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A man and woman standing behind field of yellow flowers and tulips in Beacon Hill Park. Victoria, British Columbia. 1961. Gar Lunney. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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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:
Here are my favourites:
Women canning sockeye salmon at the Imperial Cannery, Steveston, B.C. 1971-72. National Film Board of Canada. Copyright expired.
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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. Today we’re joined by the wonderful Dr. Erin Millions
Dr. Erin Millions’ research focuses on the intersections of childhood, gender, material culture, and colonialism in Canada and the wider British Empire. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Winnipeg with Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum’s CIHR-funded project “Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba, 1930s-1970s” and the Western Canadian Studies Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba.
Easter March for Peace Toronto. April 16, 1964. Lil Greene fonds.
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“Descent into Matzah Canyon,” by Avital Pinnick. via flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, then you’ve probably heard me say that I’m Jewish girl from Montreal a time or two. Well, it just so happens that this Friday is the first night of Passover. For those who might not be familiar with this holiday, think the movie The Ten Commandments, but for real. It’s an annual holiday where Jews gather to remember the liberation of the Jewish peoples from enslavement in Ancient Egypt.* The celebrations take place over seven days and seven nights. On the first two nights, family members will gather to have special meals called seders, where the story is recounted. The holiday is intended to be one of remembrance and celebration. At least, that was the case in Montreal until April 1996. So join me today as we travel back in time to see what happened when the Jewish community of Montreal went head to head with the Quebec government in an event that has come to be called “Matzohgate.”
(Do you know where the quote from the titles comes from? Read to the end of the blog post to find out!)
Brewers pavilion – Restaurant. April 1967. Library and Archives Canada /Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition / e011195069.
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When I found out last year that Tina Adcock and Edward Jones-Imhotep were working on a new edited collection about modernity, science, and technology in Canadian history, I was immediately excited. I don’t like to talk about it, but once upon a time I was enrolled in engineering sciences. Earlier this year, I had the chance to speak with Adcock and Jones-Imhotep about their book, Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History, and this blog post is the result of that conversation. Enjoy!
Edward Jones-Imhotep is a cultural historian of science and technology and an associate professor of history at York University. He is the recipient of the Sidney Edelstein Prize in the history of technology for his book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War. He has held visiting fellowships at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and was the Northrop Frye Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto.
Tina Adcock is a cultural and environmental historian of modern Canada and an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She has published work in Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, and American scholarly journals and volumes. She is an associate of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.
Make sure you head on over to Active History today to find out about the new open-access edited collection ebook that Krista McCracken and I just released today! We’re super excited about it, and we hope that you love it as much as we do!
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