Brewers pavilion – Restaurant. April 1967. Library and Archives Canada /Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition / e011195069.
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Panoramic View of the Grand Pré Historic Overlook, Unesco World Heritage site and famous for being the site where thousands of Acadians were deported by the colonial British Government in Halifax, just a short drive away from Acadia University. Taken by Rachel Bryant.
Welcome back to Unwritten Histories, everyone! Lee is out of the hospital, Andrea and I are no longer sick, and to celebrate, we’re giving you some comprehensive coverage of this year’s Atlantic Canada Studies Conference which took place in the beautiful and historic Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Located just steps away from the Grand-Pré UNESCO World Heritage site, it seemed a very apropos location to be discussing the state of Atlantic Canada studies. Acadia did a great job hosting, and pulled off a fantastic conference.
Before I start my coverage of this spectacular event, a caveat: there were so many great panels, many of them happening concurrently, and it was physically impossible to attend all of them. Therefore, I can only include details of the ones I went to personally (although in a few cases my good friend and University of Saskatchewan PhD Candidate Michelle Desveaux went to other panels to take some notes for me; but even then, we still missed most of the conference due to the impossibility of attending everything). For those of you who wanted to hear more about panels that I did not attend, I apologize. If I could split myself into four people and attend every single concurrent panel I absolutely would have, because everything sounded amazing. I particularly regret missing panels that featured Rachel Bryant, Chantal Richard, Natasha Simon, Nicole O’Byrne, Sarah Spike, and Tina Loo, to name only a few.
Note from Andrea: As promised, today we have a special guest post from Claire Campbell! As many of you already know, Claire Campbell is an environmental historian who has been featured several times on the Roundup for her fantastic articles on NiCHE and Borealia. So I’m super excited to be able to present a new blog post from her — a meditation on beginning a new research project. Enjoy!
Bucknell University’s Claire Campbell – Faculty Profile Shoot
Michael KubelClaire Campbell is an associate professor of history at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is interested in the environmental history of North America and the North Atlantic world. She has taught at universities across Canada and in Denmark, in the areas of history, Canadian Studies, and Environment and Sustainability. Publications include Shaped by the West Wind: Nature & History in Georgian Bay (2004), A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (2011), and Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada (2013) with Robert Summerby-Murray. Her most recent work, Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada (forthcoming 2017), uses environmental history to expand public history and discussions of sustainability at national historic sites.
“Centennial Youth Travellers.” 1967. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-4-1463 Centennial Commission.
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White Star Line – Canada’s Call to Women (1920-1930). Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-119-1. Public Domain.
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“Valentine Greetings to a Good Little Boy I Know,” Greeting card, Valentine,
1900-1960, 20th century (Source: McCord Museum)
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