Canadian Folk Music Heritage
A brief history of the Canadian folk music tradition and its preservation.
Tag Archives: Canadian history
Want to Write With Us? We’re Looking for More Bloggers!
ActiveHistory.Ca puts out a Call for Bloggers, as we seek to expand our circle of regular contributors.
“Come On Over”: Call-In Collaborative History in Northeastern Ontario
When up in the Sudbury and Manitoulin areas for a quick research trip in mid-September, driving several hundred kilometres, I became well-acquainted with CBC Sudbury. On Morning North, there was a regular program by two Laurentian University professors conducting research for their upcoming book Come on Over: Northeastern Ontario A-Z. In what sounds like a cross between an encyclopedia and… Read more »
Toronto: A Proud Union City
This post discusses Labour Day walking tours.
Canadian Census Data: A Lost Resource
Statistics Canada is making significant changes to the way that the Canadian census is conducted. Beginning in 2011 the long census form will no longer be distributed to Canadians. Previously, this portion of the census collected information on topics such as ethnicity, religion, employment, education, income, and various other social concerns. Information on some of these topics will now be… Read more »
Contextualizing G20 Policing in Toronto
A brief trip through Toronto’s 20th century past can show us two things: firstly, that police violence and arbitrary use of power has a long history in Toronto. More importantly, however, we see that citizen action can spur meaningful regulatory change. We can do something.
Learning about Teaching Canadian Rural History at Black Creek Pioneer Village
This post re-caps the inaugural event in the Approaching the Past workshop series, which is co-sponsored by ActiveHistory.ca. It discusses what we did at the workshop, and hopefully helps people learn some teaching tips.
Want to Write With Us? We’re Looking for More Bloggers!
ActiveHistory.Ca puts out a Call for Bloggers, as we seek to expand our circle of regular contributors.
Remembering and Commemorating a Complicated Past
In this post, I look at controversies surrounding a statue of Nellie McClung, due to her early-20th century support of eugenics.
Street History
Often the public face of history is seen in museums or government issued historical plaques; but important historical narratives also exist outside of these structures, and they often tell stories that otherwise remain obscure or hidden by more official ways of historical story telling. I call this way of sharing the past street history.