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Join Dr. Ian Mosby (Toronto Metropolitan University) as he shares how Canada’s Food Rules, the first version of Canada’s Food Guide, is able to demonstrate the biases and prejudices of settler colonialism. Dr. Mosby explores how history can be used as an act of service, to answer questions and help connect stories. Dr. Mosby draws on his research to craft an engaging discussion on the creation of the Food Guide, and the background factors that influenced the decisions of what made a healthy diet. He explores how settler colonial ideas lead to its creation and the experimentation of nutritional guidance on vulnerable populations. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

Join Brandon Mitchell, a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, as he shares the story of the 1st Listuguj Salmon Raid in 1980, told to him by his mother-in-law only a few years ago. While the 1981 Salmon raid is often the one remembered through family conversations. Brandon learned that police stormed the Listuguj community a year earlier. Learning about this previous raid inspired Brandon Mitchell to write "Migwite'tmeg: We Remember It", a contribution to the groundbreaking comic collection This Place, published by Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

Join Dr. Karen Flynn (University of Illinois) as she brings us the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse working in Montreal in the 1960s who won the first racial discrimination in employment case in Canada through the trial: Her Majesty the Queen vs. Hilton of Canada Ltd. (aka the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal). Through Gloria’s story, we can see behind the facade of this significant Canadian hotel and explore the intersection of race, class, gender, and the transnational nature of Canadian history. 

Dr. Flynn talks passionately about why we need to bring Gloria’s story into every history classroom, to learn about these groundbreaking court cases history has forgotten.

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Join Dr. Alanna McKnight, a fashion historian, as she demonstrates how a using a 19th century Eaton’s catalogue can open up conversations about the history of fashion, women’s bodies, leisure time, exploitive work practices, and settler colonialism. Specifically she shows two pages from the Fall and Winter catalouge from 1899-1900 and highlights the layout of the catalogue and the fashions of the period.

Dr. McKight also links this history to today’s “fast fashion” and asks us to consider how access to ready-made clothes contributed to the waste associated with fashion, and the continuation of negative labor practices.

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How can curling bring community together? How can we use sport to explore historical events?

Join Dr. Carly Adams (University of Lethbridge) and Dr. Darren Aoki (University of Plymouth) as they draw on the Nikkei Memory Capture Project to share experiences of how curling brought Japanese-Canadians together after World War Two. Through sharing the stories they captured in the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, Dr. Adams and Dr. Aoki bring the stories of Japanese-Canadians to the forefront of the discussion, to reframe how we view Japanese internment and the experiences after the forced internment ended. Centering the discussions around the Japanese-Canadian curling bonspiel, community, strength, and celebration is highlighted. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

How can a church be used as a source in history classrooms? How can you bring larger histories into your own neighbourhood? Join Dr. Evan Habkirk (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) as he talks about using the local churches in your community as a place that can start discussions around the past, historical connections, and colonial histories. By using a local church as a primary source, even from the outside, Dr. Habkirk discusses how we can connect our communities to larger themes in Canadian history, such as residential schools, royal visits, and world wars. Reading churches as historical documents can connect to our present communities and bring the history of the community directly to the lives of students.

À quand remonte la présence des communautés arabes au Canada? Comment ont-elles réagi face aux politiques migratoires discriminatoires du début du XXe siècle? Qu’est-ce que l’étude de ces communautés et de leurs mobilisations nous dit sur l’histoire canadienne? Pour répondre à toutes ces questions, joignez-vous à la conversation que Christine Chevalier-Caron a eue avec Brian Aboud.

How are Jamaica and Newfoundland connected? How can we put ourselves into recipes to connect with the people who made the ingredients possible?   

Join Xaiver Campbell as he shows the sticky history of molasses. Xaiver uses molasses as a way to explore empire, enslavement, colonialism, and capitalism through the creation, transportation, and consumption of the sweetener. We explore ways for students to put themselves into recipes to connect to the past and how we can use our historical imagination to connect to people who were not able to leave their own records behind.

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Comment les stéréotypes sexistes et racistes diffusaient-ils dans la province de Québec au début du dernier siècle ?   

Les manuels scolaires consistent en l’un des éléments de réponses les plus importants. L’usage du manuel Mon premier livre. Lire – écrire – compter – éducation – instruction : manuel des commençants pendant près de 40 ans en témoigne d’ailleurs, alors que tantôt les enfants y apprennent à compter avec des stéréotypes antinoirs, plus tard ils y pratiquent leur grammaire avec des stigmates orientalistes.  Pour en discuter, nous avons fait appel à l’historienne Catherine Larochelle, autrice du livre L’école du racisme: la construction de l’altérité à l’école québécoise.

Did you know that the TRC was funded through the work of residential school survivors? When we are teaching residential school histories, how can we ensure these survivor voices are remembered and represented?   

Join Krista McCracken, an award winning public historian and archivist who works as the Researcher/Curator at Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, as they share photos and documents from the first reunion of the Shingwauk Residential School in 1981. These early reunions marked the (informal) beginnings of the Shingwauk Residential School Archives, which were, and continue to be, built by the community from the need and desire to record, remember, and share.  

Drawing on the power of community archives, Krista emphasizes how bringing oral histories, survivor-centred stories, and art into our conversations about residential schools can strengthen these conversations by uplifting survivor voices.   

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What are the colonial forces that create the spaces we consider “natural”? How does capitalism and imperialism shape the history of public spaces like beaches?  

Join Dr. Dale Barbour as he discusses the history of Toronto’s Sunnyside Beach. Using historical photographs and archival renderings, Dr. Barbour discusses how Sunnyside Beach developed over the first half of the  20th century.   

This video is the second of two summer-themed conversations that we partnered with NiCHE-Canada. NiCHE, or the Network in Canadian History & Environment,  is a Canadian-based network of researchers and educators who work at the intersection of nature and history.   

Learn more about their work at: https://niche-canada.org/ 

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How can bringing in intergenerational stories help deepen our understanding of sport? How have Caribbean-Canadian women shaped Canadian identity?  

Join Dr. Jenny Ellison (Canadian Museum of History) as she shares artifacts from world champion hurdler Perdita Felicien, which are now in the Canadian Museum of History’s collection. From shoes, to luggage tags, to home photos of her childhood bedroom, Dr. Ellison brought familiar, yet juxtaposed, artifacts together to tell Perdita’s story of the highs and lows of sport.   

This conversation touches upon themes such as intergenerational communities and challenges, Caribbean Canadians’ contributions to the 20th century, and the ways ordinary school activities - like track and field days - can result in finding extraordinary talents  

This video is the first of two summer-theme conversations that we partnered with NiCHE-Canada. NiCHE, or the Network in Canadian History & Environment, is a Canadian-based network of researchers and educators who work at the intersection of nature and history.

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How can a veteran’s memoir engage students in conversations about settler colonialism, residential schools, and the ethics of war? What can we learn about 20th century Canada through the lens of an Inuk who fought both at home and abroad?

Join Dr. Isabelle St-Amand (Queen’s University) as she shares Eddy Weetaltuk’s memoir From the Tundra to the Trenches (University of Manitoba Press). Eddy Weetaltuk, an Inuk man, joined the Canadian military to fight in the Korean War (1950-1953) under a false name. This exciting and funny memoir covers his experience at war, as well as his experiences growing up in James Bay and attending a church-run day school and his experiences returning home from war to increased racism. Dr. St-Amand brings her enthusiasm and passion to this conversation, to talk about we can use the memoir as a whole to challenge Canadian history.

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Avez-vous déjà entendu parler du Congrès des femmes Noires du Canada? Saviez-vous que ces femmes étaient particulièrement actives dans les années 1970? 

Si l’historiographie a été peu bavarde à leur sujet, la situation est en train de changer alors que de plus en plus d'historiennes s’y intéressent! C’est notamment le cas de Samia Dumais qui vient nous parler de certaines des archives de l’organisation. Lors de cette discussion, notre invité ne se contente pas de décrire les archives : elle nous explique comment celles-ci peuvent permettre de renouveler les connaissances de plusieurs champs historiographiques, comme l’histoire des féminismes de la deuxième vague et celle du Black Power.

How can we read colonial sources to see greater agency, power, and leadership from Indigenous women? or, how can we read colonial sources to see greater ogimaa? How can flipping the perspective and foregrounding these stories challenge how we understand the past and present?  

Join Dr. Kai Minosh Pyle (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as they discuss how we can use sources written by white settlers to read between the lines and see more full lives of Indigenous people, women, and LGBTQ2S+ people. 

Using “A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner” or “The Falcon,” Dr. Pyle discusses passages that showcase the leadership and power of Indigenous women, including a woman who may be identified as a Two-Spirited person. We talk about the ways history has been written and interpreted to privilege certain versions of power and the ways flipping the perspective of historical sources can challenge the Euro-colonial progress narratives so common in Canadian history.  

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À quand remonte la présence des populations noires sur le territoire aujourd’hui appelé Canada? Qui étaient-elles? Que faisaient-elles?  

Amadou Bâ propose certaines réponses à ces questions à travers son ouvrage L’Histoire oubliée de la contribution des esclaves et soldats noirs à l’édification du Canada (1604-1945) et son livre jeunesse John Ware, le cowboy noir de l'Ouest canadien. À l’occasion de sa rencontre avec Christine Chevalier-Caron, ces ouvrages et des historiographies dans lesquels ils s’insèrent sont au cœur d’une passionnante discussion. Lors de celle-ci, Amadou Bâ propose de revoir le récit afin de démontrer que les populations NoirEs du Canada forment un des peuples fondateurs de ce pays. Conscients que le récit historique enseigné dans les écoles de l’ensemble du pays ne permet pas de rendre visible et tangible cette réalité, il propose un livre incontournable pour accélérer l’inclusion des NoirEs dans les curriculums scolaires des provinces. Écouter cette discussion et lire ses livres : un excellent moyen de se familiariser avec l’appart des communautés NoirEs à la société canadienne.

How can talking to our Elders be a form of community activism that helps our understanding of the past? How can we use modern photographs to bring historic discussions into the present?

Join Amanda Carvery-Taylor (photographer and community builder) as she shares her collection of original photography and oral histories about Africville in her book: A Love Letter to Africville (Fernwood Publishing). These stories of love and joy go beyond the stories of pain that are normally part of the narratives around Africville. Using Amanda’s work, and her methods, you too can tell new stories about community using the words, experiences, and photographs about community Elders. This conversation, and book, is an essential companion to any teaching about Africville, as well as a love letter to the concept of community itself.

How can an everyday object like an egg engage students in conversations about history? How can students connect to the past using objects lying around the house?

Join Dr. Madeleine Mant (University of Toronto) as she shows an egg-cellent source and how it connects to the 1942 Canadian Food Guide. Dr. Mant uses the egg to show us how we can use everyday objects as an entry point to teach students about the past, their own positionality, and how health history is all around us.

Bring meaningful learning into your classroom using the “Anthropology of Health in 100 Objects” project, asking students to connect an object to a theme and answer the questions: What is the item, why was it selected, how does it relate to the theme, and how does it connect to a broader (re)examination of Canadian history?

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How do we find the stories of enslaved people in Canada beyond the stories of the Underground Railroad? How do we unsettle the notion that slavery in Canada was benign? How do we use our imagination to place these people into our historical understanding of Canada? Join Dr. Michele Johnson and Dr. Funke Aladejebi as they show us how to read Canadian runaway slave ads and use our historical imagination to build lives for people who were not able to leave the same records we often use to learn Canadian history. This conversation is just the start of the rich conversations found in the edited collection, Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, published by University of Toronto Press (2022).

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How have the conversations about pronouns, trans identity, and the LGBTQ2S+ community changed over time? 

Join Dr. Aaron Devor, Chair in Transgender Studies (University of Victoria), talk about Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues), Rupert Raj, Reed Erickson, and how these histories come together in a 1982 issue of Metamorphosis, a newsletter for trans men, published in Canada in the 1980s.

Learn more here: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/