Category Archives: Announcements

ActiveHistory.ca repost – One Monument Too Many: Why R.B. Bennett Doesn’t Deserve a Spot on Parliament Hill

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on September 16, 2015. By Sonya Roy and Steve Hewitt In recent years, non-experts,… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – Paved with Good Intentions: Simply Requiring Indigenous Content is Not Enough

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on January 13, 2016 during the Indigenous Histories theme week edited by Crystal Fraser…. Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – Who Teaches Digital History in Canada?

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on April 6, 2016. By Sean Kheraj Digital history is coming to York University… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – Baba Wore a Burqa, and Nona wore a Niqab

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on October 16, 2015. By Karen Dubinsky and Franca Iacovetta Last week two high… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – Bleeding Him White: How Canada Stole an Indigenous Veteran’s Identity

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on February 2, 2016 s part of  “Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – Science, Technology and Gender in Canada: An ActiveHistory.ca Exhibit in Collaboration with the Canadian Science and Technology Museum

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. This post and corresponding exhibit were originally featured  on November 20, 2015 during the Tehcnoscience in Canada theme week. By… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – What about the People? Place, Memory, and Industrial Pollution in Sudbury

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on November 5, 2015. By Stacey Zembrzycki Much of the industrial ruins resulting from… Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – A Smudgier Dispossession is Still Dispossession

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on January 11, 2016 during the Indigenous Histories theme week edited by Crystal Fraser…. Read more »

ActiveHistory.ca repost – From Tragic Little Boys to Unwanted Young Men

ActiveHistory.ca is on a two-week hiatus, but we’ll be back with new content in September. During the hiatus, we’re featuring some of our most popular and favourite posts from the past year.   Thanks as always to our writers and readers. The following post was originally featured on October 9, 2015. By Veronica Strong-Boag Canadians are easily sentimental about babies and… Read more »

The Collaboratorium – University of Saskatchewan Launches Initiative in Community-Engaged History

By Colin Osmond The University of Saskatchewan recently launched a unique and exciting initiative called the “Community-Engaged History Collaboratorium.” This is an extension of Prof. Keith Thor Carlson’s Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-engaged History, and is designed to be on the cutting edge of community-engaged scholarship (CES). In the Collaboratorium, faculty and students work in collaboration with First Nations,… Read more »