ActiveHistory.ca repost –Remembering the Voyage of the St. Louis
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Bob Kinnear, the Amalgamated Transit Union, and the...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Lillian Piché Shirt, John Lennon and a Cree...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Before Mifegymiso: A History of Rural Women’s...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – How Thunder Bay Was Made
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Policing Gay Sex in Toronto Parks in the 1970s and...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – She’s Hot: Female Sessional Instructors, Gender...
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View ArticleSupporting the Work of ActiveHistory.ca
For the past eight years, ActiveHistory.ca has functioned as an entirely volunteer-run website without robust financial supports. This has meant that when technical problems that exceed our abilities...
View ArticleDo you know what the children are learning?
By Samantha Cutrara What is the purpose of learning history? Are we doomed to repeat it? Do we lose grounding? Are we stranded without space or place? Does history provide us with the skills for...
View ArticleCommemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Spanish Flu Pandemic: Testaments.ca
By Neil Orford and Blake Heathcote In January 1920, Stan McVittie was a fit and robust electrical engineer working at a hydro-electric generating plant on the Wahnapitae River in Northern Ontario. Just...
View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – White Supremacy, Political Violence, and Community:...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – We Regret To Inform You: The Emotional Labour of...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – The Police Records of a Bath Raid Found-In:...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – No Truck or Trade with Trump? The Puzzling Absence...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Settler Records, Indigenous Histories: Challenges...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Teaching Sexual Violence in History
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – The Hubris of Academe, or, “Students Suck”
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Selling the Sixties Scoop: Saskatchewan’s Adopt...
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View ArticleActiveHistory.ca repost – Series and Theme Weeks
To conclude our summer hiatus of reposts we are showcasing the series which we have hosted over the past year. Many thanks to all of our series editors and contributors. History Curriculum series,...
View ArticleJuno to Victory: A Call for Blog Posts
June 6th, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Canada’s role on Juno Beach, and the beginning of the victory campaign in northwest Europe. The Canadian Army lost 359 men on D-Day alone. What...
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