Macoun Club, Ottawa – David Smiley putting a crayfish on Jennifer Medd’s neck. March 22, 1963. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton. Library and Archives Canada
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Tag: The North
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Special thanks to Anne Janhunen, Krista McCracken, and Maddie Knickerbocker for helping me think this through, and Alison Norman, Tom Peace, Krystl Raven, Adele Perry, and Erin Millions for their commentary on the Johnson piece.
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:
- Journal of Canadian Studies 52 no. 3 (Fall 2018)
- Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 28, no. 2 (2017)
- Ontario History 110, no. 2 (Fall 2018)
- Left History 22 no. 1 (2018)
- Bulletin D’Histoire Politique 27 no. 1 (Fall 2018)
- Francophonies D’Amériques no. 42-43 (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
- Manitoba History no. 88 (Winter 2018)
- The Northern Mariner XXVIII (2018)
- Canadian Journal of History 53, no. 3 (Winter 2018)
- Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures10, no. 2 (2018)
- Settler Colonial Studies 8, no. 4 (2018)
- Terrae Incognitae 50, no. 2 (2018)
- Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 46, no. 6 (2018)
- William and Mary Quarterly 76, no. 1 (January 2019)
- Individual articles
- Nathalie Picard and Cassandra Marsillio, “In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts,” International Public History 1, no. 2 (2018): 1-6.
- Miranda Johnson, “The Case of the Million-Dollar Duck: A Hunter, His Treaty, and the Bending of the Settler Contract,” American Historical Review 124, no. 1 (February 2009): 56-86.
- Corinne Doria, “’From The Darkness to the Light: Memoirs of Blind Canadian Veterans of the First and Second World Wars,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 7 no. 3 (2018): 122-144.
Here are my favourites:
Note from Andrea: I’m just finishing up my marking for my condensed summer course, so we have another special guest post for you today! When I found out that Heather Green was researching beer in the Klondike, I just knew I had to talk her into a blog post. Enjoy!
Heather Green recently received her PhD from the University of Alberta studying environmental and indigenous histories of gold mining in the Klondike region of the Yukon from 1890 to 1940. She is an incoming Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University where she will research trophy hunting tourism in the southern Yukon from 1920 to 1950.
This blog is the early research for a larger collaborative project with Matt Papai (University of Alberta) on the connections between local identity, environment, and beer production in the Yukon. Both collaborators are craft beer enthusiasts, and the idea for this project arose in 2015 from discussions about the environmental impacts of Northern beer production while researching in the Yukon and Alaska. Our next steps include examining liquor laws, temperance, and prohibition movements in the Yukon, as well as tracing commodity chains of brewing ingredients into the North. We also hope to investigate how successful O’Brien’s ad campaign was in reaching the public.
The craft beer movement has gained momentum over the past few decades with new microbreweries popping up each year all over North America and around the globe. In Canada, the microbrewery movement began in the 1980s, primarily in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Vancouver, British Columbia. Today, you are guaranteed to find at least one craft brewery in most towns and cities in Canada. Around the world one thing seems to ring true no matter where you go – breweries, and the beer they produce, hold a connection with place and local identity.
Daughters of two fishermen (The girl on the right has been identified as Susie Etok, here aged 14). Circa 1960. Rosemary Gilliat. Library and Archives Canada, e010835968. CC by 2.0.
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Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the new and upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes new books in both English and French. To see last month’s releases, click here.
Man, Woman and Young Girl Playing with a Beach Ball in the Water at the Beach (circa 1950). Canada. National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque. Library and Archives Canada, e010955762 CC by 2.0
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Reenactment of Viking landing at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada 2000, by Joyce Hill GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
Are you ready for a week full of Vikings?
Ever see a news story about an amazing historical discovery and wonder what is so special about it? Or read a news article about a “historic moment,” only to wonder what they were talking about? In this series, “History in the News,” I take you behind the headlines, explaining the history behind these findings and announcements, giving you a historian’s perspective on why they are important.
This week, we’ll be discussing the latest discovery of a second possible Viking settlement in Newfoundland. On April 1, 2016, Dr. Sarah Parcak announced she and her team of researchers had discovered evidence of what might be a Viking-style hearth and eight kilograms of early bog iron in a part of Newfoundland called Point Rosee. This discovery was even featured in a NOVA documentary, Vikings Unearthed (which featured Parcak and others horrifyingly mispronouncing “Newfoundland” and the typical sensationalizing of Vikings as murdering barbarians). Parcak and NOVA believe that Parcak’s findings are strong evidence for what they describe as only the second Viking settlement in North America. But are they correct? We will explore the answer to this question over the course of three blog posts. The first post, which you are reading right now, will discuss the history of Viking sites in North America and give you an overview of Parcak’s discovery. The second post, which comes out tomorrow (Wednesday) will be Part 1 of an interview with Vikingologist and dear friend, Dr. Teva Vidal, who will discuss Parcak’s findings and the significance of such a find. The third post, which comes out on Thursday, will be Part 2 of the interview with Dr. Vidal, and will discuss why we seem to care so much about when Europeans arrived in North America and where they went. Are you excited? I know I am!