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Canadian Historical Association
Société historique du Canada
Bulletin
40.1
2014
in / à St. Catharines
CHA Annual Meeting
Réunion annuelle
de la SHC
News from
Affiliated Committees /
Nouvelles des
comités associés
Teaching Innovations
in University Classrooms /
Innovations pédagogiques
dans les universités
Big Berks Update /
Dernières nouvelles
de la Big Berks
New from University of Toronto Press
Smart Globalization
Facing Eugenics
Body Failure
The Canadian Business and Economic
History Experience
Reproduction, Sterilization, and the
Politics of Choice
Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
edited by Andrew Smith and
Dimitry Anastakis
by Erika Dyck
Body Failure provides a sensitive
understanding of the physician/
patient relationship and traces medical
perspectives on the treatment of
women in Canada in the first half of
the twentieth century.
Smart Globalization brings together
essays from both historians and
economists to demonstrate that
Canada’s economic success stemmed
neither from complete openness to
globalization nor policies of isolation
and self-sufficiency.
Facing Eugenics is a social history
of sexual sterilization operations in
twentieth-century Canada. Erika Dyck
presents the real-life experiences
of men and women who, either
coercively or voluntarily, participated
in the largest legal eugenics program
in Canada.
Remembering Mass Violence
by Wendy Mitchinson
Mississauga Portraits
Testimonies and Secrets
Oral History, New Media and
Performance
Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century
Canada
The Story of a Nova Scotia Family,
1844-1977
edited by Steven High, Edward
Little, and Thi Ry Duong
by Donald B. Smith
by Robert M. Mennel
Mississauga Portraits presents a vivid
picture of life in mid-nineteenthcentury Aboriginal Canada and
recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe
who lived during this period – all of
whom are historically important and
interesting figures.
The joyful, funny, and reflective story
of the Crouse-Eikle family of Nova
Scotia connects the experiences of
their family and community to the
larger themes of social and cultural
change in North America.
This book breaks new ground in oral
history, new media, and performance
studies by exploring what is at stake
when we attempt to represent war,
genocide, and other violations of
human rights in a variety of creative
works.
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BULLETIN
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Women’s History /
L’Histoire des femmes
The Big Berks 2014 /
La Big Berks 2014
Children and Youth /
L’Enfance et la jeunesse
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Historical Semiosis /
la sémiosis historique
Also in this issue / Également dans ce numéro
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Word from the President / Mot de la présidente
Editors’ Note / Note de la rédaction
News from 130 Albert / Nouvelles du 130, rue
Albert
News from CHA Affiliated Committees / Nouvelles
des Comités associés de la SHC
15 CHA 2014 Elections / Élection 2014 de la SHC
27 CHA Prizes, Short Lists / Prix de la SHC, livres en lice
29 Prize Committee Update / Renseignements sur les
prix de la SHC
31 Teaching Innovations in University Classrooms /
Innovations pédagogiques dans les universités
The Historical Thinking Project, 2006-2014
35 News from Mount Royal University
36 Getting Graphic with the Past
38 Graduate Students / Étudiants aux
cycles supérieurs
40 History on the Web / L’Histoire sur la
toile Going Digital – The City of
Regina’s Virtual Archive
42 Obituary / Nécrologie
43 The Canadian Association of
Eighteenth Century Studies and the
44 Historians in the News / Les historiens
font les manchettes
INSIDE / SOMMAIRE
CHA Annual Meeting /
Réunion annuelle de la SHC
Bulletin Editorial Policy
The CHA Bulletin is published three times a year by the Canadian Historical
Association. Notices, letters, calls for papers and articles of two pages or less, doublespaced, are welcome on topics of interest to historians, preferably accompanied by a
translation into the other official language.
Deadline for submissions of articles etc. for the next Bulletin is June 30, 2014.
We reserve the right to edit submissions. Opinions expressed in articles etc. are those
of the author and not necessarily the CHA. Direct correspondence to: Bulletin,
Canadian Historical Association, 1201-130 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4
Tel.: (613) 233-7885 Fax: (613) 565-5445 E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.cha-shc.ca
Politique éditoriale du Bulletin
Le Bulletin de la SHC est une publication bilingue qui paraît trois fois par année. Les
articles, les notes et les lettres de deux pages ou moins, dactylographiés à double
interligne et portant sur des sujets d’intérêt pour les membres, sont les bienvenus, de
préférence accompagnés d’une traduction.
La date de tombée des articles pour le prochain Bulletin est le 30 juin 2014.
Editors / Rédacteurs : Martin Laberge, Robert Talbot
Photo Credits / Crédits photographiques : Wikimedia Commons, Martin
Laberge, City of / Ville de Regina, The American Historical Association, The
Graphic History Collective
Translation / Traduction : Michel Duquet
Production Coordinator / Coordonnateur de production : Michel Duquet
Layout / Mise en pages : Don McNair
Advertising Enquiries / Placement de publicités : Michel Duquet
Information for contributors can be found on our Website at
http://www.cha-sch.ca/english/publ/bulletin/
Les directives aux contributeurs sont disponibles à
http://www.cha-sch.ca/francais/publ/bulletin/
Cover Photograph / En couverture :
A print by George Virtue of London, a publisher who specialised in engravings of
a very high standard, using some of the best artists of the day. The series was
published c1839 and featured American scenes. This view is of the Niagara falls,
with the viewing tower in a dangerous-looking position.
La rédaction se réserve le droit de réduire les articles qui nous sont soumis. Les
opinions exprimées dans les textes sont celles de l’auteur et ne reflètent pas
nécessairement celles de la SHC. Veuillez acheminer toute correspondance au :
Bulletin, Société historique du Canada, 1201-130, rue Albert, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4
Une image imprimée par George Virtue, de London, un éditeur spécialisé dans les
gravures haut de gamme, en utilisant certains des meilleurs artistes de l’époque. La
série a été publiée vers 1839 et mettait en vedette des scènes américaines. Celle-ci
nous offre une vue des chutes du Niagara, avec une tour d’observation qui semble
être très dangereuse.
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ISSN 0382-4764
A word from the
President
Mot de la présidente
Established by concerned archivists over the void left by the
recent death of unifying institutions, the virtual Canadian
Archives Summit1 of January 7, whose epicenter was at the
Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, was
an opportunity to reach hundreds of historians. This unique
moment of exchange, made more urgent by the magnitude of
the challenges posed by the digitization of current and historical
documents, and where curators, librarians, advisers and
bureaucrats assembled, highlighted the specific role of
historians in the overall efforts to preserve and enhance the
documents of the past, as educators, users, and consultants for
the selection of records to be kept. The unique position of
archives in public life has also emerged with greater clarity: less
in the public eye than museums, schools or libraries,
repositories of documents whose interpretation is to build, or
rebuild, archives, they are more vulnerable than other cultural
institutions, and would require a special attention and publicity.
A roundtable at the Annual Meeting at Brock will allow us to
reflect on this new way of thinking. Meanwhile, the Summit
organisers have submitted a brief to the panel experts of the
Royal Society of Canada to investigate the status and future of
libraries and archives in Canada. Meetings between the CHA
and Library and Archives Canada have only allowed us to
obtain information on pressing issues in the wake of cuts in the
last decade: the calendars with regards to digitisation,
alternatives to the now defunct Interlibrary Loan and the
lamentable state of the Canadian national catalogue of libraries
(AMICUS), the closing of the cafeteria on Wellington, and the
establishment of a problematic “pan-societal approach.”
Mise au point par des archivistes inquiets du vide laissé par la récente
disparition d’institutions fédératrices, la formule virtuelle du
Sommet des archives1 du 7 janvier dernier, dont l’épicentre était au
Munk School of Global Affairs de l’Université de Toronto, a permis
de rejoindre des centaines d’historiens. Ce moment inédit
d'échanges, rendu plus urgent par l’ampleur des défis posés par la
numérisation des documents courants et historiques, et auquel se
sont joints curateurs, bibliothécaires, vulgarisateurs et
fonctionnaires, a fait ressortir le rôle spécifique de la profession
d'historien dans l’ensemble des efforts de préservation et de mise en
valeur des documents du passé : à la fois comme éducateurs, usagers,
et conseillers pour la sélection des documents à conserver. L’unique
position des archives dans la vie publique est elle aussi apparue avec
plus de clarté : plus éloignée du grand public que les musées, les écoles
ou encore les bibliothèques, dépositaires de documents dont
l'interprétation reste à construire, ou à reconstruire, les archives, plus
vulnérables que d'autres institutions culturelles, demanderaient une
attention et une publicité particulières. Une table ronde au Congrès
annuel de Brock permettra de poursuivre ce renouvellement de la
réflexion. Entre temps, les responsables des représentations
publiques ont présenté un mémoire au groupe d’experts de la Société
royale du Canada chargé d’enquêter sur l’état et l'avenir des
bibliothèques et archives du Canada. Les rencontres entre la SHC et
Bibliothèques et archives Canada ont tout au plus permis d’obtenir
des renseignements sur des questions urgentes à la lumière des
coupures de la dernière décennie: des calendriers de numérisation
aux alternatives au défunt Prêt entre bibliothèques, en passant par
l’état lamentable du catalogue collectif national des bibliothèques
(AMICUS), la fermeture de la cafétéria de la rue Wellington, et la
mise en place d'une “approche pan-sociétale” problématique.
The expertise of historians has been utilized more productively
by the new Canadian Museum of History. Nonetheless, the
CHA has indeed continued to oppose the restriction of
scientific and curatorial mandate of the former Canadian
Museum of Civilization (CMC), including appearing in the fall
before the Senate Committee to examine the amendment to the
Museum Act.2 Meanwhile, the current administration of the
Museum, which undertook to thoroughly transform Canada
Hall, opened the consultation process with historians. Around a
year ago, the CHA sounded the alarm after the official
announcement of the creation of a new Canadian Museum of
History (CMH) on the ashes of CMC. Concerned, the CHA
expressed the hope that the new institution would reflect the
evolution of Canadian historiography and not simplify our
country’s past. In December 2012, the CHA wrote to the
president of the CMC, Mr. Mark O’Neill,3 and members of the
L’expertise des historiens a été mise à profit de façon plus productive
du côté du nouveau Musée canadien de l’histoire. La SHC a certes
continué de s’opposer à la restriction du mandat scientifique et
curatorial de l’ancien Musée canadien des civilisations (MCC), en
comparaissant notamment cet automne devant le Comité du Sénat
chargé d’examiner l’amendement à la loi des musées.2 Entre temps,
l’administration courante du Musée, qui a entrepris de transformer la
Salle du Canada de fond en comble, a ouvert le processus de
consultation aux historiens. Il y a un an environ, la SHC sonnait
l’alarme à la suite de l’annonce officielle de la création d’un nouveau
Musée canadien de l’histoire (MCH) sur les cendres du MCC.
Inquiète, la SHC a exprimé le souhait que la nouvelle institution
reflète l’évolution de l’historiographie canadienne et qu'elle ne
simplifie pas le passé de notre pays. En décembre 2012, elle a écrit au
président directeur du MCC, Monsieur Mark O’Neill,3 et les
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http://archivists.ca/content/canadian-archives-summit
http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/advocacy/the-cha-president-addresses-thesenate-committee-on-social-affairs-science-andtechnology.html#sthash.LP3HgtHC.dpbs.
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http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/advocacy/the-cha-president-writes-to-thepresident-of-the-canadian-museum-of-civilization.html#sthash.shRG4Nzw.dpbs
http://archivists.ca/content/canadian-archives-summit
http://www.cha-shc.ca/francais/interventions-publiques/la-presidente-de-la-shcse-presente-devant-le-comite-senatorial-permanent-des-affaires-sociales-dessciences-et-de-la-technologie.html#sthash.isnZ9bzC.QVpnQ5My.dpbs
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http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/advocacy/the-cha-president-writes-to-thepresident-of-the-canadian-museum-of-civilization.html#sthash.shRG4Nzw.dpbs
Canadian Historical Association 1
Executive, with the Chair of the Advocacy Committee, met
with Mr. O’Neill as well as other Museum representatives.
Then, in June 2013, the Museum invited the CHA to attend
meetings to exchange ideas about the new Canada History Hall
and appoint CHA representatives on the four advisory
committees it had established. Since then, two committees
were added for the history of women and Aboriginal history on
which the CHA is also involved. The composition of the six
committees appears in the box. So far, the committee members
have received two versions of the narrative of the permanent
exhibition that will be housed in the Canada History Hall and
they met January 11-12-13. A consensus emerged on the need
for the CMH to present the complexity of the history of Canada
from several points of view. This is encouraging, but we remain
vigilant.
membres de l’Exécutif, en compagnie du président du Comité des
interventions publiques, l’ont rencontré ainsi que d’autres
représentants du Musée. Puis, en juin 2013, le Musée a invité la SHC à
participer aux séances d’échange d’idées autour de la nouvelle salle
d’histoire du Canada et à nommer quatre personnes aux comités
consultatifs qu’il a mis sur pied. Depuis lors, deux comités se sont
ajoutés pour l’histoire des femmes et l’histoire des autochtones,
auxquels la SHC participe également. La composition des six comités
apparait dans l’encadré. Jusqu’ici, les membres des comités ont reçu
deux versions de la trame narrative de l’exposition permanente qui
sera logée dans la Salle d’histoire du Canada et ils se sont rencontrés
les 11-12-13 janvier derniers. Il en est ressorti un consensus sur la
nécessité pour le MCH de présenter toute la complexité de l’histoire
du Canada selon plusieurs points de vue. C’est encourageant, mais
nous continuerons d’être vigilants.
The count down to the Olympic Games stridently brought
forward the nature and effects of the new legislation against
“gay propaganda” implemented last year in Russia. The CHA,
faithful to its mandate to support the human rights of
historians, wrote to President Putin to oppose this legislation
that threatens not only the standards of the historical
profession, but the fate of practitioners of history in the
territory of the Federation. A panel, made up of historians of
Russia, of the LGBT community, of Human Rights and of
sports, will examine the issue at Brock.
L’approche des Jeux olympiques ayant exposé bruyamment la nature
et les effets de la nouvelle législation contre la « propagande gay »
instituée l’année dernière en Russie, la SHC, fidèle à son mandat de
soutien aux droits de la personne des historiens, a écrit au Président
Poutine pour s'opposer à une loi qui menace non seulement les
standards de la profession historique, mais encore le sort des
praticiens de l’histoire dans le territoire de la Fédération. Une session
publique à Brock étudiera la question, en compagnie d’historiens de
la Russie, des LGBT, des droits de la personne et des sports.
Finally, last December, the Association worked with the
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada
to make the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
aware of our concerns at two public consultations: our reports
highlighted the impact of Open Access on young researchers
and on small and medium scale scholarly publications and the
need to reflect on the dangers that hastily designed public
digitization programs of scientific information may occasion.4
Enfin, en décembre dernier, la Société a travaillé auprès de la
Fédération des sciences humaines du Canada pour faire parvenir au
Conseil de recherches en science humaines ses préoccupations lors
de deux consultations publiques : nos rapports soulignaient
respectivement l’impact du libre accès sur les jeunes chercheurs et les
publications savantes de petite et moyenne envergure et la nécessité
de réfléchir aux dangers que peuvent poser des programmes publics
de numérisation des renseignements scientifiques et de recherche
numérique conçus de façon hâtive.4
Dominique Marshall
President, Canadian Historical Association
Dominique Marshall
Présidente, Société historique du Canada
Consultative Committees / Les Comités de consultation
(CHA Representatives are in italics; Chief Whiteduck will act as a CHA correspondent /
Les représentant.es de la SHC sont en italique; le Chef Whiteduck est un correspondant de la SHC)
General / Général
Lyle Dick
Jack Granatstein
Charlotte Gray
Brenda
MacDougall
Ruth Phillips
Tim Stanley
Canada, up
to 1867 / Canada
jusqu’en 1867
Margaret Conrad
Catherine Desbarats
Donald Fyson
Kisha Supernant
Canada, 1867
to 1945 / Canada
de 1867 à 1945
Joanne Burgess
Heather Devine
Yves Frenette
Desmond Morton
Canada, 1945
to the present /
Canada de 1945
à aujourd’hui
Dominique Marshall
Marcel Martel
John Moses
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http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/advocacy/the-cha-president-comments-onthe-tri-council-policy-on-open-access.html#sthash.FF8Soc4y.dpbs
2 Société historique du Canada
Aboriginals /
Autochtones
Nika Collison
Alan Corbiere
Heather Igloliorte
Robert Innes
Winona Wheeler
Gilbert Whiteduck
Women’s History /
Histoire des
femmes
Magda Fahrni
Franca Iacovetta
Phyllis Leblanc
Nicole Neatby
http://www.cha-shc.ca/francais/interventions-publiques/la-presidente-de-lashc-fait-par-de-ses-commentaires-au-crsh-sur-la-politique-de-libre-acces-destrois-organismes.html#sthash.hur8yFkM.dpbs
CHA Secretaries
Secrétaires
de la SHC
EDITORS’ NOTE
NOTE DE LA RÉDACTION
Que penserait le « brooding soldier », immortalisé par le
monument commémoratif canadien situé à Saint-Julien en
Belgique, de ce début d’année marquant le centenaire du
déclenchement de la Grande Guerre? Il serait sans doute étonné
et surtout désolé de la nature des commémorations canadiennes.
Alors que la France, la Grande-Bretagne, l’Australie, la NouvelleZélande, l’Afrique du Sud et l’Allemagne – dans ce cas sous
l’initiative des länder – ont déjà amorcé les commémorations
relatives au centenaire, le gouvernement canadien demeure à la
traine. Outre quelques déclarations de principes, rien de
comparable à ce qui se prépare ailleurs en Europe et chez les
anciens dominions n’est à l’œuvre au Canada.1 En fait, les efforts
commémoratifs semblent tendres vers l’année 2017, c’est-à-dire
le centenaire de la prise de la crête de Vimy. D’une perspective
historique, la situation surprend lorsque l’on contemple les
efforts déployés pour commémorer la guerre de 1812.
Le « brooding soldier » observerait qu’au Canada le souvenir de la
Grande Guerre – à distinguer de sa compréhension historique – a
une chronologie particulière alors que la période 1917-1918
incarne les deux grandes visions du conflit : la première centrée
sur la prise de la crête de Vimy, la bataille de Passchendaele et les
cent jours. Cette représentation de la Grande Guerre considère
prioritairement la transformation des troupes canadiennes en «
soldats de choc » et, par transposition, symbolise la transition du
statut du Canada de dominion à celui de nation ; la seconde,
privilégiant une perspective nationale, souligne le débat
entourant la question de la conscription. Elle transpose
essentiellement sur la Grande Guerre le débat à propos des
relations entre les populations francophones et anglophones du
Canada et la nature de l’équilibre du pouvoir dans la fédération
canadienne.
Pourtant, ces deux représentations mémorielles témoignent du
prisme déformant avec lequel l’histoire de la Grande Guerre est
approchée ici. Ces points de vue proposant une perspective
inversée de la guerre, où celle-ci serait, avant tout, une expérience
spécifiquement canadienne. Malgré les particularismes
commémoratifs locaux présents ailleurs dans le monde, on y
retrouve une volonté de replacer l’expérience nationale dans le
contexte plus large de ce que fut la Grande Guerre : un
phénomène collectif d’une telle ampleur qu’il engage la plupart
des sociétés occidentales.2
1
Par exemple la déclaration du 18 octobre du ministère des Anciens combattants,
Le Canada planifie la commémoration des grandes guerres lors d’une réunion
internationale à Paris, [http://www.veterans.gc.ca/fra/nouvelles/viewrelease/1964],
ou le site de Historica Canada [https://www.historicacanada.ca/fr/content/histoire].
2
Voir par exemple l’ouvrage exemplaire de D. Reynolds, bientôt disponible en
Amérique du Nord, The Long Shadow. The Great War and the Twentieth Century,
Londres, Simon & Shuster, 2013 ou le site fédérant les activités commémoratives
françaises 14-18 mission centenaire, http://centenaire.org/fr.
Ce n’est qu’en replaçant l’expérience canadienne dans un cadre
plus large, en embrassant l’ensemble de la chronologie et en
considérant les autres expériences nationales que le rôle du
Canada dans la Grande Guerre peut prendre du sens.
L’histoire de la participation du Canada à la Grande Guerre
dépasse le culte des morts et l’histoire bataille. Les exemples
abondent : le rôle de l’invasion de la Belgique et de la France ainsi
que les destructions et les atrocités commises par les armées
allemandes – la destruction de la ville de Louvain plus
particulièrement – dans mobilisation morale des populations
dans l’effort de guerre; la mobilisation de l’économie et des
industries ; le problème des effectifs militaire et du remplacement
des pertes subies dans les terribles combats qui marquent la
période 1914-1917; la participation des citoyens ordinaires dans
l’effort de guerre – par le truchement des marraines de guerre par
exemple. Autant d’éléments qui replacent l’exemple canadien
dans une expérience commune. Sans être exclusive, la
comparaison avec les autres belligérants permet également de
comprendre la nature de la participation du Canada à la Grande
Guerre, les tensions qui y furent associées et les conséquences sur
son histoire en particulier et celle du XXe siècle en général.
Dès lors, en l’absence de manifestations publiques structurantes,
la population canadienne n'est tout simplement pas interpellée
par rapport à cet événement historique. Les grandes collectes de
documents familiaux relatifs à la Grande Guerre en GrandeBretagne, en Australie et en France n’ont tout simplement pas
leur équivalent ici. Impossible alors de connaître les trésors qui se
cachent peut-être dans les greniers familiaux et qui permettraient
de renouveler notre compréhension de la participation
canadienne au conflit.
Le soldat représenté sur le monument de Saint-Julien aurait sans
doute compris qu’il participait à un phénomène historique
marquant et qui dépassait sa condition de Canadien. Déjà, en
avril 1915, le conflit avait pris le vocable de Grande Guerre. La
question qui se pose, finalement, consiste à savoir si nous
souhaitons véritable comprendre le rôle et la place de la Grande
Guerre dans l’histoire du Canada ou simplement projeter une
vision particulière du Canada sur l’histoire de la Grande Guerre.
Les commémorations à venir nous le dirons sans doute.
Martin Laberge
Secrétaire de la langue française
CHA Secretaries
Secrétaires
de la SHC
EDITORS’ NOTE
NOTE DE LA RÉDACTION
Teaching “en franglais”
In May 1925, historian George M. Wrong addressed the
Canadian Historical Association on “The Two Races in Canada.”
In his address, Wrong implored historians to take a greater
interest in each other’s language, culture and history. He hoped
that Francophone scholars might one day “discover romance” in
Ontario’s folk history, and that Anglophone scholars would help
“English-speaking people to understand the outlook of the
French race occupying the valley of the St. Lawrence.” Wrong’s
message reflected a broader concern among intellectuals about
national unity in the wake the Conscription Crisis (1917-1918)
and the fight for French-language education outside Quebec.
They believed that scholars and academics had a crucial role to
play in helping encourage cross-cultural interaction and
understanding among the public. My research of this movement
has brought about some reflection on my own recent engagement
with the French-language teaching of history in Canada.
Moreover, the current issue of the Bulletin contains a number of
fascinating articles that touch on pedagogy and on the plight of
the sessional professor, and I thought that I might share some of
my own experiences.
Last fall, I was offered the opportunity to teach the Frenchlanguage introductory survey course, “La formation du Canada,”
at the University of Ottawa. At first, I had some misgivings about
taking on the class, having never before taught in my second
language. Was I truly prepared to put my French-language skills
to the test in front of 150 students twice a week for an entire
semester? To be sure, I would hardly be breaking new ground.
Several of my colleagues had already taught or were teaching
courses in their second language. Moreover, as a sessional prof
with a family to help feed, I must take advantage of the
opportunities (and wages!) that come my way, and I decided that
it would be a good challenge. Besides, I thought, even if I crash
and burn, I could at least tell myself that George Wrong would
have approved of my efforts.
I have not regretted taking on the class. For their part, the
students have been fairly magnanimous with regards to my
French. I have received no complaints so far (teaching
evaluations pending), although there have been a few hiccups.
My mispronunciation of “alcool” as “al-kool,” and not the proper
“al-kol,” for instance, was a source of both confusion and
amusement. I have learned to apply a healthy dose of selfdeprecating humour at moments like these, which the students
appear to appreciate. Some of my “anglicismes” have resulted
from using English words without the “proper” French
pronunciation – one student corrected me on my pronunciation
of “Dufferin” when I made reference to Quebec’s historic
Dufferin Terrace, which, incidentally, was named after a British
earl.
An early challenge for this class related to assigning readings.
While there is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to
English-language textbooks and readers for Canadian history,
there are, disappointingly, very few options in French that cover
the entire period and the country as a whole (and not just
Quebec). I ended up assembling my own course pack after
conferring with colleagues who had taught the course in French
previously. While Quebec must play a central role in any
Canadian survey history, I have attempted to venture beyond the
lower St. Lawrence to find topics that might be of particular
interest to my Francophone students. For instance, I have made a
point of assigning readings that highlight the Canadian
Francophonie both in and outside Quebec, including FrancoAlbertans, Franco-Ontarians, and Acadians.
I get the distinct impression that at least some of
my Francophone students have gotten a kick out
of having an Anglo from Saskatchewan teach
them Canadian history “en français” – or “en
franglais” as the case may be.
For preparing my lecture notes and PowerPoint slides, I have
m a d e o c c a s i o n a l u s e o f t h e w e b s i t e “ L i n g u e e”
(http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/), which can translate
sequences of words and in some cases entire sentences. Unlike
other translation websites that often turn up little more than
gobbledygook, Linguee searches for Internet pages that have
already been translated in their entirety and that contain the
given search terms. Search results often yield entries from
Government of Canada websites. Not only does this provide for
more reliable translations, but it also turns up results for unusual
terms that are specific to Canadian history by pulling from sites
like the Museum of Civilization, Parks Canada and Library and
Archives Canada.
The history that I have been teaching in French has been
essentially an updated version of what I had taught when I gave
the course in English a few years ago. There have been some
subtle differences, resulting from my own assumptions (rightly or
wrongly) about people’s knowledge or perspective of the past
Execution of Patriotes, Montreal 1839, drawn by Henri Julien /
L’exécution de Patriotes, Montréal 1839, dessin d’Henri Julien
in New France, the Black Loyalists, BC Governor James Douglas,
Victoria’s Black police force of 1858, and, of course, Harriet
Tubman and the Underground Railway. To get to the heart of the
matter, however, I had to explain that, historically, Canada had a
smaller Black population because it never developed a full-blown
slave economy – not because Canadians were “nice,” per se, but
because the climate had not allowed for slave-labour intensive
crops such as cotton and sugarcane.
given their linguistic background. In the French-language class,
for instance, I have found myself spending more time trying to
contextualize historical Anglo-Canadian loyalty to Britain, the
Crown and (in some cases) to Protestantism. Conversely, I had
spent more time explaining to students in the English-language
class why Francophone Canadians had historically been so
deeply attached to their language and to Catholicism.
My class is a diverse bunch. In addition to Francophones from
across Canada, there are several students from countries
throughout the international Francophonie. (Interestingly, the
latter have been quicker to correct my French – a legacy, perhaps,
of France's penchant for enforcing strict observance of grammar,
vocabulary and pronunciation in its Second Colonial Empire?)
There are also thirty Anglophone students taking the course.
George Wrong would be pleased! At the University of Ottawa
students can take courses in their second language and, if they
wish, submit assignments in their first language. The university
offers an excellent mentorship programme to assist these
students.
Teaching this course has reminded me that not everyone has the
background information provided by a high school history of
Canada, and that even those who do have been taught very
different versions of that history. When I taught this course in
English a few years ago, I was taken aback to discover that some
students did not know what “Acadians” were. I did not expect to
run into a similar point of confusion in the French-language
class. A number of Francophone students, however, asked
whether “French Canadians” and “Acadians” were one-in-the
same, and I had to explain how Acadians form a distinct
historical and cultural group. On a separate occasion, a student
from the Democratic Republic of Congo asked me why Canadian
history had less to say about Blacks than American history. In my
defence, I had highlighted the stories of Mathieu da Costa, slavery
My students have also drawn analytical conclusions that I had not
expected. While discussing the War of 1812, I screened the
government’s “The Fight for Canada / La lutte pour le Canada”
commercial, in which the war heroes Isaac Brock, Tecumseh,
Charles de Salaberry, and Laura Secord appear to be fighting side
by side. I had assumed that the commercial’s central premise –
that by “defeating” the Americans a unified Canadian nationality
had been born – would not resonate with a Francophone
audience. Much to my surprise, many students appeared ready to
accept the ad at face value. It was only after I pointed out that
Brock and Tecumseh were both dead before de Salaberry had
even seen combat that the students adopted a more critical
approach and began to deconstruct the commercial’s message.
The following week, during my discussion of the Upper and
Lower Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838, I screened a few
minutes of Pierre Falardeau’s movie Le 15 février for the purposes
of critical deconstruction. The film chronicles the imprisonment
and execution of some of the Lower Canadian Patriotes.
Interestingly, students were far more skeptical of the film's
nationalist and anti-Anglo message than I had anticipated.
In addition to these surprises, there have been some very
gratifying moments as well. I may be projecting or simply
delusional, but I get the distinct impression that at least some of
my Francophone students have gotten a kick out of having an
Anglo from Saskatchewan teach them Canadian history “en
français” – or “en franglais” as the case may be. A more tangible
appreciation, perhaps, was expressed by a Muslim student from
Djibouti, who told me that she liked that I incorporated
marginalized peoples into the national narrative – at least more
than her Discover Canada citizenship guide had done. On
another occasion, an Acadian student thanked me for doing more
to include Acadian history in the lectures – she felt that her
people's story was all too often glossed over in favour of
Québécois history. I should hope that any Canadian history
survey would teach students something about the regional and
cultural diversity inherent in the Canadian historical experience,
and how this diversity pertains to both Canada’s English- and
French-speaking populations. I wonder: What would George
Wrong have to say about that?
Robert Talbot
English Language Secretary
CHA Office
Bureau
de la SHC
News from 130 Albert
Nouvelles du 130, rue Albert
Le Libre accès et la Revue de la Société historique du Canada
Open Access and the Journal of the
Comme vous le savez sans doute, les trois organismes élaborent
présentement une Politique de libre accès qui devrait être mise en
marche en septembre 2014. A priori, l’idée d’une politique de libre
accès est parfaitement logique. En effet, il est difficile de maintenir
que les contribuables devraient payer pour accéder à la recherche
qu’ils ont déjà subventionné par le biais de subventions accordées
aux chercheurs ou aux revues savantes. De plus, l’accès du plus
grand nombre au savoir est souhaitable.
As you are undoubtedly aware, the Tri-Agency is in the process
of drafting an Open Access (OA) Policy document with the
goal of implementing that policy in September 2014. A priori,
the idea of an Open Access Policy makes perfect sense. Indeed,
it is hard to argue that Canadians should pay to access research
that they have already subsidized though grants given to
researchers and or scholarly publishers. In addition, the greater
the accessibility to knowledge, the better.
Cependant, toute transition vers le libre accès doit être conçue avec
beaucoup de compréhension et de tact puisque les enjeux sont élevés
pour les parties concernées – les revues savantes comme la RSHC,
les bibliothèques universitaires et les chercheurs en particulier.
Certaines de ces questions ont déjà été examinées à l’extérieur du
Canada.1 Bien que trop peu de temps se soit écoulé pour évaluer avec
précision l’impact sur les revues qui choisissent d’adopter un
modèle de libre accès, un rapport publié par l’Association of
Learned, Professional and Society Publishers [ALPSP] et la
Publishers Association met en garde contre une diminution
substantielle d'abonnements aux revues qui adoptent une politique
de libre accès après une période d’embargo de 6 mois.2
Yet, any transition towards OA should be done with great care
and understanding given that the stakes are high for the parties
involved – scholarly publishers such as the Canadian Historical
Association, university libraries and researchers in particular.
Some of those issues have already been discussed outside of
Canada.1 Although too little time has passed to evaluate
accurately the impact on journals who elect to adopt an OA
model, a report published by the Association of Learned,
Professional and Society Publishers [ALPSP] and The
Publishers Association warns of a substantial loss of
subscriptions for journals that adopt an OA Policy after a 6
month embargo period.2
En conséquence, les trois organismes doivent mené de vastes
consultations, qui ont suffisamment de souplesse, pour pouvoir
incorporer de nouvelles parties prenantes au processus si l’on
considère que l’adoption d’une politique de libre accès modifiera
profondément un modèle de publication scientifique qui est en
place depuis des décennies. Par conséquent, les trois organismes
doivent approcher la communauté de revues savantes et s’engager
dans des discussions sérieuses sur le bien-être et l’avenir de la
communication savante.
As such, the Tri-Council consultations must be extensive and
flexible enough to include as many stakeholders as possible if
one considers that the adoption of an OA policy will
profoundly alter a scholarly publication model that has been in
place for decades. Hence, the Tri-Agency needs to approach
the journal community and engage in meaningful discussions
about the health and future of scholarly communication.
Here are some of the issues to consider in the context of the
implementation of an OA Policy on SSHRC-funded research:3
Voici quelques-unes des questions à considérer dans le contexte de
la mise en œuvre d’une politique de libre accès de la recherche
financée par le CRSH :3
1. Since most journal articles are not written by SSHRCfunded researchers, will Master’s or PhD students, post
docs, independent researchers and sessional teachers be
essentially prohibited from publishing their texts if faced
with exorbitant Article Processing Charges to OA journals?
1. Puisque la plupart des textes de revues ne sont pas écrits par des
chercheurs financés par le CRSH, est-ce que les étudiants à la
maîtrise, les doctorants, les stagiaires post-doctorants, les
1
Entre autres, le ‘Finch Report’ publié en 2012
http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Groupreport-FINAL-VERSION.pdf.
2
Le rapport conclut que de nombreuses bibliothèques universitaires renonceraient à maintenir leurs abonnements à des revues dès que ces publications
adopteraient une politique de libre accès et un embargo de 6 mois http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/AllNewsArticles.aspx.
3
Plusieurs de ces questions ont été soulevées par Rowland Lorimer lors de sa
communication,”A Good Idea, a Difficult Reality: Toward a Publisher/Library
Open Access Partnership”, presentée à la conférence Implementing New
Knowledge Environments' Whistler Gathering 2014, les 5 et 6 février.
1
For example, the Finch Report published in the U.K. in 2012
http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Groupreport-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
2
Their findings are that numerous university libraries would forego maintaining their subscriptions to journals as soon as those publications adopt an OA
policy and a 6 month embargo http://www.alpsp.org/ebusiness/AllNewsArticles.aspx.
3
Many of these issues were raised by Rowland Lorimer in a paper, “A Good
Idea, a Difficult Reality: Toward a Publisher/Library Open Access Partnership”,
presented at Implementing New Knowledge Environments’ Whistler Gathering
2014, February 5-6.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
chercheurs indépendants et les chargés de cours seront en mesure
de publier leurs textes dans des revues en libre accès s’ils sont face à
des frais de publications exorbitants.
L’approche du CRSH n’atténue en rien l’acquisition de revues
savantes canadiennes par des consortiums étrangers.
Les revues deviennent plus vulnérables si, plutôt que d’avoir
plusieurs sources de revenus, doivent uniquement dépendre du
CRSH et potentiellement des bibliothèques canadiennes par le biais
d’abonnements.
Est-ce que le CRSH continuera à appuyer les revues savantes qui
refusent d’adopter le modèle de libre accès.
Le financement du CRSH pour les revues en libre accès fausserait la
recherche.
Bien que la voie « dorée » de libre accès (accès libre dans les 12 mois
ou moins) peut fonctionner pour les sciences et même les sciences
sociales, elle n’est pas appropriée pour les sciences humaines parce
que le prix d’un abonnement à une revue d’histoire, par exemple,
est tout à fait raisonnable en comparaison aux revues scientifiques.
Un cadre réglementaire sophistiqué doit être mis en place dans un
environnement de libre accès pour « veiller à ce que la publication
scientifique puisse continuer à servir de registre faisant autorité de
la recherche ».4
Les éditeurs de revues, dont la majorité sont des sociétés savantes
ou des organismes sans but lucratif gérés par des bénévoles, doivent
être reconnus et financés, pour la valeur ajoutée qu’ils apportent.
Entretemps, le désir des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada de
compenser, en principe, certaines revues canadiennes dans la
transition vers un modèle de libre accès est de bon augure. Le 30
Octobre 2013, des représentants de l’Association canadienne des
bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) et des représentants de
l’Association canadienne des revues savantes (ACRS) ont formé un
comité pour explorer les potentialités d'un nouveau modèle d'affaires
pour les revues qui seront en libre accès. Les revues qui choisissent
d’adopter ce modèle recevraient des fonds d’un certain nombre de
bibliothèques de recherche à titre d’incitation à se convertir en libre
accès. Néanmoins, ce projet est loin d’être finalisé et il reste à voir s’il
sera bénéfique autant pour bibliothèques que pour les revues.
Finalement, il est à espérer que le CRSH, indépendamment de la
politique de libre accès qui est adoptée, continuera à aider «à couvrir
les coûts de publication et de distribution d'articles scientifiques ainsi
qu’à soutenir les revues. »5 Ne pas le faire pourrait nuire à l’objectif des
revues savantes canadiennes d'agir comme « outil essentiel de
promotion des débats et des réflexions de nature intellectuelle ».6
Michel Duquet
Directeur général
4
Rowland Lorimer, “A Good Idea, a Difficult Reality: Toward a
Publisher/Library Open Access Partnership.”
5
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programsprogrammes/scholarly_journals-revues_savantes-fra.aspx
6
Ibid.
2. The SSHRC approach does nothing to mitigate the
foreign acquisition of Canadian scholarly journals.
3. Receiving funds from one or two sources, SSHRC and
potentially Canadian libraries, as opposed to many
sources by means of subscriptions leaves journals in a
vulnerable position.
4. Will SSRHC continue to support scholarly journals that
refuse to adopt OA?
5. SSHRC’s funding to OA journals only would skew
research.
6. While the “gold” OA model (free access within 12 months
or less) may work in the sciences and even the social
sciences, it is not appropriate to the humanities because
the price of a subscription to a history journal, for
example, is quite reasonable as opposed to science
journals.
7. A sophisticated regulatory framework must be put in
place in an OA environment “to ensure that scholarly
publication continues to offer value as an authoritative
record of research.”4
8. Journal publishers, the majority of which are scholarly
associations or not-for-profit organisations run by
volunteers, need to be recognised, and funded, for the
value added they bring.
Meanwhile, the good news is that Canadian research
libraries are, in principle, willing to compensate some
Canadian journals to transition to an OA model. On October
30, 2013, representatives from the Canadian Association of
Research Libraries (CARL) formed a committee with
representatives from the Canadian Association of Learned
Journals (CALJ) to explore possible business models for
journals adopting OA. These journals would receive funds
from a number of research libraries as an incentive to convert
to OA. Nevertheless, this project is far from being finalized
and it remains to be seen whether it will be beneficial to both
libraries and journals.
In the end, it is hoped that SSRHC, regardless of the OA
Policy that is implemented, continues to “help defray the
costs of publishing scholarly articles, to assist with
distribution costs, and to support journal organizations.”5
Failure to do so could undermine the purpose of Canadian
peer reviewed scholarly journals to act “a primary tool for
fostering intellectual debate and inquiry in Canada.”6
Michel Duquet
Executive Director
4
Rowland Lorimer, “A Good Idea, a Difficult Reality: Toward a
Publisher/Library Open Access Partnership.”
5
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programsprogrammes/scholarly_journals-revues_savantes-eng.aspx
6
Ibid.
Affiliated
Committees
Comités Associés
News from Affiliated Committees (in alphabetical order)
Nouvelles des comités associés (par ordre alphabétique)
Aboriginal History Studies Group /
Groupe d’étude d’histoire autochtone
Jennifer Pettit, Mount Royal University, Co-Chair, Aboriginal
History Studies Group
Formed in 1982 after the first Laurier Conference on
Ethnohistory and Ethnology, the Aboriginal History Studies
Group (AHSG) brings together scholars interested in the study of
Aboriginal history. Membership in the group is free and is open
to all interested in Indigenous history, broadly conceived, and
includes scholars from many disciplines in addition to history,
federal and provincial government employees, representatives of
Aboriginal organizations and public historians / independent
researchers. In the words of one of its founding members, “the
primary aim of the group was to act as a clearing-house and
avenue of communication for those active in the field of
Aboriginal history.” To meet these goals, the AHSG engages in a
number of activities including: organizing an annual business
meeting at the CHA; sponsoring sessions; organizing special
events and field trips that coordinate with the CHA’s annual
meeting; sharing information about publications and upcoming
events; and maintaining a web page where members can network
and share information and ideas.
At the 2013 business meeting at the University of Victoria,
Jennifer Pettit and Liam Haggarty of Mount Royal University
were chosen to act as the new Co-Chairs of the group. They would
like to thank Keith Carlson, outgoing Chair, for his service on the
committee.
In 2013 the AHSG engaged in a number of activities including
sponsoring a Brown Bag Teaching Workshop at the CHA which
focused on teaching Indigenous Histories in Canada. The session
was so popular that attendees spilled into the hall and some had to
be turned away from the session due to lack of space. Many
attendees asked if materials from that session could be posted on
the AHSG web page at which point it was decided that the web
page needed to be redesigned and updated. That work should be
complete for the 2014 business meeting of the AHSG (the new
site will be accessible from the main CHA web page). New goals
for the AHSG web page rebuild include finding better ways for
AHSG members to network and communicate and making it
easier for new members to join the group. A Facebook page for
AHSG is also being considered.
Another important activity of the AHSG has been the awarding
of the annual book and article prizes. The recipient of the 2013
article prize was Miles Powell for his article entitled “Divided
Waters: Heiltsuk Spatial Management of Herring Fisheries and
the Politics of Native Sovereignty” published in the Winter 2012
issue of The Western Historical Quarterly. Leslie A. Robertson
Drum Making / Fabrication de tambour
with the Kwagu’? Gixsam Clan received the book prize for their
work entitled Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook
and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom published by the
University of British Columbia Press. The 2014 book prize
committee is chaired by Susan Neylan of Wilfrid Laurier
University and the article prize committee is chaired by Peter
Cook of the University of Victoria. More information on the
prizes can be found in the “What We Do” section of the CHA web
page.
It is hoped that the annual business meeting in 2014 will stimulate
ideas for future activities for the AHSG such as finding ways to
collaborate on student participation in Aboriginal field schools
such as the Treaty 7 field school hosted by Mount Royal
University. Attracting new members, particularly graduate
students, is also a priority. The date and time of the 2014 business
meeting of the AHSG will appear in the main program for the
CHA annual meeting. Please consider taking part and new
members are always welcome.
Nathan Smith, PhD
It is hard to believe, but ActiveHistory.ca is now five years old!
Originally our site was envisioned as a Canadian version of
Britain's popular History and Policy website. Our first piece of
content was a hyperlink to Paul Axelrod's “Universities and the
Great Depression: Then and Now?” At that time our focus was
publishing short accessible and peer-reviewed essays while also
posting announcements about upcoming events related to the
broader themes of Active History.
Today, ActiveHistory.ca is quite different. Although the “papers”
section of our site continues, it is by far the least developed aspect
of the project. By the end of 2009, blogging had become our
backbone (we now have over 800 posts) and the editorial
collective began to develop a series of partnerships with likeminded organizations. The most fruitful ones, such as the
Toronto Public Library’s History Matters Lecture series and
THEN/HiER’s Approaching the Past workshops, have become
important institutions of their own. In recent years, the website
has also added a book review section and monthly History Slam!
podcasts.In addition to our growing content, the size of the
project continues to grow. Although ActiveHistory.ca operates
on a volunteer basis (we currently have no ongoing funding
beyond individual contributions to pay for domain name and
server costs), the editorial collective has expanded from five
members based at York University, to a team of eight located
across the country. Unique visitors to the site have also continued
to grow. The site currently receives between 16,000 and 20,000
visitors each month and it is not uncommon to have 1,000 visitors
in a day. If you want to contribute, don't hesitate to touch base
with us at [email protected].
As much as the project has evolved, some elements have
remained consistent. One of the wisest decisions we made early in
the project was to publish Gérard-François Dumont’s “The Berlin
Wall: Life, Death and the Spatial Heritage of Berlin” in November
2009. This essay, found in our papers section, continues to be a
favourite for visitors and remains our most popular content. Over
14,000 people have read Dumont’s paper since it was first posted.
ActiveHistory.ca continues to post short, topical and blind
reviewed essays as part of its papers section. If you have a paper
that you think would be appropriate consider sending it to us at
[email protected].
The Active History Committee of the CHA keeps in touch with
the editors of ActiveHistory.ca, with members of the Active
History group, and schedules a meeting at the annual CHA
conference. In the past, committee Coordinators have organized
a mini-conference on the War of 1812, and a panel on teaching as
a form of active history. Our plans for the upcoming CHA
conference at Brock University involved promoting knowledge
about useful digital tools. We look forward to using social media
during Congress 2014 to increase connections at the meeting,
and to engage with those who cannot attend. We will be holding a
meeting at the 2014 CHA conference and encourage anyone
interested in the group, or in being a co-chair for next year, to
attend. Look for an announcement about the meeting time!
Business History Group / Groupe d’histoire des affaires
Andrew Ross, Chair
Recent years have seen a revival of interest in business history in
Canada. In January 2010 a small conference was held at the
Centre for International Governance Innovation on the theme of
Canada’s place in the global business world (the conference
proceedings are now being published), and from that gathering a
mailing list was generated for a proposed group called the
“Canadian Business Historians/Historiens des affaires
canadiens.” In 2012, several members of the group held a
planning session at the meeting of the Business History Group of
the CHA, and discussed future directions of business history in
Canada. Mainly, they committed to holding a Friday afternoon
Canadian Business History workshop once a semester featuring
discussion on two works-in-progress by both students and
established scholars.
After successful events at Laurier (Brantford), York (Shulich),
and Guelph, the enthusiasm continues, and a fourth workshop is
scheduled to be held in April 2014 at the Rotman School of
Business at the University of Toronto. In addition to the regular
format of commentary on two workshop papers, we will also
feature a panel on the application of Alfred D. Chandler’s model
to Canadian business, with special guests Philip Scranton of
Rutgers University and Walter Friedman of Harvard Business
School. This event will be sponsored by the L.R. Wilson/R.J.
Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, held since 2012 by
Professor Chris Kobrak of ESCP Europe in Paris.
Developing a network of business historians in Canada is
particularly challenging given the size of the country and the
country’s linguistic duality. For now, the Workshop has only
travelled in the southern Ontario, but invitations to host in
Ottawa and beyond are on the horizon.
For more information on how to participate, please contact the
chair of the Business History Group of the CHA, J. Andrew Ross
([email protected]).
Centre of Business Section Winnipeg /
Quartier financier de Winnipeg, 1920
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality /
Comité canadien d’histoire de la sexualité
Steven Maynard, Co-Chair
The Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality (CCHS),
first formed in 1996, continues to grow. Through our email list
and website (http://www.chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/cchs) ,
the CCHS helps to connect historians of sexuality in Canada, and
provides a wealth of resources – bibliographies, lists of archives,
current history projects, etc. – for anyone teaching or researching
in the field.
2014 is already proving to be an exciting year. In January, the CHA
extended its advocacy work to include LGBT issues by writing a
public letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin to express the
Association’s opposition to Russia's “anti-gay propaganda”
legislation and its “inhibiting implications for scholarship in
history” (http://www.cha-shc.ca/download.php?id=1228). The
CCHS would like to applaud and thank the CHA for taking this
important initiative.
In May, as part of the Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women to
be held in Toronto, the CCHS will
sponsor “Together & Apart: A Historical
Walking Tour of Queer Sites of
Celebration and Resistance.” The walking
tour is a joint effort by the CCHS and
community-based historians. Already
sold out in advance, the tour will be
researched and led by CCHS members
Elise Chenier and Steven Maynard and
longtime community historian-activists
Maureen FitzGerald and Amy Gottlieb.
Hall in St. Catharines. Brock historians Tami Friedman and
Carmela Patrias, aided by labour scholars in other departments,
are putting together this year’s program for the CCLH. It’s a
program not to be missed! The morning program includes a
labour history panel with speakers on the history of radical
immigrant workers in Niagara and on the history of the CAW in
St. Catharines. A second panel examining contemporary
challenges will have speakers on migrant worker organizing in
the region as well as worker/union responses to
deindustrialization in the region. In the afternoon, there will be a
tour of Salem Chapel BME Church, Harriet Tubman’s last stop on
the Underground Railroad. Afterwards, we will visit the St.
Catharines Museum (at Lock 3 on the Welland Canal) to view a
small labour history photo exhibit and learn about the proposed
memorial to honour workers who died building the Welland
Canal. Then, in the early evening, we’ll end the day’s festivities
with a wine-tasting and a la carte dinner at one of the area’s
unionized wineries. If you'd like more information about this
event, please contact me at [email protected].
CCLH would like to take this opportunity as well to announce its
Eugene A. Forsey Prize winners for 2013, graduate and
undergraduate. They are: Bruno-Pierre Guillette, “ ‘Le Jour du
Seigneur vendu à l’encan’: regard sur la Commission d’enquête
sur l’observance du dimanche dans les industries de pâtes et
papiers du Québec (1964-1966),” M.A. thesis, Université du
Québec à Montréal, 2012, and Rick Duthie, “What Struck in ‘58:
A Drama Representing the Culture of Mine Mill Local 598,
Sudbury, Ontario, 1942-1962,” undergraduate thesis, Mount
Royal University, 2013. Congratulations to both winners!
Mensuel Birth
Control Review 1919
The CCHS is also looking forward to awarding its bi-annual prize
for best article on the history of sexuality in Canada at the
upcoming CHA meetings in St. Catharines. If you’re interested in
finding out more about the Committee, why not join us? It’s free!
CCLH has recently revamped its website – http://www.cclh.ca/
Check out our site for both CCLH events and news and for an
array of reports on the history and current struggles of working
people and social movements worldwide.
Two Greek workmen / Deux
travailleurs grecs, c. 1948-1955
Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) –
Workshop, Sunday, May 25 /
Comité canadien sur l’histoire du travail (CCHT) –
Atelier, le dimanche 25 mai
Alvin Finkel, president, Canadian Committee on Labour History
Since 1990, it has become an annual tradition for the Canadian
Committee on Labour History to host a labour history workshop
the day before the CHA meetings begin in earnest within and
focused on the community where the CHA meetings are
happening. The idea is to host an off-campus workshop that will
have presentations and events of interest both to historians and to
local labour and other activists. We rely on local labour scholars
to organize the event. This year our labour history workshop is
scheduled for Sunday, May 25, at the UNIFOR (previously CAW)
Canadian Committee on Women’s History /
Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes
round table entitled “On Feminist Mentors,” involving historians
Linda Kealey, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Zemon Davis, Elizabeth
Cohen, Veronica Strong-Boag, Andrée Lévesque and Susan Hill.
Magda Fahrni, Université du Québec à Montréal, Chair,
Canadian Committee on Women’s History – Comité canadien de
l’histoire des femmes, 2013-2014
The Canadian Committee on Women’s History – Le Comité
canadien de l’histoire des femmes is one of the oldest and largest
committees affiliated with the CHA. Founded in 1975, we now
have over 200 members across the country, including teaching
faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. Our
ongoing activities include an Annual General Meeting, the
awarding of the Marta Danylewycz and Barbara Roberts Prizes,
and the publication of a yearly newsletter; members also stay
abreast of our activities through our listserv, our website, and our
Facebook page. We will be involved in two sessions at the
upcoming Canadian Historical Association meetings at Brock
University. The first is the CCWH-organized round-table tribute
to historian (and longtime CCWH member) Bettina Bradbury,
Canadian political cartoon of a
woman in Quebec reading a sign /
Caricature politique canadienne
d’une femme au Québec faisant la
lecture d’un panneau 1930
who will be retiring next summer. Five of Professor Bradbury’s
former PhD students, from the Université de Montréal and from
York University, will reflect upon her many important
contributions to the field. The CCWH will also be sponsoring a
highly stimulating panel entitled “Women and the Law.” In
addition to these two CHA panels, the CCWH has agreed to cosponsor four interdisciplinary panels at Congress; these panels on
feminist research were initiated by the Canadian Sociological
Association. As usual, our annual reception promises to be one of
the highlights of Congress for CCWH members. We also look
forward to the CHA Gala, where the CCWH will award the Hilda
Neatby Prizes for the best articles (in English and French)
published in the field of women's and gender history over the past
year. This year, for the very first time, we will also be awarding a
Book Prize to the best book published in the field of women’s
and/or gender history in 2012 or 2013. The juries for both of these
prizes are currently reading away and we are eagerly awaiting
their decisions! Finally, the CCWH is the national co-sponsor of
the next “Big Berks,” a hugely important international women's
history conference that will be taking place at the University of
Toronto in May, just a few days before the CHA meetings. Many
of our members will be giving papers at the Berks, and the
CCWH will also be co-sponsoring a reception there, as well as a
The Canadian Network for Economic History /
Le Réseau canadien d’histoire économique
Kris Inwood, University of Guelph
The Canadian Network for Economic History /Le Réseau
canadien d’histoire économique invites proposals for its next
meeting Friday October 24 – Sunday October 26, 2014 at Trent
University in Peterborough. Papers will be considered on all
topics, with some preference given to those relating to the theme,
“Markets and Crises.” We are very pleased to announce that
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University) has agreed to give the
keynote address at the conference, and Leah Platt Boustan
(UCLA) will be giving the Mary MacKinnon Memorial Lecture.
To be considered for inclusion on the programme please email a
1-2 page abstract to Shari Eli ([email protected]) and Chris
Minns ([email protected]). The deadline for proposals is June 1,
2014. The programme will be set and authors notified by lateJune. Proposals from graduate students and junior scholars are
strongly encouraged. Funds may become available to partially
reimburse the travel and accommodation costs of such
participants. Information on the venue, registration, and
programme will be posted at www.economichistory.ca as it
becomes available.
Graduate Student Committee /
Comité des étudiants diplômés
Julie Perrone, Chair
The Graduate Student Committee has been busy this year, both
preparing for Congress 2014 and working on reaching out to grad
student members of the CHA.
Congress News
The GSC is pleased to announce that the Jean-Marie Fecteau
prize for the best student article published in a peer-reviewed
journal will be awarded for the first time at Congress 2014. The
prize brings with it not just recognition, but also a cheque for
$250. Nominations are closed for this year, and the winner will be
announced at Brock University in May.
The My CHA initiative is back again this year. Indeed, the GSC
will be sponsoring two students to attend Congress and blog
about their experience. In exchange for your blogging expertise,
the GSC will pay your registration fees (including CHA
membership!). If you’re interested in applying, write an e-mail to
the Committee at [email protected].
There will also be a grad student social the evening before the
start of the CHA meeting in St. Catharines (May 25th). Stay tuned
for more info in the official program!
Student Database
The GSC has been talking to the CHA executive about
modernizing or replacing the association’s student database in
order to make it more useful and easier to use. We’re interested in
hearing from student members on this – would you find a
database of student research projects a useful tool for
networking?
We look forward to promoting the Society for the History of
Children and Youth 8th biennial meeting to be held for the first
time in Canada, June 24-26 2015 at University of British
Columbia. For more information on the HCYG, please contact
Ja s on E l l i s ( j . e l l i s @ u b c . c a ) or Ta r a h B ro o k f i e l d
([email protected]). Visit our website at http://www.hcyg.ca/ or
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/History-ofChildren-and-Youth-Group-affiliated-Committee-of-theCHA/442784465742126.
Funding
Last October the executive sent department chairs across the
country a letter asking if they could find it in their hearts to
support the GSC financially in 2014. We’re happy to report that
both York University and the University of Manitoba have
pledged their support. If you represent a department and would
like to support the GSC, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The History of Children and Youth Group /
Groupe d’histoire de l’enfance et de la jeunesse
Engineer E. B. Craft (at left) demonstrating the Vitaphone sound
film system / L’ingénieur E.B. Craft (gauche) fait une
démonstration du système de son Vitaphone
Tarah Brookfield and Jason Ellis, Co-Chairs
The History of Children and Youth Group celebrates its tenth
anniversary in 2015. This year the Award Committee received
forty-one nominations for the Neil Sutherland Prize, awarded to
articles or book chapters on Canadian or international topics in
the history of childhood and youth. The award honours the
pioneering work of Neil Sutherland by recognizing outstanding
and innovative contributions to the field.
The group continues to improve resources for its members. This
year the website will feature a membership database and a new
section devoted to sharing syllabi of history and interdisciplinary
courses related to the history of children and youth.
Ahawah Children’s Home /
Orphelinat Ahawah Berlin 1933
Media and Communication History Committee /
Comité de l’histoire des médias et de la communication
Gene Allen, School of Journalism/Joint Graduate Program in
Communication and Culture Ryerson University, Toronto
The Media and Communication History Committee marks the
fifth anniversary of its founding this year. Operating in both
official languages, we welcome scholars from any discipline who
are interested in studying any aspect of Canadian media and
communication history. We also welcome scholars based in
Canada who study the media and communication history of
other parts of the world, as well as those interested in how history
is represented in the media.
The committee’s major new initiative for 2014 is the
establishment of an annual prize for the best paper presented by a
graduate student (or postdoctoral fellow) on a subject related to
the history of media and communication at the annual meeting of
the CHA/SHC. (For details of the award, see http://mchcchmc.ca/websites/mchc-chmc/Default_en.aspx#.) In keeping
with the interdisciplinary nature of our interests, we will also
sponsor a special joint session of our group and the
Bibliographical Society of Canada at this year’s CHA meeting,
“Transnational Travels of Books and Print Media: Historical
Studies, Theories, Methods and Questions.” The session is coorganized by Barbara Freeman on behalf of the MCHC and Janet
Friskney on behalf of the BSC. This will be our third joint session
with the BSC since 2011. At last year’s CHA meeting, we
sponsored a session on “Exploring the Perimeters of the
Historian’s Craft: Music as History / L’exploration des périmètres
du métier d’'historien : Musique et Histoire,” with stimulating
papers by Robin Ganev, Kristina Guiguet and Molly Ungar and
commentary by Colin Coates.
After five years under the leadership of founding chair Mary
Vipond, we are seeking to renew our executive group this year.
Anyone interested in the work of the committee is warmly invited
to attend our business meeting during this year’s CHA. Please
check the CHA program for the specific time, date and location.
Further information about the committee and its work can be
found on our website: www.mchc.ca. Urls for other organizations
involved with media and communication history are provided
there, as well as links to a list of recent books and articles compiled
by Barbara Freeman and to a valuable bibliography of Canadian
media history developed by Duncan Koerber.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the MCHC’s secretary-treasurer,
Gene Allen ([email protected]), or executive member
Barbara Freeman ([email protected]) with any
questions or comments.
Political History Group / Groupe d’histoire politique
Jarett Henderson, Mount Royal University
The Political History Group (PHG) seeks to promote and support
research in Political history and the study of Political history in
Canada. We conceive of “Political history” in very broad terms,
and therefore encourage the study of politics, public policy,
governance, the state, Political economy, Political sociology, civil
society, elections, foreign policy, international relations, legal
history and other facets of Political life from diverse theoretical
and empirical approaches. This breadth of interest is reflected in
the panels that we support each year at the CHA’s annual meeting.
This past year in Victoria, the PHG sponsored sessions on
Governance, Protest, Remembrance and Disability in
Communities of Great War Veterans; Citizen Activism and
Urban Planning in Canada, 1950-80; and Archives, Archiving,
and the Politics of History. The PHG was also thrilled to cosponsor, with the Canadian Committee on Women’s
History, a session on New Directions in Gender and
Political History. Watch for more exciting sessions
supported by the PHG this May at Brock!
In addition to supporting scholarship on political
history, the PHG awards prizes each year for best
article (French and English) and best book
(French or English). The prize committees,
spearheaded this year by Blake Brown and
Stephanie Bangarth, are currently hard at work
assessing this year’s nominees. We look forward
to the result of their labour and the announcing
of the 2014 winner at the CHA Prize Ceremony
in St. Catharines. Congratulations, once again,
to last year’s winners: (book) Bruce Curtis. Ruling By Schooling
Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical
Sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012; (English
article) Peter Price. “Fashioning a Constitutional Narrative: John
S. Ewart and the Development of a ‘Canadian Constitution’. ”
Canadian Historical Review 93.3 (2012); and (French article)
Mourad Djebabl. « Le gouvernement fédéral et la diète de guerre
proposée et imposée aux Canadiens ». Bulletin d’histoire politique
20:2 (Automne 2011).
Building on the success of the 2011 “Transformation: State,
Nation, and Citizenship in a New Environment” conference held
at York University, the PHG is happy to announce that a second
Political history conference is in the early planning stages.
Stéphane Savard has begun the process of organizing an event,
tentatively titled – Mobilisations politiques et prises de parole
citoyenne / Political Mobilization and Citizen Engagement – to
be held at Université du Québec à Montréal on October 2-4, 2014.
Please watch for the forthcoming Call For Papers. If you’d like any
additional information, please contact Stéphane directly at:
[email protected]
The PHG is also looking for an individual with the time and
resources to revamp our website. If you are interested in
completing this task, and have the skills to do so, please contact
(Jarett Henderson at [email protected]). Lastly, I’d like to
introduce the current Executive of the PHG while asking you at
the same time to consider running for one of these positions in
the near future:

Jarett Henderson, Chair, Mount Royal University
Bradley Miller, Vice Chair, University of British Columbia
Shirley Tillotson, Treasurer, Dalhousie University
Stéphane Savard, Secretary, L’Université du Québec à
Montréal
Marc-André Gagnon, Grad Student Representative,
University of Guelph
Wishing you all an enjoyable winter semester; see you at Brock!
Gouvernement Gouin Government 1905
CHA Annual Meeting
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de la SHC
2014 Elections
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The election for CHA Council members and the Nominating
committee will be held over a three week period from April 21 to
May 9. You will receive your ballot electronically through email and
voting will be conducted online. The professional profiles of
candidates are below and will be included as part of the ballot that
voters receive. Winners will be announced at the CHA Annual
General Members' Meeting at Brock University on Tuesday, May 27.
The CHA would like to thank this year’s nominating committee:
Donald Wright (President), Dominique Clément, Rhonda Hinther,
and Sean Kheraj.
Les élections visant à remplacer les membres sortants du Conseil de
la SHC et du Comité de mises en candidature se dérouleront du 21
avril au 9 mai. Vous recevrez un avis que votre bulletin de vote est
disponible en ligne. Voir les profils professionnels des candidats cibas. Ceux-ci seront également inclus dans le bulletin de vote
numérique qui est envoyé aux membres. Les élus seront annoncés à
l’Assemblée générale annuelle des membres de la SHC à l'Université
Brock le mardi 27 mai.
La SHC aimerait remercier le Comité de mises en candidature :
Donald Wright (président), Dominique Clément, Rhonda Hinther
et Sean Kheraj.
Please note that Joan Sangster was nominated for the position of
Vice-President at the 2013 CHA Annual Meeting. Her name is on
this year’s ballot.
Joan Sangster teaches in Gender and
Women's Studies and the Frost Centre for
Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at
Trent University, where she is currently
serving as the Dean of Graduate Studies. Her
scholarly work addresses themes concerning
working women, the labour movement, the
Canadian Left, the criminalization of women
and girls, Aboriginal women and the law, and
feminist historiography. Joan is the author of five monographs,
including Earning Respect: The Lives of Women in Small-town
Ontario, which won the Harold Adams Innis prize, and recently,
Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada, which
received an honourable mention for the CHA’s John A. Macdonald
Prize. She has co-edited five books, and her articles have appeared in
disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals in Canada and abroad.
Her contributions to women's and gender history over the past
thirty years were recently drawn together in a collection, Through
Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women’s History. Two of her
essays won the Canadian Committee on Women’s History’s Hilda
Neatby Prize, and one the Canadian Historical Review prize. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a recipient of a Killam
fellowship, and was the Seagram Visiting Professor at McGill’s
Institute for the Study of Canada, as well as a visiting professor at
Princeton University and Fulbright Chair in Canadian Studies at
Duke University. Joan has served on CHA Council as co-editor of
the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and is currently
an associate editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History of
the Americas. She is also a long-time member of the Canadian
Committee on Women’s History and was President of the
Canadian Committee on Labour History.
Veuillez noter que la nomination de Joan Sangster au poste de
vice-présidente a été soumise à la réunion annuelle 2013. Son
nom est sur le bulletin de vote de cette année.
Joan Sangster enseigne au département de l’étude des femmes et
du genre et au Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous
Studies à l’Université Trent, où elle occupe actuellement le poste
de doyenne des études supérieures. Son travail de recherche porte
sur des thèmes concernant les femmes au travail, le mouvement
syndical, la gauche canadienne, la criminalisation des femmes et
des filles, les femmes autochtones et le droit ainsi que
l’historiographie féministe. Joan est l’auteure de cinq
monographies, y compris Earning Respect: The Lives of Women in
Small-town Ontario, qui a remporté le prix Harold Adams Innis
et, plus récemment, Transforming Labour: Women and Work in
Postwar Canada qui a reçu une mention honorable pour le prix
Sir John A. Macdonald de la SHC. Elle a coédité cinq livres et ses
articles ont été publiés dans des revues disciplinaires et
interdisciplinaires au Canada et à l’étranger. Ses contributions à
l’histoire des femmes et des hommes au cours des trente dernières
années ont été récemment réunies dans un recueil, Through
Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women’s History. Deux de ses
essais ont remporté le prix Hilda Neatby du Comité canadien de
l’histoire des femmes et le prix de la Canadian Historical Review.
Elle est Fellow de la Société royale du Canada, la bénéficiaire
d'une bourse Killam et a été professeure invitée Seagram à
l’Institut McGill pour l’étude du Canada ainsi que professeure
invitée à l’Université de Princeton et Chaire Fulbright en études
canadiennes à l’Université Duke. Joan a siégé au conseil
d’administration de la SHC à titre de corédactrice en chef de la
Revue de la Société historique du Canada et est actuellement
rédactrice en chef adjointe de Labor: Studies in Working Class
History of the Americas. Elle est également membre de longue
date du Comité canadien sur l’histoire des femmes et a été
présidente du Comité canadien sur l’histoire du travail.
Candidate nominated for the position of Treasurer /
Candidate désignée pour le poste de trésorière : Jo-Anne
McCutcheon
Jo holds her doctorate in Canadian history from the University of
Ottawa and has undertaken sessional positions at the University’s
History department since 1997, teaching a diversity of Canadian
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and American history courses from contact to the present, focusing
also on First Nations, Inuit and Métis experiences with an emphasis
on Aboriginal education and microhistory research methods. She
has served as a Board Member of the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and as a SSHRC program
committee member. She is also an active member of several CHA
affiliated committees including, Active History, History of Children
and Youth Group and the Public History Group. Her current
academic research focuses on the ways historians and researchers
can use hair to learn more about the construction of gender and
growing up in a North American context.
Since 1987, Jo has worked as a researcher, historian and consultant
in Ottawa, merging her knowledge of public and private research
projects while maintaining ties, memberships and relationships
with the academic community. She has extensive experience as a
public historian working with the Vancouver based firm CDCI
Research for nine years and with her own historical research firms.
She has been learning about and working to embrace social and
digital media knowledge in her research, teaching and work worlds.
Jo détient un doctorat en histoire
canadienne de l’Université d’Ottawa et
enseigne à titre de chargée de cours au
Département d’histoire de l’Université
depuis 1997. Elle y donne une variété de
cours d’histoire canadienne et américaine
depuis les premiers contacts jusqu’au
présent, mettant l'accent également sur
l’expérience des Premières nations, des
Inuits et des Métis et sur l’éducation des
Autochtones et des méthodes de recherche de la micro-histoire en
particulier. Elle a servi comme membre du Conseil d’administration
au Conseil des sciences sociales et humaines (CRSH) et a siégé au
sein de son comité de programme. Elle est également un membre
actif de plusieurs comités associés de la SHC, y compris
ActiveHistory, le Comité de l’histoire de l’enfance et de la jeunesse et
le Groupe d’histoire publique. Ses travaux de recherche en cours
portent sur l’utilisation de cheveux par les chercheurs qui désirent
en savoir plus sur la construction du genre et grandir dans un
contexte nord-américain.
Depuis 1987, Jo travaille comme chercheure, historienne et
consultante à Ottawa, fusionnant ainsi sa connaissance des projets
de recherche publics et privés tout en conservant des liens,
adhésions et rapports avec la communauté universitaire. Elle
possède une vaste expérience de recherche en histoire publique
après avoir œuvré neuf ans au sein de la firme CDCI de Vancouver
en plus d’avoir géré ses propres entreprises de recherche historique.
Elle s’affaire présentement à intégrer sa connaissance des médias
sociaux et numériques dans sa recherche et son enseignement ainsi
que dans son travail.
Candidate nominated for the position of French Language
Secretary / Candidat désigné pour le poste de Secrétaire de
langue française : Martin Laberge
Martin Laberge est professeur agrégé au
département des sciences sociales de
l’Université du Québec en Outaouais où il
e ns e i g n e l ’ h i s t oi re d e l ’ Eu rop e
contemporaine et l’histoire des relations
internationales. Après des études de
premier et de deuxième cycle à l’UQAM,
il obtient son doctorat de l’Université de
Montréal en 2006. Spécialiste de l’histoire
des relations internationales de la France
contemporaine, il mène en ce moment un projet de recherche
sur la question de la limitation des armements navals en France
après la Grande Guerre. Il a participé à la réalisation du
Dictionnaire des ministres de la Marine (SPM éditions, 2011).
Martin est également membre du GIHRIC (Groupement
interuniversitaire pour l’histoire des relations internationales
contemporaines).
Martin Laberge is Associate Professor in the Department of
Social Sciences at l’Université du Québec en Outaouais where
he teaches contemporary European history and the history of
international relations. After obtaining his B.A. and M.A. at
UQAM, Martin received his PhD from the Université de
Montréal in 2006. Specialist in the history of international
relations of contemporary France, Martin is currently
conducting a research project on the question of naval
armament limitation in France after the Great War. He
participated in the publication of Dictionnaire des ministres de la
Marine (SPM éditions, 2011). Martin is also a member of the
GIHRIC (Groupement interuniversitaire pour l’histoire des
relations internationales contemporaines).
Candidate nominated for the position of English Language
Secretary / Candidat désigné pour le poste de Secrétaire de
langue anglaise: Robert Talbot
Robert Talbot is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University
of New Brunswick, where he is studying the history of
Francophone/Anglophone rapprochement in the twentieth
century. He completed his PhD in History at the University of
Ottawa, where he has also taught Canadian history in both
French and English. In addition to having presented at various
academic conferences, he has published scholarly articles on
political, military, Aboriginal and biographical history, as well
as federalism and current affairs. His book, Negotiating the
Numbered Treaties: An Intellectual and Political Biography of
Alexander Morris (Purich, 2009), won the 2009 Saskatchewan
Book Award for Publishing in Education and the 2009
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Manitoba Historical Society's Margaret McWilliams Award for
Scholarly History. Robert has also worked in policy and research
for both Canadian Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs Canada. In
2011 he was appointed to the Treaty Relations Commission of
Manitoba Speakers Bureau, and from 2011 to 2013 served on the
executive of the Canadian Historical Association’s Political
History Group.
Rob er t Ta lb ot est un stagiaire
postdoctoral du CRSHC à l’Université
du Nouveau Brunswick, où il étudie
l'histoire de rapprochement
francophone/anglophone au vingtième
siècle. Il a complété son doctorat en
histoire à l'Université d'Ottawa, où il a
également enseigné l'histoire
canadienne en anglais et en français. En
plus d’avoir présenté des
communications à divers colloques universitaires, il a publié des
articles scientifiques sur l’histoire politique, militaire, autochtone
et biographique, ainsi que sur le fédéralisme et les affaires
courantes. Son livre, Negotiating the Numbered Treaties: An
Intellectual and Political Biography of Alexander Morris (Purich,
2009), a remporté le prix du livre en éducation de la Saskatchewan
et le prix Margaret McWilliams pour l’histoire savante de la
Manitoba Historical Society en 2009. Robert a également travaillé
dans le domaine de la politique et de la recherche à la fois pour
Patrimoine canadien et Affaires autochtones du Canada. En
2011, il a été nommé au Treaty Relations Commission of
Manitoba Speakers Bureau et a siégé au comité exécutif du
Groupe d’histoire politique de la Société historique du Canada de
2011 à 2013.
Council Nominees (in alphabetical order) / Candidats –
Conseil d’administration (par ordre alphabétique)
Tarah Brookfield
Tarah Brookfield holds history degrees
from McGill University (BA 1998),
University of Waterloo (MA 1999), and
York University (PhD 2009). She is crossappointed in History and Child and Youth
Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University's
Brantford campus. In 2012 she published
her first book, Cold War Comforts:
Canadian Women, Child Safety and
Global Insecurity (WLU Press) which was
a finalist for the Canada Prize for the Social Sciences. Her
research interests are in Canadian women’s and children’s
political activism during the First World War, Cold War, and
Vietnam War and representations of gender, childhood, and war
in television and film. She has been actively involved in two
affiliated committees of the Canadian Historical Association. She
is currently the co-chair of the History of Children and Youth
Group (2011-2014) and is an executive member of the Canadian
Committee on Women’s History (2012-2014).
Tarah Brookfield détient des diplômes en histoire de l’Université
McGill (B. 1998), de l’Université de Waterloo (M. 1999) et de
l’Université York (D. 2009). Elle enseigne (affectation double) en
histoire et en études de l'enfance et de la jeunesse au campus
Brantford de l'Université Wilfrid Laurier. En 2012, elle publie son
premier livre, Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety
and Global Insecurity (WLU Press) qui a été finaliste pour le Prix
du Canada pour les sciences sociales. Ses intérêts de recherche
portent sur les femmes et l’activisme politique des enfants au
Canada durant la Première Guerre mondiale, la guerre froide et la
guerre du Vietnam ainsi que sur les représentations du genre, de
l'enfance et de la guerre à la télévision et au cinéma. Elle a été
activement impliquée dans deux comités associés à la Société
historique du Canada. Elle est présentement coprésidente du
Groupe d’histoire de l’enfance et de la jeunesse (2011-2014) et
membre de l’exécutif du Comité canadien de l'histoire des
femmes (2012-2014).
Lara Campbell
Lara Campbell is Associate Professor and
Graduate Chair in the Department of
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
at Simon Fraser University, where she
teaches Canadian gender and women's
history, the history of feminist theory,
and the history of social movements. She
earned her PhD in History from Queen's
University, MA from the University of
Toronto, and BSW and BA from
McMaster University. She is the author of Respectable Citizens:
Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression
(UTP 2009), co-author with Willeen Keough of Gender History:
Canadian Perspectives (Oxford 2014), and co-editor with
Dominique Clément and Greg Kealey of Debating Dissent:
Canada and the Sixties (UTP 2012). She is currently working on a
SSHRC-funded study of the gender politics of anti war protest in
the Vietnam era and co-editing a collection on the history of war
resistance in Canada.
Lara Campbell est professeure agrégée et directrice des études
supérieures au Département du Gender, Sexuality, and Women's
Studies à l’Université Simon Fraser, où elle enseigne l’histoire des
femmes, la théorie féministe et l’histoire des mouvements
sociaux. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en histoire de l'Université
Queen's, une maîtrise de l’Université de Toronto et ses diplômes
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de B. et B. Serv. soc. de l’Université McMaster. Elle est l’auteure de
Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in
Ontario's Great Depression (UTP 2009), coauteure avec Willeen
Keough de Gender History: Canadian Perspectives (Oxford 2014)
et coéditrice avec Dominique Clément et Greg Kealey de
Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (UTP 2012). Elle mène
actuellement une étude financée par le CRSH sur la politique du
genre dans la protestation anti-guerre de la guerre du Vietnam et
est coéditrice d’un recueil de textes sur l’histoire de la résistance à
la guerre au Canada.
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is an Assistant Professor
of History in the Department of
Humanities at MacEwan University in
Edmonton. Having obtained his B.A. and
M.A. at Carleton University, Michael
graduated with his Ph.D. from the
University of Toronto in 2005. He is the
author of Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada
and the United Nations Emergency Force,
1956-1967 (UBC Press, 2009), and coeditor, with Greg Donaghy, of In the National Interest: Canadian
Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, 1909-2009 (University of Calgary Press,
2011). Specializing in Canadian foreign relations, Michael is
currently completing a study of Canada’s role in the International
Control Commissions in Indochina, as well as an edited
collection, From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canadian Diplomacy in
Failed and Fragile States.
Michael Carroll est professeur adjoint d’histoire au Département
des sciences humaines à l’Université MacEwan à Edmonton.
Après avoir obtenu son B. et sa M. à l’Université Carleton,
Michael a obtenu son doctorat à l’Université de Toronto en 2005.
Il est l’auteur de Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United
Nations Emergency Force, 1956-1967 (UBC Press, 2009), et
codirecteur, avec Greg Donaghy, de In the National Interest:
Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade, 1909-2009 (University of Calgary Press,
2011). Spécialisé dans les relations étrangères du Canada,
Michael termine présentement une étude sur le rôle du Canada au
sein des commissions internationales de contrôle en Indochine,
ainsi que l'édition d'un recueil de textes, From Kinshasa to
Kandahar: Canadian Diplomacy in Failed and Fragile States.
David Dean
David Dean is Professor of History at Carleton University and codirector of the Carleton Centre for Public History. A specialist in
early modern British history as well as Public History, his
publications range from studies in the politics of law-making and
political culture in Elizabethan England to controversies in
Canadian and Australian museums, theatrical and filmic
representations of the past. He recently edited Museums as Sites
for Historical Understanding, Peace, and Social Justice: Views from
Canada, a special issue of Peace and Conflict (November 2013)
and is co-editor of History, Memory, Performance (Palgrave,
forthcoming 2014). His current book projects are A Companion
to Public History (editor, Wiley-Blackwell) and Shakespeare’s
England: A Cultural History, 1558-1649 (co-author, WileyBlackwell). Between 2008 and 2012 David was Company
Historian to Ottawa’s National Art Centre’s English Theatre and
he has been active in the Ottawa-based Worker's History
Museum as a collaborator, advisor and patron.
David Dean est professeur d’histoire à
l’Université Carleton et codirecteur du
Carleton Centre for Public History. Un
spécialiste de l’histoire du début de l’ère
moderne britannique ainsi que de
l’histoire publique, ses publications vont
des études sur la politique de la législation
et de la culture politique dans l’Angleterre
élisabéthaine à la controverse dans les
musées canadiens et australiens en
passant par les représentations théâtrales et cinématographiques
du passé. Il est l’éditeur de Museums as Sites for Historical
Understanding, Peace, and Social Justice: Views from Canada, un
numéro spécial de Peace and Conflict (November 2013) et
codirecteur de History, Memory, Performance (Palgrave,
forthcoming 2014). Ses projets courants sont A Companion to
Public History (éditeur, Wiley-Blackwell) et Shakespeare’s
England: A Cultural History, 1558-1649 (coauteur, WileyBlackwell). Entre 2008 et 2012, David était l’historien du Théâtre
anglais du Centre national d’art d’Ottawa et œuvre présentement
au Musée de l'histoire ouvrière d’Ottawa à titre de collaborateur,
conseiller et bienfaiteur.
Xavier Gélinas
Xavier Gélinas est, depuis 2002,
conservateur en histoire politique au
Mus é e c ana d i e n d e l ’ h i s toi re
(anciennement: des civilisations), à
Gatineau. Il a été, de 2003 à 2012, le
commissaire de l’exposition permanente
Tête-à-tête – La Salle des personnalités
canadiennes . Il a ensuite été le
commissaire de l'exposition Une reine et
son pays (2012-2013) et travaille
maintenant au projet de la Salle d'histoire canadienne dont
l’ouverture est prévue pour 2017. Après un baccalauréat et une
CHA Annual Meeting
Réunion annuelle
de la SHC
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maîtrise en histoire à l’Université de Montréal, il a obtenu son
doctorat à l’Université York. Sa thèse a été publiée en 2007 : La
droite intellectuelle québécoise et la Révolution tranquille (PUL). Il
a codirigé avec Lucia Ferretti, en 2010, Duplessis, son milieu, son
époque (Septentrion). De 2001 à 2004, il a dirigé la collection «
Les grandes figures » chez XYZ éditeur et, de 2002 à 2009, a été
codirecteur de Mens : Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l’Amérique
française. Il est responsable de la collection « Histoire » des
Cahiers du Québec (Hurtubise) depuis 2009.
Xavier Gélinas is curator for political history at the Canadian
Museum of History (formerly of Civilization) in Gatineau since
2002. He was also the Commissioner of the permanent exhibition
Face to Face – The Canadian Personalities Hall, from 2003 to 2012.
He then became the curator of the exhibition A Queen and Her
Country (2012-2013) and now works on the Hall of Canadian
History Project whose opening is scheduled for 2017. After a B.A.
and M.A. in history from the Université de Montréal, he received
his Ph.D. from York University. His thesis, La droite intellectuelle
québécoise et la Révolution tranquille, was published in 2007
(PUL). He co-directed with Lucia Ferretti Duplessis, son milieu,
son époque (Septentrion) in 2010. He directed a series entitled
“Les grandes figures” from 2001 to 2004 (XYZ Éditeur), and from
2002 to 2009 was the co-editor of Mens : Revue d’histoire
intellectuelle de l’Amérique française. He is also responsible for the
“History” collection of Cahiers du Québec (Hurtubise) since
2009.
Lisa Todd
Lisa Todd is Assistant Professor of Modern
European History at the University of New
Brunswick in Fredericton, N.B. She teaches
courses on Germany and Modern Europe,
historiography, gender and sexuality, the
First World War, and the Holocaust. She
obtained degrees from the University of
Toronto (Ph.D.), Royal Holloway College,
University of London (MA) and the
University of New Brunswick (BA). Lisa is the director of the new
Network for the Study of Civilians, Soldiers and Society at the
Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, and is completing
a book entitled Sexual Treason: Soldiers and Civilians in First
World War Germany. Lisa’s new research considers the work of
women anthropologists who studied and categorized “mixed
race” peoples during the Third Reich. She was a member of the
Program Committee for the 2011 CHA Annual Meeting held in
Fredericton, and is keen to increase CHA membership among
non-Canadianists.
Lisa Todd est professeure adjointe d’histoire moderne
européenne à l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick à Fredericton,
N.-B. Elle donne des cours sur l’Allemagne et l’Europe moderne,
l’historiographie, le genre et la sexualité, la Première Guerre
mondiale et l’Holocauste. Elle a obtenu un diplôme de
l’Université de Toronto (D.), Royal Holloway College, Université
de Londres (M.) et de l'Université du Nouveau-Brunswick (B.).
Lisa est la directrice du nouveau Network for the Study of
Civilians, Soldiers and Society au Gregg Centre for the Study of
War and Society et parachève un livre intitulé Sexual Treason:
Soldiers and Civilians in First World War Germany. Les
recherches récentes de Lisa portent sur le travail des femmes
anthropologues qui ont étudié et classé les peuples de “race
mixte” sous le Troisième Reich. Elle a été membre du comité de
programmation de la réunion annuelle 2011 de la SHC tenue à
Fredericton et tient à accroître le nombre de non-canadianistes au
sein de la SHC.
Student Representative Candidates on the CHA Council /
C an d i d at s du re pré s ent ant é tu d i ant au c on s ei l
d’administration de la SHC
Marc-André Gagnon
Originaire de Hull (Qc.), Marc-André est
candidat au doctorat en histoire à
l’Université de Guelph. S’intéressant
principalement à la problématique
identitaire au Canada français et aux
mouvements sociaux, son doctorat a pour
objet les Sociétés Saint-Jean-Baptiste du
Québec et de la francophonie canadienne.
Ayant obtenu sa maitrise en histoire à
l’Université d’Ottawa, Marc Andre fut
également le président de l’Association des étudiants diplômés en
histoire de l’UdO (2010-2011) ainsi que représentant au Comité
des étudiants diplômés de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique
française (2010-2011). Il est depuis juin 2013, co-président du
Comité des étudiants diplômés de la Société Historique du
Canada et représentant étudiant au Groupe d’histoire politique.
Impliqué dans la communauté francophone du Centre-SudOuest de l’Ontario, Marc André siège au Conseil
d’administration de la Société d’histoire de Toronto. Il souhaite
mettre à profit son expérience afin de défendre les intérêts des
étudiants au Conseil d’administration de la SHC.
Originally from Hull (Qc), Marc-André Gagnon is a PhD
Candidate in history at the University of Guelph. His research
focuses on identity politics and social movements in French
Canada.
M-A Gagnon has been an advocate for students since his Master’s
degree as president of the Graduate History Students Association
of the University of Ottawa (2010-2011) and student
representative in the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française
(2010-2011). In June 2013, M-A Gagnon was elected to the copresidency of the Graduate Students Committee of the Canadian
Historical Association, while also being a student representative
in the CHA’s political history group. He is currently involved in
the francophone community of southwestern Ontario via his
work on the administrative body of the Société historique de
Toronto. M-A Gagnon seeks to use his wide-ranging political and
administrative experience to defend and promote the interests of
graduate students as a representative on the CHA Council.
Daniel Ross
I’m a PhD candidate at York University,
and my dissertation focuses on Toronto's
attempts to clean up and revitalize
downtown Yonge Street since the 1940s.
Since 2012, I’ve also been co-chair of the
CHA Graduate Student Committee (GSC).
The GSC’s two jobs are to: (1) make
Congress a more fun and inclusive
experience for grad student members, and
(2) listen to students’ concerns and ideas
and work with the CHA Council to act on them.
I think we’ve done a good job on both counts. Our grad student
social and the new My CHA blogging project both went very well
in Victoria, and they're back on the agenda for Congress 2014.
We’ve also acted on the long-standing concern that the CHA
lacks a way of recognizing students’ scholarly work. In 2014 the
Jean-Marie Fecteau prize for the best student article will be
awarded for the first time.
My term on the GSC ends this year, but I hope to continue to
represent grad students and contribute to the CHA as a member
of Council. I'll bring to it the same energy and willingness to learn
that I’ve applied to my last two years with the Graduate Student
Committee.
Je suis candidat au doctorat à York University, et ma thèse porte
sur les tentatives de nettoyer et revitaliser la rue Yonge à Toronto
depuis les années 1940. Depuis 2012, j’ai aussi été co-président du
Comité des étudiants diplômés (CÉD) de la SHC. Les deux
responsabilités du CÉD sont : (1) faire du Congrès une expérience
plus agréable et inclusive pour les membres étudiants, et (2) être
toujours à l'écoute de leurs préoccupations et idées.
Au cours des deux dernières années, je pense que nous avons fait
un bon travail sur ces deux points. Notre événement étudiant à
Victoria a été un vif succès, comme le nouveau projet de blogging
Ma SHC. Les deux initiatives feront partie du Congrès 2014. En
plus, nous avons agi sur une préoccupation de longue date des
étudiants, notamment que la SHC n’a pas de mécanisme pour
reconnaître leur travail scientifique. En 2014, le prix Jean-Marie
Fecteau pour le meilleur article étudiant sera attribué pour la
première fois.
Mon mandat se termine en 2014, mais j’espère continuer à
représenter les étudiants diplômés et contribuer à la SHC en tant
que membre du Conseil. Je vais utiliser la même énergie et la
volonté d’apprendre que j'ai utilisées durant mes deux dernières
années avec le Comité des étudiants diplômés.
Nominating Committee / Comité de mises en candidature
Kristine Alexander
Kristine Alexander is Assistant Professor
of History at the University of Lethbridge,
where she also holds a Tier 2 Canada
Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies
and co-directs the U of L’s Institute for
Child and Youth Studies. She completed
her PhD at York University in 2010, and
held postdoctoral fellowships at Western
University and the University of
Saskatchewan. Her research crosses
national and disciplinary boundaries to better understand early
twentieth-century young people’s engagements with imperialism
and armed conflict. Her publications include articles and book
chapters on children’s history and archival research, Canadian
children and the First World War, summer camps across the
British Empire, and the Girl Guides in England, Canada, and
India. Her monograph Guiding Modern Girls: The Imperial and
International History of the Girl Guide Movement is under
contract with UBC Press.
Kristine Alexander est professeure adjointe d'histoire à
l’Université de Lethbridge, où elle est également titulaire d’une
chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 en études de l’enfance
et de la jeunesse. Elle codirige également l’Institute for Child and
Youth Studies. Elle a obtenu son doctorat à l’Université York en
2010 et a été stagiaire postdoctorale à l’Université Western et à
l’Université de la Saskatchewan. Ses recherches croisent les
frontières nationales et disciplinaires pour mieux comprendre
l’engagement des jeunes envers l’impérialisme et les conflits
armés au début du XXe siècle. Kristine a publié des articles et des
chapitres de livres sur l’histoire des enfants et les recherches dans
les archives, les enfants canadiens et la Première Guerre
mondiale, les camps d’été dans tout l’Empire britannique et les
Guides de l’Angleterre, du Canada et de l‘Inde. Sa monographie
Guiding Modern Girls: The Imperial and International History of
the Girl Guide Movement est à compte d’éditeur avec UBC Press.
Karen Balcom
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of History at
McMaster University. I also teach in McMaster’s undergraduate
minor in women's studies and in our new MA in Gender Studies
and Feminist Research. I am an Americanist, with research
interests in the history of transnational adoption, the history of
childhood and women’s social welfare networks. I am a past cochair of the History of Children and Youth Group and the current
MANULIFE FINANCIAL AND THE
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD PRIZE
LA FINANCIÈRE MANUVIE ET
LE PRIX SIR-JOHN-A.-MACDONALD
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is attributed annually to
the best scholarly book in Canadian history and is
awarded, since 2009, at the yearly Governor General
Awards for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History at
Rideau Hall in Ottawa, in addition to its longestablished presentation at the annual CHA’s Annual
Meeting.
Le prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald est attribué annuellement au
meilleur livre sur l’histoire canadienne et est décerné, depuis
2009, à la cérémonie des Prix du Gouverneur général pour
l’excellence en enseignement de l’histoire canadienne à
Rideau Hall à Ottawa, en plus d’être présenté à la réunion
annuelle de la SHC depuis les tous débuts du prix.
The Canadian Historical Association/La Société
historique du Canada is proud of its relationship
with Manulife Financial as the sponsor of the
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize in the amount
of $5,000. Manulife’s support for the
Macdonald Prize is particularly significant
because it has been renewed until 2015;
the year of the 200th anniversary of Sir
John A. Macdonald's birth.
Incorporated by an Act of Parliament on
June 23, 1887, Manulife Financial, then known
as The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company,
elected John A. Macdonald, Canada's first
Prime Minister, as its first president. As such,
the namesake prize is a natural fit for
Manulife.
Manulife Financial’s funding for scholarly
achievement in Canadian history and the
MacDonald Prize for the last five years is a
continuum of its engagement as original
sponsor of the Macdonald Prize established in 1977.
Indeed, Manulife sponsored the Sir John A.
Macdonald Prize from 1977 until 1984.
The CHA is thrilled to continue its partnership with
Manulife in recognizing and promoting excellence in
historical scholarship.
La société historique du Canada/Canadian Historical
Association est heureuse du partenariat qu’elle a avec la
Financière Manuvie comme commanditaire du prix
Sir-John-A.-Macdonald au montant de 5 000$
pour une cinquième année consécutive. Le
soutien de Manuvie pour le prix Macdonald est
particulièrement significatif puisque la
commandite a été renouvelée jusqu'en 2015 ;
l’année du 200e anniversaire de naissance de
Sir john A. Macdonald.
Constituée par une loi du Parlement le 23
Juin 1887, la Financière Manuvie, alors
connue sous le nom de La Compagnie
d’assurance-vie Manufacturers, nommait
John A. Macdonald, le 1er Premier ministre
du Canada, comme son premier président. En
tant que tel, le prix du même nom est un choix
naturel pour Manuvie.
L’appui de la Financière Manuvie pour une
réalisation importante en histoire canadienne et le
prix MacDonald lors des trois dernières années est
un continuum de son engagement à titre de
commanditaire originel du prix Macdonald créé en
1977. En effet, Manuvie a parrainé le prix Sir-JohnA.-Macdonald de 1977 à 1984.
La SHC est ravie de poursuivre son association avec
la Financière Manuvie pour reconnaître et
promouvoir l’excellence en érudition
historique.
Vice-President of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History.
My 2011 book, The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and
Baby-Selling Between the United States and Canada, 1930-1970
was awarded the 2012 Albert Corey Prize by the CHA/AHA and
also the Bowling Green/Institute of Policy History Prize of
International or Comparative Policy History. My current
research is on the cross-over of foreign policy, child welfare and
immigration law in the United States in the period 1945-1961.
Je suis professeure agrégée au
Département d’histoire de l’Université
McMaster. J’enseigne également l’étude
des femmes au premier cycle et dans le
nouveau programme de maîtrise en
études du genre et de la recherche
féministe de l’Université McMaster. Je
suis un américaniste, avec un intérêt de
recherche pour l’histoire de l’adoption
transnationale, l’histoire de l’enfance et
les réseaux sociaux des femmes. Je suis
ancienne co-présidente du Groupe d’histoire de l’enfance et de la
jeunesse et l’actuelle vice-présidente du Comité canadien sur
l’histoire des femmes. Mon livre, publié en 2011 et intitulé The
Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling Between
the United States and Canada, 1930-1970 a reçu le prix Albert
Corey 2012 de la SHC / AHA et aussi le prix Bowling
Green/Institute of Policy History of International or
Comparative Policy History. Ma recherche actuelle est sur le
croisement de la politique étrangère, le bien-être des enfants et la
loi sur l’immigration aux États-Unis durant la période 1945-1961.
Jonathan Clapperton
Jonathan Clapperton is a Grant Notley
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Alberta
and he is teaching for the Department
of History. His research examines the
intersection of Aboriginal and
environmental history in western
North America. His current research
project, entitled “The ‘Green’ Paradox:
The Prevalence of the Environmental
Movement and the Failure of the
Environmentalism,” explores the history of environmental
activism on the Pacific Northwest, especially the extent to which
the environmental movement has succeeded or failed to integrate
with other progressive social movements. He will be coorganizing a workshop on small-scale and subaltern
environmental activism at the University of Alberta this August.
Jon’s doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of
Saskatchewan in 2012 under the supervision of Keith Carlson,
analyzed the history of Aboriginal peoples and the
environmental movement since the late nineteenth century in
Western North America.
Jonathan Clapperton est boursier postdoctoral Notley au
Département de sociologie de l’Université de l’Alberta et il
enseigne au Département d'histoire. Ses recherches portent sur
l’intersection de l’histoire des Autochtones et de l’environnement
dans l’Ouest de l’Amérique du Nord. Son projet de recherche
actuel, intitulé “The ‘Green’ Paradox: The Prevalence of the
Environmental Movement and the Failure of the
Environmentalism,” explore l’histoire de l’activisme
environnemental sur le Pacifique Nord-Ouest, en particulier la
mesure dans laquelle le mouvement écologiste a réussi ou échoué
à s’intégrer aux autres mouvements sociaux progressistes. Il est
coorganisateur d’un atelier sur l’activisme environnemental de
petite envergure et subalterne à l’Université de l'Alberta qui aura
lieu en août. La thèse doctorale de Jon, complétée à l’Université de
la Saskatchewan en 2012 sous la supervision de Keith Carlson, est
une analyse de l’histoire des peuples autochtones et du
mouvement environnemental depuis la fin du XIXe siècle dans
l’Ouest de l’Amérique du Nord.
Steve Hewitt
Steve Hewitt is Senior Lecturer in the
Department of American and Canadian
Studies at the University of Birmingham.
He has published extensively on topics
related to security and intelligence in the
past and present. Publications include
Spying 101: The RCMP’s Secret Activities
at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997,
Snitch: A History of the Modern
Intelligence Informer, and, with Reg
Whitaker, Canada and the Cold War. He
is currently working with Prof. Christabelle Sethna of the
University of Ottawa on a project entitled Sex Spying: The RCMP,
Women's Liberation, and the Gendering of Surveillance. He is also
actively involved in Canadian studies, including as the current
president of the British Association for Canadian Studies, and is a
long-time member of the CHA.
Steve Hewitt est chargé d’enseignement au département d’études
américaines et canadiennes à l’Université de Birmingham. Il a
publié de nombreux articles sur des sujets liés à la sécurité et au
renseignement dans le passé et le présent. Il a, entre autres, publié
Spying 101: The RCMP’s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities,
1917-1997, Snitch: A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer,
et, avec Reg Whitaker, Canada and the Cold War. Il œuvre
présentement avec la professeure Christabelle Sethna de
l'Université d’Ottawa sur un projet intitulé Sex Spying: The RCMP,
Women's Liberation, and the Gendering of Surveillance. Il est
également activement impliqué dans les études canadiennes, y
compris comme président de la British Association for Canadian
Studies et il est également un membre de longue date de la SHC.
CHA Annual Meeting
Réunion annuelle
de la SHC
CHA Prizes, Short Lists
Prix de la SHC, livres en lice
2014 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD PRIZE
LE PRIX SIR-JOHN-A.-MACDONALD
2014
The CHA is pleased to inform its members of the shortlist for the
2014 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. The Macdonald Prize is given
to the non-fiction work of Canadian history, published in 2013,
judged to have made the most significant contribution to the
understanding of the Canadian past. The prize, sponsored by
Manulife Financial in the amount of $5,000, will be awarded at
the association’s annual general meeting at Brock University on
Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
La Société historique du Canada est heureuse d’annoncer à ces
membres la liste courte des livres en lice pour le prix Sir John A.
Macdonald 2014. Le prix est remis à l’ouvrage en histoire du
Canada, publié en 2013, jugé comme apportant la contribution la
plus significative à la compréhension du passé canadien. Le prix,
parrainé par la Financière Manuvie au montant de 5 000 $, sera
remis à la Réunion annuelle de la société à l’Université Brock le
mardi 27 mai 2014.
This year’s shortlisted books are (in alphabetical order):
Les livres en lice sont (par ordre alphabétique) :
James Daschuk,
Clearing the Plains:
Disease, Politics of
Starvation, and the
Loss of Aboriginal
Life. Regina:
University of
Regina Press, 2013.
Stéphane Savard,
Hydro-Québec et
L’État québécois,
1944-2005. Québec:
Septentrion, 2013.
2014 WALLACE K. FERGUSON PRIZE
Please note that the shortlisted books for the Ferguson Prize
had not been decided upon when the Bulletin went to press. The
list will be posted on the CHA’s website as soon as it is
announced.
Erika Dyck,
Facing Eugenics:
Reproduction,
Sterilization, and
the Politics of Choice.
Toronto: University
of Toronto Press,
2013.
Kathryn Magee
Labelle, Dispersed
But Not Destroyed:
A History of
the SeventeenthCentury Wendat
People. Vancouver:
UBC Press, 2013.
Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists:
British Wesleyanism and the Formation
of an Evangelical Culture in
Nineteenth-Century Ontario and
Quebec. Montreal & Kingston: McGillQueen’s University Press, 2013.
LE PRIX
WALLACE K. FERGUSON 2014
Veuillez noter que la liste des livres en lice pour le prix Ferguson
n’avait pas encore été publiée au moment de mettre le Bulletin sous
presse. Celle-ci sera affichée sur le site Internet de la SHC dès qu’elle
sera annoncée.
CHA Annual Meeting
Réunion annuelle
de la SHC
CHA Prizes Juries
Jurys des prix de la SHC
The CHA greatly appreciates the tremendous work that Michael
Dawson has done as CHA Council Member Chair of the
Macdonald and Ferguson Prizes. The same is true of the jury
members of our prizes. Many thanks!
La SHC apprécie grandement le travail que Michael Dawson a
accompli à titre de membre du Conseil de la SHC responsable des
Comités des prix Macdonald et Ferguson. Il en est ainsi pour les
membres des jurys de nos prix. Un grand merci!
This year’s juror members are:
Les membres du jury de cette année sont :
FOR THE
MACDONALD PRIZE:
Donald Fyson (Chair )
Jane Errington
Robert A.J. McDonald
Andrée Lévesque
Donald Wright
Michael Dawson
(non-voting )
FOR THE
FERGUSON PRIZE:
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
(Chair)
Shannon McSheffrey
Greg Blue
Michael Dawson
(non-voting)
POUR LE PRIX
MACDONALD :
Donald Fyson (président)
Jane Errington
Robert A.J. McDonald
Andrée Lévesque
Donald Wright
Michael Dawson
(sans droit de vote)
POUR LE PRIX
FERGUSON :
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
(président)
Shannon McSheffrey
Greg Blue
Michael Dawson
Thanks also go to Sylvie Taschereau who is the CHA Council
Member Chair of the Clio, Corey, and Bullen Prizes. The same is
true of the jury members of our prizes. Many thanks!
Nous remercions également Sylvie Taschereau qui est membre du
Conseil de la SHC responsable des prix Clio, Corey et Bullen. Il en
est ainsi pour les membres des jurys de nos prix. Un grand merci!
This year’s juror members are:
Les membres du jury de cette année sont :
FOR THE CLIO PRIZES:
Atlantic Canada
Nicole Lang (Chair)
Stephen Henderson
William Wicken
The Prairies
Rhonda L. Hinther (Chair)
George Colpitts
Jeremy Mouat
Ontario
William Newbigging (Chair)
Dan Mallek
Lori Chambers
Quebec
François Guérard
(Chair)
Alain Laberge
British Columbia
John Lutz (Chair)
Mélanie Buddle
John Belshaw
The North (Yukon and
Northwest Territories)
Julie Cruikshank (Chair)
Stephen Bocking
John Sandlos
FOR THE BULLEN PRIZE:
Patrick Dramé (Chair)
Sean Mills
Deborah Neill
Sylvie Taschereau
(Non-voting)
POUR LES PRIX CLIO :
Le Canada atlantique
Nicole Lang (présidente)
Stephen Henderson
William Wicken
L’Ontario
William Newbigging
(président)
Dan Mallek
Lori Chambers
La Colombie-Britannique
John Lutz (président)
Mélanie Buddle
John Belshaw
POUR LE PRIX BULLEN :
Patrick Dramé (président)
Sean Mills
Deborah Neill
Sylvie Taschereau
Les Prairies
Rhonda L. Hinther (présidente)
George Colpitts
Jeremy Mouat
Le Québec
François Guérard
(président)
Alain Laberge
Le Nord (Le Yukon et les
Territoires du Nord-Ouest)
Julie Cruikshank (présidente)
Stephen Bocking
John Sandlos
CHA Annual Meeting
Réunion annuelle
de la SHC
Prize Committee Update
Renseignements sur les prix de la SHC
A Thank-You, an Invitation,
and an Announcement
Des remerciements, une invitation
et un avis
By Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson
Well, it’s that time of year again. “CHA Santa” has delivered a
wide assortment of recent publications to the members of the
Sir John A. Macdonald and Wallace K. Ferguson Prize juries.
And so now the jurors’ work begins in earnest. As you’re
hopefully well aware the Macdonald Prize is awarded to “the
best scholarly book in Canadian history” while the Ferguson
Prize is awarded to the best book on a “non-Canadian” topic.
With so many fine studies submitted for consideration the jury
members always face a difficult task when it comes to
determining the “winners.” But they also tell me that they very
much appreciate the opportunity to read broadly and sample
the exciting and innovative studies that their fellow historians
are producing.
Nous sommes au mois de mars, ce qui veut dire que le « Père Noël de la
SHC » a livré une large gamme de publications récentes aux membres
des jurys du prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald et du prix Wallace-K.Ferguson. La dernière ligne droite est maintenant bien engagée pour
les jurys. Comme vous le savez, enfin nous l’espérons, le prix
Macdonald est décerné au « meilleur livre savant en histoire
canadienne », tandis que le prix Ferguson est décerné au meilleur livre
en histoire « autre que canadienne ». Avec autant d'œuvres
exceptionnelles soumises, les membres du jury ont toujours beaucoup
de difficulté à déterminer les « gagnants. » Mais ils me disent aussi
qu'ils apprécient beaucoup l’occasion de lire sur toutes sortes de sujets
et d’échantillonner les livres passionnants et novateurs que leurs
collègues historiens rédigent.
The CHA boasts a wide range of prize committees including
the Clio Prizes for regional history, the Bullen dissertation
prize and the Corey prize focusing on Canadian-American
relations (not to mention the prizes awarded by the CHA's
affiliated committees) and I think it's important that we take
the time to thank all of the jury members who dedicate their
time and energy to the task of assessing the many publications
that are submitted for these competitions. The Council
members in charge of formulating these committees strive to
ensure that the juries are balanced and representative of the
historical community at large. This can be a tricky task for a
whole host of reasons. But it is particularly complicated by the
fact that we rarely have a sense of just who might be interested
in serving on one of these juries. So, if you think you might have
the time and energy to volunteer for a prize jury I would
strongly encourage you to contact the CHA's Executive
Director, Michel Duquet. A pool of self-identified potential
jury members would be a valuable resource for us as we seek to
fill these important positions. So go on! Be bold. Be brave. Put
your name forward as someone who would be willing, if the
right fit is there, to fill an upcoming jury vacancy.
La SHC dispose d’un large éventail de comités de prix, y compris les
prix Clio pour l’histoire régionale, le prix de thèse Bullen, le prix du
meilleur article de la RSHC et le prix Corey qui met l’accent sur les
relations canado-américaines ( pour ne pas mentionner les prix
décernés par plusieurs comités associés de la SHC ) et je pense qu’il est
important que nous prenions le temps de remercier tous les membres
des jurys qui consacrent leur temps et leur énergie à la tâche d’évaluer
les nombreuses publications qui sont soumises à ces concours. Les
membres du conseil d’administration de la SHC chargés de former ces
comités s’efforcent de veiller à ce que les jurys sont équilibrés et
représentatifs de la communauté historique en général. Cela peut être
une tâche difficile pour une foule de raisons. Mais elle est
particulièrement compliquée par le fait que nous avons rarement une
idée de qui pourrait être intéressé à siéger sur l’un de ces jurys. Donc, si
vous pensez avoir le temps et l'énergie pour siéger sur un jury de prix,
je vous encourage fortement à communiquer avec le directeur général
de la SHC, Michel Duquet. Un groupe de membres de jury potentiels
qui se portent volontaires serait une ressource précieuse lorsque nous
cherchons à combler ces postes importants. Alors, allez-y! Soyez
audacieux. Soyez courageux. Donnez votre nom si vous êtes disposé et
si les circonstances s’y prêtent, à siéger sur un comité de prix.
In addition to highlighting the hard work that the jury
members are undertaking each and every year (and
shamelessly attempting to recruit new jury members) I want to
take this opportunity to advise the historical community of
important changes in the way in which CHA prize juries will be
carrying out their duties. All three changes concern the
category of “honourable mentions.” First, from now on any
prize with a short list will not award an honourable mention.
Second, book prizes that do not publicize a short list are
permitted to award an honourable mention only in exceptional
En plus de souligner le travail que les membres des jurys réalisent
chaque année (et ma tentative éhontée de recruter de nouveaux
membres de jurys), je veux profiter de cette occasion pour informer la
communauté historique des changements importants dans la façon
dont les membres des jurys des prix de la SHC rempliront leurs
fonctions. Les trois changements concernent la catégorie des «
mentions honorables ». Tout d’abord, tous les prix ayant une courte
liste n’accorderont pas de mention honorable à partir de maintenant.
Deuxièmement, les prix de livre qui ne publient pas une courte liste
sont autorisés à décerner une mention honorable dans des cas
cases. Third, no honourable mentions will be awarded for
article prizes. These changes reflect decisions taken by the
CHA Executive and Council at our meeting in Victoria this
past May and reflect our desire to keep the focus and length of
the prize ceremony as manageable as possible. (Prize citations
have also been shortened to a maximum of 100 words as we try
to keep the ceremony humming along.)
exceptionnels. Troisièmement, aucune mention honorable ne sera
décernée pour les prix d’article. Ces changements reflètent les
décisions prises par l’exécutif et le conseil d’administration de la
SHC lors de notre réunion à Victoria en mai dernier et reflètent
notre désir que la remise des prix se déroule dans des délais
raisonnables.
Pour les prix Macdonald et Ferguson, en particulier, la décision de
supprimer les mentions honorables a été prise pour deux raisons.
For the Macdonald and Ferguson prizes, in particular, the
Tout d'abord, la pratique consistant à accorder une mention
decision to eliminate honourable mentions was taken for two
honorable pour ces deux prix a été instaurée il y a plusieurs années
reasons. First, the practice of awarding honourable mentions in
pour faire en sorte que plus d’un livre dans chaque catégorie puisse
these competitions was introduced many years ago as a way of
être reconnu par la SHC chaque année. Plus récemment, cependant,
ensuring that more than one book a year in each category could
une courte liste est publiée pour les
secure recognition from the CHA.
deux concours et la pratique de
More recently, however, a publicized
continuer d’accorder des mentions
short-list has been introduced for
honorables semble maintenant inutile.
both competitions and so the practice
Deuxièmement, dans le cas du prix
of continuing to award honourable
Macdonald, par exemple, nous nous
mentions now seems redundant.
retrouvons dans une situation où cinq
Second, in the case of the Macdonald
livres sont sur la courte liste et
jury, for example, we have been
acquièrent ainsi un certain prestige.
working with a situation in which five
Néanmoins la pratique courante
books are short-listed and thus get a
depuis plusieurs années est d'annoncer
good deal of recognition. But the
un lauré at et deux mentions
established practice the past few years
honorables. La conséquence
has been to announce one winner and
involontaire et malheureuse de cette
two honourable mentions. The
situation est que les deux autres livres
u n i nt e n d e d a n d u n f o r t u n at e
sur la courte liste finissent par être «
consequence of this situation is that
relégués » publiquement lors de la
the remaining two books on the short
remise des prix. L’exécutif et le conseil
list end up being “relegated” publicly
d’administration de la SHC ont décidé
at the awards ceremony. It is far better,
qu’il serait de loin préférable de tout
the Executive and Council decided, to
simplement éliminer la catégorie de
eliminate the honourable mention
mention honorable, puisque d’être sur
category entirely. To be short-listed
Giuseppe Maria Crespi Bookshelf -Bibliothèque c. 1725
la courte liste du prix Macdonald ou
for the Macdonald or Ferguson prize
Ferguson est essentiellement une réalisation importante. De plus, la
is, in itself, a significant achievement. And with the CHA’s
présence active de la SHC dans les médias nous permet de faire en
active media presence we can still ensure that more than one
sorte que plus d’un livre dans chaque catégorie reçoivent la publicité
book in each category secures the publicity and recognition
et la reconnaissance qu’ils méritent.
they deserve.
So, congratulations to all of last year’s short-listed authors.
Thanks very much to all of the jury members. And, yes, a gentle
nod of encouragement to those of you thinking about maybe,
just perhaps, possibly letting us know that you are available to
serve on a prize committee if the opportunity presents itself.
Félicitations à tous les finalistes de l’an dernier. Milles mercis à tous
les membres des jurys. Et un petit mot d’encouragement à ceux et
celles d’entre vous qui songent peut-être, juste peut-être, à siéger sur
un comité de prix si l’occasion se présente, de communiquer avec
nous.
Michael Dawson is the CHA Council member responsible for the
Macdonald, Ferguson and Garneau Prizes.
Michael Dawson est le membre du conseil d’administration de la SHC
responsable des prix Macdonald, Ferguson et Garneau.
Teaching Innovations in
University Classrooms /
The Historical Thinking Project, 2006-2014
By Peter Seixas
For the Historical Thinking Project, 2013-14 was the best of times
and the worst of times (www.historicalthinking.ca).
It was the best of times because two of Canada’s largest provinces
made the most concrete and comprehensive headway in adapting
the ideas of the Project for their school curricula. Ontario
implemented a new K-12 curriculum that embedded historical
thinking concepts as a core element of the history program. British
Columbia released a draft social studies curriculum heading in
much the same direction. As a result, requests have skyrocketed
from those seeking help in teaching historical thinking in an explicit
and systematic way.
It was the worst of times because the Project, as it has taken shape
over the past seven years, is coming to an end. The immediate
trigger is the end of funding from the Department of Canadian
Heritage. Since 2008, the Department has provided the bulk of the
Project's support through its Canadian Studies Program. That
Program has now been re-branded as “The Canada History Fund,”
and will focus on “projects that celebrate key milestones and people
who have helped shape our country as we know it today.”
As an organization dedicated to promoting “critical historical
thinking for the 21st century,” the Historical Thinking Project never
espoused “celebration” or nationalism as goals for history
education. Rather, it sought to promote students' competencies in
making knowledgeable, rational contributions to current debates
about our common pasts and common futures. Whether the topic
was land claims or resource use, nation building or globalization,
origin stories or tales of migration, monumental heroism or
collective historical crimes, the Project sought to enable teachers
and museum educators to help students master the difficult tools of
thoughtful, critical, evidence-based historical understanding.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before the funders and their
beneficiaries would part ways.
The Historical Thinking Project began as “Benchmarks of
Historical Thinking” in 2006, with a partnership between the
Historica Foundation and the University of British Columbia's
C e nt re for t he Stu dy of Hi stor i c a l C ons c i ous ne ss
(www.cshc.ubc.ca). An international symposium of historians,
history education scholars and teachers convened in Vancouver to
map the contours of a project which would capture state-of-the-art
international research on teaching and learning history and make it
a potent force in Canadian classrooms. In their most ambitious and
visionary moments, the participants imagined a transformation in
history education practices across the country.
Following the symposium, a foundation document was drafted,
defining “historical thinking” around six historical thinking
concepts. To think historically, it proposed, students had to be
able to 1) Establish historical significance; 2) Use primary source
evidence; 3) Identify continuity and change; 4) Analyze cause
and consequence; 5) Take a historical perspective; and 6)
Understand the ethical dimension of historical interpretations.
Over the course of the project, these were further elaborated. We
sketched paths of progression that students might follow, from
simple, intuitive ideas, to sophisticated and powerful
understandings. Teachers were very receptive to this
formulation. As Bethany Doiron, a social studies specialist with
the Prince Edward Island Department of Education put it,
“It has been wonderful to see the concepts spread across the
country and work their way into curricula, resources, and
the minds of teachers and students. For those who may
have been intuitively teaching this way, it is an ‘aha’ moment
that says, ‘So, I was on the right track, after all!’ and, for those
who are new to thinking and teaching with the concepts, it
brings a different kind of ‘aha’ moment. There will be plenty
of those moments as more and more teachers and students
become familiar and comfortable with ‘thinking
historically.’ ”
While clearly articulated ideas are crucial for successful
educational reform, they are only one piece of the challenge. Four
interrelated components also had to be put into place.
The first was rewriting of provincial history curricula. The
distance between these documents and what actually goes on in
classrooms is widely recognized. Yet, as the official mandates for
the provinces' learning goals, they provide parameters for
textbook publishers, teacher education programs, and, to some
extent, the practices of teachers, themselves.
The Project would also need to provide tools for teachers to teach
historical thinking. The second component was thus classroom
materials. Most existing social studies textbooks treated
historical thinking superficially, if at all.
Teachers, of course, were key to the reform. Neither provincial
curricula nor new textbooks would take hold unless teachers
were up to speed. Professional development formed the third
component.
Finally, teachers and ministries of education needed valid and
efficient assessment strategies. We needed to move beyond the
multiple-choice, information-recall questions that have been the
staple of much social studies testing.
By 2008, the response to the initiative had moved far beyond our
expectations, and we began a process of scaling up. Most
importantly, we were able to hire a full-time national coordinator.
A charismatic master of administration based in Toronto, Jill
Colyer brought not only years of experience as a teacher and
textbook writer, but exemplary skills at negotiating with,
mobilizing, and organizing educators at all levels. We also
instituted an annual meeting, which brought together those
responsible for history or social studies in each of the provincial
and territorial ministries of education, presidents of provincial
history teachers' associations, history textbook publishers,
museum educators and assorted academics and teachers. At the
same time, Penney Clark (UBC) received a seven-year SSHRC
partnership grant for The History Education Network
(THEN/HiER), which could work in tandem with the Project in
promoting research-based history education.
So, what has the Project accomplished?
New provincial courses and curricula have been built around the
historical thinking concepts and adopted in:

British Columbia, K-9 Social Studies (Draft discussion
document)
Manitoba, Grade 11, Canadian History
New Brunswick, Grade 11, Modern History
Newfoundland and Labrador, Grade 10, Newfoundland and
Labrador Studies
Northwest Territories, Grade 5, Canadian History
Nova Scotia, Grade 6, World History
Ontario, Grades 1-8 History, Geography and Social Studies
Ontario, Grades 9-12 Canadian and World Studies
Since 2007, McGraw Hill Ryerson, Nelson Education, Oxford
University Press, Pearson Education, and Emond Montgomery
(all of the major Canadian education presses) have published new
history textbooks explicitly incorporating the concepts.
Additional materials have been published in print and on the web
by The Critical Thinking Consortium (www.tc2.ca ) and CBC.
In addition to workshops across the country, the Project's most
extended professional development programs were intensive,
five-and-a-half-day summer institutes, in cities from Halifax to
Vancouver, in collaboration with institutions such as Library and
Archives Canada (2010) and Pier 21 (2013). To achieve
maximum impact, the model was based on “train the trainers”:
most participants held key positions as highly experienced
teachers, professors or museum educators. A significant number
of participants from outside Canada regularly took part.
Books written to help teachers in understanding and teaching the
concepts, another key part of professional development, include
Peter Seixas and Tom Morton’s, The Big Six Historical Thinking
Concepts (Toronto: Nelson Education, 2012), in French, Les six
concepts de la pensée historique (Montreal: Modulo, 2013) and
Mike Denos and Roland Case, Teaching About Historical
Thinking (Vancouver: The Critical Thinking Consortium, 2007),
adapted into French by Stephane Levesque as Enseigner la pensée
historique (2013).
Assessment remained perhaps the most intractable piece of the
reform puzzle. In 2012, we devoted the Annual Meeting to
assessment of historical thinking. In addition to the usual
participants, the program included speakers responsible for the
Swedish national assessment of history, the U.S. College Board, the
Stanford History Education Group's “Beyond the Bubble,” and
assessment reforms in the U.K., among others. In 2015, Routledge
will publish an expanded collection of their writings, edited by
Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas, as part of the THEN/HiER series
on history education.
News of the demise of the Project generated shock waves through
the history education community across Canada and
internationally. Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, founder of
EUROCLIO (the European Association of History Educators)
wrote, “It seems now that the leading Canadian politicians do not at
all understand what history teaching in the 21st century is, and
have returned to how it was understood in the 19th century.” From
Stuart Macintyre, past president of the Australian Historical
Association, “… Apart from all you have achieved in Canada, your
work has had wide influence elsewhere, including here.”
And closer to home, words from Canjita Gomes-Fernandes,
History Consultant to the English Montreal School Board,
reflected the view of many others: “Your email stunned me beyond
belief… History, as we all know, easily lends itself to be molded by
the powers that be, which makes the critical approach to the
discipline all the more important in the education of our future
citizenry.”
The Project built a vibrant national network of history educators. It
enabled unprecedented conversation among provincial and
territorial ministry officials responsible for history education
across Canada. It sparked a new generation of textbooks and
classroom materials that promote active historical thinking. It
developed a substantial cohort of teacher leaders able to enrich the
work of their colleagues. And it earned recognition for Canada's
history education accomplishments in an international
community of history educators.
Undoubtedly in Canadian history education, there is still too much
rote memorization and aimless discussion, inadequate training
and outdated resources. The job is not finished.
Le projet de la pensée historique est mort, vive la pensée historique!
Peter Seixas (Ph.D., History, UCLA) is the founding director of the
Historical Thinking Project and the Centre for the Study of Historical
Consciousness. He is Professor and Canada Research Chair in UBC's
Faculty of Education. He is editor of Theorizing Historical
Consciousness (U of T Press, 2004) and co-author, with Tom Morton,
of The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts (Nelson Education,
2012). He will lead a Historical Thinking Summer Institute in
collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver in 2014.
Teaching Innovations in
University Classrooms /
Teaching Historical Semiosis
Through Empathetic Understanding
By Ross Eaman
The concept of semiosis has recently become an important
addition to the historian’s toolkit. The term itself was coined by
Umberto Eco to refer to the “unlimited” process by which the
meanings of signs evolve (Merrell 2002, p. 118), but its first and
foremost theorization was undertaken by the American
philosopher Charles S. Peirce, who developed a triadic
framework of object-representamen-interpretant to explain how
signs do their work. For Peirce, objects, by which he understood
all things in the world from atoms to tables to galaxies, acquire
meaning through representamens, which are simply the symbols,
i.e. signs, which stand for them. It is not that objects do not exist
until there are signs (such as words) for them, but rather that their
existence can have no meaning for us without such signs
“representing” them. This point – that to be is to be named – is
perhaps obvious enough, but it is accompanied by a less intuitive
claim; namely, that signs are themselves “represented” by
interpretants or ideas in the mind of an interpreter. Again,
however, what Peirce meant by “representing” is that the idea
gives meaning to the sign. One could invent a new sign – say
‘htyfrc’ – but it would have no meaning until it is associated with
an idea, at which point it could conceivably stand for an object.
Because of their dual relationship with objects and ideas, signs are
under constant pressure to accommodate both changes in the
world and our attempts to understand it.
The evolving nature of signs has been integrated into the
methodology of a number of historians. In her study of the Irish
land war of 1879-1882, for example, Anne Kane (1997) shows
how the symbol ‘rent,’ which initially had different meanings for
Irish nationalists, Church leaders, and tenant farmers, acquired a
new “fused” meaning as a result of British landlords’ disregard for
the rapidly deteriorating situation of their tenants. The
connotation of famine and starvation for farmers was combined
with the nationalists' connection of rent to conquest and
domination and Church leaders' association of the term with
repression and injustice. In discussing such examples in a thirdyear course on discourse at Carleton University, I found that some
students were not convinced that new experiences can lead to
fundamental changes in the meanings of signs. Surely, I could
hear some of them saying silently, the meanings of words are fixed
in dictionaries and only change over long stretches of time.
Which is true in most cases for their denotative or primary
meaning, but does not apply to secondary or metaphorical
meaning. I decided, therefore, to create an exercise through
which they might experience semiosis for themselves.
For this exercise, which William James might have considered a
variety of thought experiment; I drew materials from William H.
Sewell, Jr.’s article (2005) on the taking of the Bastille in which he
argues that the concept of le peuple underwent semiosis. I asked
the students to engage in what philosophers of history call
verstehen or empathetic understanding: putting themselves in the
place of an historical actor and trying to imagine how they would
respond to a particular situation. In the case at hand, they were to
imagine they are members of the recently constituted National
Assembly in Versailles; that it is the evening of July 14, 1789; and
that they have just received news about the storming of the
Arrest of de Launay, commander of the Bastille, 1789 (anonymous) /
Arrestation de M. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, 1789 (anonyme)
Bastille. Somewhat fancifully, they were also to imagine
addressing the Assembly about its meaning and, in particular, to
talk about the behavior of le peuple. This task was to be performed
twice: first, before the king’s reaction to the assault on the Bastille
was known; and secondly, after they were aware of his response.
Knowledge of the king's response was meant to constitute a new
experience generating semiosis. Of course, as Sewell pointed out,
the members of the National “often disagreed,” so that there was
more than one kind of response to unfolding events. But since
Sewell himself felt “constrained to consider the National
Assembly as, in effect, a single actor” (Sewell 2005, p. 263), this
premise was applied to the exercise.
None of the students were history majors, so there was less chance
their responses would be affected by knowledge of the outcome.
However, this lack of historical perspective made empathetic
understanding more problematic. By way of historical context, I
summarized Sewell’s account of how looming state bankruptcy
and the need for new taxes forced Louis XVI to summon the long
dormant Estates General, comprised of the clergy, the nobility,
and the commoners or Third Estate (to which the students were
to assume they belonged). I also told them how each estate
undertook elections to choose its representatives and how new
ideas about popular sovereignty and civic equality emerged
during this process. The events leading to the formation of the
Assembly were then quickly related: how the nobles tried to
establish themselves as an upper body; how the delegates of the
Third Estate opposed this effort and declared themselves to be the
“National Assembly”; and how the king ordered the nobles to join
the Assembly but then reversed his tracks and began surrounded
Paris with royal troops, seemingly to dissolve the Assembly and
return to rule by absolute decree. Finally, the students were
informed of the Patriots’ response to Necker’s dismissal, the
crowd’s violent behavior spurred on by various orators, and the
trek to the Bastille in search of ammunition. I thought it necessary
to provide a fair amount of Sewell’s detail about the nature and
level of the violence. For example, in the onslaught on the Bastille,
nearly one hundred Parisians were killed and the commandant of
the soldiers who had defended the fortress was shot, stabbed, and
beheaded by the crowd, which then marched around the city with
his head on a pike. The point of such detail was two-fold: to make
it clear why the commoners were worried about how the king,
with substantial royal troops at his command, would respond;
and to reinforce the association of le peuple with the “vulgar”
populace prone to blind, irrational, and contagious behavior.
Although much of Sewell’s finely nuanced account was
necessarily eliminated, the students were now hopefully well
enough informed to imagine writing a response to the storming
of the Bastille. Not surprisingly some had difficulty disengaging
themselves from their current attitudes and the context in which
these were formed. The exercise was, after all, a highly artificial
attempt to stimulate a sense of witnessing events in France on the
eve of the Revolution. In most cases, however, the students
condemned the violence as excessive and unnecessary, which was
how members of the actual Assembly reacted. Far from rejoicing
in the fact that the Bastille had been taken, they regarded it as a
disastrous development and became discouraged and downcast,
passing a motion the next day condemning the massacres and
executions. None of the students made the argument of some
Assembly members that the violence had been deliberately
provoked by the government’s ministers so the king would have
an excuse to send in his troops. Nor, understandably, did they
worry much about how “the people” who had resorted to such
violence could also be the ultimate basis of their own authority.
But these reactions were not necessary for the exercise to work:
what was required was a negative view of le peuple, since this is
what would change as events proceeded.
At this point in the exercise, the students were told (on handouts
with instructions as to when to turn the page) about the actual
response by the Assembly. I decided against withholding this
information on the grounds that the Assembly members were
obviously aware of their own initial reaction. The students were
also now told that on July 16, the king decided that his troops
could not be trusted to act against their fellow Parisians; ordered
them back to the frontiers; and made a humiliating visit into the
city, effectively capitulating to the Assembly. They students were
now to write their second address.
Ideally, the students should now have adopted a more positive
view of le peuple and their courage and heroism in taking the
Bastille. It was probably too much to expect they would use the
discourse of popular sovereignty to justify the violence, since they
had not previously struggled to keep the two separate. In fact,
about two-thirds of the students did not significantly change their
first address, even on the question of violence. However, about
one-third of the students adopted a more positive stance. As with
the historical Assembly, there was recognition that le peuple had
strengthened their position by rising up and destroying tyranny.
Since each student read both addresses to the class, those whose
response had not changed could at least see how semiosis had
occurred in some cases as le peuple came to “represent” a
legitimate revolt of liberty against despotism. The exercise was
thus a modest success at illustrating “the dynamic quality of the
semiotic process” (Jaysane-Darr 2010, p. 235).
References
Jaysane-Darr, Anna. 2010. “Galaxies of Meaning: Semiotics in
Media Theory.” Semiotica, 182 (1/4), 229-246.
Kane, Anne. 1997. “Theorizing Meaning Construction in Social
Movements: Symbolic Structures and Interpretation during the
Irish Land War, 1879-1882.” Sociological Theory, 15 (3), 249-276.
Merrell, Floyd. 2002. “Borges’s Realities and Peirce's Semiosis:
Our World as Factfablefiction.” Semiotica, 140 (1/4): 117-140.
Sewell, William H., Jr. 2005. “Historical Events as
Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the
Bastille.” In Logics of History: Social Theory and Social
Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
News from Mount Royal University
As Chair of the Department, Dr. Jennifer Pettit (recently
appointed to full professor) continues to help oversee the
development of MRU's history program. As a result of this
change, this year MRU hired another historian, Dr. Jarett
Henderson, into a tenure track position in Canadian history. Due
to the retirement of Dr. Thomas Brown, the Department
anticipates hiring another tenure track historian in the area of
20th-century European history. In addition, the discipline of art
history has been added to the Department.
On February 19-21, 2014 Mount Royal University hosted
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and
Teaching Genocide, an international conference designed to share
new scholarship and new teaching perspectives on the global,
transhistorical problem of genocide. Organized collaboratively
by a diverse committee of faculty and students, including the lead
organizer historian Dr. Scott Murray, the conference made an
important contribution to historical and contemporary
understandings of genocide by bringing together undergraduate
and graduate students, university faculty, secondary school
teachers, community members, and policy makers in order to
engender new perspectives on an old problem. In addition to
history, the conference included contributions from the fields of
Holocaust and genocide studies, indigenous studies, political
science, international relations, law, religious studies, and
women’s and gender studies.
Dr. Joe Anderson served as local arrangements chair for the
Agricultural History Society annual meeting, held in Banff,
Alberta, June 13-15, 2013. The conference was a resounding
success, attracting participants from numerous locations.
In addition to the two aforementioned conferences, work is
underway on the possibility of the Department hosting a
conference devoted to the teaching of Canadian history. This will
build upon the two very popular teaching sessions hosted by
Mount Royal at the 2013 meeting of the CHA in Victoria, one of
which focused on teaching indigenous histories and another on
the teaching of Canadian history.
Faculty members have also published a number of articles and
monographs and received a number of research grants. For
instance, Dr. Joe Anderson co-edited a book of essays with
Ginette Aley titled Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front
during the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013),
Dr. David Clemis published a chapter in Intoxication and Society:
Problematic Pleasures (Palgrave, forthcoming) and Dr. Jarett
Henderson published articles in both Histoire sociale/Social
History and the Canadian Historical Review. Joe also served as the
guest faculty member for the Reading Artifacts Summer Institute
hosted by the Canada Museum of Science and Technology
Museums Corporation in Ottawa, held August 19-23. In
addition, Dr. Jennifer Pettit was the co-recipient of a research
grant from the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community
Research for the project “Developing a Culturally Appropriate
Foster Placement Assessment Model for Treaty 7 Child Services”
and Dr. Pettit/MRU has also signed on as a partner for a new
mystery for the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History
Project (www.canadianmysteries.ca) that will focus on the
Franklin expedition. The project has just been awarded a SSHRC
Partnership Development grant.
Mount Royal history students took part in a Treaty
7 field course in which students met with elders,
participated in various cultural activities and
travelled to a variety of local Aboriginal nations.
In addition, a number of local heritage institutions
such as Heritage Park and the Military Museums
of Calgary hosted undergraduate history interns.
Students in the Department have been very active as well. The
Honours program continues to grow and Fall of 2013 will mark
publication of the first issue of the Mount Royal Undergraduate
Humanities Review, a peer-reviewed online journal that
publishes essays and other kinds of intellectual work by MRU
students in areas such as history, philosophy, women’s studies and
indigenous studies. Students in the department also took part in a
Treaty 7 field course in which students met with elders,
participated in various cultural activities and travelled to a variety
of local Aboriginal nations including Siksika, Tsuu T’ina and
Nakoda. In addition, a number of local heritage institutions such
as Heritage Park and the Military Museums of Calgary hosted
undergraduate history interns.
The Department was fortunate to host a number of guest lectures,
including a talk by Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian
Dr. Alan Taylor who presented a talk entitled “The Civil War of
1812 and the Division of a Continent.”
Getting
Graphic
with
the Past
Comics and Radical History
By Sean Carleton and Julia Smith
Increasingly, people are using comics, or “graphic novels,” as
valuable resources for teaching and learning about the past.
Comics such as Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986 & 1991), Persepolis
(2003), Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography (2003), and The 500
Years of Resistance Comic Book (2010) are fast becoming
classroom staples. Comics are certainly not perfect pedagogical
tools; the incomplete nature of the comics medium requires a
high level of reader engagement and awareness to make sense of
the limited text and sequential images. However, despite the
limitations of comics, noted American historian and creator
of many historical comics Paul Buhle argues that
scholars should still take comics seriously. He
suggests that in terms of capturing student interest
and generating historical engagement, comics can be
useful additions to an already diverse historical
toolkit.
Similarly, in A Comics Studies Reader, scholars Jeet
Heer and Kent Worcester make the case for academic
involvement in comics. They argue that “the notion
that comics are unworthy of serious investigation” is
shifting to “a widening curiosity about comics as
artefacts, commodities, codes, devices, mirrors,
polemics, puzzles, and pedagogical tools. Comics are
no longer a byword for banality; they have captured the
interest of growing numbers of scholars working across
the humanities and historically oriented social
sciences” (2009, xi).
May Day – International Workers’ Day, or May 1st – in Canada
entitled May Day: A Graphic History of Protest. This comic book
was subsequently revised and re-published by Between the Lines
Press in 2012. Though far from perfect, the May Day comic book
has helped raise awareness about the meanings of May Day; close
to 5,000 copies have been sold to unions, teachers, academic
conferences, and individual activists and history enthusiasts.
Most recently, renowned linguist, philosopher, and activist Noam
Chomsky commented that “The May Day graphic history is a
wonderful introduction to a major event in
labor history and its significance, far too little
known in North America.”
A Graphic
Cover of May Day:
(Toronto:
t
History of Protes
)
Building on the experience of producing the
May Day comic book, in the fall of 2012, the
GHC made a call for proposals for a new
project called The Graphic History Project.
Our vision was to collect and help people
produce a number of short (approximately
10 pages) graphic histories that highlight
the various ways people from a diversity of
backgrounds and experiences have fought
for economic and social justice around the
world. These new comics would be made
available for free on the GHC website and,
depending on the final submissions,
collected, edited, and published with a
progressive press.
2012
Between the Lines,
As part of academia’s widening curiosity about comics, and
As a result of the call for proposals, the GHC is now
inspired by political works such as Louis Riel, Wobblies! A Graphic
working with Paul Buhle and a number of activists, artists,
History of the Industrial Workers of the World (2005), and A
academics, and designers to produce new politically relevant
Dangerous Woman: A Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
historical comics. The first comic book of the project, Dreaming
(2008), in 2008, a number of artists, students, and professors
of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Canada 1880–1900,
associated with Simon Fraser University in British Columbia
was released in October 2013 and is available now for free on the
formed the Graphic History Collective (GHC) to further explore
GHC website. Based on Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer’s
the possibilities of comics and radical history. Since its founding,
work on early union organizing in Canada, Dreaming of What
the goal of the GHC has been to create comics to promote
Might Be examines the contentious but significant history of the
peoples’ critically informed engagement with the past.
labour organization known as the Noble and Holy Order of the
Knights of Labor and includes an introduction by Palmer and
In 2009, the GHC self-published a comic book on the history of
Kealey. The comic book shows how the Knights took root in
Artwork from Kara
Sievewright’s forthcoming
comic book on Bill Williamson
Canada and “encouraged people to
‘dream of what might be’ and take action on the job rather
than give into the poor conditions and lack of control others said
were natural and unchangeable.” Dreaming of What Might Be does
not shy away from some of the Knights’ discriminatory practices;
however, in the end, the comic book suggests: “Though not without
its faults, the Knights of Labor can still be drawn upon for
inspiration. Today, as we work to develop new cultures and
movements of opposition, the Knights’ call to ‘dream of what might
be’ reminds us that an alternative society is always possible.”
Since January, several new comics have been posted on the GHC
website as part of the Graphic History Project, including Portland’s
Black Panthers, Suzanne Volquin: A Solitary Path, and The Battle of
Ballantyne Pier. New comics will be posted every few weeks on the
GHC website in the coming months. Forthcoming comics will
examine such disparate topics as slavery in Atlantic Canada, the
experiences of Filipina women in Canada’s Live-in Care Giver
Program, the Ontario Days of Action protests of the 1990s, socialistfeminist union organizing in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s, and
the experiences of Indigenous longshore workers on the Vancouver
waterfront in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition,
other comics will explore the lives of such figures as Bill Williamson
– On-to-Ottawa Trekker, photographer, and Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion veteran.
Page 2 from Dreaming of What Might Be:
The Knights of Labor in Canada, 1880–1900
(http://graphichistorycollective.com/graphic-historyproject/comic-1-dreaming-of-what-might-be-knights-of-labor)
The GHC’s commitment to presenting history from a progressive
political perspective will not be shared by all scholars. Moreover,
people may disagree with the GHC’s belief that comics can be used
to tell important stories about history in ways that can inspire new
struggles and spark much-needed conversations about how to learn
from the past to change the future. Nevertheless, we hope that
initiatives like the Graphic History Project will contribute to the
dialogue about the merits of comics as history and the value of using
comics in the classroom.
Sean Carleton and Julia Smith are members of the Graphic History
Collective (www.graphichistorycollective.com)
Graduate Students
Étudiants aux
cycles supérieurs
The Comprehensive Exam
L’Examen de doctorat
By Julie Perrone
Par Julie Perrone
Who in their right mind would commit to reading 200 books in a
year? asked most of my friends when I explained how
comprehensive examinations work. And it is indeed a difficult
but crucial phase in the experience of a Ph.D. student. As a last
segment of my analysis of a survey on graduate students'
experiences, I look at how comprehensive exams have been
experienced, enjoyed and/or painfully completed.
Quel être sensé s’engagerait à lire 200 livres en un an? ont demandé
la plupart de mes amis lorsque j’ai expliqué le processus des
examens de doctorat. Et c’est effectivement une phase difficile
mais cruciale de l’expérience d’un doctorant. Comme dernier
segment d’analyse des expériences des étudiants des cycles
supérieurs, j’examine comment ces examens ont été abordés,
appréciés et / ou douloureusement terminés.
Most departments ask that students choose three comprehensive
fields, one major and two minor fields. While a good number of
departments require examinations for all three fields as well as an
oral defence, there are a few that only require students to write an
examination on their major field. In that case, students usually
write historiographical papers on their two minor fields. While
some students chose their fields according to their thesis topic,
some have instead considered these fields as occasions to improve
their ‘employability.’ As one student states, I found that the offer of
specialization of the department did not fit with my thesis topic. So I
ended up choosing fields that seemed to me like they would make
me more ‘employable.’ I am now specialized in the history of three
different countries, but I did feel at times that the readings were not
really helping me with my PHD research. Nonetheless, this was
also the advice one other student had been given by her
supervisor, to keep my longer-term teaching and research goals in
mind, and expose myself to a wider spectrum of work than I might
have done if focused narrowly on my thesis.
La plupart des départements demandent de choisir trois champs
de spécialisation, l’un majeur et deux mineurs. Bien qu’un bon
nombre de départements exigent des examens pour les trois
champs ainsi qu’une défense orale, quelques-uns ne demandent
aux élèves d’écrire un examen que pour leur champ majeur. Dans
ce cas, les étudiants doivent habituellement rédiger des analyses
historiographiques sur leurs champs mineurs. Si certains élèves
choisissent leurs champs en fonction de leur sujet de thèse,
certains considèrent plutôt le choix de ces champs comme une
occasion d’améliorer leur « employabilité ». Comme l’indique
une étudiante, J’ai trouvé que l’offre de spécialisations du
département ne cadrait pas avec mon sujet de thèse. J’ai donc fini
par choisir les champs qui me semblaient les plus prometteurs côté
emploi. C’est pourquoi je suis maintenant spécialisée dans l’histoire
de trois pays différents, mais j’ai parfois senti que les lectures ne
m’aidaient pas vraiment avec ma thèse. Néanmoins, ce fut aussi le
conseil qu’un autre étudiant a reçu, de garder mon enseignement à
long terme et mes objectifs de recherche à l’esprit, et de m'exposer à
un ensemble de travaux plus large que si je m'étais concentré
étroitement sur ma thèse.
All in all however, students seem to remember
this experience somewhat positively. One student
pointed out the importance of taking a step back
and enjoying that particular step, as she said:
Enjoy that you are being paid for 6 months to
read with no expectations of originality.
La préparation de ces examens varie non seulement d’un
département à l’autre, mais aussi d’un champ de spécialisation à
un autre. En effet, une étudiante a indiqué que j’ai été étonnée de la
différence entre mes collègues et entre les superviseurs. Un de mes
champs a requis que j’écrive 15 pages sur chaque section
thématique, l’autre était axé sur des analyses de livres, et mon
troisième consistait en une discussion de groupe.
The preparation for these examinations differs not only from one
department to the next, but from a student’s field to the other.
Indeed, one student reported that I was amazed at the differences
among my colleagues and among supervisors. One field required 15
page papers for each thematic section, another focused on
individual book reviews, and my third one was only a group
discussion.
When asked what kind of advice their supervisors provided them
with, one student said he was marked by one particular comment
Lorsqu’on leur a demandé quel genre de conseils ils ont obtenu de
leurs superviseurs, un étudiant a dit qu'il a été marqué par une
observation particulière de son superviseur : Ce n’est pas aussi
pire que vous le pensez. En ce qui concerne les examens oraux, un
autre a été bien conseillé par son superviseur : ne soyez pas gêné de
dire ‘je ne sais pas,’ c’est mieux que de bluffer les réponses.
Les étudiants ne comptent pas seulement sur les conseils de leur
superviseur, mais aussi sur les étudiants qui sont passés par cette
étape, les « étudiants post-comps. » Beaucoup étaient heureux de
fournir des examens antérieurs afin de donner une idée du genre
de réponses attendues. Un département propose chaque année
un séminaire portant spécifiquement sur ce processus. Peut-être
from his supervisor: It’s not as bad as you think. With regards to
oral exams, another received sound advice from his supervisor:
Don’t be shy to say ‘I don’t know’; it’s better than bluffing the
answers. A majority of students reported going into the
examinations very confidently, as most had been told that
supervisors never let their students go through this step if they are
not ready.
Students rely not only on supervisor advice, but also on students
who have gone through the step, the “post-comps students.” Many
were happy to provide others with past examinations to give an
idea of what sort of answers were expected. One department
offers an annual seminar specifically on the process of
comprehensive examinations which students have found
extremely useful. Perhaps this is something that could be more
widely done across departments.
One student tried to make the most use of her comp readings: she
tried to include as many recent titles on her reading list as she
could, submitted her work as book reviews and thus started
accumulating some publishing experience. Another advised to
work on effective reading skills: There are foundational texts and
peripheral texts; read the former in detail, and read the latter
superficially. Strategically group all readings in 7-8 categories of
books for ease of studying/writing about them. Create acronyms to
remember titles and authors as required. Learn not just what the
authors are arguing, but how they are arguing.
Besides the stress of the oral examinations, students generally
report a good experience, all of them having gone through this
step successfully on their first attempt. One student explained,
The point of the exam is not to make you fail. While the examiners
want to see you challenged, they only push as far as they believe you
would be comfortable with. It is a very supportive environment.
Another commented, Some people have a really nice academic talk
with their committee, others (like me) get grilled.
All in all however, students seem to remember this experience
somewhat positively. One student pointed out the importance of
taking a step back and enjoying that particular step, as she said:
Enjoy that you are being paid for 6 months to read with no
expectations of originality.
Perhaps the correct way to put it is that students remember this
whole process ‘not too negatively.’ As one student aptly
summarizes, I think it’s a worthwhile experience, even if I didn’t
enjoy it.
Julie Perrone is student representative on CHA Council
est-ce quelque chose qui pourrait être plus largement offert dans
l’ensemble des départements.
Une étudiante a tiré parti de ses lectures : elle a inclut autant de
titres récents sur sa liste de lecture qu’elle le pouvait, a présenté ses
travaux comme critiques de livres et a donc accumulé une
certaine expérience de publication. Un autre a conseillé de
travailler sur les compétences de lecture : Il y a des textes
fondateurs et des textes périphériques; il faut lire les premiers dans
le détail, et lire les deuxièmes superficiellement. Il faut regrouper
toutes les lectures en 7-8 catégories de livres pour faciliter l’étude /
l’écriture. On peut créer des acronymes pour se rappeler des titres et
auteurs. En savoir non seulement sur ce que les auteurs
argumentent, mais aussi sur la façon dont ils argumentent.
Dans l’ensemble cependant, les étudiants
semblent se souvenir de cette expérience de
façon plutôt positive. Un étudiant a souligné
l’importance de prendre du recul et de profiter
de cette étape particulière : Profitez du fait que
vous êtes payé pendant 6 mois à lire, sans
attentes d’originalité.
Outre le stress des examens oraux, les étudiants rapportent avoir
eu une bonne expérience, chacun d’eux ayant passé cette étape
avec succès au premier essai. Un étudiant a expliqué : Le point de
l’examen n’est pas de vous faire échouer. Bien que les examinateurs
veulent vous questionner, ils ne poussent pas plus loin pour vous
mettre mal à l’aise. C’est un environnement très favorable. Un autre
a commenté : Certaines personnes ont un très bon discours
académique avec leur comité, d’autres (comme moi) se font
questionner.
Dans l’ensemble cependant, les étudiants semblent se souvenir de
cette expérience de façon plutôt positive. Un étudiant a souligné
l’importance de prendre du recul et de profiter de cette étape
particulière : Profitez du fait que vous êtes payé pendant 6 mois à
lire, sans attentes d’originalité.
Peut-être la bonne façon de qualifier cette expérience est de dire
que les étudiants se souviennent de ce processus ‘pas trop
négativement.’ Comme un étudiant le résume bien : Je pense que
c’est une expérience enrichissante, même si je n’ai pas aimé.
Julie Perrone est représentante étudiante au conseil
d’administration de la SHC
History on the
Web / L’Histoire
sur la toile
Going Digital – The City of Regina’s
virtual archive is taking history online
By Lindsay Thorimbert
They say old is the new “new,” and with the City of Regina
Historical Collection this happens to be the case. They are taking
their archival collection online.
As of the end of January 2014, roughly 700 photos had been
scanned and posted to the online archive. These include historical
photographs of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, materials from
the First and Second World War, and shots of prominent Regina
architecture.
One series of images already uploaded to the virtual archive shows
the construction of the SaskPower building at 2025 Victoria Ave.
in Regina. This office building was constructed on the former site
of the St. Mary’s Separate School, and is a masterful example of
Expressionist architecture. Opened in 1963, the unique Y-shaped
design allows for an arcade and drive-through area to serve clients.
It is interesting to note the differences between the drawing of the
building, signed and dated in the bottom right corner by architect
Joseph Pettick in June 1959, and the final result. Most notably, the
embellished entrance design was dropped in favour of a smooth
curve.
The virtual archive was launched on November 15, 2013. By the
end of January 2014 there had about 13,500 page views. The
average visitor viewed approximately 20 pages per visit and stayed
on the site almost seven minutes.
To date, only a small fraction of the total archive, which contains
roughly 6,000,000 records, has been scanned and uploaded to the
virtual archive. The metadata, title and description of thousands
of documents, is already available for all archival records on the
site.
City of Regina staff continues to move more and more of the
collection to the digital format. Photo slides can be scanned more
quickly than large prints, and depending on the type of document,
staff scan between 40 and 200 documents each day. Researchers
are encouraged to return to the site often to see new content,
which will be added as scanning is completed.
“Every time we upload an image or a textual record, the virtual
archive becomes an even more valuable resource,” said City of
Regina Historical Information and Preservation Supervisor Dana
Turgeon. She added that work on the virtual archive will not be
finished even after all the current records have been uploaded. “If
there are pictures taken of an event, even if that event was
yesterday, there is an opportunity to include those photos in the
virtual archive. There is no minimum age requirement for a record
to belong on the archive.”
Legislative Building under construction in Regina
“The virtual archive ... instantly connects students,
researchers, everybody with these historical
records. It’s a huge piece of local history that’s
now available right at peoples’ fingertips.”
Some records will be left out because of copyright restriction, or
because they contain personal information. Oversized records,
like large plans, require special scanning equipment and will be
added to the virtual archive at a later date.
Access to the original, physical documents in the archival
collection will continue to be available on request to the
Historical Information and Preservation Supervisor, and
viewings are available in the reading room at Regina City Hall.
“What's really exciting about the virtual archive is that it instantly
connects students, researchers, everybody with these historical
records,” said Turgeon. “It’s a huge piece of local history that’s now
available right at peoples’ fingertips.” Online access to the
collection reduces handling and helps preserve the physical
documents for years to come, Turgeon added.
A high-resolution file is created for long-term preservation and
housed with the City of Regina. A lower-resolution version is
then uploaded to the virtual archive site to enable fast web
viewing on a smartphone or tablet. High resolution versions of
archival images will be available to the public, subject to a $15
administration fee.
The archive is hosted by Eloquent Systems Inc., a leader in online
archiving. Their clients include the City of Toronto Archives, the
BC Ministry of Community Services and many others.
Eloquent's servers are based in Canada, and they were selected by
the City of Regina through a competitive bidding process.
Big Berks Update
Dernières nouvelles
de la Big Berks
By Franca Iacovetta
As we race towards the 2014 Toronto Berkshire Conference on the
History of Women, the most Indigenous and international
program in Big Berks history, this update unashamedly, and
anecdotally, celebrates our program. (Critical reflection is later.)
The Big Berks is the most important conference in women’s, gender
and sexuality history and our venue offers many opportunities for
Canadian scholars to present with/to international colleagues, hear
leading-edge research and network on a global scale. And then go
to St Catherine’s for the 2014 CHA at Brock.
historian. She’ll present in Toronto, too, but in her new role as
award-winning poet on our exciting Friday cultural night. For
more details about the offerings, which also include a play about
the 1980s Toronto Eaton's Strike and Queer Bathroom Stories,
both informed by the research of colleagues from York
U n i v e r s i t y, a m a j o r B e r k s c o - s p o n s o r, g o t o
http://berks2014.com. We’re also continuing the gender-bending
performances introduced at the 2011 Big Berks with our Saturday
Night Drag Show and Dance.
But first, a few thank-yous, to CHA Council, Canadian Committee
on Women’s History, and the deans/chairs in universities across
Canada for their critical support. Thanks to the 2013 Victoria CHA
Program Committee for approving two well-attended Berksrelated events: a wide-ranging panel on transational feminist
history (Lynne Abrams, Eileen Boris, Elizabeth Vibert and Nancy
Forestell) and a lunch event where panelists told poignant and
funny stories. (Self-confessed hoarder Tina Simmons pulled out
notes from the first 1973 Big Berks, where she heard Carol SmithRosenberg and Natalie Davis, also on this panel, give papers that
became highly influential articles in the field, on women's
romantic relationships and on women’s history as “gender” history
before the latter term was coined. Bettina Bradbury recalled trying
to join a tennis match in the early 1980s involving Davis, Jill
Conway and other Berks “stars” and being asked if she was any
good.) The CCWH-sponsored Feminist Mentors event in Toronto
Berks, featuring these and many other Canadian scholars promises
yet more fun.
The result of truly collective efforts helped by a SSHRC grant, we
are especially proud of our scholarly program. Many leading
scholars are there: founders such as Linda Gordon, Alice KesslerHarris, Deborah Gray White, and Estelle Freedman; disability
scholars Catherine Kudlick, Kim Neilsen, and Anita Ghai; Latin
Americanists Cristina Rivera Garza and Gabriela Cano; and
Caribbeanists Verene Sheppard, Bridget Brereton and Myriam
Cottias.
As a feminist conference, the Big Berks is also a different kind of
history conference: scholarly rigorous and intellectually ambitious
certainly, but also much less stuffy, with an emphasis on mentoring
next generations, expanding one’s intellectual horizons, and more
interdisciplinary. The shifts into a gender and sexuality as well as
women’s history conference speak to the Berks’ continuing
importance as a site of political debate. The Berks’ activist side will
also be much in evidence in Toronto: for example, in the
Indigenous panels on the Red Power and Idle No More
movements, Toronto Memory and Power project, Christine
Welsh’s screening of Finding Dawn, on the missing and murdered
Indigenous women, and the exhibit and performance by artist
Rebecca Belmore – to name just a few examples from just one of
our key themes.
The Berks began as a US-based project and early programs
grouped sessions into North America, Europe and the rest of the
world(!), but Canadians have been there from nearly the start and
have helped to internationalize it – a trend the border-crossing into
Canada has reinforced. Ruth Roach Pierson has recalled how
attending the 1974 Big Berks transformed her into a woman’s
Instead of keynotes, we invited pre-eminent scholars to anchor
multigenerational and transnational panels in their field.
Scholars from Japan, Turkey, Mexico and Canada will debate with
Joan Scott the translatability (or not) of gender history in
different national/linguistic contexts. Other keynote-quality
scholars anchoring major panels include medievalist Caroline
Walker Bynnum, oral historian Luisa Passerini and Caribbeanist
Jacqui Alexander. Leaders in newer fields include Susan Stryker,
transgender historian and co-editor of TSQ, the first tans-studies
journal, to be launched in Toronto. McMaster's Wilson Institute,
another major Canadian co-sponsor, will showcase a panel on
African Canadian women's histories, and the Ontario Women’s
History Network, yet another sponsor, on Alison Prentice. We
will honour Jill Conway and Natalie Zemon Davis at the
university where they began their careers and first introduced
women's history. Their former TAs and students, Nikki
Strongboag, Linda Kealey, and Libby Cohen, are also leading
participants.
There is so much more on the program (Sarah Polley, the AGO
sessions...). To help navigate it, like us on Facebook, follow us on
twitter, and download our stream documents (on such topics as
lgbtq, disability, and Latina sessions). Create a stream document
and share it with us/others.
To help graduate students/low-income scholars, we will keep the
registration fee at $100 and billet those who need a free bed.
Whether presenting or not, ask your department for support: the
Berks is not only about seeing the stars, but meeting your peers;
networks forged in Toronto will help with future international
conferences and research projects. See you in May!
Obituary/
Nécrologie
Ian MacPherson - G.R. Ian, BA, MA, PhD
July 6, 1939 - November 16, 2013
Emeritus Professor of History,
Specialist in Co-operative Studies Director,
Co-operative Initiative for Peace and Social Inclusion
Loving husband, father, grandfather, and uncle. Generous
friend. National Historian. Local, National and International
Co-operator. Dog lover, bird watcher. Life-long Blue Jays fan.
Ian grew up on a farm in Spencerville, ON that was ripe with
McIntosh apples, and earned his BA in History at the University
of Windsor (1960). He taught high school in Streetsville ON
where he met his wife Elizabeth.
Ian earned his MA and PhD in History at the University of
Western Ontario. In 1976, after teaching at the University of
Winnipeg and in London England, Ian moved his young family to
Victoria BC, where he started a long and successful career at the
University of Victoria. He served as the Chairman of the UVIC
Department of History 1981-1989. He was the UVIC Dean of
Humanities 1992-1999. Through his national/international
presence, creation of new courses, and teaching and learning
from his thousands of students, Ian left a huge mark on the UVIC
campus. The last of Ian’s published books was a rich history of
UVIC, celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Co-operatives and Credit Unions were Ian’s passion. His book
Each for All is widely considered as the definitive early history of
co-operatives in Canada. He served on numerous Co-operative
and Credit Union boards. He was the founding president of the
Canadian Co-operative Association; served on the board of the
International Co-operative Alliance; and chaired the process and
wrote the background documents for the International Cooperative Alliance's Statement of Co-operative Identity. They
impact over 800 million Co-operators around the world.
In 2005 he was awarded the International Co-operative Alliance
Rochdale Pioneer Prize.
As he started to “slow down” he founded the BC Institute for Cooperative Studies, now known as Centre for Co-operative and
Community-Based Economy, and was Co-director and Principal
Investigator of the National Hub of the Canadian Social Economy
Research Partnerships funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada. This led him to even
more national and international friends and connections.
Although some modern technology such as cell phones generally
frustrated him, Skype and Gmail allowed him to stay
continuously connected with the International Co-operative
world.
He travelled enthusiastically in the Co-operative name, having
been very recently in Japan and Korea, teaching and learning
about co-operators. He was welcomed at over 70 countries
around the world – and made a great many friends along the way.
His sudden death is a sad loss for Co-operators world-wide.
Ian was the last of four boys, and his compassion and care as uncle
to seven MacPherson families was limitless.
His love for his two grandchildren, Gabrielle and Ryan, was the
one thing Ian couldn’t put into words. His precious time with
them was pure joy.
His wife and partner of 47 years Elizabeth, two children Andrew
(Vanessa) and Jonathan (Charity), grandchildren Gabrielle, Ryan
and the soon to be born ‘Baby-Mac’ are all grateful for the kind
wishes after our loss of this great husband, father, grandfather,
dog-patter, chess-player, bad-joke-teller, and role model.
Ian passed away suddenly in his new home while getting ready to
go out for a walk on his beloved new-found beach. He joins his
three brothers [James, Donald and William] and parents [Amelia
and James] in a happy place.
Say not in grief he is no more - but live in thankfulness that he was.
This obituary first published in The Times Colonist from Nov. 23 to
Nov. 24, 2013
The Canadian Association of Eighteenth Century Studies
and the Canadian Historical Association
Chaussegros de Léry’s Map of Montréal,
1726 (Wikimedia Commons)
The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)
and the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) share the
common mandate of bringing together Canadian historical
scholarship and pursuing academic and professional activities for
the benefit of their members. The CHA has among its
membership Canadian intellectual historians who have made
major contributions to the study of the 18th century. Indeed, the
list of former CHA prize winners includes scholars whose
publications focus on the 18th century. There is a wide range of
research interests among these scholars. Although many consider
themselves members of the Canadian scholarly community,
others have found more fruitful collaboration with historians of
the 18th century working in Europe and South America. While
the CHA is broadly devoted to fostering the scholarly study and
communication of history in Canada, the CSECS has a more
temporally specific and interdisciplinary mandate.
The CSECS was founded in 1971 as a bilingual, interdisciplinary
organization, bringing together Canadian scholarship on the
long eighteenth century across the Humanities disciplines and in
both official languages. In recent years, literary studies have
tended to dominate the conference. From the beginning, there
have always been sessions on historical subjects, and the
conference theme has tended to be broadly historical, ranging
from “Spectacle in the 18th Century” (Saskatoon, 2001), to “1759:
Making and Unmaking Empires” (Ottawa, 2009), and to
“Revolutions in Eighteenth-Century Sociability,” the subject of
the 2014 meeting in Montreal.
Intellectual history and the history of ideas have been particularly
well-represented in CSECS meetings, both in the individual
panels and in the plenary speakers. In recent years, we have had
literary scholars including Martine Watson Brownley (Emory),
and Marie-Laure Girou-Swiderski (Ottawa) speak on subjects of
such general scholarly interest as political biography and the
circulation of ideas among the women of the ancien régime. Other
meetings have featured historians. In the 2012 meeting in
Edmonton, David Bell (Princeton) critiqued the idea of a “global
turn” in analyses of violence in the French Revolution, while at
Ottawa, in 2009, conference-goers had the choice of hearing Fred
Anderson (University of Colorado, Boulder) speak about the
international significance of the year 1759 or Alain Beaulieu
(UQAM) discuss the impact of the Seven Years’ War on Canada’s
First Nations. A year later, in St. John’s, Jean-François Palomino,
of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, continued
this focus on Quebec in the eighteenth century with a plenary
lecture on mapping New France.
The talks by Palomino and Beaulieu also highlight two other
aspects of CSECS that have become increasingly important over
the last decade or so: an attention to book history and a focus on
eighteenth-century Canada that incorporates both colonial and
First Nations cultures. Our conferences always include some sort
of eighteenth-century themed special event or outing.
The Ottawa conference built around 1759 and the Seven Years’
War of course included a significant component of material on
cross-cultural issues in the Canadian eighteenth century and, in
doing so, it followed on the 2003 Vancouver meeting, “Indigenes
and Exoticism.” Yet even when the conference themes don't relate
quite as directly to Canadian subjects, there are invariably panels
on North American literature, history, and society.
Another way that CSECS has sought to maintain its
interdisciplinarity is by hosting joint meetings with other
societies. Over the past few years, we have met with several
regional American eighteenth-century societies as well as with
the Aphra Behn Society (in Hamilton in 2011), a meeting that
incorporated a significant amount of work on women’s
intellectual contributions to eighteenth-century culture. This
coming year in Montreal, we will be meeting with the EighteenthCentury Scottish Studies Society, whom we also met with in
Toronto in 2000.
This overlap also emphasizes CSECS interest in exploring all
aspects of eighteenth-century culture. Our conferences tend to be
relatively small – usually hovering around a hundred and fifty
participants, give or take a couple of dozen – and while our
membership is primarily Canadian or Canadian-based, in the
last few years we have been delighted to welcome increasing
numbers of American, European, and Asian scholars. Our goal is
to provide a venue for discussion of contemporary work being
done in the long eighteenth-century and to do so as inclusively as
possible. Whether that means a panel on major new editions of
canonical literary figures such as Frances Burney or Samuel
Richardson, an examination of the philosophical reception of
David Hume, a study of the visual representations of David
Garrick in the fine arts and the popular press, a reading of de
Toqueville’s commentary on the Seven Years’ War, or a discussion
of botanical collectors in Newfoundland in the 1820s, there is a
place for it at our meetings. The deadline for proposals for
Montreal in 2014 is 1 April, and we warmly encourage anybody
who is interested to visit the website at
http://www.scedhs2014.uqam.ca
Historians in the News /
Les historiens font les manchettes
“Historians in the News” seeks to acknowledge and celebrate some
of the many successes of historians in Canada, including their
engagement with the public. If you or someone you know has won
a book or article prize, received a teaching award, delivered a
public lecture, given an interview, written an editorial, started a
new blog or written a notable entry, been hired to a new
administrative position, or been awarded an honorary degree,
please tell us about it, and we will consider including it in our
column. Here are a few developments that caught our attention
over the last few months:
« Les historiens font les manchettes » vise à reconnaître et à honorer
quelques-uns des nombreux succès d’historiens au Canada, y
compris leur engagement avec le public. Si vous ou quelqu’un que
vous connaissez qui a : gagné un prix du livre ou d’article, reçu un
prix d’enseignement, donné une conférence publique ou une
entrevue, écrit un éditorial, commencé un nouveau blog ou écrit un
texte remarquable, été affecté dans un nouveau poste administratif,
ou reçu un diplôme honorifique, veuillez nous en informer et nous
tenterons de l’inclure dans notre rubrique. Voici quelques faits qui
ont retenu notre attention au cours des derniers mois :
Shawn Graham (Carleton University), Rusty Bittermann (St.
Thomas University) and Stephen Snobelen (University of
King’s College) were named “Hotshot Profs” by the Globe &
Mail in its “Canadian University Report, 2014.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/c
anadian-university-report/
Shawn Graham (Carleton University), Rusty Bittermann (St.
Thomas University) et Stephen Snobelen (University of King’s
College) ont été nommés « Hotshot Profs » dans la rubrique «
Canadian University Report, 2014 » du Globe & Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/can
adian-university-report/.
Michael Behiels (University of Ottawa) has been very active
writing on current affairs, including an article on the Senate
Scandal (http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2013/10/29/
harpers-gambit-on-senate-reform/#.UnE2viTahs1), and a
three-part series of articles on the Charter of Québécois Values
(http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2013/10/23/will-thepqs-radical-proposals-lead-to-election-victory-and-thebreak-up-of-canada/#.UwEOm0JdVu8).
Michael Behiels (Université d’Ottawa) a récemment commenté
plusieurs dossiers d’actualité, dont un article qu’il a rédigé sur le
scandale du Sénat (http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2013/
10/29/harpers-gambit-on-senate-reform/#.UnE2viTahs1), ainsi
qu’une série de textes sur la Charte québécoise des droits et
libertés de la personne (http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
2013/10/23/will-the-pqs-radical-proposals-lead-to-electionvictory-and-the-break-up-of-canada/#.UwEOm0JdVu8).
Michael Bliss (University of Toronto) was appointed an Officer
of the Order of Canada “for his contributions as a historian and
author dedicated to illuminating Canada’s history.” Francine
Lelièvre (Pointe-à-Callière Museum) was appointed a Member
of the Order of Canada “for her contributions to historical
museology, and to preserving Montréal’s archaeology and
history.” http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=806629
Michael Bliss (University of Toronto) a été nommé Officier de
l’Ordre du Canada « pour sa contribution en tant qu'historien et
auteur voué à la mise en valeur de l’histoire du Canada. » Francine
Lelièvre (Le Musée Pointe-à-Callière) a été nommée membre de
l’Ordre du Canada « pour sa contribution à la muséologie
historique et à la préservation de l’archéologie et de l’histoire de
Montréal. » http://nouvelles.gc.ca/web/ar ticlefr.do?nid=806629&_ga=1.76047061.1187971370.1391009250.
The Government of Canada has named Kristine Alexander, an
assistant professor of history at the University of Lethbridge, a
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Child and Youth
Studies. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, Alexander will
explore “how young people in Canada and beyond understood
and responded to British imperialism and the First World War”
with the hope of “increas[ing] our understanding of the longer
history of contemporary concerns about the effects of
g l o b a l i z a t i o n a n d w a r o n y o u n g p e o p l e .”
h t t p : / / w w w . u l e t h . c a / u n e w s /
article/alexander-named-canada-research-chair-child-andyouth-studies
Le gouvernement du Canada a nommé Kristine Alexander,
professeure adjointe d’histoire à l’Université de Lethbridge,
Chaire de recherche du Canada (CRC) de niveau 2, sur l'étude de
l’enfance et de la jeunesse. Alexander explorera, par le biais d’une
approche multidisciplinaire, « comment les jeunes à l’intérieur et
à l’extérieur du Canada ont conçu et répondu à l’impérialisme
britannique et la Première Guerre mondiale », dans l’espoir «
d’élargir notre compréhension de l’histoire de nos préoccupations
actuelles au sujet des effets de la mondialisation et de la guerre sur
les jeunes. » http://www.uleth.ca/unews/article/alexandernamed-canada-research-chair-child-and-youth-studies.
John Sainsbury (Brock University) wrote an article on James
Wolfe for the Globe & Mail, in light of the University of
John Sainsbury (Brock University) a écrit un texte sur James
Wolfe pour le Globe & Mail, à la lumière de l'acquisition par
Toronto’s acquisition of a series of personal letters by the
eighteenth-century British general. Sainsbury explores the
contentious memory that has surrounded, and continues to
surround, this famous historical figure.
(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/james-wolfebetween-the-lines/article15683605/#dashboard/follows/)
l’Université de Toronto d’une série de lettres personnelles du
général britannique du dix-huitième siècle. Sainsbury explore la
mémoire controversée qui a entouré, et qui continue d’entourer,
ce célèbre personnage historique.
(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/james-wolfebetween-the-lines/article15683605/#dashboard/follows/).
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Université de Sherbrooke) gave an
interview to Sherbrooke’s La Tribune newspaper on the need for
m o r e u n i v e r s i t i e s t o t e a c h H a i t i a n h i s t o r y.
http://www.lapresse.ca/la-tribune/sherbrooke/201401/14/014728446-pour-voir-haiti-autrement.php?
utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyb
erpresse_B13b_sherbrooke_378_section_POS3
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Université de Sherbrooke) a donné une
interview au journal La Tribune de Sherbrooke sur la nécessité
d’enseigner l’histoire haïtienne dans plus d’universités.
http://www.lapresse.ca/la-tribune/sherbrooke/201401/14/014728446-pour-voir-haiti-autrement.php?
utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyb
erpresse_B13b_sherbrooke_378_section_POS.
The Canadian Committee on Women’s History has announced
a new book prize. http://www.chashcacommitteescomitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf/en/page51/styled/index.html
Le Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes a annoncé un
nouveau prix du livre. http://www.chashcacommitteescomitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf/fr/page50/styled/index.html
Jack Jedwab (Université de Montréal), vice-president of the
Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Institute for
Identities and Migration, wrote an article for the Globe & Mail in
which he analysed the results of a Leger survey that asked
Canadians what they believe are the greatest events and
institutions in the national historical narrative. Jedwab points out
that “in a regionally diverse and demographically pluralist
country like Canada ... it is essential to promote ongoing
discussion and debate about the Canadian story that highlights
its historic achievements and past failings,” especially as the
country prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
Confederation. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globedebate/when-tims-is-more-popular-than-the-queen-how-totell-canadas-story/article16204272/)
Jack Jedwab (Université de Montréal), vice-président de
l’Association d’études canadiennes et de l’Institut canadien des
identités et des migrations, a écrit un article pour le Globe & Mail
dans lequel il analyse les résultats d’un sondage Léger qui
demandait aux Canadiens ce qu’ils croient être les plus grands
événements et institutions dans le récit historique national.
Jedwab souligne que « dans un pays de diverses régions et
démographique pluraliste comme le Canada ... il est essentiel de
promouvoir la discussion et le débat sur l’histoire du Canada qui
souligne ses réalisations historiques et les échecs du passé »,
d’autant plus que le pays se prépare à célébrer le 150e anniversaire
de la Confédération. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globedebate/when-tims-is-more-popular-than-the-queen-how-totell-canadas-story/article16204272/).
Canadian Heritage has declared that it is inviting Canadians to
“Have Your Say” to help shape the 150th anniversary of
Confederation celebrations. Among other things, people can
p a r t i c i p at e i n a n o n l i n e q u e s t i o n n a i r e t h r o u g h
http://canada150.gc.ca/, via Twitter (https://twitter.com/
canada150th), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/
canada150th).
Patrimoine canadien déclare « À Vous la Parole » et invite les
Canadiens à participer à offrir leurs commentaires sur la façon
dont ils entendent célébrer le 150e anniversaire de la
Confédération. Entre autres, les gens peuvent participer à un
questionnaire en ligne au http://canada150.gc.ca/
fra/1344275798109.
Yves Frenette has been appointed Professor and Canada
Research Chair, Level 1, Migrations, transferts et communautés
francophones, at l’Université de Saint-Boniface. During Fall
2013, Professor Frenette was also the PRES Limousin-PoitouCharentes Chair of Canadian Studies, and a visiting professor at
l'École nationale des chartes, where he gave a public presentation
entitled L’Amérique française de 1763 à 1914. État de la question.
(http://www.lapresse.ca/le-droit/actualites/education/
201312/10/01-4719666-une-chaire-de-recherche-pour-etudierlemigration-des-francophones.php; http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=aprywnyKIo)
Yves Frenette a été nommé titulaire de la chaire de recherche du
Canada de niveau 1 Migrations, transferts et communautés
francophones à l’Université de Saint-Boniface – voir :
http://www.cha-shc.ca/francais/a-propos/membres-delexecutif-et-du-conseil-dadministration-de-lashc.html#sthash.wcfwFKAF.dpuf. Le professeur Frenette était
aussi Chaire des études canadiennes à PRES Limousin-PoitouCharentes et chercheur invité à l’École nationale des chartes à
l’automne 2013, où il a offert une lecture publique intitulée
L’Amérique française de 1763 à 1914. État de la question.
( http://www.lapresse.ca/le-droit/actualites/education/
201312/10/01-4719666-une-chaire-de-recherche-pour-etudierlemigration-des-francophones.php)
Étienne Rivard, Marc St-Hilaire and Yves Frenette received the
Prix de l’Assemblée nationale de l’Institut d’histoire de
l’Amérique française for their important work on political
history, La francophonie nord-américaine (Laval, 2013).
Étienne Rivard, Marc St-Hilaire et Yves Frenette ont reçu le Prix
de l’Assemblée nationale de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique
française pour leur contribution à l’histoire politique, La
francophonie nord-américaine (Laval, 2013).
Sean Kheraj, Christopher Dummitt and Richard Gwyn
appeared alongside other guests on TVOntario’s “The Agenda
with Steve Paiken” to discuss the question, “Is a basic knowledge
of histor y still useful? ” (http://theagenda.tvo.org/
episode/198877/does-history-matter%3F)
Sean Kheraj, Christopher Dummitt et Richard Gwyn on
participé à l’émission « The Agenda with Steve Paiken » de TV
Ontario pour discuter de la question, « Is a basic knowledge of
history still useful? » http://theagenda.tvo.org/episode/
198877/does-history-matter%3F)
Andrew Preston (Clare College, University of Cambridge),
winner of the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize, delivered the 2014
Donald Creighton lecture at the University of Toronto. Past
Creighton lecturers include David Cannadine, Adele Perry, and
David Hackett Fischer.
Andrew Preston (Clare College, University of Cambridge),
lauréat du prix Charles Taylor 2013, a donné la conférence
Donald Creighton 2014 à l’University of Toronto. David
Cannadine, Adele Perry et David Hackett Fischer figurent parmi
la liste d’anciens conférenciers Creighton.
Will Knight (Carleton), wrote a notable blog post about the
recent closure of Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries,
and how this will negatively impact the research and writing of
fisheries history in the future. (http://environmental-historyscience.blogspot.ca/2014/01/closing-libraries-foreclosingresearch.html)
Will Knight (Carleton), a écrit un billet de blog marquant au sujet
de la fermeture récente de bibliothèques de Pêches et Océans
Canada et l’impact négatif qu’elle aura sur la recherche et
l’histoire de la pêche. ( http://environmental-historyscience.blogspot.ca/2014/01/closing-libraries-foreclosingresearch.html)
Jean-François Lozier has received the first ever Prix MichelPrévost, from the Réseau du patrimoine franco-ontarien in
partnership with l’Université Saint-Paul, for his article “Étienne
Brûlé, le grand oublié: Traître? Entrepreneur? Fondateur de
l ’ O nt a r i o f r a n ç a i s ? ” L e C h aîn o n ( Wi nt e r 2 0 1 4 ) .
(http://400e.cmail2.com/t/ViewEmail/j/F67C3F82A389B435/8
D1447EF60691012C68C6A341B5D209E)
Jean-François Lozier s’est mérité le tout premier Prix MichelPrévost, du Réseau du patrimoine franco-ontarien en partenariat
avec l’Université Saint-Paul, pour son texte « Étienne Brûlé, le
grand oublié: Traître? Entrepreneur? Fondateur de l’Ontario
français? » Le Chaînon (Hiver 2014). (http://400e.cmail2.com/
t/ViewEmail/j/F67C3F82A389B435/8D1447EF60691012C68C6
A341B5D209E)
Matthew McKean, an Ottawa-based historian and writer, wrote
an article for the National Post on voter participation. McKean
argues that greater independence among federal MPs, allowing
them to act on behalf of their constituents and not just for their
parties, might encourage more Canadians to vote.
(http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/01/27/matthewmckean-why-we-dont-vote/)
Matthew McKean, historien et écrivain basé à Ottawa, a écrit un
article pour le National Post sur la participation des électeurs.
McKean fait valoir qu’une plus grande indépendance des députés
fédéraux, leur permettant d’agir au nom de leurs électeurs et non
pas seulement pour leurs partis, pourraient encourager plus de
Canadiens à voter. (http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/
2014/01/27/matthew-mckean-why-we-dont-vote/)
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