Active History – History Matters
Erika Dyck and Jim Clifford. The COVID-19 pandemic tested healthcare systems worldwide and pushed many of them to the breaking point. Canadians experienced the pandemic in diverse ways depending on where and how they lived, from single-family dwellings with converted virtual workspaces to long-term-care facilities with rigorous lock-down policies or First Nations reserves with inconsistent ...
About - Active History
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s ...
135 Years Since the Last Spike: Colonialism and ... - Active History
2020年11月6日 · By Thomas Blampied. For those following the Canadian railway industry, 2020 was supposed to be a year of celebration. Canadian National Railway (CN), was continuing with its CN100 celebrations to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of being bailed out and nationalized by the Canadian government in 1919 (it wasn’t privatized until 1995). The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was to mark the 135 ...
Publications - Active History
Ebooks. The Active History ebook series brings together some of the best writing published on ActiveHistory.ca in an accessible, open-access format. Its thematic collections focus on connecting historians to the public and the past to current events.
Active History on Display
Active History on Display is a project of Activehistory.ca, in partnership with McGill University, Carleton University, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program at the University of British Columbia, and HistoireEngagée.ca.
Canada’s First World War – Active History
By Eric Story, Brittany Dunn and Alexander Maavara Anniversaries invite reflection. Regardless of historians’ tendency to hastily dismiss commemorations or celebrations of the past as pesky purveyors of myth, these events nonetheless generate discussion––sometimes informed, other times less so––about history.
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca
Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, life on the home front, and commemoration today.
Features - Active History
Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Author) B. Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967, reviewed by Ruthann LaBlance. Ian McKay and Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia, reviewed by Paul Bennett R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada, reviewed by ...
History Slam Episode 139: Canadians and the Chinese ... - Active …
2019年11月13日 · Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham. The outstanding Canada’s First World War series here at Activehistory.ca wrapped up on Friday after five years of producing exceptional content. As Jonathan Weier pointed out in one of the series’ post earlier this year, the historical focus on major narratives like Vimy that focus on nationalist mythology limits the discussion about ...
The Royal Proclamation in Historical Context – Active History
One thought on “ The Royal Proclamation in Historical Context ” Patsy L. McArthur April 6, 2015 at 10:21 am. The Historic Saugeen Metis community is interested in having papers written for the 200th year anniversary, 2018, of the Ojibwe Piche Wampum 1818 carried until 1889 by Historic Saugeen Metis Marguerite Lange, Cree Metis wife of NWC HBC Saugeen trader Augustin Gonneville dit Lemire.