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Ella Prisco’s second post explores women’s opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike.
Crossing the Line: Women’s Opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike
Ella Prisco This essay is part of a 2-part series. See the other entry here. Women Volunteers at Gas Pumps. May 1919. University of Manitoba Digital Collections. “They have borne the lonely hours…
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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Ella Prisco’s second post explores women’s opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike.
Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham offer their ‘two cents’ on 1925 for their annual Year in Review (100 Years Later) series!
13th Annual (?) Year in Review (100 Years Later)
By Aaron Boyes & Sean Graham We offer our two cents on the events of 1925. Let us know in the comments what you would have ranked as the year’s top event. It’s hard to believe that we’re …
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December 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham offer their ‘two cents’ on 1925 for their annual Year in Review (100 Years Later) series!
Today’s post, by Ella Prisco, is the first of a two part series exploring working women and the Winnipeg General Strike.
“We’ll Fight To The End:” Working Women and the Winnipeg General Strike
Ella Prisco This essay is part of a 2-part series. The second post will be published next week. “Girl Strikers Urged to Stand Firm by Unions.” The Winnipeg Tribune, May 26, 1919. De…
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December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today’s post, by Ella Prisco, is the first of a two part series exploring working women and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Carol F. Lee explores the life of her mother, Mary Quan, and her experience of dual Canadian and Chinese identity.
Between Two Worlds
Author Carol F. Lee explores the writings of her mother Mary Quan Lee, with a focus on her experiences in the 1930s and her sense of dual Canadian and Chinese identity in the 1940s. Lee notes that …
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December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Carol F. Lee explores the life of her mother, Mary Quan, and her experience of dual Canadian and Chinese identity.
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You can find the rest of their Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project series on their website
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In today’s post Miranda Jimmy explores Indigenous data sovereignty in archives. This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ok, @activehist.bsky.social, I'm listening!
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You can find the rest of their Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project series on their website
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You can find the rest of their Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project series on their website
Today’s post is the last of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project series. Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner explore the role the YWCA played in Indian Hospitals and Residential Schools.
“to take a normal place in the business and social world”: The Work of Women’s Voluntary and Service Associations in Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals
The kinds of assimilatory activities run by the YWCA, and other volunteer associations, were about providing material and ideological support for the Residential School and Indian Hospital system i…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today’s post is the last of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project series. Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner explore the role the YWCA played in Indian Hospitals and Residential Schools.
In today’s post Miranda Jimmy explores Indigenous data sovereignty in archives.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series. Make sure to check it out!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series. Make sure to check it out!
Respecting Data Sovereignty Starts With the Stories We Tell About the Past
As I reflect further on archives and western approaches to historical research, it is clear that institutions of colonial memory are consistently used against Indigenous Peoples as a weapon. This u…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In today’s post Miranda Jimmy explores Indigenous data sovereignty in archives.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series. Make sure to check it out!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series. Make sure to check it out!
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Unpacking history is rarely comfortable. "Sunday School children were used to raise money for the Anglican Missionary Fund, which supported Residential Schools."
Today’s post, by Evan J. Habkirk and Alanaise Ferguson, explores the responsibilities of churches, dioceses, and settlers in reconciliation.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
Untangling the Web: Church and Public Accountability in National Reconciliation
All Catholic and Protestant churches in Canada need to undertake this painful work of disentangling the spiritual call to service from the presence of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and white su…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Unpacking history is rarely comfortable. "Sunday School children were used to raise money for the Anglican Missionary Fund, which supported Residential Schools."
Today’s post, by Evan J. Habkirk and Alanaise Ferguson, explores the responsibilities of churches, dioceses, and settlers in reconciliation.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
Untangling the Web: Church and Public Accountability in National Reconciliation
All Catholic and Protestant churches in Canada need to undertake this painful work of disentangling the spiritual call to service from the presence of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and white su…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today’s post, by Evan J. Habkirk and Alanaise Ferguson, explores the responsibilities of churches, dioceses, and settlers in reconciliation.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, check out the entire series!
Today’s post, by Matthew Dance, explores naming policy in Edmonton.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, make sure to check out the entire series!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, make sure to check out the entire series!
Who decides our place names? Power, Policy, and Memory in Edmonton
Tuck and Yang’s Decolonization is not a metaphor provides an interesting touchpoint to identify a pattern of “settler moves to innocence.” What does this mean, and what is the pattern? As Indigenou…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today’s post, by Matthew Dance, explores naming policy in Edmonton.
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, make sure to check out the entire series!
This post is part of our Telling Truths about the Settler Colonial Project Series, make sure to check out the entire series!
Today’s post, by Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner, is an introduction to a new series exploring truth and reconciliation.
A new post will be published every day this week, make sure to stay tuned in!
A new post will be published every day this week, make sure to stay tuned in!
Holding Ourselves Accountable: Reconciliation and Truth Telling in a Post Truth World
To date what has become painfully clear is that the responsibility and burden of truth telling has fallen largely on Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations. Survivors have been forced to cont…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today’s post, by Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner, is an introduction to a new series exploring truth and reconciliation.
A new post will be published every day this week, make sure to stay tuned in!
A new post will be published every day this week, make sure to stay tuned in!
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The latest History of Education Quarterly is now online. In this thread, I'll post non-paywalled versions of the whole issue.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The latest History of Education Quarterly is now online. In this thread, I'll post non-paywalled versions of the whole issue.
In today’s post, Andrew Nurse explores the repatriation of Indigenous culture, through artifacts, by the Vatican
“An Historic Day”: Concern and Celebration of the Vatican’s Repatriation of Indigenous Culture
By Andrew Nurse On November 15, a media release announced that Pope Leo XIV, following an audience with members of the Canadian Roman Catholic hierarchy, “gifted sixty-two artefacts belonging to th…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In today’s post, Andrew Nurse explores the repatriation of Indigenous culture, through artifacts, by the Vatican
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From our own holdings, a photograph of The Dumbells while on tour in London in 1918, including two members of the troupe -- Ross Hamilton and Allan Murray -- dressed in drag.
![A black-and-white studio portrait of 16 members of The Dumbells troupe, taken while on tour in London, showing two troupe members in drag. [Dalhousie University Archives, PC2 (Waldren Studios Photograph Collection), Box 260, Folder 10]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvyok6xucq2neh2zknfh4yf/bafkreih6hbq2bi7ukwitc4dojmhh4xdshmc2tdhkwgsv7owux3yav2ae44@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From our own holdings, a photograph of The Dumbells while on tour in London in 1918, including two members of the troupe -- Ross Hamilton and Allan Murray -- dressed in drag.
In today’s post Aly Firth explores drag during the First World War through the life of Ross Hamilton from Nova Scotia.
This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!
This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!
Duty in Drag: The Life of First World War Drag Star Ross Hamilton
The rich history of drag has strong roots in Atlantic Canada; one notable example being Ross Hamilton, the famed female impersonator from the concert party troupe the Dumbells. During and following…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In today’s post Aly Firth explores drag during the First World War through the life of Ross Hamilton from Nova Scotia.
This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!
This post is part of our Queering Atlantic Canada series. Check out this post and the entire series!
In today’s post, Avery Monette (@averymonette.bsky.social) discusses the Nazi occupation of Winnipeg.
The Day Manitoba Fell to Nazi Germany
Avery Monette In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 19, 1942, residents of Winnipeg and the surrounding towns were shaken from their sleep by the sound of air raid sirens. German Luftwaf…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In today’s post, Avery Monette (@averymonette.bsky.social) discusses the Nazi occupation of Winnipeg.
In today’s post, Donald Wright reflects on the life of Jim Miller and his experience with him.
Jim’s Vision: Some Reflections on J.R. Miller
Donald Wright When I learned that Jim Miller had died, I reached out to his partner, Lesley Biggs, to express my condolences. A few weeks later, she invited me to share a few words about him that w…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In today’s post, Donald Wright reflects on the life of Jim Miller and his experience with him.
Call for proposals for the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. “From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies.”
The 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference
From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to host the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Charlotte…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Call for proposals for the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. “From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies.”
In today’s post, Matthew Hurst explores Hong Kong’s colonial history and ongoing challenges accessing archives. This post is written in conversation with two previous posts by June Chow.
Restricted Records: How Hong Kong Communities Lose Out When Archives Stay Closed
Britain colonised Hong Kong in the 19th century through two treaties, which lasted in perpetuity, and a lease, set to expire in 1997. Much research into Hong Kong’s colonial history relies upon rec…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In today’s post, Matthew Hurst explores Hong Kong’s colonial history and ongoing challenges accessing archives. This post is written in conversation with two previous posts by June Chow.
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Hong Kong diaspora communities are inhibited in accessing their city’s colonial history, I argue in my blog post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hong Kong diaspora communities are inhibited in accessing their city’s colonial history, I argue in my blog post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Inspired by Mi’kmaq History Month Emily Pictou-Roberts and Jess Wilton explore Mi’kmaq queer culture and history for our Queering Atlantic Canada Series.
Queering Mi’kma’ki: Sharing the Story of the Puoinaq
In the Mi’kmaw language, puoin (boo-oh-in) refers to a shaman or witch. In Mi’kmaki — the area we now call Atlantic Canada and parts of Maine and Québec—these puoinaq (plural of puoin) are sa…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Inspired by Mi’kmaq History Month Emily Pictou-Roberts and Jess Wilton explore Mi’kmaq queer culture and history for our Queering Atlantic Canada Series.
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This week on the podcast I talk with John Moses about tonight's Shannon Lecture about his father's residential school memoir @activehist.bsky.social
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Russ Moses’ Residential School Memoir – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham This week, I talk with John Moses ahead of his November 3 Shannon Lecture entitled ‘This is not my story, but yours: The Russ Moses residential school memoir.’ We discuss…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This week on the podcast I talk with John Moses about tonight's Shannon Lecture about his father's residential school memoir @activehist.bsky.social
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Drawing from many items in the U of G archives, Michael Dawson explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history.
Curious to learn more? Explore our Archival and Special Collections: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our....
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Curious to learn more? Explore our Archival and Special Collections: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our....
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Today’s post, by Michael Dawson, explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history.
Jell-O Comes to Canada: “America’s most famous dessert” and the Politics of Place
During the 1920s, Jell-O advertising in North America focused on both the product’s convenience (the fact that it could be consumed almost anywhere) and its connection with idealized domestic setti…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Drawing from many items in the U of G archives, Michael Dawson explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history.
Curious to learn more? Explore our Archival and Special Collections: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our....
#UofG
Curious to learn more? Explore our Archival and Special Collections: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/archives/our....
#UofG
Today’s post, by Michael Dawson, explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history.
Jell-O Comes to Canada: “America’s most famous dessert” and the Politics of Place
During the 1920s, Jell-O advertising in North America focused on both the product’s convenience (the fact that it could be consumed almost anywhere) and its connection with idealized domestic setti…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today’s post, by Michael Dawson, explores Jell-O in Canadian and American history.
Julia Grummitt explores historical interpersonal and kinship connections that build the foundation of Northwestern Ontario’s Métis Community.
Métis Kinship in Northwestern Ontario: A Tale of Two Families
Julia Grummitt In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Métis communities emerged across a region of North America known as the historic North-West. These communities were formed by Indigen…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Julia Grummitt explores historical interpersonal and kinship connections that build the foundation of Northwestern Ontario’s Métis Community.