Historical Scholarship on Display in Vancouver | La ... · ane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha,...

Canadian Historical

Association

Société historique du Canada

where people meet history and history meets people | au carrefour de l’histoire et des collectivités2.1 2019

Historical Scholarship on Display in Vancouver | La recherche historique

en montre à Vancouver

Canadian Justice, Indigenous InjusticeThe Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie CaseKent Roach

Cloth $34.95, 328pp • February 2019

Not Quite UsAnti-Catholic Thought inEnglish Canada since 1900Kevin P. Anderson

Paper $34.95, 360pp • April 2019

New and Forthcoming Books

Iroquois in the WestJean Barman

Paper $29.95, 336pp • March 2019

Hunters on the TrackWilliam Penny and theSearch for FranklinW. Gillies Ross

Cloth $39.95, 536 pp • July 2019

Mackenzie King in the Age of the DictatorsCanada’s Imperial and Foreign PoliciesRoy MacLaren

Cloth $34.95, 360pp • May 2019

Lost HarvestsPrairie Indian Reserve Farmersand Government PolicySarah Carter

Paper $34.95, 368pp • May 2019

Revolutions across BordersJacksonian America and theCanadian RebellionEdited by Maxime Dagenais and Julien Mauduit

Paper $34.95, 320pp • April 2019

Stanley’s DreamThe Medical Expedition to Easter IslandJacalyn Duffin

Cloth $39.95, 552pp • June 2019

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @McGillQueensUP

McGill-Queen’s University Press mqup.ca

INTERSECTIONS

2.1INSID

E | SOM

MA

IRE

Also in this issue | Également dans ce numéro

18

10

7

History on the Web | L’Histoire

sur la toile

News from Affiliated Committees | Nouvelles des comités associés

1 Word from the President | Mot de la présidente

8 News from 130 Albert | Nouvelles du 130 Albert

14 Graduate Students | Étudiants aux cycles supérieurs

17 Is the Nature of Storytelling Changing?

20 2019 CHA Elections | Élection 2019 de la SHC

26 Meanwhile, at Concordia University

27 History in Public: The Case of Labour History

29 Entrevue avec François LeBlanc

30 Obituaries | Nécrologie

31 Historians in the News | Les historiens font les manchettes

Quand cuisiner devient un devoir patriotique

5

Selling History

Editorial Policy of Intersections

Intersections is published three times a year by the Canadian Historical Associ-ation. Notices, letters, calls for papers and articles of 800 to 1,600 words (a little less, if you have images) are welcome on topics of interest to historians, prefera-bly accompanied by a translation into the other official language.

Deadline for submissions of articles, etc. for the next Intersections is July 15, 2019.

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: Inter-sections, Canadian Historical Association, 1912-130 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 d’Intersections

Intersections est une publication bilingue de la Société historique du Canada qui paraît trois fois par année. Les articles, les notes et les lettres de 800 à 1600 mots, un peu moins si vous avez des images, 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 Intersections est le 15 juillet 2019.

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 à :

Intersections, Société historique du Canada, 1912-130, rue Albert, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4

Téléphone : 613-233-7885 Télécopieur : 613-565-5445 Courriel : [email protected] Site Internet : www.cha-shc.ca

Editors | Rédacteurs : Matt Bellamy & Marie-Michèle DoucetPhoto Credits | Crédits photographiques : The Champlain Society; www.good-freephotos.com

Translation | Traduction : Michel DuquetProduction Coordinator | Coordonnateur de production : Michel DuquetLayout | Mise en pages : Don McNairAdvertising Enquiries | Placement de publicités : Michel DuquetInformation for contributors can be found on our Website at https://cha-shc.ca/english/publications/intersections Les directives aux contributeurs sont disponibles àhttps://cha-shc.ca/francais/publications/intersections

Cover Photograph | En couverture :

City of Vancouver Archives. Sketch by J.S. Matthews. Vancouver Jubilee Souve-nir, 1946. | Archives de la ville de Vancouver, croquis de J.S. Matthews, archiviste de Vancouver. Souvenirs du jubilé de Vancouver, 1946.

ISSN 2561-3529

City of Vancouver Archives. Sketch by J.S. Matthews, Archivist Vancouver. Vancouver Jubilee Souvenir, 1946. | Archives de la ville de Vancouver, croquis de J.S. Matthews, archiviste de Vancouver. Souvenirs du jubilé de Vancouver, 1946.

1 Canadian Historical Association

Reading the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Report

Lecture du rapport 2018 de la Royal Historical Society

A Word from the President

Un mot de la présidente

During the year of the year of their one hundred and fifti-eth anniversary, Britain’s Royal Historical Society’s [RHS] released a substantial investigation into the state of race, ethnicity and equality in academic history in the United Kingdom. Authored by Hannah Arkinson, Suzanne Bardgett, Adam Budd, RHS president Margot Finn, Christopher Kiss-ane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha, John Sibdon, and Sujit Sivasundaram and based on surveys and interviews with 700 UK-based historians, the report detailed how the staff and stu-dents in UK university History departments amid a moment of enormous demographic and intellectual change remained overwhelmingly and markedly white and how racialized – here defined as Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) – scholars and students in History departments had “disproportionately negative experience of teaching, training and employment.” The RHS report concludes that addressing these and related issues is both “essential for the health of the discipline” and to “enhance public understandings of the past.”1 As the one hun-dredth anniversary of the Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada in 2022 nears, it is worth reflect-ing on the RHS report and its implications for the discipline of history in Canada.

For a self-study of a venerable scholarly organization, the Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History report received signif-icant public attention and discussion. “History is too white, claim academics,” summarized the (London) Times.2 In the Guardian, Historian David Olusoga called the report’s find-ings “bleak but hardly unexpected.” “With so few BME staff in our history departments and with curriculums that, though changing, have been slow to do so, many black students reject

1 Hannah Atkinson, Suzanne Bardgett, Adam Budd, Margot Finn, Christopher Kissane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha, John Sibbon and Sujit Sivasundaram, Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Reource for Change (London, Royal Historical Society, 2018) 7, found at https://royalhistsoc.org/racereport/, accessed 22 February 2019. 2 Nicola Woolcock, “History is too white, claim academics,” The Times, 18 October 2018. For more coverage, see https://royalhistsoc.org/media-coverage-of-race-report/ and Jonathan Saha, “The RHS Race, Ethnicity & Equity Report: A Response to Critics,” History Workshop, 30 October 2018, accessed at http://www.historywork-shop.org.uk/the-rhs-race-ethnicity-equality-report-a-response-to-critics/, 1 March 2019.

Durant l’année de leur cent cinquantième anniversaire, la Royal Historical Society [RHS] de Grande-Bretagne a publié une enquête approfondie sur l’état de la race, de l’ethnicité et de l’égalité dans les départements d’histoire d’universités au Royaume-Uni. Rédigé par Hannah Arkinson, Suzanne Bardgett, Adam Budd, Margot Finn, présidente de l’RHS, Christopher Kissane, Sadiah Querishi, Jona-than Saha, John Sibdon et Sujit Sivasundaram à partir de sondages et d’entrevues avec 700 historiens du Royaume-Uni, le rapport explique en détail comment le personnel et les étudiants des départements d’histoire d’universités au Royaume-Uni, dans un contexte d’énorme changement démographique et intellectuel, sont demeurés majoritairement et explicitement blancs, et comment les universitaires et les étudiants racialisés des départements d’histoire - ici définis comme des Noirs et des minorités ethniques (NME) - avaient « une expérience négative disproportionnée d’enseigne-ment, de formation et de travail. » Le rapport de la RHS conclut qu’il est à la fois « essentiel pour le bien-être de la discipline » et pour « améliorer la compréhension du passé par le public » 1 de s’interroger sur ces questions et toutes autres questions connexes. À l’approche du centième anniversaire de la Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada en 2022, il convient de réfléchir au rapport de la RHS et à ses implications pour la disci-pline de l’histoire au Canada.

Le rapport Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History, autoanalyse d’une vénérable organisation savante, a fait l’objet d’une atten-tion et d’une discussion publiques importantes. « L’histoire est trop blanche, affirment les universitaires » résume le (London) Times. 2 Dans le Guardian, l’historien David Olusoga a qualifié les conclusions du rapport de « tristes mais guère surprenantes ». « Avec si peu d’employés NME dans nos départements d’histoire et avec des programmes qui, même s’ils s’adaptent, ont été lents à le faire, beaucoup d’étudiants noirs rejettent l’histoire comme une

1 Hannah Atkinson, Suzanne Bardgett, Adam Budd, Margot Finn, Chris-topher Kissane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha, John Sibbon et Sujit Sivasundaram, Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change (London, Royal Historical Society, 2018) 7, consulté au https://royalhistsoc.org/racereport/, consulté le 22 février 2019. 2 Nicola Woolcock, “History is too white, claim academics,” The Times, 18 octobre 2018. Pour plus de renseignements sur la couverture média-tique, voir https://royalhistsoc.org/media-coverage-of-race-report/ et Jonathan Saha, “The RHS Race, Ethnicity & Equity Report: A Response to Critics,” History Workshop, 30 octobre 2018, consulté au http://www.histo-ryworkshop.org.uk/the-rhs-race-ethnicity-equality-report-a-response-to-critics/, 1 mars 2019.

2 Société historique du Canada

history as a subject that is just not for them.”3 Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History has also begun to prompt specific responses from historians, including the modern British his-torians at Manchester University.4

The findings of the Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History suggest that we revisit questions of race, representation, and within the Canadian historical profession. These are not new questions, but they are ones that have received only inter-mittent attention. In 2006, Western University historian Alan MacEachern noted that historians of the future would “surely look back in dismay at the racial demography of the present,” noting that History “is still an almost entirely white discipline in Canada.” 5 In 2008, the CHA/SHC struck a standing committee on Equity and Diversity, giving it an expansive definition and a mandate to promote and support equity and diversity, to undertake initiatives that furthered the same, and to facilitate national-level data collection and promote public awareness about equity and diversity in the historical profession.6

In 2010, Equity and Diversity Committee member Tina Mai Chen explained the results of the committee’s survey of department chairs in the Bulletin. Response to the survey was relatively robust, with thirty-four departments responding, though only two of them were francophone and one bilingual. What the reporting departments relayed fits the pattern iden-

3 David Olusoga, “We risk losing slices of our past if we don’t root out racism in our universities,” Guardian, 21 October 2018, accessed at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/we-risk-losing-slices-of-our-history-if-we-dont-root-out-racism-in-our-unversities, 27 February 2019.4 “UofM Modern British Historians Respond to Race Report,” 27 February 2019, accessed at https://uomhistory.com/2019/02/27/uom-modern-british-historians-respond-to-the-rhs-race-report/, 1 March 2019.5 Alan MacEachern, “F is for Faculty,” University Affairs/Affaires universitaires, October 2006, accessed at https://history.uwo.ca/people/Docs/MacEachern-AcademicAlphabet.pdf, 1 March 2019.6 See Tina Mai Chen, “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity: New Ini-tiatives,” Bulletin, 36:3 (October 2010) 32-35.

matière qui n’est pas pour eux. » 3 Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History commence également à susciter des réponses spécifiques de la part d’historiens, y compris les historiens de l’histoire britannique moderne à l’Université de Manchester. 4

Les résultats de l’étude Race, Ethnicity & Equity in UK History suggèrent que nous réexaminions les questions de race et de repré-sentation, et au sein de la profession historique canadienne. Ce ne sont pas des interrogations nouvelles, mais ce sont des questions qui n’ont reçu qu’une attention épisodique. En 2006, l’historien Alan MacEachern, de l’Université Western, a fait remarquer que les historiens de l’avenir « regarderont sûrement avec consternation la démographie raciale du présent », faisant remarquer que l’his-toire « est toujours une discipline presque entièrement blanche au Canada ». 5 En 2008, la SHC a mis sur pied un comité permanent sur l’équité et la diversité, en lui donnant une définition élargie et le mandat de promouvoir et d’appuyer l’équité et la diversité, d’entre-prendre des initiatives qui vont dans ce sens, de faciliter la collecte de données à l’échelle nationale et de sensibiliser le public à l’équité et la diversité dans la profession historique. 6

En 2010, Tina Mai Chen, membre du Comité sur l’équité et la diver-sité, a expliqué les résultats du sondage mené par le comité auprès des directeurs de département dans le Bulletin. La réponse au son-dage a été relativement robuste, trente-quatre départements y ayant répondu, mais seulement deux d’entre eux étaient francophones et un bilingue. La réponse des départements correspond au modèle identifié dans le rapport de la RHS. Seulement 8 p. 100 des membres du corps professoral à temps plein appartenaient à la catégorie des minorités visibles, un nombre qui diminuait pour les cours à temps partiel qui ne comptaient que 3,6 % de minorités visibles. Seule-ment 0,1 % des professeurs à temps plein et 0,8 % des professeurs à temps partiel étaient des Autochtones, ce qui confirme l’observation de l’historienne Mary Jane Logan McCallum en 2009 selon laquelle, malgré des années d’intérêt soutenu pour l’histoire des peuples autochtones, il n’y avait « aucun professeur autochtone permanent travaillant dans un département d’histoire au Canada ». 7

Les choses ont sans doute changé depuis que ces chiffres ont été recueillis au cours de la dernière décennie quand McCallum a fait valoir son point de vue fondamental, toutefois très pointu. En mars 2019, je peux dénombrer au moins cinq professeurs autochtones

3 David Olusoga, “We risk losing slices of our past if we don’t root out rac-ism in our universities,” Guardian, 21 octobre 2018, consulté au https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/we-risk-losing-slices-of-our-history-if-we-dont-root-out-racism-in-our-unversities, 27 février 2019.4 “UofM Modern British Historians Respond to Race Report,” 27 February 2019, consulté au https://uomhistory.com/2019/02/27/uom-modern-brit-ish-historians-respond-to-the-rhs-race-report/, 1 mars 2019.5 Alan MacEachern, “F is for Faculty,” University Affairs/Affaires univer-sitaires, octobre 2006, consulté au https://history.uwo.ca/people/Docs/MacEachern-AcademicAlphabet.pdf, 1 mars 2019.6 Voir Tina Mai Chen, Equité, diversité, inclusivité : nouvelles initiatives à la SHC, Bulletin, 36:3 (octobre 2010) 32-35.7 Mary Jane Logan McCallum, “Indigenous Labor and Indigenous History,” American Indian Quarterly, 33: 4 (Fall 2009) 548.

Among the many questions raised by the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 report is the connections between declining enrollments and a discipline that does not look like the student body or the wider society it serves. Addressing these questions means not simply taking count, but thinking of the more complex ways that inclusion and exclusion have worked within history as a discipline.


tified in the RHS’ report. Only 8 percent of full-time faculty fell under the category of visible minority, a number that dropped for part-time instructions, of whom 3.6 were visible minori-ties. A mere 0.1% of full-time and .8% of part-time faculty were identified as Aboriginal, confirming historian Mary Jane Logan McCallum’s 2009 observation that that, despite years of sustained interest into the history of Indigenous people, there wasn’t “a single tenured Aboriginal professor working in any history department in Canada.”7

Things have no doubt changed in the decade since these fig-ures were gathered and McCallum made her basic but very trenchant point. In March of 2019, I can count at least five ten-ured Indigenous faculty members of history departments. But these are small and incremental changes that hardly shift the overall picture. Beyond the particulars of history departments, research into race and diversity in Canadian universities sug-gests that the pace of change remains modest in spite of the development of employment equity policies from the 1990s onwards. Using census data, interviews, and internet surveys, a team of researchers behind the 2017 book The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities found that there were substantial numbers of racialized faculty in engineering and business faculties, but a particular under-rep-resentation of them in social sciences and humanities, where their numbers fell well below their representation in the Cana-dian population as a whole.8 These findings are confirmed in a report on racialized and Indigenous academic staff and com-pensation in Canadian universities and colleges in 2016 that noted that “the academic workforce is not as diverse as wither the student body or the labour force.”9

In 2011 the CHA/SHC again surveyed department chairs about how many of their department members were women, Indigenous people, visible minorities, disabled, francaphones, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or queer (LGBTTQ). But it was hard to get department chairs to report on these questions, and the annual surveys were dropped thereafter. Writing about the Canadian Political Science Association, an organization that shares a chronology and some important similarities with the CHA/SHC, Malinda Smith notes that issues of women or gender have “stood for and often over-shadowed critical engagement with other forms of diversity in the discipline and profession for the past several decades.”10

7 Mary Jane Logan McCallum, “Indigenous Labor and Indigenous History,” American Indian Quarterly, 33: 4 (Fall 2009) 548.8 Frances Henry, James Carl, Peter Li, Audrey Kobayshi, Malinda Smith, Howard Ramos, Enakshi Dua, The Equity Myth: racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (Vancouver, UBC Books, 2017)28-31. 9 Canadian Association of University Teachers/Association cana-dinee des professeures et professeurs d’universite, “Underrepresented and underpaid: diversity and equity among Canada’s post-secondary education teachers,” April 2018, accessed at https://www.caut.ca/sites/default/files/caut_equity_report_2018-04final.pdf, 1 March 2019.10 Malinda Smith, “Disciplinary Silences: Race, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Social Sciences,” in The Equity Myth, 247.

titulaires de départements d’histoire. Mais il s’agit là de changements mineurs et progressifs qui ne modifient guère le tableau d’ensemble. Au-delà des particularités des départements d’histoire, la recherche sur la race et la diversité dans les universités canadiennes suggère que le rythme du changement demeure modeste malgré l’élaboration des politiques d’équité en matière d’emploi depuis les années 1990. À l’aide de données de recensement, d’entrevues et d’enquêtes sur Inter-net, une équipe de chercheurs à l’origine du livre The Equity Myth : Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities publié en 2017 a constaté qu’il y avait un nombre important de professeurs racialisés dans les facultés de génie et de gestion, mais une sous-représentation particulière de ces derniers en sciences sociales et humaines, dont le nombre était bien inférieur à leur représentation dans la population canadienne en général. 8 Ces constatations sont confirmées dans un rapport sur le personnel enseignant et la rémunération racialisés et autochtones dans les universités et collèges canadiens en 2016, dans lequel il est noté que « la main-d’œuvre universitaire n’est pas aussi diversifiée que le corps étudiant ou la main-d’œuvre ». 9

En 2011, la CHA/SHC a de nouveau interrogé les directeurs de département sur le nombre de femmes, d’Autochtones, de membres de minorités visibles, de personnes handicapées, de francophones, de lesbiennes, de gais, de bisexuels, de transgenres ou de queer (LGBTTQ) dans leurs départements. Mais les directeurs de dépar-tement étaient réticents à soumettre leur réponse à ces questions et les sondages annuels ont été abandonnés par la suite. Au sujet de l’Association canadienne de science politique, une organisation qui partage une chronologie et d’importantes similitudes avec la CHA/SHC, Malinda Smith note que les questions des femmes ou du genre ont « désigné et souvent éclipsé l’engagement critique envers les autres formes de diversité dans la discipline et la profession depuis plusieurs décennies ». 10 Au sein de la CHA/SHC, cela s’est accom-

8 Frances Henry, James Carl, Peter Li, Audrey Kobayshi, Malinda Smith, Howard Ramos, Enakshi Dua, The Equity Myth: racialization and Indigene-ity at Canadian Universities (Vancouver, UBC Books, 2017) 28-31. 9 Canadian Association of University Teachers/Association canadinee des professeures et professeurs d’universite, “Underrepresented and underpaid: diversity and equity among Canada’s post-secondary education teachers,” avril 2018, consulté au https://www.caut.ca/sites/default/files/caut_equity_report_2018-04final.pdf, 1 mars 2019.10 Malinda Smith, “Disciplinary Silences: Race, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Social Sciences,” dans The Equity Myth, 247.

Parmi les nombreuses questions soulevées dans le rapport 2018 de la Royal Historical Society, il y a les liens entre la baisse des inscriptions et une discipline qui ne ressemble ni à la population étudiante, ni à la société en général qu’elle dessert. Pour répondre à ces questions, il ne suffit pas de compter, il faut aussi penser aux résultats plus complexes que l’inclusion et l’exclusion ont produits dans la discipline de l’histoire.


In the CHA/SHC, this has gone alongside a historic commit-ment to bilingualism and regional representation although what this means in practice is also changing. At present, none of the CHA/SHC council members are francophones although we do have a French-Language Magazine Editor on the Executive.

Reports and policies can only do so much, and can and do pro-duce issues all of their own. British scholar Sara Ahmed writes powerfully of the traps of ‘diversity work’ in universities, explain-ing that “Equity and diversity can be used as masks to create the appearance of being transformed” and require hard, costly, and repeated labour from those most tasked with the work of diver-sity.11 This mirrors the current circumstance of some Indigenous scholars and students, who remind us of the limits and costs of hurried and often superficial efforts to Indigenize the Canadian academy.12

And surely, the patterns of race within the history profession in Canada is clear, as is some of the costs and implications of it. In the last decade, enrollment in American history departments has taken a sharp and much-discussed drop. In 2017, the American Historical Association surveyed 113 department chairs, one of them in Canada, and found the enrollment drop continuing. We don’t have equivalent data for Canadian universities, and what information we do have suggests that the drop in enrollment and in majors in Canada has not been as sharp or sustained as in the American context. But declining enrollment remain a fact of the historical community in Canada, one with serious implications for funding and, beyond that, our capacity to sustain and nour-ish a robust, relevant and lively scholarly community. Among the many questions raised by the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 report is the connections between declining enrollments and a discipline that does not look like the student body or the wider society it serves. Addressing these questions means not simply taking count, but thinking of the more complex ways that inclu-sion and exclusion have worked within history as a discipline. As the CHA/SHC nears its 100th anniversary, it is a good time to consider the state of race and equity in history departments and organizations, and think of the small and large ways that we might address who is here, who is not, and what those presences and absences have and continue to cost us.

11 This is from her blog, “Women of Colour as Diversity Workers,” 28 November 2015, accessed at https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/11/26/women-of-colour-as-diversity-workers/, 1 March 2019. Also see her On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Durham, Duke University Press, 2012).12 See, for instance, Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz, “Indigeniza-tion as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy,” AlterNative, 2018, 14: 1, 218-227.

pagné d’un engagement historique à l’égard du bilinguisme et de la représentation régionale, bien que ce que cela signifie dans la pra-tique soit également en train de changer. À l’heure actuelle, aucun des membres du Conseil de la CHA/SHC n’est francophone, bien que nous ayons un rédacteur en chef de magazine de langue fran-çaise sur l’Exécutif.

Les rapports et les politiques ont leurs limites et ils peuvent produire et produisent des problèmes qui leur sont propres. L’universi-taire britannique Sara Ahmed souligne les pièges de la « gestion de la diversité » dans les universités, expliquant que « l’équité et la diversité peuvent être utilisées comme des masques pour créer l’apparence d’être transformées » et exigent un travail dur, coûteux et répété de la part de ceux qui font la majorité du travail sur la diversité. 11 Cela reflète la situation actuelle de certains chercheurs et étudiants autochtones, qui nous rappellent les limites et les coûts des efforts hâtifs et souvent superficiels pour indigéniser l’Académie canadienne. 12

Et il est certain que les tendances raciales au sein de la profession d’historien au Canada sont claires, tout comme certains des coûts et des conséquences qui en découlent. Au cours de la dernière décen-nie, les inscriptions dans les départements d’histoire américaine ont connu une baisse marquée et très discutée. En 2017, l’American Historical Association a mené une enquête auprès de 113 directeurs de département, dont un au Canada et a constaté que la baisse du nombre d’inscriptions se poursuivait. Nous ne disposons pas de données équivalentes pour les universités canadiennes et les ren-seignements dont nous disposons portent à penser que la baisse dans le nombre d’inscriptions et de majeures au Canada n’a pas été aussi élevé ou persistant que dans le contexte américain. Mais la baisse des inscriptions demeure un fait pour la communauté histo-rique au Canada qui a de graves répercussions sur le financement et, subséquemment, sur notre capacité de soutenir et de sustenter une communauté savante solide, pertinente et vivante. Parmi les nombreuses questions soulevées dans le rapport 2018 de la Royal Historical Society, il y a les liens entre la baisse des inscriptions et une discipline qui ne ressemble ni à la population étudiante, ni à la société en général qu’elle dessert. Pour répondre à ces questions, il ne suffit pas de compter, il faut aussi penser aux résultats plus complexes que l’inclusion et l’exclusion ont produits dans la disci-pline de l’histoire. À l’approche du 100e anniversaire de la SHC, c’est le moment propice d’examiner l’état de la race et de l’équité dans les départements et autres organismes d’histoire et de réfléchir aux moyens, petits et grands, que nous pourrions prendre pour savoir qui est ici, qui ne l’est pas, et ce que ces présences et ces absences nous ont coûté et continuent à coûter.

11 De son blogue, “Women of Colour as Diversity Workers,” 28 November 2015, consulté au https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/11/26/women-of-co-lour-as-diversity-workers/, 1 mars 2019. Voir aussi On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Durham, Duke University Press, 2012).12 Voir, par example, Adam Gaudry et Danielle Lorenz, “Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy,” AlterNative, 2018, 14: 1, 218-227.


Quand cuisiner devient un devoir patriotique

Co-Editors Corédacteurs

« Women of America awake! We have a definite part to play in the greatest tragedy in the world’s history. We need not to form into Battalions of death, but into Battalions of life. Save food and we save life!1 ».

Dès les premiers mois de guerre en à l’automne 1914, les nations belligérantes vont prendre conscience de l’importance de la nourriture en temps de guerre. Elle est nécessaire pour mainte-nir le bon moral des soldats – comme le disait si bien Napoléon Bonaparte : « Une armée marche sur son estomac » – et de la population civile. Nourrir les populations devient un élément central à la politique de guerre de chaque pays. Les États, qui avaient d’abord cru à une résolution rapide du conflit – il finira avant Noël 1914, avait-on dit –, constatent en 1915 que la guerre sera plus longue que prévu. La mobilisation de l’effectif alimentaire devient donc nécessaire pour subvenir aux besoins de l’armée et de la population de l’arrière. Commence alors les interminables files d’attente engendrée par la mise en place de politiques très strictes de rationnement. Sur le « home front » la guerre est plutôt celle du « pain et des pommes de terre » que celle des munitions et de l’acier explique l’historienne Tammy Proctor2.

Les habitudes alimentaires et culinaires changent donc consi-dérablement par rapport au temps d’avant-guerre. Plusieurs aliments disparaissent des marchées et sont remplacés par des produits substituts. Le coût des aliments doubles, voire même triples selon l’endroit. Les mères, ces reines de la cuisine, doivent donc faire preuve d’ingéniosité pour continuer à nourrir adé-quatement leurs familles. Pour leur venir en aide, des livres de recettes sont spécialement conçus pour répondre aux besoins du temps de guerre. On y retrouve non seulement des recettes modifiées pour correspondre aux nouvelles conditions, mais également des conseils pratiques sur les substitutions d’aliments ou sur les nutriments nécessaires pour une saine alimentation. Rapidement, cuisiner, ou du moins savoir cuisiner avec moins, devient un devoir patriotique pour les femmes. Le Win-the-War Cookery Book explique aux femmes anglaises : « Women of Bri-tain… Our soldiers are beating the Germans on land. Our sailors are beating them on the sea. You can beat them in the larder and the kitchen 3 ».

Lorsque les États-Unis entrent en guerre en 1917, le besoin de denrées alimentaires en Europe est urgent. Conscient de l’im-1 Reah Jeannette Lynch, « Win the War » Cook Book, St. Louis County Unit Woman’s Committee Council of National Defense, Missouri Divi-sion, 1918, p. 7.2 Tammy Proctor, « Constructing Home Fronts », Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918, NYU Press, 2010 p. 86.3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25245899

portance de l’approvisionnement alimentaire des armées pour gagner le conflit, le gouvernement encourage la population à éco-nomiser la nourriture afin d’exporter le plus de denrées possible en Europe afin de nourrir les soldats américains et alliés. Herbert Hoover, nouvellement nommé Food Administrator rappel aux Américains : « Food will win the war » et ils doivent prouver leur américanisme en mangeant moins 4. Le président Woodrow Wil-son va même jusqu’à comparer le devoir des femmes à la cuisine à celui des hommes aux fronts : « Every housewife who practises strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation 5 ». Le message semble être entendu par les femmes amé-ricaines qui deviennent la nouvelle « armée de la cuisine ».

Mais que mange-t-on en temps de guerre? En regardant une dizaine de livres de recettes de guerre publiés aux États-Unis entre 1917 et 1918 (disponibles sur le site archives.org), il est possible de dresser un portrait culinaire d’une famille américaine pendant le conflit. Afin d’économiser sur la nourriture, on met en place les « Meatless Mondays » et les « Wheatless Wednesdays ». On doit également limiter l’utilisation des gras et du sucre. À première vue, rien de très compliqué : on n’a qu’à devenir végétarien d’un jour et adopter une diète sans gluten… Mais n’oublions pas qu’à cette époque les supermarchés ne commencent qu’à faire leur apparition dans les grandes villes américaines et que les aliments nécessaires à ces changements de diètes ne sont pas toujours à la portée de la main6. Les livres de recettes proposent donc une liste de substitutions possibles ainsi que des trucs simples dans le but de faciliter la transition. On remplace le beurre ordinaire par du gras animal – « chicken fat makes good pastry7 » –; on substitue la viande par des fèves – « they have the same food value as meat if used with milk 8 » –; on mange beaucoup de pommes de terre – « Our government asks us to eat potato to save wheat 9 » –; et on n’oublie surtout pas de réutiliser l’eau dans lequel on fait bouillir nos légumes afin de faire de bonnes soupes – « The water in which cabbage has been cooked requires only the addition of a little milk, butter and thickening to furnish an agreeable thin soup 10 ».

4 Celia M. Kingsbury, For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, University of Nebraska Press, 2010, p. 191.5 Mabel Dulon Purdy, Food and Freedom. A Household Book, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1918.6 Tracey Deutch, Building a Housewife’s Paradise. Gender, Politics and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century, The University of North Carolina Press, 2010, p. 43.7 Twentieth Century Club War Time Cook Book, Pittsburgh, Pierpont Siviter & Co, 1918.8 Reah Jeannette Lynch, « Win the War » Cook Book, published by St. Louis County Unit Woman’s Committee Council of National Defense, Missouri Division, 1918, p. 37.9 Ibid., p. 83.10 Ibid., p. 74.


Les Américaines sont plus chanceuses que leurs cousines euro-péennes lorsque vient le temps de parler de nourriture pendant la Grande Guerre. Les combats se déroulant de l’autre côté de l’océan Atlantique et l’entrée en guerre tardive des États-Unis jouent en leur faveur. Elles n’auront jamais à traverser « l’hi-ver des navets » (nommé parce que le navet est le seul aliment encore disponible en grande quantité) qu’ont vécu les Alle-mandes en 1916-1917. Elles n’auront pas non plus à créer des réseaux de contrebande de pomme de terre comme les femmes belges afin de nourrir leur famille. Il n’en reste pas moins que la guerre change considérablement la relation qu’entretiennent les Américaines avec la nourriture et la cuisine. La nourriture n’a peut-être pas permis de gagner la guerre, mais en ayant un impact direct sur le moral des populations, elle a sans doute joué un rôle important dans le déroulement du conflit.

L’arrivée des années 1920, ces « années folles », marque le début d’un temps nouveau pour cuisinières américaines. Une fois la guerre terminée, on se permet quelques nouveaux petits plai-sirs : les Eskimo Pies (1919), les barres de chocolats Oh Henry ! et Nestlé (1920), les Gummy Bears (1922), les Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1923), les popsicles (1923), la salade César (1924), etc. On assiste également à la popularisation des mets chinois et mexicains (la compagnie Old El Paso est fondée au Nouveau-Mexique en 1917) ainsi qu’à l’arrivée des préparations rapides qui facilitent la vie de plusieurs ménagères : la soupe en poudre et les premières préparations de gâteau instantanées Betty Croc-ker voient toutes deux le jour au début des années 1920.

Marie-Michèle Doucet Secrétaire de la langue française Professeure adjointe, Collège militaire royal du Canada

En plus des « Patriotic Salads », des « War Breads » (à ne pas confondre avec le K-Brot allemand qui consiste principalement de farine de pomme de terre) et les variétés infinies de « War Cakes » — la surutilisation des adjectifs à connotation guerrière est particulièrement frappante –, nous retrouvons plusieurs recettes qui permettent de satisfaire celui ou celle qui a une petite fringale à l’américaine. En effet, à une époque où les familles doivent introduire de nouveaux aliments à leur vie quotidienne (de nouvelles sortes de poissons ou coupes de viandes, du « War Butter » – qui consiste d’une ½ livre de beurre, d’une cuillère à soupe de gélatine et d’une ½ livre de lait –, l’utilisation inha-bituelle de légumineuses, etc.), il ne faut pas se surprendre de retrouver quelques classiques de la cuisine traditionnelle améri-caine dans les livres de recettes 11.

« Apple Pie », « Corn Bread », « War French Fried Potato », « Fruit Cake », « Macarony and cheese », « Doughnut » sont quelques-uns des plats réconfortants qui sont proposés. Justement, les « doughnut », déjà présents aux États-Unis avant la guerre, doivent leur grande popularité à la Première Guerre mondiale alors qu’on fait la distribution de ses beignets aux milliers de soldats américains ayant le mal du pays luttant dans les tranchées françaises. Ils reviendront au pays avec un nouvel amour pour ce qui est devenu « America’s favorite treat »12.11 Laura Brehaut, « A taste of the familiar in First World War-era foods », September 12, 2014.http://ww1.canada.com/home-front/a-taste-of-the-familiar-in-first-world-war-era-foods12 David A. Taylor, « The History of Doughnut. A look back at the men, women and machines that made America’s favorite treat possible », March 1998. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-the-doughnut-150405177/?no-ist

L’arrivée des années 1920, ces « années folles », marque le début d’un temps nouveau pour cuisinières américaines. Une fois la guerre termi-née, on se permet quelques nouveaux petits plaisirs ...


Co-Editors Corédacteurs

I suspect that many of you have been asked to promote our pro-fession recently. I, for one, have never been a “natural” at “selling” history. One of the reasons that I chose the historical profession is because the world of “hard knocks” and “hard sells” never appealed to me. That being said, I understand the neo-liberal world in which we live, which has collapsed the epistemolog-ical distinction between economy and society. The market is everywhere and our “industry” is under tremendous economic pressure. In Ontario, the Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford recently announced that it will be cutting funding to the province’s universities and colleges. But perhaps that is the least of our worries. We have seen a decline in our enrolments since 2008. A decade ago we offered three first-year survey courses in Canadian history at Carleton University. Each class was capped at 180 students. We still offer three classes today, but now they are capped at 80. And, sometimes, our enrolment does not even reach the lowered limit.

But this is not just a Carleton problem. It is not even solely a Canadian problem. In the United States, history majors are also vanishing. According to the most recent federal data, the num-ber of history degrees conferred in the US has fallen from 34,642 in 2008 to 24,266 in 2017. That is a thirty percent drop. To be sure, we have gone through this kind of hollowing out before. During the period from 1969 to 1985, history’s share of majors dropped by 66 percent, but that decline followed a period of rapid enrolment expansion. This time it is different.

So why are students avoiding majoring in history? Accord-ing to Northeastern University’s Benjamin M. Schmidt, who has recently examined the matter, students are entering those programs that appear to have higher job prospects rather than following their academic interests. “Students and their parents seem to be thinking a lot more that they need to major in some-thing practical, [something that is] likely to get them a job at the back end,” states Schmidt. The emphasis on Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering and Mathematics education, he adds, has also resulted in an increasing number of students moving away from the humanities in hopes of graduating with a degree that will secure them more financially-rewarding job.

Some American universities have attempted to change the pub-lic’s perception that a history degree has little “real world” value

by spotlighting the achievements of a number of “great” history grads. At the University of Miami, for example, the campus’s paths are lined with lawn signs featuring the images of former history majors who have gone on to “greater things.” Below the headshots of Conan O’Brien, Ivanka Trump, Martha Stewart, Brian Moynihan (the CEO of the Bank of America), Kenneth Chenault (the former CEO of American Express) and others reads the tagline, “History Major.” The promotional material captures the fact that history majors go on to a variety of reward-ing careers and in many cases our graduates move up the ranks of their respective fields faster than their non-history major counterparts. In addition, according to data from the Univer-sity of Texas, history majors appear to make more than many other majors – including English, psychology, sociology and even a number of biology-based majors, after adjusting for the university that they attended. Ultimately, Schmidt says, whether through majors or course enrolments, “the long-term state of the discipline will rest on how it adapts to a cohort of students --

and their parents – who are much less receptive to arguments for the liberal arts than previous generations have been.”

I don’t disagree with this, but I think it is also important to keep telling potential students and their parents that success in the world of academe is often based on interest. In 2005, the late Steve Jobs gave a commencement

address at Stanford University where he advised the graduating class to pursue their own passions. As a student at Read Col-lege, Jobs had dropped out after the first semester because he was uninspired by the courses that he was taking. But he stayed at Read College, sleeping on his friends’ floors, returning coke bottles for pocket change and, once a week, making the five-mile trek across town to the Hare Krishna church for a free meal. All the while he was dropping in on those classes that he found interesting. One of these classes was calligraphy. Many of his colleagues at the time were unimpressed. What can one possi-ble do of value with a knowledge of calligraphy? But it was Jobs who had the last laugh because when the first Apple computer appeared ten years later, it was distinguished in part by its mul-tiple typefaces and proportional spacing between the text. Jobs had no idea that this is how things would turn out. He was sim-ply following his passion, believing that someday all of the dots would connect to produce a string of successes.

There are many good reasons to study history, but perhaps the most important to impress on those who show up to recruiting events is that interest leads to success. It is a lot easier to succeed at university when you are passionate about something.

Matt Bellamy, English Language Secretary

Selling History

There are many good reasons to study history, but perhaps the most important to impress on those who show up to recruiting events is that interest leads to success. It is a lot easier to succeed at university when you are passionate about something.


• Creating a Travel Assistance Fund, financed in part by members’ donations, to help students and/or underemployed historians present a paper or participate in a panel at the CHA Annual Meeting following the cancellation of SSHRC’s Aid and Attendance Grants to Scholarly Associations in 2013.

• Updating the CHA website twice to better serve its members and the community at large.

• Providing a Child Care Grant to members presenting at the CHA Annual Meeting.

• Creating an Accessibility Fund to help CHA members with reduced mobility, to attend sessions at its Annual meeting.

• Creating a Digital Communication Project Fund that is used to assist history students and historians who are precar-iously employed with projects/events that will enhance the digital scholarly communication of history in Canada.

• Creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission-Related Fund to help organisations in the country that have either formed task forces and/or drafted plans of action in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action included in its 2015 Final Report.

• Continuing to support our Affiliated Committees by host-ing some committees’ websites and incorporating them in the CHA website.

I do hope that the membership votes in favour of the proposed membership fee schedule so that the CHA can continue to foster the scholarly study and communication of history in Canada. Thank you for your unwavering support.

Michel Duquet Executive Director

News from 130 Albert

Nouvelles du 130 Albert

The CHA is getting ready for yet another Annual Meeting, this time at the University of British Colombia in beautiful Vancou-ver. The meeting promises to be intellectually stimulating and enriching. You will be able to attend, amongst 100 or so sessions, the Keynote that will be delivered by Allan Greer as well as Adele Perry’s Presidential Address.

At this year’s Annual Meeting, the CHA will also have its AGM. And it is especially important for the members to attend this year because there will be a vote on a proposed increase in mem-bership dues. Please see below:

As you will have noted, these increases are minimal given that there has not been a rise in membership costs in 6 years, 7 years if you consider that the new fee schedule will take effect only in 2020. Since 2013, membership dues have supported the numer-ous activities taken on behalf of the historical community by:

INDIVIDUAL Fee 2013-2019

Proposed Fee for 1 year starting in 2020

Proposed Fee for 3-year package 1st year

2nd year (-5%)

3rd year (-10%)

Total for 3-year membership

Students $45 $50 $50 $47 $45 $142

$49,999 and under $60 $70 $70 $66 $63 $199

$50,000 to $74,999 $115 $135 $135 $128 $121 $384

$75,000 to $99,999 $155 $180 $180 $171 $162 $511

$100,000 to $149,000 $195 $230 $230 $218 $207 $655

$150,000 and Over (NEW) ------ $260 $260 $247 $234 $741

Sustaining $250 $300 $300 $285 $270 $855

INSTITUTIONAL Proposed Fee 2013-2019

Proposed Fee Starting in 2020

Societies $100 $125

Academic Departments $150 $200

Institutions $200 $250

Partner Institutions (NEW) (with up to 5 memberships)

----- $1,000

A Modest Proposal


News from 130 Albert

Nouvelles du 130 Albert

• La création d’un Fonds d’aide au déplacement pour aider à subventionner les frais de déplacement d’étudiants ou de nou-veaux chercheurs-conférenciers dans le besoin à notre réunion annuelle suite à l’élimination du programme Aide et subventions de voyage aux sociétés savantes (ASVSS) du CRSH en 2013.

• Les deux mises à jour du site Web de la SHC pour mieux servir ses membres et la communauté d’historiens en général.

• La création d’un programme de subventions pour la garde d’enfants aux membres qui offrent une communication à la réunion annuelle de la SHC.

• La création d’un fonds accessibilité pour aider les membres de la SHC à mobilité réduite d’assister aux sessions de sa Réu-nion annuelle.

• La création d’un fonds de projet de communication numé-rique pour aider les étudiants et historiens qui occupent un emploi précaire à lancer un projet ou une activité qui stimulera la communication savante numérique en histoire au Canada.

• La création d’un fonds lié à la Commission Vérité et Récon-ciliation pour appuyer diverses organisations au pays qui ont soit constitué des groupes de travail et / ou rédigé des plans d’action en réponse aux appels à l’action de la Commission vérité et réconciliation du Canada qui sont inclus dans son rapport final de 2015.

• L’appui continue envers nos comités affiliés en hébergeant cer-tains sites Web de comités et en les incorporant au site Web de la SHC.

J’espère que les membres voteront en faveur du barème proposé pour les cotisations, de sorte que la SHC puisse continuer à favo-riser l’étude scientifique et la communication de l’histoire au Canada. Merci pour votre soutien indéfectible.

Michel Duquet Directeur général

La SHC se prépare pour une autre réunion annuelle, cette fois à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, dans la belle ville de Vancouver. La réunion promet d’être stimulante et enrichissante sur le plan intellectuel. Vous pourrez assister, parmi une cen-taine de sessions, au discours liminaire qui sera prononcé par Allan Greer, ainsi qu’au discours présidentiel d’Adele Perry.

Lors de la Réunion annuelle de cette année, la SHC tiendra également sa Réunion générale des membres annuelle. Et il est particulièrement important que les membres soient présents cette année, car nous procéderons à un vote sur l’augmentation proposée des frais d’adhésion des membres. Voir ci-dessous :

Comme vous l’aurez noté, ces augmentations sont minimes étant donné qu’il n’y a pas eu d’augmentation des coûts d’adhé-sion en 6 ans, 7 ans si vous considérez que le nouveau barème des cotisations n’entrera en vigueur qu’en 2020. Depuis 2013, les cotisations des membres supportent la nombreuses activités prises au nom de la communauté historique dont :

INSTITUTIONSFrais

d’adhésion 2013-2019

Frais d’adhésion proposés

débutant en 2020

Sociétés 100 $ 125 $

Départements scolaires 150 $ 200 $

Institutions 200 $ 250 $

Institutions partenaires (NOUVEAU) (jusqu’à cinq adhésions)

----- 1,000 $

Une proposition plutôt modeste

PARTICULIERS Frais d’adhésion 2013-2019

Frais d’adhésion pour un an

débutant en 2020

Frais d’adhésion pour 3 ans 1e année

2e année (-5%)

3e année (-10%)

Total pour une adhésion de 3 ans

Étudiants 45 $ 50 $ 50 $ 47 $ 45 $ 142 $

49,999 $ ou moins 60 $ 70 $ 70 $ 66 $ 63 $ 199 $

50,000 $ à 74,999 $ 115 $ 135 $ 135 $ 128 $ 121 $ 384 $

75,000 $ à 99,999 $ 155 $ 180 $ 180 $ 171 $ 162 $ 511 $

100,000 $ à 149,000 $ 195 $ 230 $ 230 $ 218 $ 207 $ 655 $

150,000 $ et plus (NOUVEAU) ------ 260 $ 260 $ 247 $ 234 $ 741 $

Sustaining 250 $ 300 $ 300 $ 285 $ 270 $ 855 $


News from Affiliated Committees

Nouvelles des Comités associés

Once again, the CHA’s Affiliated Committees have submitted their annual overview of comings and goings, awards and events. We present this information in the language(s) of choice of each committee, and we include almost every tidbit of information received. We hope you will appreciate the reports that follow and let the committees know what you would like to be included in terms of news next year.

Encore une fois, les Comités associés de la SHC nous offrent une vue d’ensemble de leurs allées et venues, prix et activités. Nous publions les renseignements que les comités nous ont données, et ce, dans la(es) langue(s) de leur choix et nous avons inclus toute l’information soumise, dans ses plus petits détails. Nous espérons que vous apprécierez les rapports qui suivent et ferez part des informations que vous aimeriez lire l’année prochaine.

(In alphabetIcal order | par ordre alphabétIque)

canadIan InternatIonal hIstory commIttee - comIté d’hIstoIre InternatIonale du canada

The Canadian International His-tory Committee (CIHC) serves as a discussion network open to scholars, pol-icymakers, authors, historians and others interested in the history of Canadian for-eign relations, both governmental and non-governmental, from any time period or disciplinary focus. With generous

assistance from the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary Inter-national History, the network has an electronic home at https://cihhic.ca. The Committee and its members have formed research partnerships with the Canadian Foreign Intelligence History Project (CFIHP) (http://carleton.ca/csids/canadian-foreign-in-telligence-history-project/) and the Canada Declassified project (https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca). The latter project is a digital repository of government records declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act that spans the whole of the Cold War period. The records, and accompanying “brief-ing books” maintained on the website are open-access and fully available to students and scholars around the world. The Com-mittee also maintains its active blog site Canadian Eyes Only, which focuses on new sources, the state of the field, new and forthcoming publications, and historical reflections on contem-porary issues. Persons interested in contributing to the project should contact the editorial team at [email protected]. Finally, the CIHC will also be holding its annual business meet-ing during the CHA Annual Meeting in Vancouver this coming spring. Those interested in international history with a Canadian angle are encouraged to come out or to sign-up any time online at: http://cihhic.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?

Le Comité d’histoire internationale du Canada (CHIC) est un réseau de discussion ouvert à tous ceux – érudits, auteurs, his-

toriens, responsables de politiques ou autres – qui s’intéressent à l’histoire des relations étrangères canadiennes, tant gouverne-mentales que non-gouvernementales, de n’importe quelle période ou de toute discipline. Avec l’aide généreuse du Centre Bill Gra-ham pour l’histoire internationale contemporaine, le CHIC maintien une présence virtuelle sur son site Web: https://cihhic.ca. Le Comité et ses membres ont également formé des partena-riats de recherche avec le Projet sur l’histoire du renseignement étranger du Canada (PHREC): http://carleton.ca/csids/cana-dian-foreign-intelligence-history-project/, et le projet Canada Declassified (https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca). Ce dernier projet est un dépôt numérique des documents gouvernementaux déclassifiés qui couvre toute la période de la Guerre froide. Les documents sont disponibles en vertu de la Loi canadienne d’ac-cès à l’information. Les archives et les « dossiers d’information » conservés sur le site Web sont en accès libre et entièrement dispo-nibles pour les étudiants et les universitaires du monde entier. Le comité a également géré leur blogue intitulé Canadian Eyes Only qui met l’accent sur les nouvelles sources, l’état de ce domaine de recherche, des publications nouvelles et futures et des réflexions historiques sur des questions contemporaines. Les personnes intéressées à contribuer au projet peuvent communiquer avec l’équipe éditoriale @ [email protected]. Enfin, le CIHC tien-dra son assemblée générale annuelle lors de l’assemblée annuelle de la SHC à Vancouver, au printemps prochain. Les personnes intéressées à l’histoire internationale dans une perspective cana-dienne sont encouragées à venir ou à s’inscrire en ligne au http://cihhic.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?

~ Submitted by | soumis par Kevin Brushett

canadIan commIttee on labour hIstory | comIté canadIen sur l’hIstoIre du travaIl

The Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) would like to formally acknowledge the work of Charles Smith, Joan Sangster, Andrea Samoil, Christo Aivalis, and all others who assisted in organizing our conference “Re-Working Class: Setting A New Agenda for Canadian Labour and Working-Class His-tory,” held over two inspiring days in Saskatoon in October, 2018.

The conference was intergenerational, interdisciplinary, educa-tional, and a hell of a lot of fun. As one participant wrote in a note of thanks to the organizers, “people particularly appreci-ated the cooperative, collaborative atmosphere… If we want to encourage labour history/studies, working to create a commu-nity is key. Academic life for graduate students in general and for all of us who talk about class is marked these days by dis-respect and indifference, and that’s corrosive. What struck me




at the conference is that people want opportunities to talk and share and support each other.” The conference was so successful that the CCLH intends to organize future conferences exploring labour and working-class history on a biennial basis.

Many CCLH members will attend and present at the “Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference” in May 2019; at “Femi-nism, History, and Theory” at Trent University in Peterborough in June 2019 which will celebrate the work of Joan Sangster; and at “Labour and the Canadian Carceral State” in March 2020 at Brock University in St. Catharines.

The CCLH would also like to acknowledge the range and quality of work submitted to our annual article prize and the Eugene Forsey graduate and undergraduate prizes. Thanks go to jury members for all three prizes for their efforts in selecting this year’s winners.

The Canadian Committee on Labour History’s 2018 article prize is awarded to Robert Tremblay’s “La grève générale des charpen-tiers-menuisiers de Montréal, 1833-1834 : réévaluation d’un acte fondateur autour du concept de légitimité,” Labour / Le Travail 81 (Spring 2018): 9-52.

Jury citation: “Tremblay’s reassessment of the 1833-4 gen-eral strike of carpenters and joiners in Montreal shows that the issues at stake went beyond demands for a ten-hour day; rather, it was part of an ideological ‘war of position’ between workers committed to moral-economy traditions of mutuality and an encroaching liberal order. Drawing on an impressive range of archival sources and situating this labour conflict in the contested politics of 1830s Lower Canada, Tremblay offers new insight into the nature of class struggle in this moment of economic transition and makes a significant contribution to Canadian historiography.”

~Submitted by Kirk Niergarth

canadIan commIttee on Women’s hIstory | comIté canadIen de l’hIstoIre des femmes

Co-Chairs, Lara Campbell and Willeen Keough, Simon Fraser University; Associate Chair, Heather Stanley, Vancouver Island University

The Canadian Committee on Women’s History– Le Comité can-adien de l’histoire des femmes (CCWH-CCHF) has had an active

year. Vancouver was the location of the most recent meeting for the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, and we were delighted to play hosts to our colleagues from around the world. Many of our members presented at this conference. A member of our executive, Andrea Eidinger, wrote up some reflec-tions on the IFRWH conference for her blog Unwritten Histories, which you can read here: http://bit.ly/UHpostIFRWH. Another change this year is our new blog, which replaces our former news-letter and features posts relating to topics of interest from across the country. The blog is online at: http://bit.ly/CCWHblog.

At the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) meeting last year in Regina, Saskatchewan, our organization sponsored a panel on “Diversity and Motherhood: Debating Family Life in Canada, 1960s-1980s”, and our members also presented their work on dis-tinct women’s and gender history topics as part of several other panels. At this meeting, the CCWH-CCHF also presented several of our members with awards for work published in 2018. We were delighted to present Gail G. Campbell with the CCWH-CCHF Book Prize for her work ‘I Wish to Keep a Record’: Nineteenth-Cen-tury New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World. Sophie Doucet’s article in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, “Sur le chemin du paradis : les joies d’aimer, de croire et de s’accomplir de Marie-Louise Globensky (1849-1919)”, and Meghan Longs-taffe’s Canadian Historical Review article “Indigenous Women as Newspaper Representations: Violence and Action in 1960s Vancouver” won the French and English language Hilda Neatby Prizes, respectively. CCWH-CCHF members also won several of the CHA-wide prizes. In addition, also at the CHA, we hosted our annual reception at the Mackenzie Art Gallery; the reception is always a highlight of the conference as we take time to socialize with each other and celebrate our members who published books during the previous year.

We are looking ahead to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this coming spring, which will also be held in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. In addition to sponsoring panels, the CCWH-CCHF will be hosting a keynote address delivered by Valerie Korniek, who recently published Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985.

~ Compiled by Madeline Knickerbocker (IFRWH Representa-tive), submitted by Willeen Keough

canadIan netWork on humanItarIan hIstory (cnhh)

This was the first year for the CNHH as an officially affiliated committee of the CHA, and it was an active one. The CNHH has




two main areas of focus. The first is to further the study of the his-tory of humanitarianism and development assistance by building collaborations within Canada and internationally. The second is to make connections between academics and practitioners to pre-serve the written documentation and memories of the important organizations and movements related to this history.

In December, Carleton University, in collaboration with the CNHH, hosted a celebration of the university’s 45-year history of involvement in the Chilean diaspora with an art exhibition and film screening. Carleton University’s Department of History and the CNHH also hosted two visiting scholars, Kevin O’Sullivan of NUI, Galway and Valérie Gorin of the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action of the University of Geneva during the spring months.

At the CHA Annual Meeting in June, there were two main highlights. The first was our sponsored panel, “Histories of Human-itarianism and (Visual) Media,” featuring four papers. A recording of this panel can be found on our website. Closely related to the theme of this panel, member Sonya de Laat, along with the CNHH and Migration and Diaspora Studies at Carleton, has launched a website entitled “Visual Histories of Canadian Aid to Refugees and Displaced People Abroad.” This was a CNHH common project, aimed at pooling the resources of the network, and suggestions, comments, or contributions are welcome. You can find it at http://aidhistoryphotography.weebly.com/. The second highlight of Congress was the fifth annual meeting of the CNHH. In person and via Skype, twelve people attended our day-long meeting and workshop, which explored the work of the committee as well as individual projects of members and potential future collaborations.

To further our goal of creating collaborations between academia and practitioners, the CNHH has also launched an archival rescue project. Working with Hunter McGill of the University of Ottawa, the CNHH put out a call for the papers of former officials and prac-titioners in the field of international development. The Archives and Research Collections (ARC) at Carleton is processing these archives. This will add to the work that the CNHH has done already in helping to create the John William Foster fonds at ARC.

During our meeting in Regina, we also invited Yorsdanos Tes-farmariam of the Multicultural Council of Saskatchean (MCoS) to speak. Tesfarmariam shared the history of the MCoS, includ-ing pictures and publications from the organization’s past. This led to a conversation about the preservation of documents, and now the CNHH is helping the MCoS transfer its collection to an archive in Regina. Planning is now underway for this year’s workshop in British Columbia.

Finally, we have continued our online presence at aidhistory.ca, publishing about a dozen original blogs over the past year. If you would like to read these blogs, join our network or learn more

about the abovementioned topics, please visit aidhistory.ca and fol-low us on Facebook @aidhistorycanada or Twitter @aidhistorycan.~ Submitted by Jill Campbell-Miller

Graduate student commIttee | comIté des étudIant(e)s dIplomé(e)s

We would like to start by thanking Jessica DeWitt (University of Saskatchewan) and Mark Currie (University of Ottawa) for their wonderful work for the Graduate Student Committee/le Comité des étudiant(e)s diplomé(e)s (GSC-CÉD). Their efforts to bolster our online presence—within particularly limited means—were such admirable additions to the committee’s executive!

Happily, the roundtable on Becoming a Historian that the GSC-CÉD sponsored at Congress 2018 at the University of Regina has resulted in renewed efforts, now led by Dr Jenny Ellison (Cana-dian Museum of History), for the handbook to better reflect on and respond to the contemporary realities of emerging scholars. These updates will offer much-needed advice for, support to, and collaboration amongst historians across the professional spectrum.

This year, we are happy to announce our sponsored panel for Con-gress at the University of British Columbia. “Graduate Students & Bucking Conservatism: Finding our Histories in a Conserva-tive Narrative” will look at graduate student experiences with the upcoming edited collection, Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta in the 1960s and 1970s.

Alongside Carly Ciufo (McMaster University), Kassandra Luciuk (University of Toronto) has been co-chair since the summer of 2018, Trevor Stace (Wilfrid Laurier University) has continued his wonderful work as treasurer for the committee, and Eriks Bre-dovskis (University of Toronto) joined us to focus on making our website and social media platforms more useful to our graduate student members. Our largest focus has been on sorting out our administrative and financial position so that we can hand things off to the next executive team for the GSC-CÉD in good order. At noon on Monday June 3, we will have our business meeting during Congress. If you are interested in applying for a position on the committee’s executive as Carly, Kassandra, and Trevor end their terms, please be sure to put your name forward in advance of that meeting. You can do so by emailing Carly at [email protected].

In the meantime, please follow the GSC-CÉD online for updates as they become available and we look forward to seeing every-one at Congress in June!

~ Submitted by Carly Cuifo




IndIGenous hIstory Group | Groupe d’étude d’hIstoIre autochtone

At our annual meeting in May, our committee’s discussion focused on renewing our membership and working towards strengthening our community. We placed an emphasis on cul-tivating mentorship and collegiality, especially by creating opportunities to engage with each other in the period between our meetings. Though over the past few years our work has con-tinued through our prizes, the organizing of panels and special events during the annual meeting, the composition of the com-mittee has been somewhat fluid.

To strengthen the relationships between members on this commit-tee, we have reinvigorated our Facebook group (we now have 78 members!) and are working to create other ongoing forums within which the group can interact. At next year’s general meeting, we intend to shift the focus away from a business-oriented program (i.e. navel gazing about the structure of the group) and instead use the meeting to discuss issues facing the field. We are also work-ing to provide a light lunch so that members are not torn between attending and eating. Additionally, working with the Public His-tory Committee John Lutz has organized a full-day tour of Sto:lo territory with Sto:lo knowledge keeper Sonny McHalsie. This will take place on 6 June (the day following the closure of CHA 2019).

These changes build upon the ongoing work of the committee. We would like to thank our outgoing chair, Jennifer Pettit, for her five years of service as well as Liam Haggarty for his role in coordinating the group. Likewise, we greatly appreciate the work Kristin Burnett, Whitney Lackenbauer, Maureen Lux, Thomas Peace, and Paige Raibmon put into adjudicating this year’s prizes. This year’s sponsored panel was entitled The Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) First World War: Diverse Legacies and Meanings and was composed of papers delivered by Eugene Brave Rock, James Dempsey, Will Pratt, and Cindy Provost; special thanks to Ted Binnema for chairing the session. Shortly, we will be releasing a call for members willing to adjudicate our committee’s two prizes for the best book and article published in the field of Indigenous history in 2018. If you work in this field, please consider serving in this capacity. Members of the book adjudication committee need to have published a book themselves to be considered.

This year, we’ve divided responsibility for the group’s work. Thomas Peace has agreed to serve as a coordinator between our

diverse projects. You can contact him about the committee’s work at [email protected]. Several members who attended the meeting in May have also agreed to take on specific tasks to ensure the work of the committee continues. As we work to build the commu-nity around our committee, it is a great time to get involved. We would love to hear your thoughts about our committee’s work.

~ Submitted by Thomas Peace

medIa & communIcatIons hIstory commIttee | comIté de l’hIstoIre des médIas et de la communIcatIon

The Media & Communications History Committee is a small group of scholars but a group that sustains several activities. First on its web page (https://mchc-chmc.journalism.ryerson.ca/), the MCHC regularly updates an extensive bibliography and source list on materials in Canadian media history. Secondly, the Committee encourages graduate students to pursue media history by offering an annual essay prize for the best submission of a paper in field, by a graduate student, at the annual meeting of the CHA. Finally, from time to time, the MCHC will sponsor a session at the CHA’s Annual meeting. The Committee is always open to new members.

~ Submitted by Mark McGowan

polItIcal hIstory Group | Groupe d’hIstoIre polItIque

The Political History Group/Groupe d’histoire politique aims to promote and support research in Political history and the study of Political history in Canada. It considers “Political his-tory” in very broad terms, and encourages 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.

In 2019 we are hosting a CHA roundtable called “Changing the Conversation on Political History: Women Scholars and Left History”. We will also be offering prizes for the best book and best French-language article.

The PHG welcomes new members, especially graduate stu-dents. Anyone wishing to join should contact Stéphane Savard at [email protected] or check out our website at http://chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/phg-ghp/.

~ Submitted by Stéphane Savard


Graduate Students

Étudiants aux cycles supérieurs

It’s 7 pm on a Friday night. It’s cold, dark, and probably raining.

I’m a couple of months into my research trip in Liverpool. Although there’ve been a few hiccups, everything’s going really well. People are interested in my research. They want to talk to me, sometimes for hours on end. Nearly everyone I’ve reached out to has been gen-erous with their knowledge of the city and the people who live here.

Between archive visits and exhibit walkthroughs, I talk to people. Sometimes these oral history interviews are nicely spaced out, giv-ing me the opportunity to spend a few dedicated hours with one person a day. After these meetings, I get to go home to transcribe the chat and reflect on the day that’s been. Other days, I’m struggling to give everyone the attention they deserve. Running from someone’s flat to get to my next meeting at a museum office in the city centre before then grabbing an evening train to get myself to London for another day full of meetings ... I’m lucky if I get to bed in time for a full night’s rest before I start it all over again the next morning.

My only break in this schedule comes on Friday night. Without fail, I find myself happily at home in my L1 attic apartment (postal codes are the best way to understand this city’s geography), wait-ing in front of my computer for my weekly call with Danielle Kinsey (Carleton University) and Jo McCutcheon (University of Ottawa). Sure, to be an intellectually stimulating half-hour con-versation, it’ll also be a really productive one full of laughter. When we started these calls back in November, they were usually province-wide calls. Now transcontinental, they’re still full of the kind of humour that I don’t think any of us thought possible for an academic service kind of meeting. And that might be part of why we keep prioritizing them.

Maybe I should be out at a pub. I could go experience some of the nightlife that this new-to-me university town has to offer. And the restaurant scene here does have some pretty delicious meals on offer. But, when it all comes down to it, I’d rather be wrapped up in a blanket—off screen, of course—and on this call.

With its focus on the teaching and learning portfolio that I co-hold with Danielle and Jo, we brainstorm how to best direct our work at the CHA to better highlight teaching, learning, and pedagogy by historians in history classrooms across the country. We’re really proud of the developments that are coming together, especially as we get ready to release them.

The benefit that I want to focus on here, though, is just how wonder-ful it is to get on that call. Every Friday night, I get to speak to two brilliant historians, come up with ideas, and figure out how to put them into practice. It’s the kind of stuff that I miss from my museum days; I get to do good work with some tangible deliverables.

My role on Council as graduate student representative has been such a great opportunity this past year. Like many students before me, I get to be a small part of an organization that represents 900+ historians based in Canada. I get to bring up ideas and listen to what others around the table have to say. And that’s a huge deal

“Side Projects”

for a junior scholar—especially one who thought she left academia behind years ago.

But it’s not just because I’m graduate student representative that I get to do this kind of thing. I’ve also been co-editing a series on Active History. There may not be a weekly call with Krista McCracken (Shin-gwauk Residential Schools Centre) on the other end, but there has been a constant email stream of pitches to screen and posts to edit. In between our own immediate work, we’re trying to make space for others to discuss the work that museums do as integral to, not diver-gent from, the work that historians do.

Our fields may not exactly match. And we’d probably be hard-pressed to cite each other’s work in our own. But all of these scholars across both of these projects have been collaborative supports for me.

These side projects aren’t an easy thing to do. That’s especially true, I think, when you’re a PhD candidate working your way through the research, writing, and defense of that unfinished dissertation that’s forever hanging over your head. When you narrowly focus on your dissertation, nothing else seems to be as important as the work you’re doing, does it?

But I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.

My dissertation is not why I’m doing my PhD. It’s not why I’m a historian. It’s my current focus. It’s what I spend the bulk of my time doing right now. But it’s not all that I am doing.

Being a historian gives you this wide network of people who are valu-able in about a hundred different ways. These calls and emails have, of course, taken me away from my Liverpool-based research. But they’ve also created products that, I hope, will be useful for other historians, whether they be emerging scholars or senior researchers. And, self-ishly, these projects have forced me to take breaks in my strict research schedule. Doing so allows me to return to my own work refreshed, oftentimes with new questions to ask.

These side projects are not distractions; they’re actually making me a better historian.

Carly Ciufo

or Why Some People Think I’ll Never Finish my Dissertation

Wilson Institute for Canadian History

Upcoming Publications with ourRethinking Canada in the World Series with

McGill-Queen’s University Press

Founded in 2008, the Wilson Institute forCanadian History at McMaster Universitywas created with a simple vision: rethinkCanadian history, pre- and post-Confederation, within a transnationalframework.

The Wilson Institute is …

Ian McKay, DirectorMaxime Dagenais, CoordinatorAurelia Gatto Pinto, AdministratorJulien Mauduit, Assistant ProfessorMary Chaktsiris, Assistant ProfessorHeather Green, Postdoctoral Fellow

New from University of Toronto Press

utorontopress.com

“In discussing history beyond the academy, Paul T.

Phillips reveals the dif� culty of maintaining high

standards in a post-truth era.”Anthony Brundage

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

@utpress

“In discussing history beyond the academy, Paul T.

Phillips reveals the dif� culty of maintaining high

Recently published in the Journal of Canadian Studies:

Commemoration, Veneration, and Inspiration: Constituting the Terry Fox PublicDerek S. Foster Energy East and Dakota Access: Pipelines, Protest, and the Obstacles of Mutual UnintelligibilityKyle Conway, Maude Duguay Canada’s Early Developments in the Public Opinion Research IndustryChristopher Adams L’obligation d’accommodement : une prise en charge réactive teintée des perceptions des acteursCatherine Beaudry, Mélanie Gagnon Corporate and Worker Photographs of the Offshore Oil Industry: The Case of the Ocean RangerFiona Polack

Read these articles online at:http://bit.ly/JCS_online

Project MUSE http://bit.ly/JCS_MUSE

COMPLETE ONLINE ARCHIVE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS JOURNALS

53.3 winter | hiver 2018

canadian journal of historyannales canadiennes d’histoire


53.3 win

ter | hiver 2018



on the cover | sur la couvertureFront cover: “Coal” image courtesy of CSIRO ScienceImage.Back cover: “Coal Utilisation Council” advertisement (1952).

Edited at the University of Saskatchewan | Published by the University of Toronto Press

cnd $14.00 us $14.00

in this issue | dans ce numéro The Materiality of Energyby christopher f. jones

The Historical Transition from Coal to Hydrocarbons: Previous Explanations and the Need for an Integrative Perspective by odinn melsted and irene pallua

Mass Observation and the Emotional Energy Consumer by rebecca k. wright

“Old Refineries Rarely Die”: Port City Refineries as Key Nodes in the Global Petroleumscape by carola hein

Shifting Energy Sources in Canada: An International Comparison, 1870–2000 by richard w. unger

THE

MATERIAL

REALITIES

OF

ENERGY HISTORY

ca

na

dia

n jou

rn

al o

f his

to

ry

an

na

le

s ca

na

die

nn

es d’h

ist

oir

ec

an

ad

ian jo

ur

na

l of h

ist

or

ya

nn

al

es c

an

ad

ien

ne

s d’his

to

ire

THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

CANADIAN HISTORY REDEFINEDCanadian Historical Review Online

With works dating back to 1897, Canadian Historical Review Online is a comprehensive, fully searchable archive of Canadian history, including thousands of articles, reviews, and commentaries written by some of Canada’s most influential historians.

Thousands of articles, reviews and commentaries await you at CHR Online. Visit today and begin your journey through Canada’s past.

VOLUME 100, ISSUE 1MARCH 2019www.utpjournals.press/chr

CA

NA

DIA

N H

ISTO

RIC

AL R

EV

IEW V

OLU

ME 100 ISSU

E 1 MA

RC

H 2019

COVER IMAGES: Front cover: Barker Fairley (1887-1986) Ramsay Cook (1960), oil on masonite, 20 x 16 inches. The Estate of Barker Fairley c/o Ingram Gallery, Toronto, ON.

Back cover inset: “Foreign students debating at U of T, 1972”. A81-0031/001P, fros, U of T Archives – Elizabeth Frey photo.

Back cover: “Sod Turning, International Student Centre, June 8, 1964.” Source: A81-0031-54, U of T Archives. Photo by Gilbert M. Milne.

THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

CA

NA

DIA

N H

ISTO

RIC

AL R

EV

IEW V

OLU

ME 100 ISSU

E 1 MA

RC

H 2019

Recently published in The Canadian Historical Review:

Les tactiques d’un intellectuel clérical progressiste : le père Georges-Henri Lévesque, 1945 à 1955Jules Racine St-Jacques

Welcoming International and Foreign Students in Canada: Friendly Relations with Overseas Students (fros) at the University of Toronto, 1951–68Daniel Poitras “Happy-Go-Lucky Fellow”: Lone-Actor Terrorism, Masculinity, and the 1966 Bombing on Parliament Hill in OttawaSteve Hewitt Ramsay Cook: A Life in HistoryDonald Wright, Gregory S. Kealey, Franca Iacovetta, Adele Perry, Robert L. Fraser

Read these articles online at:http://bit.ly/CHROnline

Project MUSE http://bit.ly/ChrPM


HISTORICAL STUDIES

53.1 JOU

RN

AL o

f CA

NA

DIA

N STU

DIES | R

EVU

E D’ÉTU

DES C

AN

AD

IENN

ES WIN

TER 2019 H

IVER

DEREK S. FOSTER

KYLE CONWAY

MAUDE DUGUAY

CHRISTOPHER ADAMS

CATHERINE BEAUDRY

MÉLANIE GAGNON

ADAM SAIFER

JOHN ANDREW KLAIN

MARIO LEVESQUE

FIONA POLACK

KENNETH C. DEWAR

53.1

ISSN: 0021-9495E-ISSN: 1911-0251

Recent special issue of the Canadian Journal of History:

The Material Realities of Energy History (53.3, Winter 2018)

The Materiality of EnergyChristopher F. Jones The Historical Transition from Coal to Hydrocarbons: Previous Explanations and the Need for an Integrative PerspectiveOdinn Melsted, Irene Pallua Mass Observation and the Emotional Energy ConsumerRebecca K. Wright “Old Refineries Rarely Die”: Port City Refineries as Key Nodes in The Global PetroleumscapeCarola Hein Shifting Energy Sources in Canada: An International Comparison, 1870–2000Richard W. Unger Read this special issue online at:http://bit.ly/CJHACHOnline

Project MUSEhttp://bit.ly/CJH_PM


utpjournals.press

A TOWNSHIP AT WARJonathan F. VancePrint • Ebook • 308 pp. • 2018978-1-77112-386-0 • $34.99 (Hardcover)

1930EUROPE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEASTArthur HabermanPrint • Ebook • 266 pp. • 2018978-1-77112-361-7 • $24.99 (Paperback)

APPELA CANADIAN IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGIONJoel Adam StruthersPrint • Ebook • 250 pp. • March 2019 978-1-77112-105-7 • $24.99 (Paperback)

“WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH A MANLY HEART”L. Iris Newbold and K. Bruce Newbold, editors; with Evelyn A. Walters and Mark G. WaltersPrint • Ebook • 300 pp. • February 2019 978-1-77112-345-7 • $29.99 (Paperback)

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS1-866-836-5551 | www.wlupress.wlu.caAvailable from:UTP (Canada) 1-800-565-9523Ingram (USA) 1-800-961-8031

CHA Mag ad Feb 2019.indd 1 2019-02-26 1:07:43 PM


Graduate Students

Étudiants aux cycles supérieurs

Il est 19h un vendredi soir. Il fait froid, il fait sombre et il pleut pro-bablement. Mon voyage de recherche à Liverpool a commencé il y a deux mois. Bien qu’il y ait eu quelques contretemps, tout se passe très bien. Les gens s’intéressent à mes recherches. Ils veulent me parler, parfois pendant des heures. Presque tous ceux que j’ai contactés ont été généreux avec leur connaissance de la ville et des gens qui y vivent.

Entre les visites d’archives et les visites d’expositions, je parle aux gens. Parfois, ces entretiens d’histoire orale sont bien échelonnés, ce qui me donne l’occasion de consacrer quelques heures avec une personne par jour. Après ces réunions, je rentre à la maison pour transcrire les discussions que j’ai eues et réfléchir sur ma journée. D’autres fois, c’est plus difficile de donner à chacun l’attention qu’il mérite. Courir de l’appartement de quelqu’un pour me rendre à ma prochaine réunion dans un bureau de musée au centre-ville avant de prendre un train en soirée pour aller à Londres pour une autre journée pleine de réunions... J’ai de la chance si je me couche à temps pour avoir une nuit complète de repos avant de recommencer le tout le lendemain matin.

Le seul répit dans mon emploi du temps est le vendredi soir. Je me sens toujours bien chez moi dans mon appartement mansardé L1 (les codes postaux sont le meilleur moyen de comprendre la géogra-phie de cette ville), assise devant mon ordinateur pour mon appel hebdomadaire avec Danielle Kinsey (Université Carleton) et Jo McCutcheon (Université d’Ottawa). Ce sera sûrement une conver-sation d’une demi-heure stimulante sur le plan intellectuel, ce sera aussi une conversation très productive et pleine de rires. Lorsque nous avons commencé ces appels en novembre, il s’agissait habituel-lement d’appels interprovinciaux. Maintenant transcontinentales, ces discussions sont pareillement pleines du genre d’humour qu’au-cune d’entre nous n’aurait cru possible pour une réunion de service. Et c’est peut-être une des raisons pour lesquelles nous les priorisons.

Je devrais peut-être aller dans un pub. Je pourrais vivre l’expérience de la vie nocturne que cette ville universitaire qui m’était inconnue a à offrir. Et les restaurants d’ici offrent des plats délicieux. Mais, en bout de ligne, je préfère être emmitouflée dans une couverture, sans vidéo bien sûr, lors de ces appels.

En mettant l’accent sur le portfolio de l’enseignement et de l’appren-tissage que je codirige avec Danielle et Jo, nous réfléchissons à la meilleure façon d’orienter notre travail à la SHC pour mieux mettre en évidence l’enseignement, l’apprentissage et la pédagogie des his-toriens dans les classes d’histoire partout au pays. Nous sommes très fières des développements qui se concrétisent, surtout au moment où nous nous préparons à les diffuser.

L’avantage sur lequel je veux me concentrer ici, cependant, est de dire à quel point c’est formidable de participer à cet appel. Tous les

vendredis soirs, j’ai l’occasion de parler à deux historiennes bril-lantes, je trouve des idées et détermine comment les mettre en pratique. C’est le genre de choses qui me manquaient à l’époque où j’étais au musée ; j’ai l’occasion de faire du bon travail avec des pro-duits livrables tangibles.

Mon rôle au Conseil d’administration à titre de représentante des étudiants des cycles supérieurs a été une excellente occasion au cours de la dernière année. Comme beaucoup d’étudiants avant moi, je fais partie d’une petite organisation qui représente plus de 900 historiens basés au Canada. J’ai la chance de proposer des idées et d’écouter ce que les autres autour de la table ont à dire. Et c’est très important pour une jeune chercheuse, surtout lorsque celle-ci croyait avoir quitté l’université pour de bon il y a quelques années.

Mais ce n’est pas seulement parce que je suis représentante des étu-diants diplômés que je peux faire ce genre de chose. J’ai aussi coédité une série pour ActiveHistory. Il n’y a peut-être pas d’appel hebdo-madaire avec Krista McCracken (Centre des pensionnats indiens de Shingwauk) à l’autre bout de la ligne, mais il y a un flot constant de courriels sur les révisions à apporter au site. Nous tentons, dans le cadre de nos propres travaux immédiats, de créer un espace où d’autres puissent discuter du travail que font les musées comme étant du ressort du travail des historiens à part entière.

Nos champs de recherche peuvent ne pas correspondre exactement. Et nous aurions probablement du mal à citer la recherche de l’autre dans la nôtre. Mais les chercheurs dans le cadre de ces deux projets m’ont grandement appuyé comme collaborateurs.

Ces projets parallèles ne sont pas une chose facile à faire. C’est parti-culièrement vrai, je pense, lorsque vous êtes candidate au doctorat et que vous travaillez à la recherche, à la rédaction et à la défense de cette thèse inachevée qui pèse continuellement sur vous. Lorsque vous vous concentrez uniquement sur votre thèse, rien d’autre ne semble être aussi important que le travail que vous faites, n’est-ce pas ?

Mais je pense que ce n’est pas la bonne façon de voir les choses.

Ma thèse n’est pas la raison pour laquelle je fais mon doctorat. Ce n’est pas pour ça que je suis historienne. C’est ce que je fais présen-tement. Et c’est sur ce que je passe le plus clair de mon temps en ce moment. Mais ce n’est pas tout ce que je fais.

Être historienne vous donne accès à ce vaste réseau de personnes qui ont de la valeur d’une centaine de façons différentes. Ces appels et ces courriels m’ont, bien sûr, éloigné de ma recherche à Liver-pool. Mais ils ont aussi créé des résultats qui, je l’espère, seront utiles à d’autres historiens, qu’il s’agisse de nouveaux chercheurs ou de chercheurs chevronnés. Et, égoïstement, ces projets m’ont forcé à prendre des pauses dans mon calendrier de recherche strict. Cela me permet de retourner à mon propre travail revigorée, souvent avec de nouvelles questions à poser.

Ces projets parallèles ne sont pas des distractions ; ils font de moi une meilleure historienne.

Carly Ciufo

« Les Projets parallèles »ou, pourquoi certains pensent que je ne finirai jamais ma thèse


History on the Web

L’Histoire sur la toile

Is the nature of storytelling changing as digital platforms become more prevalent?Museums seek to tell stories that intrigue and inspire audiences to explore ideas further once they have left the museum. These experiences are carefully planned around one over-arching theme broken down into thematic threads. Planning starts and ends with the theme. It is THE driver of the visitor’s experience. The goal is for every visitor to walk away from their experience with a sense of connection to the message. Great exhibits are not didactic. The visi-tor experience is carefully crafted to the smallest detail; the lighting, graphic design, and exhibit’s physical design create a mood. They layout coaxes the visitor to move through the space in a particu-lar order. Notions are built upon as the visitor progresses through the exhibit. Text is written to capture the visitor’s attention, entice him, and then lead him to more profound information. Interactive installations break down complex concepts into chunks that, when fully experienced, solidify visitor learning. This planning is con-scious and systematic. The theme is framed in such a way that each fact leads to the revelation of something new for the visitor.

Cultural institutions however, are experiencing a decided shift in how visitors access learning. Smart phones are ubiquitous and visitors’ attention is divided between multiple apps and the crafted experience of the museum, often to the detriment of the exhibit. Furthermore, there is an expectation on the visitor’s part to be entertained, sometimes above all. The challenge museums face then is how to fulfill their mandates as stewards of information when neither the audience nor the digital medium is inclined to indulge them? In other words, is it possible to both educate and entertain and does it matter?

In 2018, Canadian Heritage began developing gamified mobile apps of Canada’s Capital Region to test this very question. The apps are intended for discrete audiences, have specific themes, and have var-ied thematic approaches. They take advantage of certain features inherent to the smart phone – GPS, weather data, compass, clock – as well as features developed by Motive.io, the Vancouver gam-ing company with whom Canadian Heritage is collaborating. The games range from the simple to the complex. The audio tour of the National Holocaust Monument has a simple structure, akin to stan-dard Tour Mate tours of an historic site. By’s House is intended for families with children aged 7. The game assumes that children will lead the experience with some adult guidance. The premise is that Colonel By has completed the Rideau Canal, he must now build a house for his family. With the help of his two daughters, players follow geo-located clues to find the tools they need to build a house. Collecting all of the augmented reality tools – fully-researched and true to the period – leads players to the ruins of By’s house in Majors

Hill Park in Ottawa. Once in the correct geolocation, players assem-ble the house to move in. Is Canadian Heritage fulfilling its mandate to have Canadians experience culture in this simple way? It is only through testing with the public and conducting audience research that one can know. One thing is certain however, By’s House uses a similar interface to Pokemon Go and entices visitors to sites that might otherwise pass under their radar. It takes advantage of the players drive to collect items but does so with a purpose, to pay attention to an historic site.

Another app – Prohibition – is more ambitious in its storytelling and has presented a wide range of challenges to overcome including how to tell a story that takes place over many years, how to find a neutral character (neither criminal nor police), and how to avoid tarnish-

ing any reputations. The game casts the user as a young journalist cutting his teeth on the local beat. The City Editor assigns him his first story – to report on the impact on Hull of prohibition in Ottawa. As the player follows leads triggered by geo-located clues, he col-

lects facts for his story. Once sufficient facts have been collected, he files the story and gains experience points. He is promoted to more and more complicated stories with each one he files. While this game presents the obvious challenge of why would Canadian Heritage be

telling a prohibition story, the benefits are signif-icant. Through a digital platform, the game brings

visitors to places they might not otherwise have visited but more importantly, permits the recreation of sites that no longer exist. Soundscapes, music, and voice actors create a mood that immerses the visitor in a time and place where only some physical vestiges remain. The medium permits the authoring of “personal stories” capturing the general experiences of Hull residents. The characters are fictionalized but the story is true. That the stories are reported by a gender-neutral journalist, who uncovers both salacious and socially relevant stories seems a small victory for the team develop-ing the apps. Will the user be intrigued to learn more on the topic? Visitor testing will tell.

These apps are Canadian Heritage’s first foray down this storytelling path. It may be the last. The team is hopeful however, that the lessons learned will not be lost. Visitors are intrigued by the stories. They are tickled by the use of AR and they appear to like the idea of learning in a more playful way. Striking the balance between education and entertainment is certainly tricky but if this is the direction visitors’ interest is taking, then there is value in going along for the journey.

Michaela Roenspies is Manager of Capital Interpretation in the Department of Canadian Heritage.


History on the Web


Witness to Yesterday/Témoins d’hier, the new podcast series pro-duced by the Champlain Society, is hosted by Patrice Dutil and Greg Marchildon. Each episode presents an interview with authors who are shaping, or even reshaping, interpretations of Canadian history. Although they are not in history departments in the respective uni-versities at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto, Dutil and Marchildon are seasoned historians who have made significant contributions to Canadian political, business and policy history for over thirty years. They began production of the podcasts in 2017 and have already interviewed a number of historians, the majority of whom are professional historians and members of the Canadian Historical Association.

As of now, nearly fifty podcasts have been recorded on numerous topics. They range from social and sexual history to political and business history with some revealing biographies and history text-books thrown into the mix. The authors (to name but a few!) have included established historians such as Pierre Anctil, Jack Granat-stein, Greg Kealey, Valerie Korinek, Maureen Lux, Ian McKay, and Arthur Ray as well as some of early and mid-career historians such as Christopher Dummit, Erika Dyck, Xavier Gélinas, Dennis Mol-linaro and Jane Nicholas. The topics are as varied as the authors and cover events, anniversaries, people, and changing understandings before and after Confederation.

Consistent with the mandate of the Champlain Society, Witness to Yesterday/Témoins d’hier also focuses on the rich documentary his-tory of the country as interpreted by historians, scholars from other

disciplines, and professional writers. Ryerson University has pro-vided significant in-kind resources by authorizing use of the studios at the Allan Slaight Radio Institute in the Ted Rogers Communica-tions Centre on campus and the volunteer work of students in the Department of Radio & Television Arts. The Champlain Society also receives support for the podcasts from the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University and the Hudson Bay Co. Historical Foundation.

When authors are willing and able, a few podcasts are produced in French under the title of Témoins d’hier.

Historians who have published a book recently and are interested in having it become better known to a large listening public are encouraged to contact Patrice Dutil ([email protected]) or Greg Marchildon ([email protected]). Interviews are conducted in person or by telephone, at the convenience of the authors. Each interview is approximately 30 minutes in length.

Witness to Yesterday podcasts are available on the Champlain Society website at: https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/wit-ness-to-yesterday and https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/temoins-dhier

They are also disseminated through Apple itunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/witness-to-yesterday-champlain-soci-ety-podcast-on-canadian/id1305112714?mt=2

Champlain Society behind new Podcast Series on Canadian History


History on the Web


Witness to Yesterday/Témoins d’Hier, la nouvelle série baladodiffu-sion produite par la Champlain Society est animée par Patrice Dutil et Greg Marchildon. Chaque émission propose un entretient avec un auteur qui façonne—qui même modifie—l’interprétation de l’his-toire du Canada. Bien qu’ils ne fassent pas partie des départements d’histoire de leurs universités respectives, l’Université Ryerson et l’Université de Toronto, Dutil et Marchildon sont des historiens chevronnés qui ont contribué à l’histoire politique, commerciale et politique du Canada pendant plus de trente ans. Ils ont débuté la pro-duction de ces baladodiffusions en 2017 et en dix-huit mois ont déjà interrogé une grande gamme d’historiens, dont la majorité sont des professionnels et membres de la Société historique du Canada.

Aujourd’hui, près d’une cinquantaine de baladodiffusions ont été enregistrées sur de nombreux sujets. Elles vont de l’histoire sociale et sexuelle à l’histoire politique et commerciale en passant par des biogra-phies révélatrices et des manuels d’histoire. Parmi les auteurs figurent des historiens reconnus tels que Pierre Anctil, Jack Granatstein, Greg Kealey, Valerie Korinek, Maureen Lux, Ian McKay et Arthur Ray ainsi que des historiens en début ou en mi carrière tels que Christopher Dummit, Erika Dyck, Xavier Gélinas, Dennis Mollinaro et Jane Nicho-las (pour en nommer que quelques-uns !). Les sujets sont aussi variés que les auteurs et couvrent des événements, des anniversaires, des per-sonnes et des conceptions changeantes avant et après la Confédération.

Conformément au mandat de la Champlain Society, Witness to Yes-terday/Témoin d’hier se consacre aussi à la discussion des ressources documentaire par des historiens, des érudits d’autres disciplines et

des écrivains professionnels. La production de ces baladodiffusions est rendue possible grâce à l’appui de Ryeron University qui autorise l’exploitation des studios de la Allan Slaight Radio Institute dans le Centre de communications Ted Rogers sur son campus ainsi que le travail bénévole d’étudiants de son département des arts de la radio et de la télévision. Pour ces baladodiffusions, la Champlain Society reçoit aussi un coup de main financier de l’Institut Wilson pour l’histoire canadienne de l’Université McMaster et la Fondation historique de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson.

La forte majorité de ces baladodiffusions sont enregistrées en anglais, mais lorsque les auteurs le souhaitent et le peuvent, plusieurs sont enregistrées en français sous le titre de Témoins d’hier.

Les historiens qui ont récemment publié un livre et qui souhaitent le faire mieux connaître du grand public sont invités à contacter Patrice Dutil ([email protected]) ou Greg Marchildon ([email protected]). Les entretiens sont menés en personne ou par téléphone, à la convenance des auteurs. Chaque entretien dure environ 30 minutes.

Les baladodiffusions sont disponibles sur le site Web de la Société Champlain aux adresses suivantes: https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/witness-to-yesterday et https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/temoins-dhier. Ils sont également diffusés via Apple iTunes sur: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/witness-to-yester-day-champlain-society-podcast-on-canadian/id1305112714?mt=2

La Champlain Society propose une série baladodiffusion sur l’histoire canadienne


2019 CHA Elections

Élection 2019 de la SHC

The election for CHA Executive and Council members, and the Nominating committee will be held from April 15 to May 3. 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. The elected candidates will be announced at the CHA Annual General Members’ Meeting at the University of British Columbia on Tuesday, 4 June.

The CHA would like to thank this year’s nominating committee: Gregory Kennedy (2017-2019), Sarah Nickel (2017-2019), Tina Adcock (2018-2020), and Allan Downey (2018-2020).

L’élection des membres de l’Exécutif et du Conseil d’administra-tion de la SHC, ainsi que du Comité de mises en candidature se déroulera du 15 avril au 3 mai. Vous recevrez un avis que votre bulletin de vote est disponible en ligne. Voir les profils professionnels des candidats plus bas. Ceux-ci seront également inclus dans le bulletin de vote numérique qui sera envoyé aux membres. Les candidats élus seront annoncés à l’Assemblée générale annuelle des membres de la SHC à l’University of Bri-tish Columbia le mardi 4 juin.

La SHC aimerait remercier le Comité de mises en candidature : Gregory Kennedy (2017-2019), Sarah Nickel (2017-2019), Tina Adcock (2018-2020), and Allan Downey (2018-2020).

candIdates for the executIve |candIdats – l’exécutIf

Candidate for President: 2 Year Term | Candidate : Présidente : mandat de deux ans (Penny Bryden, UVic)

Penny Bryden is a Professor of History at the University of Victoria, an institution she came to in 2005, after receiving her PhD at York University and teaching at Mount Allison Uni-

versity for a dozen years. At Mount Allison, Professor Bryden was Head of the Department of History and Chair of the Cana-dian Studies Program, a member of the executive of the faculty union, and served on numerous university, faculty and depart-mental committees. At the University of Victoria, she has served on various faculty committees (Committee on Committees, Curriculum Committee, Dean’s Advisory Committee, Advisory Committee to the Associate Dean) and maintained an active teaching and research program.

Within the discipline, Professor Bryden has served on the execu-tives of the Canadian Historical Association and the Association

2019 CHA Elections | Élection 2019 de la SHCof Canadian Studies, and been President of the Canadian Interna-tional Council, Victoria Branch. She was the program chair for the Canadian Historical Association’s annual meeting at Congress, 2013, has served for a number of years on SSHRC adjudication committees in both history and political science, and is currently a member of the Aid to Scholarly Publication Program board.

Professor Bryden’s research focuses on Canadian political his-tory. Her most recent book, Canada: A Political Biography (2016) is a textbook for Oxford University Press. Another recent book, ‘A Justifiable Obsession’: Ontario’s Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 (University of Toronto Press, 2013), examined inter-governmental relations, while her current SSHRC-funded research is a history of the Prime Minister’s Office in Canada. She has begun work on a new project on a long history of polit-ical scandal in Canada.

Penny Bryden est professeure d’histoire à l’Université de Victoria depuis 2005. Elle a auparavant obtenu son doctorat à l’Univer-sité York et a enseigné à l’Université Mount Allison pendant une douzaine d’années. À Mount Allison, la professeure Bryden était directrice du département d’histoire et chaire du Programme d’études canadiennes, membre de l’exécutif du syndicat des pro-fesseurs et membre de nombreux comités de l’université, du corps professoral et du département. À l’Université de Victoria, elle a siégé à divers comités de la faculté (comité sur les comités, comité des programmes, comité consultatif du doyen, comité consultatif du vice-doyen) et a maintenu un programme actif d’enseignement et de recherche.

Au sein de la discipline, la professeure Bryden a siégé au conseil d’administration de la Société historique du Canada et de l’As-sociation d’études canadiennes, et a été président du Conseil international du Canada, section de Victoria. Elle a présidé le congrès annuel de la Société historique du Canada en 2013, a siégé pendant plusieurs années aux comités de sélection du CRSH en histoire et en science politique et est présentement membre du conseil d’administration du Programme d’aide à l’édition savante.

Les recherches de la professeure Bryden portent sur l’histoire politique canadienne. Son plus récent livre, Canada: A Political Biography (2016) est un manuel pour Oxford University Press. Un autre livre récent, « A Justifiable Obsession » : Ontario’s Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 (University of Toronto Press, 2013), exa-mine les relations intergouvernementales, tandis que sa recherche financée par le CRSH est une histoire du Cabinet du Premier ministre au Canada. Elle a commencé à travailler sur un nouveau projet sur la longue histoire des scandales politiques au Canada.


Candidate for Treasurer: 1 Year Term | Candidate – Trésorière : mandat d’un an (Jo-Anne McCutcheon, Ottawa)

Jo holds her doctorate in Canadian history from the University of Ottawa and has been teaching part-time at the university’s History department since 1997 and more recently in the Institute of Canadian and Indigenous Studies. She teaches a diversity of Canadian and American survey history courses from contact to the present, focusing also on First

Nations, Inuit and Metis experiences with an emphasis on Indig-enous 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 the 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 con-sultant in Ottawa, merging her knowledge of public and private research projects while maintaining ties, memberships and rela-tionships with the academic community. She has been learning about and working to embrace social and digital media knowl-edge in her research, teaching and work worlds. She recently joined the Association of Canadian Archivists as the Executive Director.

Jo détient un doctorat en histoire canadienne de l’Université d’Ottawa et enseigne à temps partiel au département d’histoire depuis 1997 et plus récemment à l’Institut d’études canadiennes et autochtones. Elle y donne une variété de cours en histoire canadienne et américaine, en mettant l’accent sur l’expérience des Autochtones, des Métis et des Inuits et en particulier l’his-toire de l’éducation autochtone et des méthodes de recherche sur la micro-histoire. Elle a servi comme membre du Conseil d’administration au Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) et a siégé au sein de son comité de programme. Elle est également membre active de plusieurs comités associés de la SHC, y compris le Comité de l’histoire de l’enfance et de la jeunesse, le Comité canadien d’histoire numérique 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 chercheuse, historienne et consultante à Ottawa, fusionnant ses connaissances des projets de recherche publics et privés tout en maintenant les liens, les adhésions et les relations avec la communauté universitaire. Elle a également siégé au conseil d’administration du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH) et a été membre du comité du programme du CRSH. Elle a récemment joint l’Association of Canadian Archivists à titre de directrice générale.

candIdate for french-lanGuaGe secretary : 1 year term | candIdate - secrétaIre de lanGue françaIse :

mandat d’un an (marIe-mIchèle doucet, cmr|rmc)

Marie-Michèle Doucet a obtenu son docto-rat en histoire à l’Université de Montréal en juin 2016. Elle a effectué sa maîtrise et son baccalauréat à l’Université de Moncton au Nou-veau-Brunswick. Depuis septembre 2016, elle est professeure adjointe au département d’his-toire du Collège militaire royal du Canada à Kingston (Ont.) où elle enseigne l’histoire de

l’Europe, l’histoire des femmes et les relations internationales. Sa thèse de maîtrise, Héros et héroïnes : Stéréotypes et représen-tation genrés dans la littérature patriotique de la Grande Guerre en France (1914-1919) a remporté le prix Vo-Van de la meilleure thèse à l’Université de Moncton en 2010. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur la pétition féminine internationale pour le désarme-ment de 1930-1932. Adoptant une approche transnationale, elle s’intéresse à la façon dont les femmes françaises, britanniques, allemandes et canadiennes travaillent au désarmement univer-sel après la Première Guerre mondiale. Marie-Michèle compte à son acquis plusieurs publications dans des revues et ouvrages collectifs en Europe et au Canada. Elle a également coédité le livre Le génocide des Arméniens : Traces, mémoires et représen-tations paru en février 2017 aux Presses de l’Université Laval. C’est avec grand plaisir qu’elle se joint à l’exécutif de la Société historique du Canada à titre de secrétaire de langue française.

Marie-Michèle Doucet received her doctorate in history at the Université de Montréal in June 2016. She completed her mas-ter’s and bachelor’s degree at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick. Since September 2016, she has been Assistant Profes-sor in the Department of History at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont, where she teaches European History, Women’s History and International Relations. Her master’s the-sis, Héros et héroïnes : Stéréotypes et représentation genrés dans la littérature patriotique de la Grande Guerre en France (1914-1919) won the Vo-Van Award for the best thesis at the Université de Moncton in 2010. Her current research focuses on the interna-tional women’s petition for disarmament of 1930-32. Taking a transnational approach, she is interested in how French, British, German and Canadian women worked towards universal dis-armament after the First World War. Marie-Michèle has several publications in magazines and collective works in Europe and Canada. She also co-edited the book Le génocide des Arméniens : Traces, mémoires et représentations published in February 2017 at the Presses de l’Université Laval. It is with great pleasure that she joins the Executive of the Canadian Historical Association as a French-language secretary.

candIdate for enGlIsh-lanGuaGe secretary: 1 year term | candIdat - secrétaIre de lanGue anGlaIse :

mandate d’un an (mattheW bellamy, carleton)

Dr. Matthew J. Bellamy is an associate professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. He specializes in Canadian business and political history. He is the author of Profiting the


2019 CHA Elections


Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 and Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada’s Department of Finance, 1939-1947 (with R. B. Bryce). His latest research has taken him into the realm of brewing history. His work on brewing has been recently published in The Walrus, Business History, and the Canadian Historical Review. He is currently working on a book-length history of the Labatt’s brewery.

Matthew J. Bellamy est professeur agrégé d’histoire à l’Université Carleton à Ottawa. Il se spécialise dans les affaires et l’histoire poli-tique du Canada. Il est l’auteur de Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 et de Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada’s Department of Finance, 1939-1947 (avec R. B.

Bryce). Ses recherches les plus récentes portent sur l’histoire de la fabrication de la bière. Son travail sur le brassage de la bière a récemment été publié dans The Walrus, Business History et Canadian Historical Review. Il rédige présentement un livre sur l’histoire de la brasserie Labatt.

candIdates for councIl : 3 year term (In alphabetIcal order) | candIdats – conseIl d’admInIs-

tratIon : mandat de 3 ans (par ordre alphabétIque)

Mathieu Arsenault a travaillé comme con-seiller en recherche au ministère des Affaires autochtones de l’Ontario, et a récemment accepté un poste au sein du département d’histoire de l’Université de Montréal. Il com-plète actuellement une thèse de doctorat à l’Université York sur la pratique pétitionnaire autochtone au 19e siècle et la relation spéciale

entre les Premières Nations et la Couronne. Ses publications et ses recherches portent également sur l’historiographie des Rébellions de 1837-1838 au Bas-Canada, sur l’histoire régio-nale et sur l’histoire des services de santé mentale en français en Ontario au 20e siècle. En 2018, il a collaboré à un projet de com-mémoration numérique du centenaire de la pandémie de grippe espagnole comme directeur des contenus francophones pour Moments Déterminants Canada. En tant qu’historien engagé, Mathieu Arsenault a été membre du comité éditorial de la revue HistoireEngagée.ca pendant plus de six ans et travaille active-ment au rapprochement des historiographies francophones et anglophones.

Mathieu Arsenault worked as research Advisor at the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs of Ontario, and recently accepted a posi-tion in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at York Uni-versity on 19th-century Indigenous petitioning practices and the special relationship between First Nations and the Crown.

His research and publications also focus on the historiography of the 1837-1838 Rebellions in Lower Canada, regional history, and the history of French mental health services in 20th century Ontario. In 2018, he worked on a digital commemorative project on the centennial of the Spanish Flu pandemic as Director of French Contents for Defining Moments Canada. As an engaged historian, Mathieu Arsenault has been on the editorial commit-tee of HistoireEngagée.ca for over six years, and is committed to promoting increased exchanges and dialogue between Franco-phone and Anglophone historiographies.

Jonathan (Jon) Clapperton completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan, where he was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. He spent three years at the University of Alberta as a Postdoctoral Fellow in sociology, and taught in history and Native studies, then moved to St. John’s where he was an assistant professor of history at the Memorial University

of Newfoundland. The pull of the Pacific Northwest proved too strong and he returned to Victoria in 2017.

Jon is currently an adjunct professor of history at the Univer-sity of Victoria and an associate faculty member in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University. He is the co-editor, with Dr. Liza Piper, of the recently published Envi-ronmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing. His ongoing research examines Indigenous ecolog-ical management, resource development, and activism. He has served, and continues to work, as an expert witness and histor-ical consultant for First Nation, Native American, and Métis communities in British Columbia, Alberta, and Washington State.

Jonathan (Jon) Clapperton a obtenu son doctorat à l’Université de la Saskatchewan, où il a reçu la médaille d’or du gouverneur général. Il a enseigné l’histoire et les études autochtones lorsqu’il était titulaire d’une bourse de recherche postdoctorale en socio-logie à l’Université de l’Alberta. Il s’est ensuite installé à St. John’s où il a été professeur adjoint d’histoire à la Memorial University of Newfoundland. L’attrait de la côte nord-ouest du Pacifique s’est avéré trop fort et il est retourné à Victoria en 2017.

Jon est aujourd’hui professeur auxiliaire d’histoire à l’Université de Victoria et membre associé du corps professoral du College of Interdisciplinary Studies de la Royal Roads University. Il est coé-diteur, avec Liza Piper, de la récente publication Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organi-zing. Ses recherches en cours portent sur la gestion écologique autochtone, le développement des ressources et l’activisme. Il a fait fonction. et continue de le faire, de témoin expert et consul-tant en histoire pour les communautés des Premières Nations, des Amérindiens et des Métis en Colombie-Britannique, en Alberta et dans l’État de Washington.


Andrea Eidinger is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fel-low in the department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and a sessional instructor in the department of History at the University of British Columbia. She holds degrees from McGill University (BA Hon 2006) and the Uni-versity of Victoria (PhD 2011). Since 2010, she

has taught numerous courses on Canadian history, women’s and gender history, and the history of the body. Andrea is currently completing her manuscript, Becoming Ourselves: Jewish Women in Montreal, 1945-1980, which examines the processes whereby individuals mediate between their gender, cultural/ethnic, and national identities. Her work has appeared in Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Marlene Epp, and Valerie J. Korinek, in the scholarly journal Histoire Sociale/Social History, and on such blogs as ActiveHistory and Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. Andrea is perhaps best known for her work in the fields of public and digital history, particularly on her blog, Unwritten Histories, which is dedicated to creative an accessible platform for Canadian historians and history enthusiasts. She is also known for her advocacy work around precarity and women/non-binary academics, as well for her work on CHA Reads, the Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories Twitter conference, and the Beyond the Lec-ture series on Active History. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved with the Canadian Committee on Women’s His-tory (CCWH), as both a member of the CCWH Best Book Prize Committee and as the website and blog manager.

Andrea Eidinger est boursière postdoctorale du CRSH au dépar-tement d’études politiques de l’Université Queen’s et chargée de cours à temps partiel au département d’histoire de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Elle détient des diplômes de l’Univer-sité McGill (B.A. Hon. 2006) et de l’Université de Victoria (Ph.D. 2011). Depuis 2010, elle a donné de nombreux cours sur l’histoire du Canada, l’histoire des femmes et des sexes et l’histoire du corps. Andrea termine présentement son manuscrit, Becoming Ourselves : Jewish Women in Montreal, 1945-1980, qui examine les proces-sus par lesquels les individus font la médiation entre leur identité sexuelle, culturelle/ethnique et nationale. Son travail a été publié dans Edible Histories, Cultural Politics : Towards a Canadian Food History, sous la direction de Franca Iacovetta, Marlene Epp et Valerie J. Korinek, dans la revue scientifique Histoire Sociale/Social History, et sur des blogues comme ActiveHistory et Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. Andrea est peut-être mieux connue pour son travail dans les domaines de l’histoire publique et de l’histoire numérique, en particulier sur son blogue, Unwritten Histories, qui se consacre à la création d’une plateforme accessible aux historiens canadiens et aux amateurs d’histoire. Elle est égale-ment connue pour son travail autour de la précarité et des femmes et des universitaires non binaires, ainsi que pour son travail sur la conférence de la SHC Reads, the Beyond 150 : Telling Our Sto-ries sur Twitter, et la série de conférences Beyond the Lecture sur ActiveHistory. Tout au long de sa carrière, elle a participé active-ment sur le Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes (CCHF), à titre de membre du Comité du Prix du meilleur livre du CCHF et de gestionnaire de son site Web et de son blogue.

Maurice Jr. (Moe) Labelle est un immigré franco-ontarien et pro-fesseur adjoint en histoire à l’Université de la Saskatchewan, situé sur le territoire du Traité n ° 6 et sur le territoire des Métis. Il détient un baccalauréat et une maîtrise en histoire de l’Université d’Ottawa et un doctorat en histoire de l’Université d’Akron, dans l’Ohio. Ses articles ont été publiés dans le Journal of Global History, Radical History Review, Arab Studies Quarterly et Histoire diplomatique. Moe enseigne des cours sur l’histoire de la « race », du racisme

et de l’antiracisme dans le monde moderne ; le Moyen-Orient au XXe siècle ; le conflit israé-lo-palestinien ; les relations entre les États-Unis et le Moyen-Orient ; et la décolonisation. Il pré-pare également un cours de niveau supérieur sur l’histoire de la blancheur. En ce qui concerne la recherche, le projet de manuscrit actuel de Moe,

intitulé provisoirement Are You an Orientalist?, explore comment le Liban a fini par considérer les États-Unis comme une puissance impériale au Moyen-Orient après son indépendance. Son deu-xième projet de livre cherchera à faire la lumière sur les liens entre l’histoire internationale de la (ré)conciliation et les politiques cultu-relles de la décolonisation par le biais d’une étude de cas entourant la déclaration du Nouvel ordre mondial et des communications (NWICO) de l’UNESCO en 1978. Il est le fier père adoptif de deux garçons métis (âgés de 11 et 8 ans) et d’un nouveau-né au pays d’origine allemande, ukrainienne et punjabie.

Maurice Jr. (Moe) Labelle is a Franco-Ontarian settler and an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Saskatchewan, located on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. He holds BA and MA degrees in Histoire from l’Université d’Ot-tawa and a PhD in History from the University of Akron, in Ohio. Articles of his have been published in the Journal of Global History, Radical History Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, and Dip-lomatic History. Moe teaches courses on the histories of “race,” racisms, and anti-racisms in the modern world; the Middle East in the 20th century; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; U.S.-Middle East relations; and decolonization. He is also in the early stages of preparing an upper-level course on the history of whiteness. Research-wise, Moe’s current manuscript project, tentatively titled Are You an Orientalist? explores how post-independence Lebanon came to view the United States as an imperial power in the Middle East. His second book project will seek to unearth intersections between the international history of (re)concilia-tion and the cultural politics of decolonization through a case study surrounding UNESCO’s 1978 declaration of a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). He is the proud adoptive father of two Métis boys (ages 11 and 8) and a newborn settler of German-Ukranian-Punjabi heritage.

Allyson Stevenson is a Métis scholar from Kinistino, SK. She is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice at the University of Regina. She obtained her PhD in History from the Univer-sity of Saskatchewan in 2015. From 2016-2017 she was the inaugural Aboriginal postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph where she

worked on developing a historical analysis of Indigenous wom-


2019 CHA Elections


en’s political organizing in Saskatchewan during the 1970’s. In January 2018, she began a tenure-track position at the University of Regina in the department of Politics and International Stud-ies. Her current research specializes in histories of Indigenous children and families, the Sixties Scoop, global Indigenous polit-ical movements, and settler-colonialism. Her book, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop, the Adopt Indian and Métis (AIM) in Saskatchewan and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship will be published with the University of Toronto Press.

Allyson Stevenson est une universitaire métisse de Kinistino, en Saskatchewan. Elle est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 sur les peuples autochtones et la justice sociale mondiale à l’Université de Regina. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en histoire de l’Université de la Saskatchewan en 2015. De 2016 à 2017, elle a été la première boursière postdoctorale autochtone à l’Université de Guelph, où elle a travaillé à l’éla-boration d’une analyse historique de l’organisation politique des femmes autochtones en Saskatchewan dans les années 1970. En janvier 2018, elle a commencé à occuper un poste menant à la permanence à l’Université de Regina, au département de science politique et d’études internationales. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur l’histoire des enfants et des familles autochtones, la râfle des années 60, les mouvements politiques autochtones mondiaux et le colonialisme de peuplement. Son livre, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop, the Adopt Indian and Métis (AIM) in Saskatchewan and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship sera publié chez University of Toronto Press.

Barrington Walker is an Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University. He teaches and writes in the areas of Black Canadian History, the racial state, immigration, colo-niality and legal history. He is the author and editor of three books, among them he has a monograph titled Race On Trial: Black Defen-

dants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. He is currently finishing a draft of a book on the history of race, coloniality and immigration in Canada titled Colonizing Nation and he contin-ues to work on another project on Blackness and urban danger in Canada. He is also co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.

Barrington Walker est professeur agrégé d’histoire à l’Univer-sité Queen’s. Il enseigne et écrit dans les domaines de l’histoire des Noirs du Canada, de l’État racial, de l’immigration, de la colonisation et de l’histoire juridique. Il est l’auteur et l’éditeur de trois livres, dont une monographie intitulée Race On Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Il termine présentement l’ébauche d’un livre sur l’histoire de la race, de la colonisation et de l’immigration au Canada intitulé Colonizing Nation et il continue de travailler à un autre projet sur les Noirs et le danger urbain au Canada. Il est également corédacteur de la Revue de la Société historique du Canada.

candIdates for the nomInatInG commIttee: 2 year term (In alphabetIcal order) | candIdats – comIté de mIses en candIdature : mandate de 2 ans (par ordre alphabétIque)

Isabelle Bouchard est professeure régulière au département des sciences humaines de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, où elle enseigne l’histoire des Autochtones du Canada ainsi que l’histoire du Québec et du Canada durant la période coloniale (XVIIe-XIXe siècles). Ses intérêts de recherche portent

sur l’histoire politique, foncière et juridique des communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent.

Elle est détentrice d’un doctorat en histoire de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (2017). Sa thèse, Des systèmes politiques en quête de légitimité : terres « seigneuriales », pouvoirs et enjeux locaux dans les communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent (1760-1860), a été récompensée par le Prix de la fondation Jean-Charles Bonenfant (Prix du livre politique de l’Assemblée nationale) ainsi que le Prix John-Bullen de la Société historique du Canada. Elle est l’auteure d’articles scientifiques publiés dans l’ouvrage collectif Nouveaux regards en histoire seigneuriale au Québec (Septentrion, 2016) et dans la Revue de la Société historique du Canada.

Depuis 2013, elle siège au conseil d’administration de la Société Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. Depuis 2018, elle est éga-lement membre régulière du Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIEQ) et du Groupe d’histoire de Montréal (GHM).

Isabelle Bouchard is a regular professor in the Department of Human Sciences at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she teaches the history of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and the history of Quebec and Canada during the colonial period (17th-19th centuries). Her research interests focus on the political, landed property and legal history of Aboriginal com-munities in the St. Lawrence Valley.

She holds a doctorate in history from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2017). Her thesis, Des systèmes politiques en quête de légitimité : terres « seigneuriales », pouvoirs et enjeux locaux dans les communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent (1760-1860), was awarded the Jean-Charles Bonenfant Founda-tion Prize (National Assembly Political Book Prize) and the John Bullen Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. She is the author of scientific articles published in the collective work Nou-veaux regards en histoire seigneuriale au Québec (Septentrion, 2016) and in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.

Since 2013, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Société Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec. Since 2018, she has also been a regular member of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (CIEQ) and the Montreal History Group (GHM).


Jess Dunkin is a settler historian and writer based in Sǫ̀mba K’è (Yellowknife, NT) in Akaitcho Territory (Treaty 8), homeland of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. Jess was granted a PhD in History from Carleton University in 2012 and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University from 2013-2015. She is the author of Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880-1910, forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. As the Director of On the Land Programs at the NWT Recreation and Parks Association (NWTRPA) and as an independent scholar, Jess maintains an active research agenda. At present, she is collaborating on a book chapter with Dr. John B. Zoe on Wha Dǫ Ehtǫ K’è (Trails of Our Ancestors) for a collection on the politics of canoeing and a journal article on anti-colonial approaches to risk management for land-based programming with Walter Bezha and other members of Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨nę Gots’ę́ Nákedı (Sahtú Renewable Resources Board). She is also part of a team of researchers and survivors developing a travelling exhibit on recreation at northern residential schools and hostels. In 2018, Jess was appointed a Research Associate at Aurora College.

Jess Dunkin est une historienne de la colo-nisation et une écrivaine établie à Sǫ̀mba K’è (Yellowknife, T.N.-O.) dans le territoire de l’Akaitcho (Traité 8), patrie de la Première nation dénée Yellowknives. Jess a obtenu un doctorat en histoire de l’Université Carleton en 2012 et a été titulaire d’une bourse postdoc-

torale du CRSH à la School of Kinesiology and Health Studies de la Queen’s University de 2013 à 2015. Elle est l’auteure de Canoe and Canvas : Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880-1910, à paraître chez University of Toronto Press. En tant que directrice des programmes On the Land de la NWTRPA (NWT Recreation and Parks Association) et chercheuse indépendante, Jess maintient un programme de recherche actif. À l’heure actuelle, elle collabore avec le Dr John B. Zoe à la rédaction d’un chapitre d’un livre sur Wha Dǫ Ehtǫ K’è (Trails of Our Ancestors) pour une collection sur la poli-tique du canotage et un article sur les approches anticoloniales de la gestion des risques pour les programmes terrestres avec Walter Bezha et d’autres membres du Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨nę Gots’ę́ Nákedı (l’Office des ressources renouvelables du Sahtú). Elle fait également partie d’une équipe de chercheurs et de survivants qui élaborent une exposition itinérante sur les loisirs dans les pensionnats et les gîtes du Nord. En 2018, Jess a été nommée associée de recherche au Collège Aurora.

Josh MacFadyen is a Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities and an Associate Professor in the interdisciplinary Applied, Com-munication, Leadership & Culture program in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island. He teaches courses in digital humanities, geographic information systems,

and leadership in sustainable development, and he also trains students in the GeoREACH Lab which he founded to support Geospatial Research in Atlantic Canadian History. His research focuses on Canadian environmental history, sustainable farm

systems, and the history of energy transitions in Atlantic Can-ada. He is the author of Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), co-editor of Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), and author or coauthor of several book chapters and articles in Business History, Agricultural History, Urban His-tory Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, Regional Environmental Change, and Solutions. He represents the Rural, Agricultural, and Environmental Network of the Social Science History Asso-ciation and serves on editorial boards for Environmental History and Papers in Canadian History and Environment.

Josh MacFadyen est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en sciences humaines géospatiales et professeur agrégé du pro-gramme interdisciplinaire Applied, Communication, Leadership & Culture à la faculté des arts de l’Université de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Il donne des cours en sciences humaines numériques, en systèmes d’information géographique et en leadership en développement durable et il forme également des étudiants au laboratoire GeoREACH qu’il a fondé pour appuyer la recherche géospatiale en histoire du Canada atlantique. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire environnementale du Canada, les systèmes agricoles durables et l’histoire des transitions énergétiques au Canada atlantique. Il est l’auteur de Flax Americana : A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), est coéditeur de Time and a Place : An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) et auteur ou coauteur de plusieurs cha-pitres de livres et articles dans Business History, Agricultural History, Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine, Regional Environmental Change et Solutions. Il représente Rural, Agricul-tural, and Environmental Network de la Social Science History Association et siège aux comités de rédaction de Environmental History et de Papers in Canadian History and Environment.

David Meren is Associate Professor in the Département d’histoire at Université de Mon-tréal. He is the author of With Friends Like These: Entangled Nationalisms and the Cana-da-Quebec-France Triangle, 1944-1970 (UBC Press, 2012), and a co-editor of Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History

(UBC Press, 2017). His most recent article, “‘Commend Me the Yak’: The Colombo Plan, the Inuit of Ungava, and ‘Developing’ Canada’s North”, Histoire sociale/Social History, November 2017 (v. LI, No. 102) was the 2018 recipient of the Histoire sociale/Social History Best Article prize.

David Meren est professeur agrégé au Département d’histoire de l’Université de Montréal. Il est l’auteur de With Friends Like These: Entangled Nationalisms and the Canada-Québec-France Triangle, 1944-1970 (UBC Press, 2012), et coéditeur de Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History (UBC Press, 2017). Son plus récent article, «Commend Me the Yak «: The Colombo Plan, the Inuit of Ungava, and ‘Developing’ Canada’s North’, Histoire sociale/Social History, November 2017 (v. LI, no 102) s’est mérité le prix du meilleur article de la revue Histoire sociale/Social History en 2018.


The Department of History at Concordia University in Mon-treal has been an especially active place in recent months. Our faculty members’ achievements include the Nanovic Institute’s 2019 Lara Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, awarded to Max Bergholz for Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community (Cornell UP, 2016). This is the fifth major prize that Max has won for this insightful monograph. Meanwhile, Sarah Ghabrial has been offered a visiting fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, which she will take up in the Winter 2020 term. Norman Ingram has just published (February 2019) a new monograph with Oxford Uni-versity Press entitled The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de l’homme, 1914-1944. And in July 2019, Anya Zilber-stein will once again be offering Edible Environments: In and Beyond Montreal as part of Concordia’s International Graduate Summer and Field Schools. Just as exciting is the news that the Department, in partnership with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and the First Peoples Studies program, has just been authorized to search for a Tier-II Can-ada Research Chair in Indigenous Oral Tradition and Oral History.

We have particularly dynamic group of graduate students here on the tenth floor of the McConnell Library Building. Four of our PhD students deserve special mention. Fred Burrill was the subject of a full-page article in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper relating to his audio walk “Talking Violence: Oral History of Displacement and Resistance in Saint-Henri.” Hugo Rueda pub-lished a co-authored book entitled El museo mestizo, published by the Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile. Caroline Trotti-er-Gascon was awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. And Brandon Webb was awarded the Carolyn and Richard Renaud Graduate Teaching Assistantship in recognition of his outstanding work in the classroom. For undergraduates, through the generosity of alumnus John Commins and his fam-ily, the Department is pleased to have been endowed this year with the annual “Commins-Lachance Family Undergraduate Research Award in Quebec History,” an adjudicated prize of $1,000 for a Quebec history project prepared in the context of an undergraduate history class.

The Department of History has also been a participant in several important scholarly gatherings in recent months. Our faculty and students were among the main organizers of the hugely successful 2018 Oral History Association meeting, hosted at Concordia in October 2018 by COHDS. This proved to be the largest gathering of oral historians in North American history, with over 500 presenters in attendance. Steven High took the lead on the organizing committee for this event and was assisted by PhD student Kathryn Boschmann, while several depart-ment members gave papers or organized sessions. Many of our

students served as volunteers throughout the conference. In recognition of his fantastic work organizing this major inter-national conference, Steven High was awarded a Certificate of Achievement and a lifetime membership from the U.S. based Oral History Association. Also in October 2018, our colleague Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard, from Université de Mon-tréal, organized a two-day conference entitled 1919: World (Dis)Order. The event brought together a number of distinguished and emerging historians from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and France, with panels held on both the Concordia and U de M campuses: a true joint venture!

Led once again by Steven High, the Department was also involved in organizing Protest and Pedagogy, a series of activi-ties held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sir George Williams Computer Centre occupation in 1969. The commem-orative program was held from January 30 to February 16, dates chosen to coincide precisely with the anniversary of one of the most significant student protests in Canadian history, and fea-tured panels, an exhibition, theatrical interpretation, a tour of the spaces where the protest occurred, and much more. And among the events coming up in the near future, the Department will be hosting an international symposium entitled Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Per-spective from May 5 to 7 at the Concordia Conference Centre. The organizing committee is co-chaired by our colleagues Peter Gossage and Eric Reiter, who have been supported in this ven-ture by colleagues Sarah Ghabrial, Nora Jaffary, and Shannon McSheffrey, and ably assisted by graduate students Paul D’Am-boise, Lisa Moore, and Leslie Szabo, and by post-doctoral fellow Sophie Doucet. Looking forward to 2020, Concordia, under Alison Rowley’s leadership, will host the World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies.

Finally, former CHA Council members Peter Gossage (Chair) and Barbara Lorenzkowski (GPD) will complete their lead-ership mandates in June 2019. There have been many exciting developments at Concordia on their watch, with much more to come!

Prepared by Donna Whittaker, Assistant to the Chair and Graduate Program Assistant, Department of History, Concordia University, Montreal.

Meanwhile at Concordia University …


HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC THE CASE OF LABOUR HISTORY

In the last issue of Intersections, the CHA President Adele Perry commended historians’ longstanding willingness to con-nect their research to the present and to speak to communities beyond the classroom. She supported Joy Parr’s contention in 2010 that historians should be attentive to contemporary con-cerns and engage with an active citizenry. Parr went even further in proposing that historians should not only involve themselves with the citizenry but should “engage in policy”.

This clearly happens with labour historians since the labour movement was one of the first and most significant of non-gov-ernment actors in society. Many labour historians go beyond objective accounts of union activity; they are sympathetic to union concerns and, explicitly or implicitly, they commend or criticize union actions in often difficult or complex situations.

Over the last generation, the structure of labour movements has changed, for instance with respect to the role of appointed (not elected) union staff. These are employed by unions to handle what were originally (and in some areas still are) regarded as specialized areas of concern, such as women’s issues, GLBTQ, labour education, economics, health, safety and environment and social action — topics that go beyond collective bargain-ing, grievance arbitration, employment insurance and workers’ compensation.

Just what a change this was can be illustrated by reference to my own union, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU, UK). In the nineteen seventies, the union had no paid staff, only a journalist on con-tract to edit the monthly magazine. All the work was done by the elected officers and through the voluntary work of the union rank and file. Despite the limitations of low union dues and the absence of services provided by the national office, the FBU was profoundly democratic and based on a model of mutual self-help at the grass roots. This is relevant to point I will want to make about the relationship between historians and social engagement.

Labour historians have responded to such changes in union structures. For some, the starting-point is to study those unions who reflect the political stance of the historian, broadly, labour organizations whose leaders and activists are on the Left and which are also militant, radical in both aims and means. The “new” issues or a selection of them are then taken up to build on the long-standing union agendas of recognition, wages and job security. The union strategies remain traditional: to mobi-lize the rank and file, which in turn depends on increasing the class-consciousness of union members and their rank-and-file

leaders. Unions that serve the cause are commended; those who are not in the ball-park are ignored as doing little that is signifi-cant for the progress of the labour movement.

The “engagement” of such authors is with elected leaders who are in the vanguard of such social change, with union staff (whose educational qualifications are often similar to those of the histo-rians) and with militant members of the rank and file. In such cases, it is important to note the nature of the involvement. It is political, not broadly social or “societal”. Union members wel-come the attention from those they regard as allies, who see the relationship as helping to build the labour movement. But there is also a downside. Those whose politics do not accord with those of the historians can resent the meddling of outsiders, who seem bent on using the labour movement as the pawns in the achievement of an alien political agenda, union members as someone else’s means rather than as ends in themselves.

I do not question this historical approach, nor the benefits of the engagement for the labour movement; it’s only to point out how circumscribed it is as a mode of historical inquiry. If we are talking of unionized labour, there are a large number of different types of union, from Christian to Communist, from “business unions” to “social unions”, militant to quiescent, conservative to radical, each with a different perspective and outlook on society. All of these should be the subjects of historical inquiry.

Take, for instance, the case of a union which does not, at least explicitly, endorse radical ideals but which devotes its energy to organizing at the grass roots (“organizing the organized”) and maximum participation in union activities of the rank and file. (One active union member, when interviewed, told me that workplace health and safety was more important for the union than the strikes and industrial action which get coverage in the press.) Such a union would be well-equipped to resist a sud-den, union-busting drive on the part of the employer. Labour historians whose interests are too heavily or exclusively polit-

As to the social engagement of historians, we need a relationship that falls between two poles: histori-ans in an ivory tower, a part of a community but isolated from it, and a relationship which presents the historian as an expert aiming to convert the community to the historian’s political ideals.


ical will ignore such forms of union activity, when the bulk of union activity is different in character from that studied by his-torians. In turn, the modes of engagement with such actors will be broader than the political. It will also be acknowledged that there is more than one way of measuring progress in the labour movement, that union members conduct themselves in ways other than being the vehicles of some inevitable historical pro-cess. To take a further example, the leadership of my own union was frankly Stalinist but its mode of internal organization was such that it strengthened the union, irrespective of whether or not it served the political outlook of the leadership.

As to the social engagement of historians, we need a rela-tionship that falls between two poles: historians in an ivory tower, a part of a community but isolated from it, and a relationship which presents the historian as an expert aiming to convert the community to the historian’s political ideals. Joy Parr’s plea for the historians’ “engagement in pol-icy” will only work if they do not confine themselves to engagement with the actual and potentially converted.

If they do so confine themselves, there will be more conflict than constructive debate. Historians inform their work with differing moral and political values and they differ among themselves over the interpretation of historical events. Their historical opinions also change. Those historians who acknowledge these facts will also acknowledge that the soci-ety of the engagement is similarly diverse. When this is done, engagement is more likely to be fruitful and the resulting change progressive. Further, those unions which attempt to organize the grass roots are also those which stress the relationship with the local community outside the workplace.

***

The writing of union histories can present a whole new dimen-sion of public engagement: authors do not always enjoy the freedom of expression that they have when writing other forms of non-fiction. The reason is that there are two types of union history, one where the author takes on a project “cold” and the other on contract with the union concerned. In the former case, the author is unlikely to get the full cooperation of the union, with access to documents and personnel and interviews with union members. In the latter case, this usually happens. The lim-itation is that the union leadership (quite properly) will often set

the terms of the writing, the profile of the union that it wants to present, the issues that it wants covered and the extent to which it wants to expose conflicts and differences of opinion within the union.

A review of a union history that I wrote will illuminate the point in a small way. The union concerned was having trouble with the environmental movement and claimed that environmentalism was merely a middle-class fad, which was echoed uncritically by the author of the history. In the review, I pointed out that this was ridiculous: environmentalism is far more than a middle-class

fad. But since the union in question was affiliated to a central labour body for which I worked, I wrote the review under

a pseudonym. In point of fact, pressures from the envi-ronmental movement forced the employers of the union members to raise their product standards,

which expanded their export market and so benefitted the union in the longer run.

My own experience in writing the 50-year history of a federal public-sector union was entirely fortunate. The union leaders only told me what sort of book they were

expecting. I consulted extensively with the officers and staff of the union in writing the

book and had the benefit of a large number of interviews with the union rank and file. The con-

sciousness of contemporary union history among these members was high and acute. The final draft was accepted by

the union with only minor changes and the correction of factual mistakes.

In historical writing I have always tried to have the actors, as far as possible, speak for themselves. This is a scholastic value in its own right. In the case of the union history I wrote, it had an important and incidental effect: the controversies, dissent and disagreements within the union could be presented as the views of union members and not something that occurred to an outside critic. It was to the credit of the union leadership that it accepted this discussion of dissent without reservation, even though it was sometimes expressed by union members who were the political enemies of the current leadership.

David Bennett is an historical and general non-fiction writer: www.magnificentdisaster.com. The discussion of the Fire Brigades’ Union is derived from his book, Firefighters of Cambridge (Amber-ley, 2010). The author thanks John Baglow for his penetrating comments on an earlier version of this article.

The writing of union histories can present a whole new dimension of public engagement: authors do not always enjoy the freedom of expression that they have when writing other forms of non-

fiction.... The limitation is that the union leadership (quite properly) will often set the terms of the writing, the profile of the union that it wants to present, the issues that it wants covered and the

extent to which it wants to expose conflicts and differences of opinion within the union.


Historical Research in the Maritimes

La recherche historique dans les Maritimes

Une société secrète en Acadie : une entrevue avec l’auteur

L’historien acadien François LeBlanc a récemment publié un ouvrage intitulé Une société secrète en Acadie : L’Ordre de Jacques Cartier chez les presses de la Grande Marée. Ce livre propose une nouvelle perspective sur cette société secrète dans les années 1950 et 1960. Période charnière pour les francophones du pays, et plus particulièrement pour les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick, ce livre offre un regard intéressant sur la Commanderie du CR20 de Moncton au Nouveau-Brunswick. Aujourd’hui technicien en documentation au Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chias-son à l’Université de Moncton, François LeBlanc a accepté de répondre à quelques-unes de nos questions.

Qu’est-ce que l’ordre de Jacques Cartier?

L’Ordre de Jacques Cartier (OJC) est né à Ottawa en 1926, le résultat de nombreuses tensions entre la communauté franco-phone minoritaire et la majorité anglophone. L’OJC est donc conçu comme un outil pour permettre les Canadiens français à survivre dans la société canadienne où l’assimilation, à la fois linguistique et religieuse, constitue une menace quotidienne. On souhaite par ailleurs accorder à l’OJC un mandat encore plus large, soit celui d’assurer l’avancement de la race cana-dienne-française sur le plan économique, politique et culturel, face à la majorité anglophone. L’OJC est, en somme, de nature secrète, religieuse et nationaliste.

En quoi votre livre contribue-t-il à l’historiographie sur le sujet?

L’historiographie de l’Ordre de Jacques Cartier en est encore à ses stades embryonnaires, étant donné que la majorité des docu-ments qui touchent l’organisme étaient scellés jusqu’en 2000. Le livre de G. Raymond Laliberté intitulé Une société secrète : l’Ordre de Jacques Cartier, paru en 1983, consiste en une étude sociologique de l’OJC au Québec. Il a réussi à parler aux hommes qui ont fait partie de l’OJC afin d’extraire le plus d’information possible sur leur engagement. Pour sa part, Denise Robillard dans son livre L’Ordre de Jacques Cartier, 1926-1965 : une société secrète pour les Canadiens français catholiques paru en 2009, fait une étude chronologique de l’histoire de l’OJC au niveau natio-nal, avec quelques passages sur l’OJC en Acadie. Mon ouvrage Une société secrète en Acadie : l’Ordre de Jacques Cartier : essai historique viens combler un vide dans l’historiographie de l’OJC, en s’intéressant plus spécifiquement au cas de l’Acadie.

En quoi l’ordre de Jacques Carter a-t-elle été importante pour l’histoire de l’Acadie?

Un défi s’impose afin d’éclairer la nature exacte de l’engagement et du travail réalisé par l’OJC en Acadie : étant donnée sa nature secrète, l’OJC est astreinte à la discrétion. Dans le cas particulier de l’OJC, nous devons donc rappeler que l’exercice de son pou-voir et de son leadership se fait dans la plus grande discrétion. L’OJC donne peu de direction précise à savoir comment réaliser

ses visées ou ses objectifs de société. Donc, sa contribution et ses réalisations ne peuvent pas être évaluées par le seul biais de ses initiatives internes, au sein du membership. Plutôt, l’OJC incite son réseau de membership à l’action collective par le biais du réseautage et du noyautage, moyens d’action efficaces pour faire avancer ses projets et son mandat.

Quant à elle, l’OJC à Moncton engage le principe du réseautage auprès des organismes ou instances qui soutiennent des objectifs nationaux en Acadie. Comme exemple, nous pouvons dire avec certitude que les membres de l’OJC en Acadie ont contribués aux fêtes du bicentenaire de la déportation des Acadiens, aux campagnes SONA (Sollicitations pour les Œuvres Nationales en Acadie) des années 1960 et à la Compagnie de Gestion.

Vous montrer dans votre ouvrage que les années 1950 et 1960 marques une période charnière pour les francophones au pays. Pourquoi?

Les célébrations du bicentenaire de la Déportation (1955) et l’avènement de la Révolution tranquille acadienne dès le début des années 1960 constituent des moments forts du nationalisme acadien et ont favorisé le recrutement ainsi que les activités auprès des commanderies et noyaux du territoire du CR 20.

D’abord, les fêtes du bicentenaire de la déportation présentent une occasion de célébration de la survivance du peuple acadien pour donner suite aux événements de 1755, mais elles constituent aussi un moment fort du nationalisme acadien, par lequel on peut interpeller la fierté acadienne afin de préparer l’avenir du groupe.

Ensuite, on reconnait que les transformations sociales qui accom-pagnent le phénomène dit de Révolution tranquille chez les Canadiens français, pendant les années 1960, décennie de chan-gements de mentalité et de valeurs au Québec et ailleurs au pays, constituent autant d’éléments qui auraient pu contribuer au déclin de l’Ordre de Jacques Cartier qu’à son essor. En Acadie, l’élection d’un Acadien, Louis J. Robichaud au poste de premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick, province qui rassemble le plus grand nombre d’Acadiens aux Provinces maritimes, constitue un facteur de cette évolution du rôle de l’État dans le soutien des aspirations sociales et culturelles des citoyens. Son élection en 1960 a eu un effet extraordinaire sur le patriotisme acadien et contribue à libel-ler les dix ans de son administration de Révolution tranquille acadienne. Cette participation accrue à la vie politique provin-ciale, ainsi que la montée du sentiment national ont eu un impact positif sur les organismes nationaux en Acadie, tel l’OJC.

La dernière génération de l’Ordre de Jacques Cartier (1950-1965) nous intéresse particulièrement puisque c’est elle qui est témoin de ces grands changements, tant au sein de l’Ordre qui sera dis-sout en 1965, que sur le plan des transformations qui se réalisent au sein de la société acadienne et canadienne-française.


Michel Sarra-Bourne

Une vie de passions de JOSÉE LEGAULT

Texte publié dans le Journal de Montréal https://www.journal-demontreal.com/2019/02/12/une-vie-de-passions MISE À JOUR, mardi, 12 février 2019 05h00

En termes médiatiques, Michel Sar-ra-Bournet, historien et politologue, n’était pas une « vedette ». Sa vie tissée serré d’une passion sans limites pour le Québec mérite pourtant qu’on s’y arrête. Permettez-moi de vous en parler.

Michel, mon ami et ancien collègue, est décédé à l’âge de 58 ans. Ses funérailles ont eu lieu dimanche. À son image, la cérémo-

nie émouvante célébrait la vie de Michel – une vie de passions déclinées au pluriel.

Michel était de la trempe des grands intellectuels du Québec moderne. Loin de vivre dans une tour d’ivoire, il était pleine-ment enraciné dans la réalité. Humaniste et bon vivant, son sourire était contagieux. Il adorait le tango et les voyages, mais son cœur le ramenait toujours vers les siens.

Homme de liberté, Michel était un souverainiste de tête et de cœur –, il fut aussi conseiller politique auprès de Lucien Bou-chard. Sa vision était celle d’un Québec ouvert au monde et à sa propre diversité. Pour se faire, disait-il avec raison, l’indépen-dance devait parler aux jeunes et aux nouveaux Québécois.

Un semeur

À travers ses nombreuses années d’enseignement à l’UQAM et à l’Université de Montréal, Michel s’est fait le semeur d’une connaissance approfondie du Québec. Esprit fin, cultivé et d’une rigueur inattaquable, Michel Sarra-Bournet avait également un talent rarissime.

Il pouvait en effet piloter plusieurs projets à la fois – cours, confé-rences, colloques, livres, séminaires, articles, recherches, etc. –, tout en les menant tous à terme avec brio et minutie.

Lorsqu’il a su qu’il était atteint d’un cancer agressif, nous avons mangé ensemble pour en discuter. Étant moi-même survivante du cancer, Michel voulait qu’on se parle de ce qu’il vivait. Il était ébranlé, mais espérant et combatif, comme toujours.

Même en pleine lutte pour sa vie, Michel voulait aussi parler de l’état du Québec. Je le regardais et l’écoutais avec attention et admiration.

Fondation

La première fondation de Michel, celle qui lui a donné la force d’ac-complir tout le reste, était sa famille. Issu d’une fratrie nom-breuse et soudée solide, il a eu trois beaux enfants et trois magnifiques petits-enfants. De toute évidence, Michel a beaucoup aimé et il fut beaucoup aimé. Ses photos proje-tées tout au long de la cérémonie nous montraient un père et un grand-père fier et heureux.

Malgré sa maladie et son passage beaucoup trop bref sur cette terre, son parcours fut celui d’une vie remplie à ras bord. Remplie d’amour, d’amitiés et de collaborations fertiles dans tous les sens du mot. Michel, nous ne t’oublierons jamais.

Pour ceux et celles qui voudraient découvrir ou redécouvrir son œuvre, ses livres sont nombreux et toujours fascinants d’actua-lité, dont notamment : L’affaire Roncarelli : Duplessis contre les témoins de Jéhovah (prix Edmond-de-Nevers), Le pays de tous les Québécois, Manifeste des intellectuels pour la souveraineté, Entre-tiens avec Louis Bernard, Duplessis – Entre la Grande Noirceur et la société libérale, Les nationalismes au Québec du XIXe siècle au XXIe siècle et L’enseignement de l’histoire au début du XXIe siècle au Québec.

Obituaries Nécrologie

“Historians in the News” acknowledges some of the many suc-cesses of historians in Canada, including their engagement outside academia and with the public. If you know of someone who has delivered a public lecture, given an interview, written an editorial, written a notable blog entry, won a non-academic book or article prize, received a teaching award, or has been awarded an honorary degree, let us know! Here are a few developments that members have told us about over the past months:

« Les historiens font les manchettes » vise à reconnaître et à hono-rer quelques-uns des nombreux succès d’historiens au Canada, y compris leur engagement avec le public. Si vous ou quelqu’un que vous connaissez 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 adminis-tratif, 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 :

USask History Professor Valerie Korinek has been nominated for two Saskatchewan Book Awards for her recently published Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Commu-nities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 and she will also be giv-ing the @cchf_ccwh keynote address this year at Congress.

La professeure d’histoire à l’USask, Valerie Korinek, a été mise en nomination pour deux prix littéraires de la Saskatchewan pour sa publication récente Prairie Fairies : A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 et elle prononcera également le discours liminaire @cchf_ccwh cette année au Congrès.

Sean Carleton, Mount Royal University, has been named one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 for his work in Indigenous history and for his ongo-ing efforts to promote reconciliation.

Sean Carleton, de Mount Royal University, a été nommé une des 40 personnes les plus perfor-

mantes de moins de 40 ans de Calgary pour son travail dans le domaine de l’histoire autochtone et pour ses efforts constants en vue de promouvoir la réconciliation.

Pierre Anctil, University of Ottawa was a finalist for the Gov-ernor General’s Award for Non-fiction for his book Histoire des Juifs du Québec while Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu was a finalist for Translation (French to English).

31Canadian Historical Association

Pierre Anctil, de l’Université d’Ottawa a été finaliste pour le Prix du Gouverneur général pour les nouvelles pour son livre Histoire des Juifs du Qué-bec et Jacob Isaac Segal : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu a été finaliste en traduction (du français vers l’anglais).

David Wilson, University of Toronto and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, delivered the George Story Lecture in Humanities at Memorial University.

David Wilson, de l’Université de Toronto et du Dictionary of Canadian Biography, a prononcé

la conférence George-Story en sciences humaines à la Memorial University.

2019 CHA Annual MeetingRéunion annuelle 2019 de la SHC

Vancouver, June 3-5 juin 2019

Back

grou

nd p

hoto

cour

tesy

http

s://w

ww.

good

free

phot

os.co

m

TWO RECIPIENTS RECEIVE $2500 AND A TRIP FOR TWO TO OTTAWA TO ATTEND THE AWARDS CEREMONY

Eligible projects include community exhibitions, oral histories, multimedia projects and more.

DEADLINE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IS JULY 15, 2019. NOMINATE A PROJECT TODAY!

THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S HISTORY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

2017 Award Recipients Hodul’eh-a: A Place of Learning, Prince George, BC

CanadasHistory.ca/ApplyGG

2018 AWARD RECIPIENTS: MON VÉLO RACONTE

Historical Scholarship on Display in Vancouver | La ... · ane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha,...

Documents

Transcript of Historical Scholarship on Display in Vancouver | La ... · ane, Sadiah Querishi, Jonathan Saha,...