Episode 21: Ontario Made Me. Calgary Adopted Me.
Final Episode: A reflection on the ways in which the research and writing in Canadian history have changed in our lifetimes.
Final Episode: A reflection on the ways in which the research and writing in Canadian history have changed in our lifetimes.
An extraordinary scholar’s contribution to our knowledge of Canadian history. Introducing how historical writing has been altered in the digital age.
The Temagami Land Claim Conference, Bear Island, Lake Temagami, July 1982. As one participant (Mary Black Rogers) later recalled, it was “like an Agatha Christie—all the guests arriving from distant points, meeting in an isolated spot.”
Lester Pearson and Indigenous Canada, a world barely visible to the mid-20th century prime minister (1963-1968).
The intriguing context surrounding the address of assimilationist Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, at the Victoria College chapel, Toronto, in 1925.
The Mohawk founder of the cross-Canada League of Indians of Canada, 1918.
The contributions over two-thirds of a century of Hugh Dempsey, Dean of Alberta Historians, to the history of his province.
Calgary’s extraordinary Grande Dame of music in the early 20th century.
The tragic story of a remarkable Ontario couple in Alberta, 1910s, told through their surviving rich correspondence of over 550 letters.
Shahwahnegezhik’s sons and their dedicated Ontario teacher, Elizabeth Barrett, who made a difference.