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In 2017, archaeologist Steph Halmhofer (@bones_canada) issued a call for submission for the first “Celebration of Women and Non-Binary Archaeologists.” The call was a response to the lack of women and non-binary representation in year-end archaeology roundups, as well as problems with representation in the media and public discourse. We have noticed many of the same problems in the field of History.
Inspired by Halmhofer, and with her permission, we issued an invitation in December 2018 to all women and non-binary folk who consider themselves to be historians to celebrate their personal and professional accomplishments from 2018.
Welcome to our third annual Unwritten Histories year-end review and the last post of 2018! As I did in the previous two years, I have divided this look back into two parts. The first is a month-by-month recap of some of the most important events in Canadian history over the past year. In the second part of this blog post, Stephanie and I list some of our favourite reads from the past year.
A few quick caveats:
- In the interest of keeping this list to a manageable length, I’ve limited it largely to subjects that had national relevance. Otherwise this list would never end.
- With a few notable exceptions, I have not included anniversaries in this list. That’s mostly because anniversaries come around every year.
- I also have not included every single major digitization or new archival project. However, if you want, I can definitely do a separate post for those in the new year.
- I’m sure I’ve missed stuff. If I did miss an event that you think should be on the list, let me know in the comments below!
Without any further ado, enjoy!
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Note from Andrea: we have a very special blog post today, that is also being shared on Active History and Histories Engagée. This post was originally published in the “Word from the President” column in Intersections 1.3. Special thanks to Adele Perry, the CHA, and Jim Clifford for making this happen.
By Adele Perry
The CHA|SHC is one of the organizations involved with The|La Collaborative, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC] of Canada-funded network dedicated to fostering Social Sciences and Humanities knowledge and skills in society at large.[1] In part, this involves discussing and promoting a range of different ways of being a social science or humanities scholar outside of the formal academy: in elementary and secondary classrooms, in media both new and old, and wherever we might find opportunity and cause to demonstrate the capacity of scholarly practice.
What historians can contribute to this is a long and I think notable history of practising our scholarship in public. In 2010, Joy Parr explained that historical practice “attentive to contemporary concerns, engaged in policy and with an engaged citizenry has existed as long as historical scholarship has existed in Canada.”[2] The causes, communities, and issues that historians engage with have changed, as have the tools and technologies that historians use to engage and communicate. But the basic fact of historians’ willingness to connect their research to the present and to speak to communities beyond the archive and classroom is longstanding.
In the last decade, Canada’s historical community have seen a number of new initiatives that mobilize historical knowledge and expertise to contribute to wider discussions. These are notable and worth discussing in a forum like Intersections unto themselves. That these initiatives are significantly organized and maintained by junior scholars, many of whom who have done so without the resources of tenure-track or tenured appointments, should give us all additional pause. As a profession, our capacity to engage robustly with wider conversations and publics is not threatened by scholarly disinterest as much as it is by a precarious condition that a generation of historians are compelled to navigate.
We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features fellow Cape Bretoner and Yukon trekker Heather Green. She was kind enough to take some time from her busy adventure schedule to share with us!
Heather Green is a post-doctoral fellow with the Wilson Institute in Canadian History at McMaster University where she studies transnational tourism in the Yukon, specifically the rise of sport hunting, conservation policy, and Indigenous engagement. She is also a Fulbright Canada scholar with the University of Arizona examining the ways in which Indigenous groups in Arizona developed guiding and outfitting businesses for tourists in the early 20th century. She is also this year’s New Scholars representative for NiCHE! You can find her on Twitter @heathergreen21 usually tweeting about #envhist, the Yukon, and her dog, Whiskey!
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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.
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:
- Canadian Journal of History 53, no. 2 (Autumn 2018)
- Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 3 (September 2018)
- Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 72, no. 1 (Summer 2018)
- Ontario History 110, no. 1 (Spring 2018)
- Manitoba History 87 (Summer 2018)
- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 35, no. 2 (Fall 2018)
- Mens 17 no. 1-2 (Fall 2016)
- Recherches amerindiennes au Québec 47, no. 2-3 (2017)
- Historical Studies in Education 30 no. 2 (Fall 2018)
- British Journal of Canadian Studies 31 no. 1 (2018)
- International Journal of Canadian Studies 56 (2017)
- Journal of Canadian Studies 52, no. 1 (Winter 2018)
- Canadian Military History 27, no. 2 (2018)
- Individual articles:
- Rachel Bryant, “Kinshipwrecking: John Smith’s Adoption and the Pocahontas Myth in Settler Ontologies,” AlterNative, First Look (2018): 1-9.
- Ellen Power and Arn Keeling, “Cleaning Up Cosmos: Satellite Debris, Radioactive Risk, and the Politics of Knowledge in Operation Morning Light,” The Northern Review 48 (2018): 81-109.
- Alex Arsenault Morin, Vincent Geloso, Vadim Kufenko, “Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure,” SSRN Electronic Journal (2016): 1-20.
Here are my favourites:
Young woman wearing a red sweater holding bear paw snowshoes. Shilly Shally Lodge, Gatineau Park. N.D. Rosemary Easton Gillat. Library and Archives Canada, No. R12438
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