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Today, to complement @NiCHE_Canada's reading list on the #envhist of (settler) colonialism, here's a deep-cut thread: 10 more readings, each of which pairs well with one reading on our original list.
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
1) We recommended James Daschuk's Canadian bestseller Clearing the Plains.
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
2) We recommended Sarah Carter's Imperial Plots, a multiple award-winning history of Prairie women farmers and ranchers.
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
Thrilled to participate in today’s @PMTC2021 conference and talk about meeting students where they are at (figuratively and literally). My research ranges from #bioarchaeology to #MedHist (bones to books) and I love bringing theatre to the classroom! #PandemicMethodologies 
My greatest insecurity preparing for teaching in Fall 2020 was how to create a sense of community in the classroom for a course that had never before been delivered online. Summer 2020 reading: #MOOCs! #CourseDesign! #Tech! #UniversalDesign! #Stress! #PandemicMethodologies
Reimagining “Intro to Anthro of Health” required boldness. I looked to @DanielPaulOD’s unessay (tinyurl.com/4b2uezvv): to throw out the rules of essay writing and welcome speculative work. This semester was the right one to take a risk. #PandemicMethodologies
COVID-19 Proved that Accessibility is Possible in Universities - So Why is it Going Away?
Victoria Seta Cosby, Doctoral Candidate
Queen’s University, History Department
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc
Victoria Seta Cosby, Doctoral Candidate
Queen’s University, History Department
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc
Just before the provincial wide shut-down of universities in March 2020, I received some devastating news. My knee injury would require reconstructive surgery, and I would be unable to walk for months. #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc
When everything shut down, I was, selfishly, relieved. I was able to continue with working as a teaching assistant (later a teaching fellow). My injury forced me to move home to my parents’ house in a different city. #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc
“More with less: Academic practice for the COVID generation” đź“šđź¦
Stories and reflections from Johanna Lewis (JL) and Daniel Murchison (DM) @Daniel14382460
Department of History, York University
@PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist
Stories and reflections from Johanna Lewis (JL) and Daniel Murchison (DM) @Daniel14382460
Department of History, York University
@PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist
@Daniel14382460 @PMTC2021 We are part of academia’s COVID generation - ours is a cohort of scholars whose graduate studies coincided with the global pandemic. COVID has produced many personal & professional challenges and changed how we do history: we have had to do more with less. #PandemicMethodologies
@Daniel14382460 @PMTC2021 Archives, the fetishized foundation of historical practice, have been made even more inaccessible than usual by the closures of institutions and borders. How/can historians work in this context? & What lessons emerge from our adaptive strategies? #PandemicMethodologies
"Using Collaborative Research and Open-Source Methods to Promote Feminist Pedagogy During a Pandemic,” A Twitter Essay by @thonihoward w/ @NCITU of @Tulane and a co-curator of @FemTeachOnline and part of the #PandemicMethodologies conference sponsored by @CndHistAssoc (#CdnHist).
@NCITU @Tulane @FemTeachOnline @CndHistAssoc The collaborative project “Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online” (@FemTeachOnline) assists educators in applying feminist praxis to the online modality (as well as traditional/hybrid) and is especially relevant for Historians. #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc @NCITU
@NCITU @Tulane @FemTeachOnline @CndHistAssoc The @FemTeachOnline Guide, curated by @claremdaniel, @eromerohall, @niyamirandabond, @thonihoward, and Liv Newman, includes literature, assignment examples, and teaching tools relating to feminist pedagogy in online courses. #PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc @NCITU
So happy to be involved in the #PandemicMethodologies conference, sharing some reflections on how sixteen months of working from home have impacted graduate student communities and our research processes #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc
We write our dissertations alone, but it takes a community to think through historical questions. How have isolation and WFH changed our graduate student experience and our research? Why are online forums inadequate replacements for in-person communities? #PandemicMethodologies
Before COVID, I worked in a group office, socialized with other students, and connected with archivists as I researched. It was easy to run questions by my peers, check material in archives, or meet scholars at events. The pandemic has changed grad school #PandemicMethodologies
"Navigating Depression and Graduate Research during COVID-19"
Sue-Ann Benson-Haughton
University of Manitoba
Master's of History (2022)
I am tweeting on Treaty One Territory, home of the Anishinaabeg, Cree and Dene peoples.
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @PMTC2021 @CndHistAssoc
Sue-Ann Benson-Haughton
University of Manitoba
Master's of History (2022)
I am tweeting on Treaty One Territory, home of the Anishinaabeg, Cree and Dene peoples.
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @PMTC2021 @CndHistAssoc
I've struggled with depression for 6 years. Trying to complete my M.A. during a pandemic has been exceeding difficult. Campus? Closed. Libraries? Closed. Archives? Closed. I’ve had to re-learn how to learn in isolation.
#PandemicMethodologies #Gradstudents #depression
#PandemicMethodologies #Gradstudents #depression
In 2019, I worked as a stripper for 4 months, while attending full-time M.A. classes and working PT. I lost both jobs in March 2020. I didn’t have classes again until Jan 2021. It felt like the rug was ripped out. Pandemic dragged, my depression got worse.
#PandemicMethodologies
#PandemicMethodologies
Compounded Isolations: Graduate School, the Pandemic, and the Social Nature of Historical Work
Emily B. Kaliel, PhD Candidate, History Dept, University of Guelph @UGuelphHist, Arrell Scholar @ArrellFoodInst
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc @PMTC2021
Emily B. Kaliel, PhD Candidate, History Dept, University of Guelph @UGuelphHist, Arrell Scholar @ArrellFoodInst
#PandemicMethodologies #CdnHist @CndHistAssoc @PMTC2021
Completing my MA at @usaskhist was a very fulfilling time of my life. A gracious, thoughtful & engaged cohort supported me while I pursued my research. Discussions about our fields & the work we wanted our scholarship to do kept me excited & motivated.
#PandemicMethodologies
#PandemicMethodologies
My colleagues helped me navigate grad school (as a woman, too). They became my closest friends. They accepted, understood, & validated my choices when many outside of grad school could not. I grew as a person & a scholar, and to them I am forever grateful.
#PandemicMethodologies
#PandemicMethodologies
Since 2016 I've been part of @projectDOHR, a community-based partnership that, “examines the experience of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children as part of the history and legacy of systemic and institutionalized racism” (Province of NS, 2015a: 4)
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The opportunity to work with former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children (NSHCC), the NSHCC Restorative Inquiry, Victims of Institutional Child Exploitation Society (VOICES), educators, historians, and legal experts on this project has been transformative.
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Being immersed in African Nova Scotian and African Canadian history has been a tremendous learning experience and opened my eyes to events and issues in #cdnhist that I might not have known about otherwise.
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This week has revealed what S. Razack calls Canada's racial "amnesia," the persistent denial of our long history of racism. As an historian, this forgetting is frustrating but not surprising. Here's a thread, using Heritage Minutes, to show how this amnesia is actually learned.
First, let me cite Razack's work. Check out the essays in this book, including the introduction by Razack and her difficult chapter on the murder of Indigenous woman Pamela George in Regina: btlbooks.com/book/race-spac…
Razack argues that Canadians hold certain core myths about themselves - they are tolerant, multicultural, peacekeepers et al. - that are invented, propagated, and learned in ways that serve to hide the real history of racism and genocide that Canada, like the US, is built on.
A warm welcome to today's new readers and followers! Borealia features recent scholarship on the Indigenous, French, British, and early national histories of the places we now call Canada. Here's a short thread with a sample of recent posts from this year's back-catalogue:
1/ Need some historical context for #covid19 and pandemics in Canada? Start with @kate4barker on Killer Advertising—How Canadians Were Sold the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/23/kil…
#Cdnhist #canadianhistory
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/23/kil…
#Cdnhist #canadianhistory
@kate4barker 2/ Then wind back the clock to the late 18th C, as @S_Berthelette reflects on Quarantine in the Northwest: The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Public Health Measures to Stop the 1779-1783 Smallpox Epidemic
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/30/qua…
#HudsonBayCompany #history
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2020/03/30/qua…
#HudsonBayCompany #history
Here’s what one kind of objection to state expansion looks like. From World War II.
Thread, on why crisis-led state-building isn’t… so bad.
Thread, on why crisis-led state-building isn’t… so bad.
In 1943, as soldiers died in combat all over the world, some Canadians were ticked off at having to fill out questionnaires.
Why so many questionnaires? Wartime information needs. Post-war economic planning. Without data, the state was flying blind. Finance observers called Canada’s lack of GDP stats in 1943 our “statistical sin of omission.”
On @infomorning today, I shared (in 8 minutes!) some results of the pathbreaking research we've done on the history of Nova Scotia's King's College connections to the enslavement of African people. Here's a taste:
History thread!
#UVADeanKvD @ukings
History thread!
#UVADeanKvD @ukings
First, we made sure the basics were covered: slavery was practiced in Nova Scotia. The trade was abolished by a British statute in 1807, and enslaved people were emancipated by an 1833 British statute. Read HA Whitfield's great book on the subject (North to Bondage).
Then I went on to new facts discovered and new significance established of well-known facts (the historians involved were me, Smardz-Frost, States, and Roper. Here’s a link to the research: ukings.ca/administration…
As a historian and an Albertan, I find @jkenney's cheerful note about celebrating 'John A. Macdonald Day' staggeringly ignorant and incredibly irresponsible. Here, JK dabbles in historical amnesia and wilful whitewashing of the past. Let me explain: alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
First, JK starts out by praising Macdonald for his 'audacity of vision.' 'Audacity,' actually, is an interesting word choice (with dual meanings that JK probably doesn't know): boldness/disrespectful. JK emphasizes the former, let me highlight the latter by analyzing his note.
In the greeting, JK uses 'audacity' to boost JAM's 'boldness' to build a country, but he willfully whitewashes the fact that Canadian nation-building was buttressed by JAM's genocidal policies (war, starvation, and residential schools - all on JAM's watch).
This tweet (from a year ago) is going viral again as tensions in #Wetsuweten territory amp up with the threat of police action this week, so I wanted to get out in front of it. As a historian, I stand by the tweet and want to reshare additional information for further context.
2. My tweet was (and is) one of solidarity; I intended it as an intervention into the emerging discussion by Canadians about the RCMP’s 2019 action against the #UnistotenCamp that was treating this kind of operation against Indigenous peoples as an anomaly, a one-off. It is not.
3. As a historian, I can tell you it is part of a longer pattern going back to the North-West Mounted Police's formation (later the Royal NWMP, later RCMP). Indeed, the origins of the "Mounties" are very much connected to colonization, sent out by John A. Macdonald no less.
I have conflicted feelings about the #Canadian #DDAY commemorations that took place over the last few days, and I struggle during #RemembranceDay because of increasing glorification of war, militarization, and platitudes about honour, duty, and sacrifice. /1
My family has a long history of military service in both World Wars. My great-uncle joined the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, fought at Gallipolli, and died at Beaumont-Hamel. My great-grandfather also enlisted in the RNR and survived the Great War except for a missing finger. /2
My paternal grandfather was a member of the Canadian militia in the interwar years, was a Major during WW2 and remained in Canada throughout the war at Shilo, MB and other bases where he was involved in training enlisted men headed overseas. /3
Well, la Journée internationale des Patriotes (Quebec’s Patriots’ Day) is almost upon us and, as in years prior, there seems to be little consensus as to its significance, as to what it means. #cdnhist #qcpoli 1/8
Historians and political commentators have described the Lower Canadian Patriots who rebelled in 1837 (and for several days in 1838) as deeply egalitarian – but also as a predominantly middle-class group seeking to extend its influence and jealously guarding its privileges. 2/8
Sometimes democrats, sometimes decolonizers, the Patriots have been made into French-Canadian nationalists, but also into representatives of a Canada-wide push for colonial autonomy (regardless of ethnicity), and into Americanizers and annexationists. 3/8
1. It seems this tweet is hitting a nerve. I'm having a hard time keeping up with up the comments, questions, + threats. Now that the #Unistoten solidarity actions have finished for today, I wanted to take just a few moments to reflect +offer some further thoughts as a historian.
2. My tweet was one of solidarity; I originally intended it as an intervention into the emerging discussion by Canadians about the RCMP’s action against the #UnistotenCamp that was treating this kind of operation against Indigenous peoples as an anomaly, a one-off. It is not.
3. As a historian, I can tell you it is part of a longer pattern going back to the North-West Mounted Police's formation (later the Royal NWMP, later RCMP). Indeed, the origins of the "Mounties" are very much connected to colonization, sent out by John A. Macdonald no less.
1. (re)learning Treaties:
In this presentation I will explore how Canada’s National History Society @Canadashistory has supported Canadians in their (un/re)learning of Treaties and the Treaty relationship #NCPHactive #cdnhist
In this presentation I will explore how Canada’s National History Society @Canadashistory has supported Canadians in their (un/re)learning of Treaties and the Treaty relationship #NCPHactive #cdnhist
2. My name is Jessica Knapp & I am a multi-generation Canadian & I am a settler. My relatives immigrated to Canada from Western Europe in the mid-18th century #NCPHactive
3. They lived, where I would be born, on the Traditional territory of the Three Fires confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, & the Potawatomie #NCPHactive #cdnhist
1. With a twitter essay I wrote last year about confronting #JohnAMacdonald's controversial legacy with political cartoons from his OWN time making the rounds again, I wanted to offer a few new thoughts about "political correctness" + changing historical interpretation #cdnhist
2. I am currently reviewing a new book "Sketches from an Unquiet Country" for the Canadian Historical Review (CHR) that deals with political cartoons in #cdnhist: mqup.ca/sketches-from-…
3. I came across an interesting example of how one artist, John Wilson Bengough, offered "politically correct," or changing interpretations, on the War of 1885 - waged by Canada with Macdonald as prime minister - through political cartoons. This is in a chapter by Robyn Fowler.
1 Here are some thoughts on @KentMonkman’s marvellous “Shame and Prejudice” exhibit in light of #cdnhist wars #johnamacdonald + #Canada150
2 I had the opportunity to check out the exhibit yesterday @Glenbow in #Calgary with my #MountRoyalUniversity colleagues
3 The exhibit launched in Jan in Toronto and is touring Canada for the next few years: goo.gl/GKe16a
