Active History – History Matters
Mack Penner. Photo by Rock’n Roll Monkey on Unsplash. The opening session of Active History’s late-August workshop on knowledge mobilization and public history confronted the changing digital environment and its consequences. Among the digital topics discussed, artificial intelligence (AI) stood out not just for the quantity of discussion it produced, but for the nature of that conversation.
About - Active History
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s ...
Features - Active History
Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Author) B. Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967, reviewed by Ruthann LaBlance. Ian McKay and Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia, reviewed by Paul Bennett R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada, reviewed by ...
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca
Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, life on the home front, and commemoration today.
The Sesquicentennial of Treaty 1 – Active History
Aug 9, 2021 · [1] Archibald cited in Alexander Morris, The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. 1880 Reprint. Saskatoon: Fifth House Publishers, 1991, p. 32. [2] Morris, The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories.[3] See for example Jean Friesen, “Grant Me Werewith to Make My Living,” in Kerry Abel & Jean Friesen (eds ...
Publications - Active History
Ebooks. The Active History ebook series brings together some of the best writing published on ActiveHistory.ca in an accessible, open-access format. Its thematic collections focus on connecting historians to the public and the past to current events.
A Pivotal Experience: Indigenous Participation in D-Day and the …
Jun 28, 2019 · The first barrier Indigenous peoples faced was at enlistment. Indigenous peoples primarily served in the infantry, both due to the amount of manpower the infantry required and the entrance restrictions many Indigenous people could not pass in other branches of the military.
135 Years Since the Last Spike: Colonialism and ... - Active History
Nov 6, 2020 · By Thomas Blampied. For those following the Canadian railway industry, 2020 was supposed to be a year of celebration. Canadian National Railway (CN), was continuing with its CN100 celebrations to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of being bailed out and nationalized by the Canadian government in 1919 (it wasn’t privatized until 1995). The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was to mark the 135 ...
Why am I teaching about this? Historical significance in Canadian ...
Apr 30, 2020 · Selecting 100 significant events in Canadian history to feature in the two sets of cards was a complicated task. We began by compiling a long chronological list of 350+ events in Canadian history after reviewing history books, websites, and …
The Royal Proclamation in Historical Context – Active History
One thought on “ The Royal Proclamation in Historical Context ” Patsy L. McArthur April 6, 2015 at 10:21 am. The Historic Saugeen Metis community is interested in having papers written for the 200th year anniversary, 2018, of the Ojibwe Piche Wampum 1818 carried until 1889 by Historic Saugeen Metis Marguerite Lange, Cree Metis wife of NWC HBC Saugeen trader Augustin Gonneville dit Lemire.