April 2010

Endangered Places: Lansdowne Park

April 28, 2010

In June 2010 Ottawa City Council will decide the fate of Lansdowne Park, a significant area of public space in Ottawa’s Glebe community, a portion of which is marked for proposed commercial redevelopment. Over the past year, public consultations have been a platform for concerned citizens in the Glebe, and in other areas of Ottawa, [...]

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Remembering and Commemorating a Complicated Past

April 25, 2010

In this post, I look at controversies surrounding a statue of Nellie McClung, due to her early-20th century support of eugenics.

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Active History Announcements – Apr 24 to May 1

April 24, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers (click here or ‘continue reading’ below for full descriptions): 1) The Ontario Women’s History Network AGM and Conference 2) ActiveHistory.ca partners in running the Black Creek Community Walk 3) Approaching the Past: A series connecting people teaching history – Ruth Sandwell keynote speaker 4) [...]

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Earth Day turns 40

April 22, 2010

Today, Earth Day celebrates its 40th anniversary.  Earth Day originated as a call to arms by US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who hoped to draw on the grassroots movement for greater environmental consciousness in order to bring about positive policy changes in Washington. Earth Day drew much of its early enthusiasm from university campuses.  [...]

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Interactive Exhibit Design – The Interactive Streetscape

April 21, 2010

by Tim O’Grady Whether in an urban or a rural environment, I find built history fascinating. It’s all around us, and contains incredible stories about our past, but most people never really notice it. As part of my MA in Public History at the University of Western Ontario I had the opportunity to take a [...]

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Volcanoes in European history: Exploring Environmental History Podcast

April 20, 2010

Dr Jan Oosthoek has produced a podcast on the history of volcanoes in European history.  The podcast can be found here or you can subscribe on iTunes here.  This podcast and its supporting website are under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, so we have republished his text introducing the volcanoes podcast and the [...]

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One year of ActiveHistory.ca

April 18, 2010

April marks the one-year anniversary of this website.  The steering committee of ActiveHistory.ca recently discussed the challenges and successes we have faced in our attempt over the past year to bridge the work of historians with a wider audience at Activism and the Academy: Struggles Against Hegemony, a two-day conference organized by the Graduate Women’s [...]

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Jane’s Walks: community history tours

April 15, 2010

Since 2007 people have come together once a year to celebrate and remember the life of Jane Jacobs by leading or participating in walking tours of their local communities.  As Jacobs argued, walkability is essential for urban communities.  These tours seem to be a truly fitting monument to Jacob’s legacy.  The walks began in Toronto, [...]

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Active History, Hunt and Stoke

April 13, 2010

By David Zylberberg, PhD Candidate, York University The United Kingdom is in the midst of an election campaign with a May 6 poll. Despite numerous suggestions that this is the ‘most important election in a generation’, the limited media coverage on this side of the Atlantic has tended to focus on which opposition leader invoked [...]

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Popular Publishing Writer’s Guild Expands Westward

April 8, 2010

By Adam Crymble Thanks to a successful workshop held in Vancouver last month, the Popular Publishing Writer’s Guild has added a new Western Canadian chapter. The guild is a support network of new scholars who are trying to engage a wider public with their research and ideas through newspapers, magazines or online. Every five months, [...]

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