Canadian History Roundup – Weeks of May 28, 2017 and June 4, 2017

Massif de fleurs, virevent géants et le Paratrooper, at La Ronde Amusement Park. 1970. Archives de la Ville de Montreal. VM94-EX276-1182 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian ststory.

*The two weeks, and the CHA, have been abparated, to make reading a little easier.

Missed the last roundup? Check it out here.

Week of May 28, 2017 (Including May 27)

• The Waterloo County Directories are currently being digitized and made available for reading online.
• Eve Lazarus looks back on what we lost when the Georgia Medical-Dental Building in Vancouver was demolished.
• Los of stuff from UVic’s ANTH 367 course this week!
  • The students of UVic’s ANTH 367 have a new blog post on why Jews leave stones on gravestones. What I was always told is that you leave a stone to show “I was here and I remember,” but as is so often the case, ask 4 Jews one question, and you’ll get five 5 answers. 😉
  • Also this week is a post about gravestone preservation and why it is so important.
  • Finally, the students say goodbye to the cemetery and talk about what lies ahead.
• Whistorical explores the history of waste disposal in Whistler! Which is actually much more interesting than it sounds. 😉
• After a great deal of outcry, Hydro-Québec will establish a memorial park to victims of the Irish Famine.
• JSTOR explores what colonial-era kitchens looked like in North America, and what they reveal about our past. My kitchen says: you live in a condo, so be thankful you have a dishwasher.
• While the rest of us were gearing up for the CHA, Sean Kheraj interviewed Joanna Dean and Christabelle Sethna about their recent book, Animal Metropolis, for the Nature’s Past podcast from NiCHE! That was super sneaky, guys!
• In further sneaky posts that went up during the CHA, Notches has posted two new entries in their “Carnal Canucks” series!
  • The first, by Renata Colwell, looks at school dances at Queen’s University from 1910 to 1930. OMG, their elbows touched! 😉
  • And the second, by Jarett Henderson, discusses same-sex intimacy and physical contact among men in the 19^th century.
• On Active History, Beth A. Robertson has a new post about the struggles than many female survivors of rape and abuse endure when it comes to accessing medical care.
• The Canadian Network on Humanitarian History has a new post by Jill Campbell-Miller about Dr. Florence Nicols, a psychiatrist and missionary, who provided humanitarian aid in India in the 1950s, and her connections to other Canadians who worked in the same time and place.
• The Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives blog has a must-read post entitled “Why don’t archivists digitize everything?” Turns out, it is surprisingly complicated work. You mean I can’t just take a picture? 😉
• Check out this beautiful quilt, made by an eleven year old. The blog post isn’t quite clear, but it seems that this quilt dates to the late 19^th century. Just gorgeous.
• Robyn Lacy talks about how the people of Ferryland, Newfoundland (known then as the Colony of Avalon) remembered their dead in the 17th century
• Jerry Bannister has written a new piece for Borealia on the way in which Adam Gopnik represented Canada in his piece, previously mentioned in the roundup.
• The South Peace Archives has just acquired new materials from a number of families who lived in the Rycroft area.
• Omg, there is a War of 1812 board game. Settlers of Catan fans, unite!
• Because I’m pretty sure she doesn’t sleep, Jessica DeWitt also published her latest #envhist word cloud while at the CHA! This week’s top words were: “one,” “Trump,” and “says.” I guess says is better than said…
• The Archives of Montreal have published another post in their series that recreates Expo 67. This latest one recreates June 1st through the 11th of the Expo experience.
• Chris Tindal went to visit the Pointe-à-Callière museum in Montreal, and talked about his experiences walking in the ruins of the first French settlement on the island. Btw, Pointe-à-Callière is totally my favourite museum ever.
• Éliane Laberge talks about the gorgeous painting, “Morning Star” by Alex Janvier, (Dene Suline), than hangs in the Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of History. Thanks to some new funding, they’ve been able to create an interactive website to accompany the piece! Check out the site itself here.
• It’s not really Canadian, but check out this new post from the Age of Revolutions blog by Nathan H. Dize about depictions of slavery and enslaved peoples in 18^th century French portraiture.
• Retroactive takes a look at the discovery of stone tools in the area now known as Alberta, and the work of the Alberta Lithic Reference Project. The ALRP is documenting the raw materials used in these tools to reveal information about trade networks among ancient Indigenous peoples. It’s just fascinating.
• This week on the ROM blog is a post by Katherine Ing about the use of blue whales in everyday commercial products from the 17^th to the 20^th centuries. Which is super depressing, because they are just amazing animals.
• Uber cuteness alert: Remember our WW1 solider, Olivar Asselin, who is being spotlighted by Instantanés? He drew a picture of himself all kitted out for his son.
• Check out these amazing letters from prisoners at Kingston Penitentiary to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto in the early years of the 20^th century.
• This week on the Canadian Museum of Human Rights blog is a feature on Henry Yu, and how his work as an historian (particularly in the Chinese Head Tax Digitization Project), has been inspired by his own family’s history with the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act.
• The UBC Archives has redesigned their website to make it more user-friendly!
• In their continuing series on Canadian Victoria Cross recipients from WW1, LAC has a blog post featuring Air Marshal William Avery Bishop.
• Must read! Check out Rachel Bryant’s guide to resources for teaching non-alphabetic Indigenous literacies in North America. And I may or may not have talked her into writing a companion piece on this for Unwritten Histories… 😉
• As an Anglophone Montrealer, I have serious problems with Matthew Barlow’s blog post on the 40^th anniversary of Bill 101, particularly his characterization of Anglophone “bigots.” Especially since the Jewish community has been a particular target of the Office de la Langue Français. I include it here for the sake of fairness, but I do not endorse this position.
• The University of Manitoba is highlighting the contributions of its early Indigenous, especially Métis, scholars. Though as Adele Perry notes, the language of ‘discovery’ and ‘confirmation’ is quite odd here.
• Eve Lazarus remembers Chesterfield House in North Van, and the old-Tudor style of homes in the area.
• Whistorical remembers Hillcrest Lodge, a summer resort at Alta Lake, in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
• Find out more about the work of the Canadian Letters and Images Project out of Vancouver Island University, particularly the work they do to share the experiences Vancouver Island’s experience of war.
• Vancouver As It Was takes a look at the short, but peculiar political career of William D. Herridge.
• The latest biography from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography this week is of David Alexander Stewart, a missionary who was known primarily for his work on tuberculosis.
• Walk H has been released by the St. Catharines Museum blog!
• Find out about some of the records available at the St. Andrew’s Societies in Ontario.
• This month, the University of Waterloo is celebrating the 50th anniversary of receiving the Lady Aberdeen Collection of early feminist literature. Find out about Lady Aberdeen and some of the amazing items int he collection.
• Canadian History in the News
  • CBC remembered the 30^th anniversary of one of the largest strikes in BC History, the Bill 19 General Strike. The bill, which was heavily opposed, included a number of controversial measures that were seen as anti-union.
  • Jamie Bradburn has a new article for Canadaland about the history of activist journalists at the Star, making it quite clear that what happened with Desmond Cole was definitely not in keeping with precedent.
  • It’s (apparently?) Jewish Heritage Month (news to me), so the Torontoist has a new article from its Now and Then column on the first Jewish congregation in Toronto. Funny story: my husband and I met while arguing over which city has the oldest Jewish congregation in Canada. Ahhh… romance…. (I won!!).
  • Dennis Duffy wrote for the Historicist about Sir. Edmund Walker, who played an important role in establishing the ROM.
    • And posted Part 2, about how the ROM became a “world-class institution” later in the week!
  • A state-of-the-art archaeology lab in Nova Scotia is being closed in order to “protect” the artefacts. But this will result in a number of Mi’kmaq and Acadian artefacts being removed from their historical environment and transferred to Ottawa. Negotiations regarding the Indigenous artefacts is still ongoing.
  • Mark Miller delivered an entire speech in Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) in the House of Commons! Yay!!
    • CBC also spoke with one of his language teachers, Zoe Hopkins (the other was her father, Brian Maracle) about the importance of language revitalization.
    • And Sarah Shulist has also written a blog post providing context as well as explaining the various aspects of this story.
  • Just to show that history is always relevant, another lawsuit has been filed against the federal government regarding Kouchibouguac National Park!
  • CBC remembers Peter Bryce, who exposed the truth of residential schools in 1907. Unfortunately, no one listened to him. CBC interviewed Cindy Blackstock about his work and the new exhibition about him.
  • The new Truth and Reconciliation archives has opened up at the University of Alberta, under director Ry Moran.
  • The Star has a great new post about Tom Longboat, also known as Cogwagee, an Ondanaga man from the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in southern Ontario. Longboat was a long-distance runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1907.
  • Ben Feist is working to ensure that the cemetery at Battleford Industrial School is properly preserved after having been forgotten for more than 50 years. Excavations in the 1970s revealed 74 burials, with around 20 that were unmarked.
  • This is for those who are up on their rubber duck scandals….
    • For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, go here. You can’t make this stuff up.
  • Check out these beautiful artefacts from a new exhibit from the Fredericton Regional Museum. Called “The Wabanaki Way,” the exhibit contains items made by individuals from the Wabanaki Confederacy, a larger group including Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot. The beadwork on the moccasins is especially stunning.
  • Education professor Lindsay Gibson has created a series of flash cards about Canadian history for students from K through 12.
  • Absolute must read: “Ryan McMahon’s Guide to Canada’s Colonial Founding Documents.” Go ahead, the roundup will wait for you!
  • Another Canadian WW1 soldiers has been found and identified in France: Sergeant Harold Wilfred Shaughnessy, of St. Stephen, NB.
  • Children born to unwed mothers under the care of the Catholic church in Quebec and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s are connecting to share their stories.
  • Canadian Geographic posted an article by Geir O. Kløver, an expert on Roald Amundsen and his experiences in the Canadian Arctic.
  • A new article from The Ethnic Aisle looks at various ongoing efforts to reframe historical images of Canada, through a conversation between Julie Crooks (curator of the Free Black North installation) and Paul Seesequasis.
  • Get a sneak peak of the new Canadian History Hall!
  • Look back at the last 150 years of Canadian history in 25 photographs.
  • The Sudbury, Ontario Archives is asking for help identifying people in a collection of photographs from the first half of the twentieth century.
  • Dan Ackroyd will be narrating a new documentary from History Channel called The World Without Canada.
  • Judy Stoffman has written a lovely obituary for Michael Bliss.
  • Find out why CBC can’t digitize some of your favourite old CBC television shows.
  • Look back at 105 years of the Château Laurier.
  • Mike Committo has written a new piece for sudbury.com all about the Dionne Quintuplets.
  • The Pioneer Village Museum in Beausejour, Manitoba, has succeeded in their efforts to identify individuals depicted in negatives that were stored in a tin shoe-polish box. This was thanks to a year-long social media campaign, and it turns out that the images are quite special.
• Better Late than Never
  • Check out these neat recipe cards for potatoes from the Provincial Archives of Alberta!
  • The Alberta Culture and Tourism blog has posted a new piece about the Provincial Archives of Alberta’s collection of materials related to South Asian heritage in the province

Intermission: CHA Mini-Roundup!

• Find out about all of this year’s winners for the CHA Prizes, including the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize!
  • The unofficial winner of CHA Reads, btw, was Sean Mills’ A Place in the Sun!
• You can also find out about the winners of the Wilson Institute prizes for this year!
• My archive of tweets from the #chashc2017 hashtag is now available!
• I also posted my reflections on this year’s CHA, talking about what I took away from the conference and what I would like to see next year in Regina.
• Krista McCracken has also written and posted her thoughts on this year’s CHA, particularly her highlights and what she would like to see more of.
• Christine Turgeon reflects on her experiences at Congress about the challenges facing archivists, particularly when it comes to better communicating the value of their work.
• Throughout the CHA, Carly Ciufo was sharing her perspectives on the CHA Graduate Students’ Committee Website.
  • Her first post is about the awesome Decolonizing 1867 workshop.
  • Her second post, a reflection on the social media roundtable, argues that historians need to get out there and get messy!
  • On the third day, she talks about the emotional nature of research, and the strange dichotomy of angry and funny historians.
  • Finally, she reflects on her experiences at the public history panel and the future of academic history in Canada.
• If you missed the Truth and Reconciliation on the Streets of Toronto Tour, part of this year’s Congress, you can still check out the highlights, which are listed and explained here!
• In his coverage of this year’s Congress, Jake Edmiston discusses Devon Smither’s research on why there isn’t really a nude art genre in Canada. Because it’s freaking cold!!! Jk.
• The CCWH has created a Storify of their CHA events and panels.

Week of June 4, 2017

• Check out these adorable 19^th century butter moulds! Ok, who else is having flashbacks to reading Little House in the Big Woods and Ma making strawberry-shaped pats of butter?
• The Canadian Museum of History posted a picture of a beautiful ceramic pot made by (potters from) the St. Lawrence Iroquois around 1550.
• Library and Archives Canada has announced a new strategy in order to better serve the public. Find out about this strategy here.
• All this week, NiCHE has been running a fantastic mini-series on the subject of hope and environmental history.
  • Tina Adcock introduces the series, which she organized.
  • The second post was also by Adcock, and she writes about the need for both hopeful and critical environmental histories, and why this shift is so important.
  • The third post comes from Dorothee Schreiber, and is about the need for non-Indigenous settlers to understand and adopt Indigenous understandings of hope and reciprocity, particularly as they relate to the land.
  • Post four is by Mark McLaughlin and is about integrating hope into environmental history scholarship in order to understand context, when used judiciously.
  • Post five is by Philip Wight and focuses on the distinction between hope and progress, and hopeful histories as Wabi-Sabi.
  • The final post comes from Tina Loo on how environmental historians need to celebrate their achievements, while recognizing that there is still so much to be done.
• Find out about the new Public History minor from Huron/King’s/Western!
• Jessica DeWitt is back with her weekly analysis of #envhist! This week’s words are: “sand,” “world,” and “said.” I feel like we’re disappointing her.
• In her latest blog post, Paula Dumas highlights a fascinating archival collection, the Gilchrist-Shearer Letters, to talk about the history of Scottish immigration to Canada and the how families stayed in contact despite being separated by vast distances.
• This week on Borealia is a review of Adele Perry’s Colonial Relations, by none other than Historiann, Ann Little! Unsurprisingly, she thinks it’s fabulous! I can’t wait to read my own copy.
• The latest blog post from Beyond Borders is by Mica Jorgenson, who looks the Great Porcupine Fire of 1911, and what letters from concerned relatives reveal about the transnational nature of intimate networks. It pairs especially well with Dumas’ piece!
• LAC has announced that it will be providing $1.5 million to support 48 projects through its Documentary Heritage Communities Program!
• Poor Olivar Asslein is stuck in the mud and writes to his friend about what it’s like to live in the trenches, particularly the challenges of keeping clear and living despite constant artillery fire.
• BAnQ is in the process of digitizing all of the issues of the Quebec City Daily newspaper, Le Soleil.
• Ian Milligan discovered that Canada got its first McDonald’s in Canada’s Centennial year, 1967! Fun fact, the first one was right here in Richmond, BC!
• The Rural History at Guelph website has been relaunched!
• Tanya Kappo (@Nehiyahskwew) has written a fabulous Twitter essay on the White Paper, the Red Paper (or Citizens Plus) and the history of Indigenous resistance in Canada for the Resistance 150 Twitter account! Here is the first post, though you will need to cross down to June 4th on the @Resistance150 to see the rest, since they were not threaded.
• Joanne Hammond has another amazing Twitter essay, this one on the “white-washing of Indigenous landscapes” by renaming BC’s rivers after white explorers.
• Check out the program for NAISA 2017!
• LAC has posted their latest Flickr provincial/territorial album. This time it’s PEI, my husband’s home province! Check out the pictures themselves here.
• Jackson Pind has written a new blog post for Active History about the Alderville War memorial, the first Indigenous war memorial in Canada. This post is in response to Jonathan Vance’s on the complex ways in which Indigenous peoples remember WW1.
• The Graphic History Collective has released the sixth poster in its Remember|Resist|Redraw series! The latest poster, called “Pride Has Always Been Policial” is by Kara Sievewright, with an introduction by Gary Kinsman.
• Small Museums of Canada has created a special Twitter Moment about 300 years of European/non-Indigenous Canadian fishing in Newfoundland.
• Bill Waiser has released his latest blog post, this time about Joe Stefansson, brother to artic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who was apparently known for his flowing locks of hair. Oh my..,
• Also this week on Active History is a new post by Christo Aivalis, exploring the intersections of politics and motherhood by comparing the experiences of Agnes MacPhail, Dorise Neilsen, and Niki Ashton, and how attitudes towards female politicans with respect to motherhood have and have not changed.
• LAC has a fantastic new blog post about their collection of wax cylinders, one of the oldest technologies used to record sounds!
• And along those same lines, find out about how the Multicultural History Society of Ontario records and uses oral histories.
• The Canadian Archaeological Association has a fantastic blog post by Erin Hogg with a graphic guide to the role that archaeology plays in court cases involving Indigenous rights and land title!
• The latest biography from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is of Edith Sarah Lelean, a Toronto activist and educator.
• The City of Montreal and the Montreal Historical Centre have launched a brand new site called “Mémoires dl’immigrations” (Immigrant Memories), featuring the stories of the diverse people who have come from around the world to live in Montreal. Unfortunately, the site only seems to be in French, at least for now.
• Also new from the Carnal Canucks series on Notches is a blog post by Karen Pearlston about the legal recognition of lesbianism, particularly in relation to divorce proceedings after the message of the 1968 Divorce Act.
• On Borealia this week is another blog post by Jerry Bannister, this one featuring his advice for graduate students finishing their theses.
• Sean Kheraj has a new post for NiCHE this week, reflecting on his experiences at this year’s CHESS. They always do the coolest stuff, and I totally want to go next year.
• Also this week on LAC is a new entry in their Who Do We Think We Are series. Their latest guest curator is J. Andrew Ross, speaking about the importance of censuses and our family histories.
• The ROM’s latest TBT looks at the challenge of hanging curtains. How many curators does it take to hang a curtain? Hehehe
• The UBC Digitization Centre spotlights their collection of Gold Rush materials!
• Also on Active History this week is another episode of the History Slam podcast. This week, Sean Graham interviews Beth A Robertson about her book, Science of the Seance. Now why didn’t I pick such a fascinating topic for my dissertation?
• Listen to Robyn Lacy being interviewed about her work!
• Check out this special preview of the new exhibits coming to the Canadian Museum of History in the 2017-2018 season!
• I’m not sure if this is new or just new to me, but you need to see this amazing digital archives project collecting historical documents relating to Métis history!
• LAC has also released its 2016-2017 Annual report.
• Check out this amazing doll given to Philomène Léger of New Brunswick in 1867 or 1868.
• Find out about how to clean historical gravestones in this blog post from UVic’s Anth 367 course.
• The Official Blog of Heritage Winnipeg takes a look at the efforts to rehabilitate heritage buildings on Main Street.
• Find out about some of the Catholic Toronto citizens who welcomed and supported orphaned children from the Irish Famine. This was in the midst of a typhoid epidemic.
• This week on the CCGW blog is the mystery of Captain Horace Hume Van Wart (wow, that’s quite the name)….
• This week, Retroactive takes a look at the Lovat Scouts, an elite WW2 British unit who trained outside of Jasper. That could not have been fun.
• This week on Unwritten Histories we had a surprise blog post! Earlier in the week, the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast posted an episode on Louis Riel. This blog post is my response to the episode, where I talk about the harm that inaccurate history can do to Indigenous peoples.
• The Canadian Encyclopedia has just revised two of its articles, the one on bison, and the one on Stanley Park.
• The Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to transfer case files older than 50 years to LAC. Let the stampede begin! Do not get between historians and newly released case files.
• Katie Biittner explores some of the ethical issues involved in 3-D printing and scanning, and North American anthropology.
• Also from Joanne Hammond this week is another fantastic Twitter essay about the many instances in which Indigenous people spoke up for their rights, and were summarily ignored.
• Adele Perry also has a Twitter essay this week about the stupidity of the Manitoba Premier’s bike ride to commemorate the signing of the Selkirk Treaty. Whyyyyy…..
• The latest Historical Canada newsletter has been released, and you can find it here.
• This week on the Vancouver Island WW1 Connections blog is a look at the WW1 collections of Saanich Archives pertaining to the home front.
• The South Peace Regional Archives remembers WW1 soldier, Private Hedley Johnson.
• This week Eve Lazarus has shared some amazing images of Canadian noir magazines from the 1930s and 1940s. Ooh la la.
• Canadian History in the News
  • John Hanc has written a new piece for the Smithsonian Magazine about why Nova Scotia did not join the American Revolution, despite the strong family ties between the province and New England.
  • Jarett Henderson has written an op-ed for The Edmonton Journal on the relationship between change and history. This is in response to a columnist’s assertion that the new Alberta curriculum is a disaster because it emphasizes change over history.
  • The National Gallery has vowed to never again tell the history of Canada without Indigenous art.
  • Find out why Toronto needs to have a public repository for historical and archaeological artefacts.
  • Radio Canada speaks with the director of the Historical Society of Sherbrooke, Michel Harmois, about his interest in historical prisons and his work to revitalize the old Sherbrooke prison, Prison Winter. It almost sounds like a bad pun…
  • Guelph made a major misstep when they included four murderers on the banners they created and posted for Canada150.
  • Find out about some of Winnipeg’s heritage buildings that have stood the test of time and will be here for many years to come.
  • BAnQ announced this week that it will be letting go of 40 employees and will be restructuring.
    • Joseph Gagné has a blog post on this, as well as the protest movement which is trending under the hashtag #JesoutiensBAnQ.
    • For coverage on this issue in English, go here.
  • All Edmonton public schools will be receiving Treaty 6 and Métis flags!
  • Maliseet First Nations are considering filing a land claim for their traditional territories in western New Brunswick.
  • Find out what happens when you donate items to the Whistler Museum!
    • Or read the accompanying blog post, with extra pictures and information.
  • Since the Trudeau government will be apologizing to members of the military who were discriminated against for being gay and lesbian, they have some major archival research to do!
  • Check out some of the first art installations out of the Lost Stories project.
  • My alma mater, UVic, will be removing the name of Joseph Trutch, who had zero respect for Indigenous land rights, from one of it’s buildings! This is fantastic!
  • Check out this amazing collection of Canadians photographed between 1895 and 1924, currently on display at the British Library. These are from a larger digitized collection called “Picturing Canada,” which you can see here.
  • Find out why people are upset about the new Dieppe coin from the Royal Canadian Mint.
  • Peter Robb talks about his visit to LAC’s Who Do We Think We Are exhibit. The exhibit just opened and runs until March 2018.
  • Making the rest of us look terrible, check out this 93 year-old man, Robin Guard, who has just completed his master’s degree in History from Brock. Damn!
  • The Royal Canadian Geographic Society will be partnering with Indigenous peoples across Canada to create the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada.
  • I’ve never been to Peterborough, but apparently some of their streets are very strange. Find out why chains and oxen have to do with this!
  • This week on the Torontoist is a fantastic article about “What Could Canada Have Been if the Treaty Process was Fair.” The Toronto Purchase was intended to be a rental, but, shockingly, I know, the government “forgot” to return it. Oops.
  • In other news, it might soon be legal to duel in Canada. Get your pistols!
  • There are serious concerns that the historical documents belonging to Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s will not survive long enough to be preserved.
  • A Canadian Covenanter tank from WW2 has just been rediscovered in a vineyard in England! It’s always in the last place you look, isn’t it…
  • A sad day for all Montrealers… the Club Super Sexe sign is probably coming down.
  • A time capsule from a 1992 high school class has been discovered at the Alberni Valley Museum. It should be opened this year, assuming someone comes forward to claim it!
  • New episodes of Canada: A People’s History will air this summer!
  • Check out these neat images from a new display of the work of Cape Breton cartoonist, Josh Silburt from 1942 to 1947.
  • Radio Canada pays tribute to the” hostesses” and “ambassadresses” from Expo 67.
  • The only remaining sod house in Saskatchewan is set to receive a heritage award. I’m so impressed that it’s still standing, despite being 106-years-old.
  • Sam Panopoulous, the Canadian man who invented Hawaiian pizza has just died.
  • William Ging Wee Dere has written about his family’s story, and how they were affected by anti-Chinese laws in Canada.
  • Do you remember how, a few months ago, I mentioned that the Law Society of BC would be removing their statue of Sir Matthew Begbie? It has finally come down.
  • So apparently Canada sent over some bison to the Nazis in 1937... Yep. Not really sure what else there is to say about that.
  • Hakai magazine highlights the work of ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, who has devoted her career to working with Indigenous elders on the West Coast to preserve their knowledge of plants.
• Calls for Papers
  • The Journal of American Ethnic History has issued a call for papers that historicize immigration regulation and resistance movements to these regulations. Submissions are due September 1.
  • The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at the University of Oregon is seeking submissions for a conference called: Russia and the Pacific Northwest: Russians from Fort Ross to the Aleutian Islands. Submissions are due September 1.
  • The International Journal of Canadian Studies has issued a CFP, both generally, as well as for a special issue on the 150th anniversary of confederation. Deadline to submit is December 29th.
  • The 57th Western History Association Conference Workshop and American Studies are seeking submissions on the theme of “New Directions on Black Western Studies.” The goal is to have the papers presented at a workshop, and later published in a special issue of American Studies. The deadline to submit abstracts is June 30.
  • The National Council for Public History Annual conference for 2018 has reissued their CFP. Check out why here.

Ok, this one almost killed me. My surprise blog post on Friday certainly didn’t help matters. Sigh. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this week’s double roundup! If you did, please consider sharing it on the social media platform of your choice. We’ll be back on Tuesday with our regular Best New Articles blog post. See you then!

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