May 2011

Sir John A. Uses Twitter?

May 30, 2011

A look at dead, historically prominent Canadians who have twitter accounts

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Announcements: Parler Fort Speaker Series and Sunnybrook Hospital Book Launch

May 28, 2011

This week’s announcements include the Parler Fort Speaker Series at Fort York National Historic Site and the book launch for Sunnybrook Hospital: Our Veterans’ Legacy of Care, a Photographic Journey Through the Decades.

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“You’re gonna be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride”: Movie Review of Five on the Black Hand Side

May 25, 2011

A review of the Blaxploitation film Five on the Black Hand Side.

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The Rise and Fall of Ideas: Having fun with Google N-Grams

May 23, 2011

We need to make sense of large quantities of information in order to do ‘big history’ and provide a context into which we can write our smaller studies. In this post, I’ll tell you what an ngram is, show some cool pictures, and hopefully drive you to have some fun with this.

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Technology and the Post-War Presidency

May 19, 2011

What is the relationship between presidential popularity and technology?

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Fun Camp for Adult Researchers: Reading Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

May 17, 2011

By Ioana Teodorescu You may have heard of it. Or not. Its official title is Reading Artifacts Summer Institute at Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa and this is the third year when it happens. Jaipreet Virdi gave it a serious review in June last year on this very blog and I totally agree with [...]

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Active History on the Grand: Chiefswood, a Bridge Between Two Worlds

May 16, 2011

August is laughing across the sky, Laughing while paddle, canoe and I, Drift, drift, Where the hills uplift On either side of the current swift. – “The Song my Paddle Sings,” E. Pauline Johnson From Brantford’s downtown the Grand River meanders lazily, coming back on itself through a large ox-box, before reaching the tiny community [...]

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Announcement: Congress Social Media Meet-up

May 15, 2011

May 29, 2011 5 to 7 pm Harriet Irving Library, room 111 University of New Brunswick Recognizing the importance of user-generated content to the Congress experience, Congress is hosting its first ever social media networking cocktail. This event is an opportunity for delegates who would normally engage only online to meet in real life. Join [...]

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Visible Minority, Invisible History? An Educational Forum about Teaching and Learning Asian Heritage

May 13, 2011

For our educational readers in the Greater Toronto Area, ActiveHistory.ca is proud to pass along this initiation from the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter. Are you a teacher or youth worker? Do you work with a lot of Asian Students? Do your students question their Asian Canadian identity? Do you wish you had more [...]

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Alberta’s Oil Spill History

May 11, 2011

By Sean Kheraj On Friday, 29 April 2011, Plains Midstream Canada quietly issued a press release, informing the public of a crude oil spill from the Rainbow Pipeline east of the Peace River in northern Alberta near Little Buffalo, AB. Four days later, following the Canadian federal election, Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) announced [...]

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