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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…
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#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
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Igor Sergeievich Gouzenko was a Soviet intelligence officer and cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Union’s Ottawa embassy during the Second World War.
Just weeks after the end of the war, Gouzenko left the Soviet embassy with documents that proved his country had been spying on its wartime allies Canada, Britain and the US, prompting what has come to be known as the Gouzenko Affair.
Gouzenko sought asylum for himself and his family in Canada. His defection caused a potentially dangerous international crisis that many historians consider the beginning of the Cold War.
