24 episodes
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A conversational series for Canadian history teachers. We speak to historians, archivists, creators, artists, curators, sociologists, anthropologists about one primary source and ask: What is the source? What is the story? How can it challenge Canadian history?
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Exploring the creation of Canada’s Food Guide with Dr. Ian Mosby & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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.
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The Listuguj Salmon Raid and the power of oral histories with Brandon Mitchell & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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.
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Gloria Baylis and the groundbreaking racial discrimination court case of 1965 with Dr. Karen Flynn & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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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Women’s fashion, settler colonialism, and the Eaton’s catalogue with Dr. Alanna McKnight & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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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Japanese Internment and connecting to community through curling with Dr. Carly Adams, Dr. Darren Aoki & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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.
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Using churches to create local connections to colonial histories with Dr. Evan Habkirk & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
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.