Join Dr. Ian Mosby (Toronto Metropolitan University) as he shares how Canada’s Food Rules, the first version of Canada’s Food Guide, is able to demonstrate the biases and prejudices of settler colonialism. Dr. Mosby explores how history can be used as an act of service, to answer questions and help connect stories. Dr. Mosby draws on his research to craft an engaging discussion on the creation of the Food Guide, and the background factors that influenced the decisions of what made a healthy diet. He explores how settler colonial ideas lead to its creation and the experimentation of nutritional guidance on vulnerable populations. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

Join Brandon Mitchell, a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, as he shares the story of the 1st Listuguj Salmon Raid in 1980, told to him by his mother-in-law only a few years ago. While the 1981 Salmon raid is often the one remembered through family conversations. Brandon learned that police stormed the Listuguj community a year earlier. Learning about this previous raid inspired Brandon Mitchell to write "Migwite'tmeg: We Remember It", a contribution to the groundbreaking comic collection This Place, published by Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

Join Dr. Karen Flynn (University of Illinois) as she brings us the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse working in Montreal in the 1960s who won the first racial discrimination in employment case in Canada through the trial: Her Majesty the Queen vs. Hilton of Canada Ltd. (aka the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal). Through Gloria’s story, we can see behind the facade of this significant Canadian hotel and explore the intersection of race, class, gender, and the transnational nature of Canadian history. 

Dr. Flynn talks passionately about why we need to bring Gloria’s story into every history classroom, to learn about these groundbreaking court cases history has forgotten.

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Join Dr. Alanna McKnight, a fashion historian, as she demonstrates how a using a 19th century Eaton’s catalogue can open up conversations about the history of fashion, women’s bodies, leisure time, exploitive work practices, and settler colonialism. Specifically she shows two pages from the Fall and Winter catalouge from 1899-1900 and highlights the layout of the catalogue and the fashions of the period.

Dr. McKight also links this history to today’s “fast fashion” and asks us to consider how access to ready-made clothes contributed to the waste associated with fashion, and the continuation of negative labor practices.

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How can curling bring community together? How can we use sport to explore historical events?

Join Dr. Carly Adams (University of Lethbridge) and Dr. Darren Aoki (University of Plymouth) as they draw on the Nikkei Memory Capture Project to share experiences of how curling brought Japanese-Canadians together after World War Two. Through sharing the stories they captured in the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, Dr. Adams and Dr. Aoki bring the stories of Japanese-Canadians to the forefront of the discussion, to reframe how we view Japanese internment and the experiences after the forced internment ended. Centering the discussions around the Japanese-Canadian curling bonspiel, community, strength, and celebration is highlighted. Learn more about Histoire Source | Source Story: http://www.sourcestory.ca/

How can a church be used as a source in history classrooms? How can you bring larger histories into your own neighbourhood? Join Dr. Evan Habkirk (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) as he talks about using the local churches in your community as a place that can start discussions around the past, historical connections, and colonial histories. By using a local church as a primary source, even from the outside, Dr. Habkirk discusses how we can connect our communities to larger themes in Canadian history, such as residential schools, royal visits, and world wars. Reading churches as historical documents can connect to our present communities and bring the history of the community directly to the lives of students.

À quand remonte la présence des communautés arabes au Canada? Comment ont-elles réagi face aux politiques migratoires discriminatoires du début du XXe siècle? Qu’est-ce que l’étude de ces communautés et de leurs mobilisations nous dit sur l’histoire canadienne? Pour répondre à toutes ces questions, joignez-vous à la conversation que Christine Chevalier-Caron a eue avec Brian Aboud.

How does history live within us?   

Join Leonard Paris as he shares his engaging memoir of growing up as a Black child in Nova Scotia in the 50’s and 60’s. Len brings stories of structural racism and generational poverty that impacted every area of his life. He works to dispel the myth that racism and discrimination were only an American experience and to create awareness that these problems continue to this day. We engage with this exciting memoir and how to bring it into your history classroom.  

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