November 2010

Step-by-Step: Looking Up an Ancestor’s First World War Record

November 29, 2010

This is a step-by-step guide to accessing military records both through LAC’s website but also on-site.

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Canadian Folk Music Heritage

November 25, 2010

A brief history of the Canadian folk music tradition and its preservation.

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This is Not About Cinnamon Toast

November 23, 2010

A discussion of the importance and possibilities of storytelling, oral history and personal memories.

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Active History on the Grand: Brantford Up-date

November 22, 2010

If you’ve read my previous blogs, you’ll notice that I talk a lot about Brantford, Ontario. Since completing my PhD in History from McMaster University I’ve been working as the Executive Director of the Canadian Industrial Heritage Centre (CIHC), a not-for-profit organization in Brantford dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Canadian industrial history and [...]

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Upcoming Talks

November 20, 2010

Upcoming talks in Toronto this week.

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Let’s talk about race, Canada

November 19, 2010

Talking about race in Canada is a lot like talking about sex in the old days. There is so much imposed silence on the subject. We skip around it, pretend that it is not there, and pray that it will go away.

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History Matters podcast: Megan Davies and David Reville on Parkdale’s mad history

November 18, 2010

Megan Davies and David Reville recently presented an engaging talk on the ways in which mental health deinstitutionalization impacted psychiatric survivors and the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. In front of a packed audience at the Parkdale library, “Locating Parkdale’s Mad History: Back Wards to Back Streets, 1980-2010” examined the motivations behind deinstitutionalization and showed how [...]

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New Book Review: In the Province of History

November 17, 2010

Paul Bennett, director of Schoolhouse Consulting, reviews McKay and Bates’s ‘In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia’

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