadian Journal of History is going all-digital.
- Find out about some of the documents that have recently been digitized through LAC’s Digilab program.
- Vancouver Island University is starting a new project to digitize community newspapers from Vancouver Island.
- Check out this new app showcasing Winnipeg history.
Doing History
- Emily Lonie has a great post explaining why traditional research skills remain essential, especially for those who work with archival documents. Turns out Google doesn’t have the answer to everything.
Miscellaneous
- The UBC Digitizer’s blog has a list of eight business lessons we can learn from the CPR.
- The only ship still floating that survived the Halifax Explosion is rusting away.
- This week’s new biography from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for architect and professor, Jean-Omer Marchand.
- Here are the latest new entries from the Canadian Encyclopedia:
- A Tom Thomson painting discovered in an Edmonton basement has been sold for over $480,000.
Podcasts
- Ryan McMahon discussed his work on the upcoming Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 podcast, and why it is so important. It doesn’t seem to be available yet, but it should be available here when it is.
- In the latest On War and Society podcast episode, Graham Broad shared the story of Canadian WW1 flying ace, Eddie McKay.
- In the latest episode of the History Slam podcast, Sean Graham spoke with John Bonnett on new trends in Canadian historical scholarship, and the future for the field. They also explore an apparently age old question: Why is it so hard to read work by Harold Innis? I did not know this was a thing.
- This week on the History Chats podcast, Brian Gettler spoke on “Recolonizing Confederation: Indigenous Policy and the Making of Canada.”
- In this week’s Witness to Yesterday podcast, Greg Marchildon spoke with Ian Kyer about lawyers, families, and businesses.
Intermission – CHA (Because I didn’t know where else to put this stuff….)
- It’s a little out of date now, but I did put together a list of my top recommendations for CHA 2018.
- And so did Krista McCracken!
- Krista also shared her experiences sight-seeing in Regina.
- And also shared some of her live-tweets from the conference!
- Finally, Stephanie Pettigrew and I reflected on our experience.
- While I don’t want to link to a certain article on renaming of the prize for the best scholarly book in Canadian history at the CHA, I do recommend checking out this Twitter essay on the subject from Kevin Brushett to get some context around the change. I’d also love to see some kind of more public response from the CHA, since this appears to be the only news article on the change.
Week of June 3, 2018
Environmental History
- The most commonly used words in the field of #envhist over the last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Charlie,’ ‘Environmental,” and “One.”
- The first post in NiCHE and Borealia’s series on environmental history and the early modern world appeared this week. Written by Jack Bouchard, the post argues that we need to at least reconsider the role of presentism in environmental history analysis, using the example of Terra Nova and why it is important that we understand how sixteenth-century Europeans understood concepts like space, the environment, and food production.
- Sean Kheraj’s newly published article on the Great Epizootic of 1972-73, mentioned in a previous roundup, was profiled on the York University website.
- Caleb Wellum reviewed Ruth Sandwell’s recent edited collection, Powering Up Canada: The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 for NiCHE this week.
- An Alberta photographer has created a map documenting 275 historic grain elevators in Saskatchewan. Can someone explain the fascination with grain elevators to me?
- Jessica DeWitt shared her comps notes from Julie Courtwright’s Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History.
- Find out about Casey Wood’s collections regarding the ophthalmology of birds, from the the Blacker-Wood Collection of biology and natural history at McGill Library,
Military History
- The tone of this article is rather troubling, but it does highlight the ways that the American military has depended on Canadian technology.
- There have been a number of pieces on the “War of 1812” incident with respect to American tariffs. Most of them have little or nothing to do with any actual history, but here are a couple that do:
- Here’s CNN’s take.
- And CBC’s (curiously it is not in the headline).
- Look out for our own special blog post on the topic, coming Tuesday.
- The Edmonton Canadian Civil Defence Museum and Archives has purchased the Cold-War-era Canadian Forces Station Alsask site (a radar tower), with the intent to restore it.
- Check out this neat exhibit on North American comic book history.
- Steve Clifford has put together a short guide to using trench maps in your research. Part 1 is now available.
- Ashley Henrickson has written a guest post for Retroactive this week on the Brook family’s experience of WW1 on the homefront, preserved in letters written by Isabelle Brook to her enlisted husband, Sidney. What an amazing collection.
- The LAC blog continued its series on Victoria Cross winners from WW1, with this post on Corporal Joseph Thomas Kaeble.
- The Ontario Council of University Libraries has just released a new collection of WW2 military maps online. See them for yourself here.
Archaeology
- Texas A&M University is currently excavating the remains of a nineteenth century ship that was discovered in downtown Toronto.
- More here.
- This week on the UVic Anth367 field course blog:
- David, Janet, and Danielle explored the lone grave along the fence at Emanu-el. Fun fact: my dad is a kohen.
- Martina Samson concluded the blog series with a look back on the course.
History Education
- In Samantha Cutrara’s ongoing series on Active History on provincial history curriculum, Catherine Déry explores Quebec’s history curriculum. The post is available in both English and French. Just scroll down for the English version.
- Catherine Larochelle recently used Crystal Fraser and Sara Komarnisky’s recent #150 Acts of Reconciliation project in her course, Hist 2444: Autochtones, État et société au Canada at the Université de Montréal, and wrote about her experience for Histoire Engagée.
- Tom Peace put together a great Twitter essay on why his institution decided to stop teaching pre-Confederation Canadian history surveys.
Transnational History
- Kirk Niergarth has a new post in his ongoing series at Active History, on Canadian travellers’ experiences of the Depression-era Soviet Union and his attempts to retrace their steps. In this post, he himself has reached Moscow.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- Find out about the history of Italian immigrants to Vancouver, in honour of Commercial Drive’s annual Italian Day street party.
- Bashir Mohamed looks back on the history of Edmonton’s Gibson Block.
- The Lynne Jones African-Canadian and Diaspora Heritage Collection only opened in April 2017, but it is already having a huge impact.
Indigenous History
- The government of Canada has commemorated the Cypress Hills Massacre, where an American hunter attacked a Nakoda First Nations camp in 1873, with a plaque from the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
- Tom Longboat was honoured with a Google Doodle! Also, will anyone understand that sentence in 100 years?
- Joanne Hammond explains why the doctrine of “terra nullius” and its attendant myths about Indigenous history in Canada has been thoroughly debunked in this great Twitter essay.
- The federal government has announced that it will issue a formal apology and compensation to the descendants of the inland Ahiarmiut Inuit, whose original homeland now lies within Nunavut’s Kivalliq region, for their forced relocation in the 1940s and 1950s.
- This news on the recent horrors out of the court case over compensation for survivors of St. Anne’s IRS is just making me really mad. Shame on the federal government.
- The Algoma University Archives has just uploaded a new photo album of images from St. John’s IRS in Chapleau, Ontario.
- In the latest blog post from the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Matthew McRae shared the story of the Cranmer potlatch in Mimkwamlis on Village Island, British Columbia in 1921, and the long struggle by Kwakwaka’wakw community members to repatriate its regalia and associated artifacts.
- Check out this wonderful new online exhibit, Commemorating Ye’yumnuts, created by the Cowichan Tribes, with assistance from the UVic Department of Anthropology, a resource for anyone who wants to learn about the sacred ancestral site of the Cowichan people.
- A Toronto school has renamed its library to honour Dr. Robert Phillips, a First Nations elder of Mi’kmaq heritage, who was expelled from the institution as a child for the crime of being different.
New France/British North America
- Continuing with his look at French-Canadian immigrants to the US, this week Patrick Lacroix looked back on the relationship between Basilie Mignault and his son, Pierre-Marie.
Social History
- The latest Flickr album from LAC features images of washing. Check them out here.
- Kesia Kvill put together this wonderful Twitter essay on vintage sewing patterns from the 1930s to the 1970s.
The History of Gender and Sexuality
- There is a new app available that showcases the queer history of Edmonton. Acting like a walking tour, it highlights areas of particular relevance to LGTBQ history.
- More here.
- You must check out this wonderful piece by Natasha Henry on the history of Black women’s voting rights and politics in Canada, from the 1850s to the present.
- Bashir Mohamed also looked back on the history of Edmonton’s pride parade and how it can do better to respect people of colour in the gay community,
Local History
- Anyone who has ever visited the Biodome in Montreal needs to read this. Also, I think seeing the lynx is a badge of honour.
- Find out about some fun finds made while restoring the Simms House in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
- Check out this neat story about the likely culprit for the Baie-Saint-Paul disease.
- Heritage Winnipeg is calling on the city to save the former Carnegie Library.
- Look back on the week of June 7th in the 1980s courtesy of Whistorical.
- The history of Kingston, Ontario’s Swamp Ward and Inner Habour is being brought back to life with photographs, thanks to a new project by Laura Murray and Chris Miner.
- Find out about the story of the Wedgemount Lake Hut in Whistler.
- Eve Lazarus discussed the new exhibit on the architectural photography of Selwyn Pullan, and her own conversations with him before he passed away.
- Look back on the history of Montreal’s weather. tl;dr: too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter.
Digital and Public History
- Find out about this really neat new collaboration between the Toronto Public Library’s Digital Archive and Sidewalk Labs!
- Check out this guide to using optical-character-recognition and non-Latin text, from the UBC Digitizer’s blog.
- The Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County Belleville, Ontario, has now uploaded 60% of the photographs from the Hastings County Historical Society. Check them out here.
Doing History
- Timothy Andrews Style reflected on his recent experience at the “Transparency in the 21st Century” conference, hosted by the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, and the need for historians to be more active in making their own documents accessible.
- Find out about LAC’s new Vancouver service centre.
- Check out these new acquisitions by the McGill University Archives!
- Stephanie Pettigrew has assembled her monthly list of upcoming publications from the field of Canadian history for June 2018.
- The records of organ builder Gabriel Knew have been donated to the Wilfrid Laurier University Archives.
Miscellaneous
- The latest biography from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for businessman James Henry Plummer.
- Most of us know this already, but it’s always a cute story: the Canadian origins of Mister Rogers.
- Here are the latest new entries from the Canadian Encyclopedia:
- The gravestone of Annie Barton, lost for sixty years, has finally been reunited with her family.
- The National Library of Wales paid tribute to Newfoundland by sharing their collection of papers from the former Welsh Governor of Newfoundland, Gordon MacDonald.
- A collection of documents belonging to former manager of Johnny Cash and small-town boy from London Ontario, Sam Holiff, has just been donated to UVic. And yes, it does contain Cash memorabilia. Check out the online exhibit here.
Podcasts
- This week on the Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Liz Covart spoke with Sam White about his recent book, A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter.
- Join Adrian Petry and Kathleen Powell as they learn about St. Catharines history of rowing!
- Also from the St. Catharines Museum is a new Museum Chat Live podcast episode on the fallen workers of the Welland Canal.
- This week on the Historical Reminiscents podcast, Krista McCracken discussed the idea of podcasting as scholarship.
- In the latest episode of the Witness to Yesterday podcast, Patrice Dutil spoke with Lindsay Gibson about history education in Canadian high schools.
- While there isn’t an individual link yet, definitely don’t miss the latest episode of On War and Society, featuring Kristine Alexander speaking about letter writing and family history during WW1.
Calls for Papers
- Lachlan McKinnon and Andy Parnaby have issued a CFP for a proposed edited collection on the history of Cape Breton. Proposals are due September 15.
Holy cow. I don’t want to do another long one like this for a little while. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this week’s roundup, long as it was! 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 very special guest blog post! See you then!
PS: Guess who’s home from the hospital…
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