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Also in this issue | Également dans ce numéro 1 Word from the President | Mot de la présidente 4 CHA Secretaries | Secrétaires de la SHC 4 8 News from 130 Albert | Nouvelles du 130 Albert 16 CHA’s Advocacy | Les Interventions publiques de la SHC Adieu Bulletin, 18 Addressing Precarity in the Profession | La Question de la bienvenue précarité dans la profession Insections 20 The TRC and the CHA | La CVR et la SHC 22 Word from the Program Chair | Mot de la présidente du comité de programme 23 2018 CHA Elections | Élection 2018 de la SHC 36 At the Intersection of Syria and Canada 39 Obituaries | Nécrologie 41 Historians in the News | Les historiens font les manchettes 37 La crise historique polonaise Irish Nationalisms and 31 Canadian Confederation

Imagery (clockwise, from top): Pixabay. Creative Commons. | Torch, Public domain. | The Holo- caust in Occupied Poland. Poeticbent, Wikimedia Commons. | The Battle of Ridgeway, 1866. Extermination Camp | The Holocaust in Occupied Camp d’extermination Library and Archives Canada C-018737. Poland | L’Holocauste dans Main city with ghetto | Grande ville avec un ghetto Les images (de haut en bas, de la gauche vers la droite) : Pixabay. Creative Commons. | Croquis la Pologne occupée d’un flambeau, domaine publique. | L’Holocauste dans la Pologne occupée, Poeticbent, Wikime- Major Concentration Camp | Un des principaux camps d’extermination dia Commons. | La Bataille de Ridgeway, 1866, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada C-018737. Regina Hotel, date unknown. | L’Hotel Regina. Date inconnue.

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Names, Changes, and the Les noms, les changements et la Canadian Historical Association Société historique du Canada

In November of 2017 the Canadian Historical Association En novembre 2017, le Conseil d’administration de la Société his- | Société historique du Canada Council passed a motion to torique du Canada | Canadian Historical Association a adopté une change the name of the Sir John A. Macdonald prize for the motion visant à changer le nom du prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald best book in Canadian history to the Canadian Historical pour celui de prix du meilleur livre savant en histoire canadienne Association prize for best book in Canadian history and to de la SHC et de solliciter l’appui des membres lors de l’assemblée seek the support of the membership at the Annual General générale annuelle de mai 2018. La motion a été adoptée avec un Meeting in May of 2018. The motion passed with decisive appui décisif mais non unanime. Quelques semaines plus tard, un but not unanimous support. A few weeks later, an email went courriel informait les membres de ce changement et leur deman- out informing the membership of this change and asking dait leur avis. Au cours des mois qui ont suivi, nous avons reçu un for their feedback. In the months since then we’ve received a large éventail de réponses de la part des membres de la SHC, et un wide range of responses from members of the CHA, and a fair bon nombre de personnes qui ne sont pas membres également. Si number from people who are not members, too. If we divide nous divisons ces réponses en trois catégories certes imparfaites these responses into three admittedly imperfect categories – in – ceux qui appuient la motion, ceux qui s’y opposent, et ceux qui support, in opposition, and asking questions or offering sug- posent des questions ou qui offrent des suggestions - le plus grand gestions – the greatest number supported the change. nombre est en faveur du changement proposé.

But this is not necessarily a question or topic that is best served Mais ce n’est pas nécessairement une question ou un sujet qui se by blunt quantitative analysis. Whatever their particular posi- prête à une simple analyse quantitative. Quelle que soit l’opinion tion on this motion, the members and interested parties who personnelle des membres et des parties intéressées qui nous ont responded offered animated and engaged responses that made fait part de leur rétroaction, ils ont offert des réponses animées et clear that they take the work of the CHA| SHC, the meaning engagées qui indiquent clairement qu’ils prennent le travail de la of this particular award, and the practice of naming seriously. SHC|CHA, la signification de ce prix en particulier et la pratique de nommer au sérieux. The motion to change the name of this award took up an issue that is not new, either around this particular prize, and cer- La motion visant à changer le nom de ce prix porte sur un sujet tainly around whether John A. Macdonald was an appropriate qui n’est pas nouveau, que ce soit au sujet de ce prix en particu- figure to commemorate. The CHA| SHC is almost a hundred lier et indubitablement sur la question de savoir s’il est convenable years old, but the Sir John A. Macdonald prize is not nearly as de commémorer un personnage comme John A. Macdonald. La venerable, having been first awarded in 1977. Since 2009, the SHC|CHA a presque cent ans, mais le prix Sir-John-A.-Macdo- laureate has also received the Governor General’s Award for nald est loin d’être aussi vénérable, puisqu’il a été accordé pour la Scholarly Research: The Sir John A. Macdonald prize, awarded première fois en 1977. Depuis 2009, la lauréate ou le lauréat reçoit by Canada’s History at Rideau Hall. également reçu le Prix du Gouverneur général pour la recherche savante : le prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald, décerné par Histoire We can summarize the responses to the proposed change Canada à Rideau Hall. as follows. Members who wrote us in support of the motion argued that the proposed new name was a better reflection of Nous pouvons résumer les réponses au changement proposé the CHA| SHC’s mandate and the goals of its membership. The comme suit. Les membres qui nous ont écrit en faveur de la motion Sir John A. Macdonald prize doesn’t “represent the diversity soutiennent que le nouveau nom proposé reflète mieux le mandat and inclusiveness of the organization or the work of its mem- de la SHC|CHA et les objectifs de ses membres. Le prix Sir-John- bers,” one noted. Another member argued that the current A.-Macdonald ne « représente pas la diversité et l’inclusivité de name signaled exclusively to post-Confederation political his- l’organisation ou le travail de ses membres », note l’un d’entre eux. tory, and one cluster of values within that, and “why should Un autre membre fait valoir que le nom actuel reflète uniquement one political stance be accorded the prestige associated with a l’histoire politique après la Confédération et les valeurs liées à prize with much wider range”? celle-ci et demande « pourquoi accordons-nous le prestige associé à un prix beaucoup plus large à une seule position politique ? » To some members, changing the name represented a timely or even overdue response. One explained that “the name change Pour certains membres, le changement de nom du prix repré- meets the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions sente une réponse qui tombe à point ou qui aurait dû être fait calls to rethink historical commemoration and public memory bien avant. L’un d’entre eux explique que « le changement de nom

Canadian Historical Association 1 practice in Canada.” “I don’t think it is appropriate to name répond à l’esprit de la Commissions de vérité et de réconciliation such an important historical prize after a person who has, at qui nous invite à réfléchir sur la commémoration historique et les best, a mixed historical legacy, and at worst, was a key player pratiques de la mémoire publique au Canada ». « Je ne pense pas in Indigenous cultural genocide in Canada,” another argued. A qu’il soit convenable de donner un tel nom à ce prix puisqu’il s’agit CHA member noted Macdonald’s role in “white-supremacist d’un personnage qui, au mieux, a un héritage historique mitigé and genocidal policies whose profoundly damaging repercus- et qui, au pire, a joué un rôle clé dans le génocide culturel des sions are felt to this day” and argued that changing the name, Autochtones au Canada ». Un membre de la SHC souligne le rôle and not keeping it, provides the best “teachable moment.” Some de Macdonald dans « les politiques génocidaires de la suprématie members find the proposed modified name appropriate. One de la race blanche dont les répercussions profondément préjudi- explained that,“the name is inclusive, describes what the prize ciables sont ressenties à ce jour » et maintient que changer le nom, actually celebrated, and send a powerful signal.” Other mem- et ne pas le garder, représente le meilleur « moment propice à l’en- bers agreed that the name needed to be changed but thought a seignement ». Certains membres estiment que le nouveau proposé better and more fulsome response would be to name the prize est approprié. L’un d’eux explique que « le nom est inclusif, décrit after the late Metis historian Olive Dickason. ce que le prix représente vraiment et constitue un puissant mes- sage. » D’autres sont d’accord pour dire que le prix doit changer CHA| SHC members who wrote in opposition to the current de nom, mais ils suggèrent qu’une meilleure et exhaustive réponse motion did so for a range of reasons that reflected arguments serait de nommer le prix en l’honneur de la défunte historienne about Macdonald as a historical figure, practices of commem- métisse Olive Dickason. oration, and organizational process. One member explained that it was both “ahistorical and arrogant” to “condemn a man Un argument avancé par les membres de la SHC | CHA qui ont so associated with the founding of Canada because he was a manifesté leur opposition à la présente motion est que Macdo- product of his age.” Another member described the proposed nald est un personnage historique. Ils soulignent également les change was “political correctness gone insane” and represented pratiques de commémoration et le processus organisationnel. Un an organization caving into “fad and revision.” Others argued membre explique qu’il était à la fois « ahistorique et présomptueux that the move was presentist. Another member explained that » de « condamner un homme si intimement lié à la fondation du the motion was counter-productive and a distraction from Canada parce qu’il était un produit de son âge ». Un autre membre more substantive issues. estime que le changement proposé était de « la rectitude politique insensée » et symbolise une organisation qui cède à la « mode et à CHA/SHC members whose comments can be characterized as la révision ». Un autre croit que le geste est du présentisme et un in opposition also saw the Council’s motion as a sign of the autre est de l’avis que la motion est contre-productive et détourne humanities increasing irrelevance, or a threat to history. “Don’t l’attention de questions plus importantes. change this name, or next you will have to burn all books written of him and forever hide our history,” argued one. Another Les membres dont les commentaires peuvent être décrits comme member suggested that the prize should be amended by bun- étant opposés au changement de nom proposé par le CA, voient dling it with the name of a champion for Indigenous peoples, en cette motion un signe de la perte graduelle de pertinence des writing “Let us have a name that has a memory.” For one mem- humanités ou même une menace pour l’histoire. « Ne changez pas ber, the proposed change is an inadequate response, “only an ce nom, ou vous devrez brûler tous les livres écrits à son sujet effort at decolonization” and not “reconciliation.” et nier pour toujours notre histoire » relate l’un d’eux. Un autre membre a suggéré que le prix soit modifié en le jumelant avec Other members wrote in engagement and response rather le nom d’un défenseur des peuples autochtones quand il écrit « than straight-forward support or opposition. Like those who Ayons un nom dont on peut se souvenir ». Pour un autre membre, opposed the motion, these members asked the CHA| SHC to le changement proposé est une réponse inadéquate, décrite clarify the rationale behind the motion and explain the process comme étant « seulement un geste de décolonisation » et non un that had been and would be followed. Some suggested that the geste de « réconciliation ». prize should be named after a historian like Ramsay Cook,, or, returning to a point made elsewhere, Olive Dickason. Others D’autres nous ont écrit sans être pour ou contre mais pour tout argued for a different alternative, and another called attention simplement participer à la discussion. Comme ceux qui s’oppo- to the imprecise and loaded language of “best.” saient à la motion, ces membres ont demandé à la SHC | CHA de clarifier la raison d’être de la motion et d’expliquer le proces- *** sus employé et qui sera suivi. Certains ont suggéré que le prix devrait être nommé en l’honneur d’un historien comme Ramsay Whatever the particular contents of these responses, they Cook, ou, revenant sur un point qui a été soulevé précédemment, indicate that CHA| SHC members know that naming mat- Olive Dickason. D’autres ont plaidé pour un choix différent tan- ters and that scholarly historians have a particular stake in dis qu’un autre a attiré l’attention sur le terme vague et chargé de and obligation to conversations about what we name things, « meilleur ». how we name them, and when and why those names might be changed. Historians also know that change is a constant, ***

2 Société historique du Canada and that keeping things the same are also decisions, and also Quel que soit la teneur particulière de ces commentaires, ils make history. indiquent que les membres de la SHC | CHA savent que les noms sont importants et que les historiens sont concernés par et ont une There is also the question of whether any politician is the best obligation particulière de s’engager dans la discussion sur le nom choice for a scholarly organization’s book prize. The general que nous donnons aux choses, la façon dont on s’y prend et quand practice in the CHA| SHC and in equivalent organizations is to et pourquoi ces noms peuvent être changés. Les historiens savent name prizes in general terms, or after historians, or people who aussi que le changement est une constante et que de maintenir le have supported historical scholarship, teaching or writing. The statu quo est aussi une décision qui marque l’histoire. New Zealand Historical Association and the Australian His- torical Association both name their awards after scholars or Il y a aussi la question de savoir si un politicien est le meilleur the organization.1 The American Historical Association (AHA) choix pour le prix du livre d’une société savante. Normalement, has no George Washington book prize, although it does give les organismes comme la SHC | CHA et autres sociétés similaires a Theodore Roosevelt| Woodrow Wilson award, but it is an est de nommer des prix, soit en l’honneur d’historiens ou de per- “honorific” award that is given to public figures rather than sonnes qui ont appuyé la recherche, l’enseignement ou l’écriture de scholars.2 l’histoire. La New Zealand Historical Association et l’Australian Historical Association nomment leurs prix en l’honneur de cher- And beyond the general question are the bigger ones that our cheurs ou de sociétés. 1 L’American Historical Association (AHA) members, whatever their particular position, engaged in their n’a pas de prix du livre George Washington, bien qu’elle octroie un responses: Macdonald’s legacy and meaning, for Indigenous prix Theodore Roosevelt | Woodrow Wilson, mais ce n’est qu’un peoples, for Quebecois and French-speaking Canadians, or for prix « honorifique » qui est remis à des personnalités publiques Asians, and for Canada and for their respective legacies. plutôt qu’à des chercheurs. 2 Quelle que soit leur opinion personnelle, les membres doivent, dans le cadre de ce questionnement, The Sir John A. Macdonald prize is a particular entity, and se pencher sur de plus grandes questions, à savoir ; l’héritage et there is no obvious road map to follow on how, when, and in la signification de Macdonald pour les peuples autochtones, les what way it should be changed. The motion from the CHA| Québécois et les francophones, les Asiatiques et pour le Canada SHC Council proposes to centre what is currently the prize’s ainsi que pour leurs legs spécifiques. subtitle, thinking that it is in those organizational, admittedly unexciting words – Canadian Historical Association prize for Le prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald est une entité particulière et il n’y best book in Canadian history – we have, and have had since a pas de feuille de route à suivre sur la question de savoir com- 1977, the core meaning of the prize. On 29 March 2019, the ment, quand et de quelle façon il faudrait le changer. La motion du CHA| SHC will hold its annual meeting where we make deci- Conseil d’administration la SHC | CHA propose de cadrer ce qui sions about the organization and how to best conduct it. One est actuellement le sous-titre du prix. Nous sommes d’avis que, ces of those questions will be whether the membership supports mots organisationnels, certes peu passionnants - le prix du meil- the proposed change. leur livre savant en histoire canadienne de la SHC - renferment, et ce depuis 1977, les valeurs fondamentales du prix. L’assemblée Researching, writing, and teaching about history equips us générale des membres de la SHC | CHA aura lieu le 29 mai 2018, well to have discussions that involve multiple levels of inter- la CHA | SHC là où nous prenons des décisions au sujet de l’or- pretation and analysis that attend to different pasts and their ganisation et la meilleure façon de le faire. L’une de ces questions implications for the present. It also shows us ways that we can sera de savoir si les membres appuient le changement proposé. act and make choices even when there are enduring differences of opinion. We know from the careful, engaged, and thoughtful La recherche, l’écriture et l’enseignement de l’histoire nous per- responses that members of the CHA| SHC sent in response to mettent d’avoir des discussions qui impliquent plusieurs niveaux our proposal around this particular award is a question that d’interprétation et d’analyse, qui traitent de différents passés et de they take seriously. leurs implications pour le présent. Elles nous permettent égale- ment d’agir et de faire des choix même lorsqu’il y a des divergences d’opinions persistantes. Nous savons par les réponses prudentes, engagées et réfléchies que les membres de la SHC | CHA nous ont fait parvenir en réponse à notre proposition sur le prix Macdonald est une question qu’ils prennent au sérieux.

1 http://www.theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/;https:/nzha.org.nz/ 1 http://www.theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/;https:/nzha.org.nz/ 2 https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/ 2 https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/the- theodore-roosevelt-woodrow-wilson-award odore-roosevelt-woodrow-wilson-award

Canadian Historical Association 3 CHA Secretaries | Secrétaires de la SHC Adieu Bulletin, bienvenue Intersections

C’est avec fierté que l’exécutif de la Société historique du Canada La mutation du Bulletin vers Intersections souligne également un vous présente la nouvelle version du magazine de l’organisation : autre passage : celui de mon départ à titre de secrétaire de langue Intersections. La transformation de ce qui était jusqu’à récem- française. Il s’agit donc de mon dernier texte. Pour reprendre une ment le Bulletin témoigne de la lente métamorphose de cette expression consacrée, « je tends le flambeau » à ma remplaçante. publication. Vous l’avez sans doute remarqué, la nature des C’est ce qui explique le caractère plutôt succinct de ce texte : je ne textes et des thématiques proposés exprime le lieu de débat suis pas particulièrement doué avec les adieux. et d’échanges qu’est devenu le Bulletin. Au-delà de la mue esthétique, Intersections souhaite poursuivre dans cette voie en Cependant, j’aimerais profiter de l’occasion offerte par ce dernier favorisant les rencontres et les échanges entre les historiennes et texte pour remercier mes collègues du Conseil d’administration les historiens qui travaillent au Canada. Cette et de l’exécutif de la SHC. Ces personnes nécessité apparaît actuellement nécessaire jouèrent un rôle essentiel dans ce qui devint dans un contexte de polarisation des débats un mandat de presque huit ans. Dans un politiques et sociaux. premier temps, je dois savoir gré à ceux qui occupèrent la présidence de l’Association : Pour les besoins de l’exercice, j’ai feuilleté les Mary Lynn Stewart, Lyle Dick, Dominique différents numéros du Bulletin depuis mon Marshall, Joan Sangster et Adele Perry. arrivée comme secrétaire francophone de Leur ouverture à l’endroit des historiens la SHC en 2010 et l’exercice fut particulière- qui ne sont pas des « canadianistes » et les ment intéressant. Porter ce regard permet de efforts déployés pour affirmer et soutenir rappeler certains enjeux qui ont marqué la le caractère bilingue de la SHC témoignent communauté historique canadienne. Il s’agit de l’esprit d’inclusion des perspectives d’un poncif, mais ce coup d’œil mesure le pas- historiques qui anime la Société. Parallèle- sage du temps et les mutations du contexte ment, je tiens également à remercier la sociopolitique et professionnel dans lequel trésorière Jo-Anne McCutcheon et Marielle œuvrent les historiens au Canada. Il suffit de Campeau du bureau de la SHC. Je souhaite penser à la transformation du Musée des civil- également exprimer ma reconnaissance à isations, de la tragédie de Lac-Mégantic, du mes collègues secrétaires de langue anglaise. centenaire de la Grande Guerre, des attentats C’est grâce à votre travail que le Bulletin est en France, du Brexit, de l’élection de Donald devenu Intersections : Alexandra Mosquin, Trump à la présidence américaine et j’en passe. Amber Lloyd Langston et surtout Robert Talbot. Les membres ne le réalisent peut- Je dois vous avouer que j’ai eu beaucoup de être pas, mais la publication du magazine et plaisir à m’exercer à ce que François Bédarida et René Rémond le fonctionnement quotidien de la SHC ne seraient pas possibles qualifiaient à la fin des années soixante-dix « d’histoire du temps sans le travail et la patience exemplaire de son directeur général présent »1. C’est ce qu’est devenue, au fil du temps, ma rubrique Michel Duquet. Il fut un allié précieux et indispensable! du Bulletin. Les résultats ne furent pas toujours à la hauteur de mes espérances, mais, dans tous les cas, l’exercice m’a ravi! Finalement, c’est vers vous, chers lecteurs et lectrices, membres Je reconnais les limites de l’exercice, mais il a eu l’avantage de de la Société historique du Canada que j’adresse mes derniers réaffirmer l’utilité de l’histoire en tant qu’outil et exercice de mots. Je vous remercie bien sincèrement d’avoir lu et commenté compréhension du présent. mes interventions et de m’avoir offert cette chance de réfléchir sur la place de l’histoire dans notre temps. À très bientôt.

1 Voir à ce sujet Emmanuel Droit, Hélène Miard-Delacroix et Frank Martin Laberge Reichherzer, dir. Penser et pratiquer l’histoire du temps présent, Ville- Secrétaire de la langue française neuve D’Ascq, 2017.

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... j’ai feuilleté les différents numéros du Bulletin depuis mon arrivée comme secrétaire francophone de la SHC en 2010 et l’exercice fut particulièrement intéressant. Porter ce regard permet de rappeler certains enjeux qui ont marqué la communauté historique canadienne. Il s’agit d’un poncif, mais ce coup d’œil mesure le passage du temps et les mutations du contexte sociopolitique et professionnel dans lequel œuvrent les historiens au Canada.

(clockwise, from top) The attacks in France, Radio France Internationale, posted online November 24, 2015. | World War I recruitment poster, Canadian War Museum. | Lac Mégantic, The Montreal Gazette, posted online November 21, 2015. | Brexit word art. | U.S. President Donald Trump. | Canadian Museum of History, Wikimedia Commons. (De haut en bas, de la gauche vers la droite) Les attentats en France, Radio France Internationale, affiché en ligne le 24 novembre 2015. | Affiche de recrutement, Musée canadien de la guerre. | Lac Mégantic, The Montreal Gazette, affiché en ligne le 21 novembre 2015. | Logo de Brexit. | Photo du president américain Donald Trump. | Le Musée canadien de l’histoire, Wikimedia.

Canadian Historical Association 5 CHA Secretaries | Secrétaires de la SHC Hopes and fears for the historical profession

This is my last entry as CHA English-language secretary and as Making room in the scholarly community for historians co-editor of the CHA Bulletin, now Intersections. I have had the outside the academy good fortune of serving in the CHA Executive since 2013, and much has changed since then. In parting, I would like to reflect Which leads me to another question: How do we continue on some of those changes, and on some of my hopes (and fears) to make space within the CHA for our colleagues who work for the profession. outside of universities, be it in primary, secondary or college education, in public history, in government, or in the private Contracting career prospects in the academy and a shrinking sector? student body These colleagues do not always enjoy the same amount of time It is no great secret that the university teaching job market has or resources for pursuing individual research and publication continued to contract, whilst the number of PhDs has grown. as do university professors. Many, however, want to continue Meanwhile, the undergraduate student body – the lifeblood of engage actively in scholarly discourse and in the CHA, and they our profession – has continued to shrink in many universities. have much to teach us – not only in terms of their individual The answer to this challenge is, I think, twofold: research interests, but also in terms of the different career possi- bilities for our graduates. 1. Adapting programmes to better equip students for the pursuit of careers outside the academy. One important step is for the CHA to continue ensuring strong 2. Better informing students and employers of history graduates’ representation of these colleagues on the Executive and Council. capacity to work in non-academic jobs. (This would help to Their perspectives must be shared at the heart of our association improve career outcomes and have the corollary effect of mak- and help to inform its overall direction. ing a history degree more attractive to prospective students.) Another positive measure would be to continue a practice that The CHA has not been idle on this issue, but the decentralized has evolved over the last several years but that has become some- nature of our profession limits our ability to motivate professors what controversial, that is, allowing conference presenters to and departments to act. In Bulletin no. 42.3 (2016), I suggested forego the submission of a formal paper. While historians out- a strategic approach for history professors and departments to side the academy have research that they are keen to share, they confront the challenge. In addition, Michel Duquet added the are already working full days and have family obligations of their excellent “What can you do with a history degree?” page to our own – they don’t often have the time that is required to write, website. At the last CHA Council meeting, in November 2017, edit and fine tune a lengthy paper. we adopted a motion to add another member of Council to the Advocacy portfolio to be responsible for employment advocacy. Shorter, more informal pieces are often more feasible for these colleagues, and CHA Intersections has become a good venue I remain hopeful. The need for workers with strong analytical and for these types of contributions. Another possibility is to invite research skills is strong, both in and outside of government. These these colleagues to present on their work outside of the academy skills (which are not easily replaced by Artificial Intelligence, at more generally, instead of requiring them to present on a purely least not yet!) are precisely those that our students develop over academic research topic. the course of their history degrees. History students conduct con- textualized and synthesized risk/opportunity and cost/benefit Finally, we need to continue affirming the successes of our analyses all the time – they’re just not aware of it! graduates outside of the academy, for example, by acknowl- edging and celebrating their career advancement (something Another, more ‘traditional’ career opportunity that lies open that Intersections’ back page “Historians in the News” tries to our students is in teaching. No, not as university professors. to do, although it has been a struggle at times to get submis- Rather, as elementary and high school teachers, specifically, in sions). French-second language (FSL) programmes like French Immer- sion. The demand across Canada for FSL teachers has been Engaging in public discourse booming for over a decade. Why we have not been encouraging our students to explore this opportunity just boggles the mind. There appears to be less anxiety these days about the level of engagement of historians in the public discourse, and that’s a In short, we must continue to do more to align our programmes good sign. “Historians in the News” continues to underline posi- with the real opportunities that lie ahead for our students. tive examples of this engagement, and the CHA website’s “Media

6 Société historique du Canada Contact” page appears to have been a modest success. The CHA’s minority linguistic community can also feel at home and thrive more robust advocacy focus has also borne fruit, as previous edi- within the CHA in its own language. tions of the Bulletin/Intersections have discussed. It’s in our own interest, too! In order to ensure the best out- Moreover, last year’s 150th anniversary of Confederation provided comes for our Anglophone students, we must encourage them a wealth of opportunity for historians to chime in with media to develop a strong grasp of French so that they can access the interviews, editorials, and thought pieces geared toward a wider full breadth of Canadian historiography, and not just the English audience. At the same time, the rolling back of hyper-partisan half. To create an environment that is more inclusive, we need commemorative initiatives like the much-maligned memorial to to demonstrate a desire to learn from our French-speaking col- the victims of communism has also helped to temper anxieties leagues; by reading their work, by attending their presentations about whether or not historians were doing enough to inform and conferences, and, yes, by presenting in French (or in both the public discourse. languages) ourselves.

That being said, major anniversaries do not occur every year, Ensuring a safe space for debate and disagreement and history is not always front-page news (except in hindsight, perhaps!). As such, the challenge remains for the CHA and for CHA members will have the opportunity at the annual meet- the profession more generally to remain relevant and present in ing to vote on a motion that proposes to rename the Sir John the public consciousness. A. Macdonald prize. I have already expressed my views on the question of Macdonald and commemoration, in the previous Engaging in both Official Languages edition of the Bulletin.

One of the ways in which we can ensure continued relevance Whatever the outcome, the CHA must remain a safe space for is by ensuring continued engagement in both official languages. scholars to express divergent viewpoints, whether those viewpoints are popular or unpopular among a majority of our peers. The CHA is a bilingual organization, hence the production of its Anecdotally, at least, I know that there are some historians, online and printed materials in French and in English, the right younger and older, who have been self-censoring on the Mac- of scholars to present in either official language at our events, donald commemoration question and on other issues because and the fact that we have both a French-language secretary and they are afraid that openly expressing their views – even if done an English-language secretary. so in a reasoned and respectful manner – could have the effect of ostracizing them from the community. As such, they remain I worry, however, that as a profession we are not doing silent. This silence becomes confused with consensus, thus fur- enough to ensure a continued dialogue between English- and ther restricting the intellectual parameters of what is considered French-speaking scholars in Canada, and that too few of us are acceptable debate. reading each other’s work or conducting research into each other’s history. How can one possibly hope to understand Canada’s Two decades after the infamous “History Wars,” we have finally story and its scholarship without having at least some grasp of begun to bridge the divide between social and political histori- the literature in both of its official languages? ans. Both groups are well-represented within the CHA, and we have come to understand that multiple fields of history can claim Part of the challenge is the perception that the CHA is an legitimacy at any given time. It would be a travesty to undo it all. “English” organization. The CHA is home to important and Fortunately, younger scholars do not yet carry the intellectual influential Francophone scholars from across Canada, but, anec- baggage of the old rhetorical conflict. It would be a disservice dotally at least, I know that some of them feel that they need to saddle them with it, or worse still, to precipitate a second set to present, publish and network in English instead of in French of History Wars. I, for one, am hopeful that we will all continue in order to be heard and understood. For these and other rea- to allow space for a multiplicity of views and ways in which to sons, too many other Francophone scholars simply stay out of interpret the past. the CHA, the result being that Francophones and the French language continue to be disproportionately underrepresented. In closing… The CHA has endeavoured to improve things, for example through a more active engagement with the Institut d’histoire Finally, I would like to thank the members of the CHA, Execu- de l’Amérique française, thanks to the efforts of our French-lan- tive and Council with whom I have had the privilege of working guage secretary Martin Laberge, among others. these past five years, and Martin Laberge and Michel Duquet in particular, friends and colleagues both, for their collaboration It is in my capacity as English-language secretary, specifically, on the Bulletin/Intersections. that I raise this issue. For, as members of the majority linguistic community who benefit – consciously or unconsciously Robert J. Talbot – from all the privileges that being in the majority entails, we English-language Secretary have a responsibility to help foster an environment in which the ([email protected]; Twitter: @Saskatoba)

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De l’importance d’un nom - le What’s in a name – The Sir John A. prix Sir-John. A-Macdonald Macdonald prize

Comme vous le savez sûrement déjà, une majorité des mem- As you are undoubtedly aware, the CHA Council decided by bres du Conseil d’administration de la SHC a voté, lors de sa a majority vote at its meeting held in November of last year, réunion du mois de novembre dernier, en faveur du changement to change the name of the Sir John A. Macdonald prize to the de nom du prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald pour celui de « prix du “CHA’s prize for Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History”. meilleur livre savant en histoire canadienne de la SHC ». Cette This is an especially controversial issue that is sure to be hotly question est un sujet particulièrement controversé qui fera sans debated at this year’s AGM. But I would like to point out that aucun doute l’objet d’un débat animé lors de l’AGA de cette Council does not intend to impose its will regarding the name année. Cependant, je tiens à souligner que le Conseil n’a pas l’in- of the prize. Rather, Council wanted to bring the issue to the tention d’imposer sa volonté en ce qui concerne le nom du prix. membership for discussion by way of a motion. Indeed, it will be Le Conseil voulait plutôt soumettre la question aux membres up to the membership to decide whether to keep or change the pour qu’ils en discutent au moyen d’une motion. name to “Best Scholarly Book in Cana- Ainsi, il appartiendra aux membres de décider s’ils dian History” or to any other name désirent conserver ou changer le nom du prix pour that is suggested at the AGM. celui de « Meilleur livre savant de l’histoire canadienne » ou pour tout autre nom suggéré à l’AGA. The CHA’s new website and membership system Le nouveau site Internet et système des membres de la SHC The CHA has a new look once again. In order to keep up with technological La SHC fait de nouveau peau neuve. Afin de suivre advances on the Web where every- les avancées technologiques sur le Web, où tout est thing is very ephemeral, the CHA will considérablement éphémère, la SHC lancera un launch a new responsive web design nouveau site Web adapté aux besoins des mem- whose architecture is tailored to the bres dont l’architecture répond au segment le plus strongest growing segment of our dynamique de notre membership : ceux qui utilis- audience - those using mobile devices. ent des appareils mobiles. Notre nouveau site (voir Our new website (see left) will thus à droite) répondra ainsi à leurs attentes tout en per- meet their expectations while also mettant aux membres qui se servent d’un ordinateur allowing members using a desktop to de facilement trouver le contenu le plus pertinent. easily find the most relevant content. Réunion annuelle de la SHC à Regina CHA Annual Meeting in Regina Inscrivez-vous au congrès avant le 31 mars et prof- Register for congress before March 31 itez du tarif d’inscription hâtive. Veuillez visiter and take advantage of the Early Bird notre site Web pour consulter le programme et rate. Please visit our website to con- pour télécharger l’application mobile. sult the program and to download the mobile app. Erratum Erratum Dans le dernier numéro du Bulletin publié l’automne dernier (#43.3), les membres du jury du prix In the last issue of the Bulletin pub- Sir-John-A.-Macdonald 2018 indiqués étaient : Donica Belisle, lished last fall (#43.3), the jury members of the 2018 Sir John Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Dominique Marquis, Daniel Samson A. Macdonald prize were listed as Donica Belisle, Gregory and William Wicken. Ces personnes faisaient plutôt partie du M.W. Kennedy, Dominique Marquis, Daniel Samson and Wil- comité du prix 2017. Les membres du comité du prix 2018 sont liam Wicken. These committee members sat on the 2017 prize : Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Dominique Marquis, Daniel Samson, committee. Rather, the 2018 committee is made up of: Gregory Cynthia Comacchio and James Daschuk. Nous nous excusons M.W. Kennedy, Dominique Marquis, Daniel Samson, Cynthia auprès des membres du jury pour tout inconvénient que cette Comacchio and James Daschuk. We apologize for any inconven- erreur a pu leur causer. ience this error may have caused. Michel Duquet Michel Duquet Directeur général Executive Director

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News from Affiliated Committees | Nouvelles des Comités associés

(In alphabetical order | par ordre alphabétique) class history. The CHA will also be the location of our next Annual General Meeting. Canadian Committee for Digital History | Comité canadien d’histoire numérique In the coming months, the CCLH executive is working on increasing our capacity on organizing links within and beyond We are looking forward to seeing all academia and have planned a conference for October 2018 with interested in digital history at the busi- the objective of setting a new agenda for Canadian labour and ness meeting in Regina. Please attend, working-class history. The event will be hosted by St. Thomas especially if you are interested in being More College at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. part of the committee as chair or co-chair. More details may be found at our website listed below. Since we last met in Toronto, we have been maintaining the CCDH Facebook The CCLH also awards annual prizes to the best article, under- page. We are still looking to grow this graduate paper, and graduate dissertation in the broad field of network and encourage others looking Canadian labour and working class history. The most recent win- for curating experience to consider volunteering to help manage ners were Julia Smith and Joan Sangster (Article Prize), Lachlan the page and a Twitter account. There will be a co-sponsored MacKinnon (graduate Forsey Prize), and Camille Blanchard- Canadian Committee for Digital History (CHA) and Canadian Séguin (undergraduate Forsey Prize). Society for Digital Humanities Panel at Congress. This panel was also successful in obtaining financial support from the Federa- The 2017-2018 CCLH Executive is as follows: tion for this session. As part of the committee’s ongoing efforts • Jason Russell—President to undertake a small conference to support digital skills develop- • Andrea Samoil—First Vice President ment, we will be working on a SSHRC Insight grant in March. • Mikhail Bjørge—Second Vice President • Benjamin Isitt—Secretary Jo McCutcheon and John Bonnett • Gregory Kealey—Treasurer • Christo Aivalis—Communications Coordinator

For more information about our events and activities, see our website http://www.cclh.ca/. We also have a rapidly-growing Facebook (@cclht) and Twitter account (@CCLHTweets). For information about Labour/le Travail, see http://www.lltjournal. Canadian Committee on Labour History | ca/index.php/llt, and for recent CCLH books, see http://www. Comité canadien sur l’histoire du Travail aupress.ca/index.php/books/series#WorkingCanadians.

The Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) has been Christo Aivalis busy over the past months. Contributions to Labour/le Travail remain strong and consistent, and our two new editors, Charles Smith (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan) and Joan Sangster (Trent University) have hit the ground run- ning in their first year at the journal’s helm.

The CCLH is also continuing its cooperation with the Cana- dian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS). This includes joint meetings and social events, as well as increasing the proportion of labour studies content within Labour/le Travail. We are confident that this partnership will continue to Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and flourish, allowing labour historians and contemporary scholars Transnationalism | Comité canadien sur la migration, of the working class to collaborate and network. l’ethnicité et le transnationalisme

Many CCLH members have submitted papers and panels for the Le CCMET a pour objectif de favoriser et promouvoir les études upcoming Canadian Historical Association meeting in Regina historiques sur la migration, l’ethnicité et le transnationalisme, this spring, and the CCLH has sponsored a panel on the var- d’encourager les collaborations des chercheurs dans ce domaine ied meanings of 1968 for labour and left movements. The CCLH et de parrainer des séances sur ces questions dans le cadre du looks forward to all research shared at this spring’s CHA meet- congrès annuel de la Société historique du Canada et d’autres ing, especially projects relating to a broad conception of working évènements scientifiques.

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Nous sommes heureux de souligner que Laura Madokoro, qui the annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association était présidente du CCMET en 2016-2017, vient d’obtenir le prix and other appropriate meetings. du meilleur ouvrage en sciences sociales décerné par l’Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) pour Elusive Refuge: Chinese We are extremely pleased to announce that Laura Madokoro, Migrants and the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2016). Chair of the CCMET in 2016-2017), has received this year’s Nous saluons également la parution récente ou très prochaine Award for the best book in the Social Sciences from the Asso- de plusieurs autres publications de nos membres : White Sett- ciation for Asian American Studies (AAAS) for Elusive Refuge: ler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian Chinese Migrants and the Cold War (Harvard University Press). West, de Ryan Eyford, (UBC Press, mars 2017); To Belong in Bue- nos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society, The year witnessed the publication of several exciting contribu- de Benjamin Bryce, (Stanford University Press, 2018); Canadian tions to the fields of migration, ethnicity and transnationalism: Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, de Jane White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Nicholas (University of Toronto Press, à paraître en 2018). Canadian West, by Ryan Eyford (UBC Press, 2017); To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist De même, la série « Immigration et ethnicité au Canada/Immi- Society, by Benjamin Bryce, (Stanford University Press, 2018); gration and ethnicity in Canada publiée par la SHC s’est enrichie Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900- d’une nouvelle brochure, dont l’auteure est Marlene Epp : « 1970s, by Jane Nicholas (University of Toronto Press, to be Refugees in Canada : A Brief History » (2017, en cours de tra- published in 2018). duction). « Deportation from Canada », de Dennis Molinaro, paraîtra en 2018. Deux autres brochures sont en préparation : We are also pleased to announce new and upcoming publica- « Filipinos in Canada », de Jon Malek, et « Redress Movements tions in the CHA series “Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada in Canada », de Jodi Giesbrecht et Travis Tomchuk. Deux autres / Immigration et ethnicité au Canada”. The most recent booklet brochures sont prévues dans cette série, dirigée par Marlene Epp was Marlene Epp’s “Refugees in Canada: A Brief History” (2017). et dont les membres du comité consultatif sont Jordan Stan- Completed and forthcoming in 2018 is “Deportation from Can- ger-Ross, Sylvie Taschereau et Laura Madokoro. ada” by Dennis Molinaro. Booklets in process include “Filipinos in Canada” by Jon Malek, and “Redress Movements in Can- The CCMET décerne chaque année un prix du meilleur article ada” by Jodi Giesbrecht and Travis Tomchuk. Two more booklets à un texte publié en français ou en anglais qui représente une in the current series are yet to be assigned. The series is edited by contribution originale, importante et méritoire à l’histoire de Marlene Epp, with advisory committee members Jordan Stan- la migration et de l’ethnicité. Cette année, plus d’une douzaine ger-Ross, Sylvie Taschereau, and Laura Madokoro. d’articles nous ont été soumis. Le comité du prix est formé par Benjamin Bryce, Laura Ishiguro et Jane Nicholas. Le nom du ou The CCMET prize committee will be awarding its annual article de la récipiendaire sera annoncé lors du congrès annuel de la prize for work, in English or French, judged to have made an ori- Société historique du Canada, à Regina. ginal, significant, and meritorious contribution to the historical study of migration and ethnicity. This year’s field included over a Le CCMET tiendra également son assemblée générale annuelle dozen diverse submissions. The committee members are Benja- à Regina. Par ailleurs, dans le cadre de ce même congrès, le min Bryce, Laura Ishiguro, and Jane Nicholas. The award will be CCMET parrainera, en collaboration avec l’Association cana- announced at the CHA’s annual meeting in Regina. dienne d’histoire orale (Canadian Oral History Association), une séance intitulée « Consent, Control, Authority and the Oral At the CHA meeting in Regina the CCMET will be co-spon- Interview ». soring with the Canadian Oral History Association a panel entitled «Consent, Control, Authority and the Oral Interview». Enfin bien sûr nous préparons notre « soirée au pub » tradition- CCMET hold its AGM during the Regina Conference. We are nelle qui elle aussi aura lieu à Regina, le premier dimanche du of course preparing our traditional “pub night”, which will take congrès. Pour cet évènement nous ferons à nouveau équipe avec place in Regina on the first Sunday of the conference. We will l’Association canadienne d’histoire orale. Que vous soyez déjà team up with the Canadian Association of Oral History for this membre du Comité canadien sur la migration, l’ethnicité et le event again this year. transnationalisme où songez à le devenir, vous êtes les bienve- nu(e)s. Pour plus de renseignements, n’hésitez pas à contacter We are always keen to see new faces and we encourage anyone [email protected] ou [email protected]. interested in the study of migration, ethnicity or transnationalism to consider joining the CCMET. For more information, please CCMET is dedicated to fostering and promoting the historical contact [email protected] or [email protected]. study of migration, ethnicity, and transnational issues, to facilitating collaboration in the field, and to sponsoring sessions at Sylvie Taschereau

Canadian Historical Association 11 Canadian Foreign Intelligence History Project (CFIHP) http:// carleton.ca/csids/canadian-foreign-intelligence-history-project/. It has also begun a new blog called Canadian Eyes Only with a focus on new sources, the state of the field, new and forthcoming publications, and historical reflections on contemporary issues. Persons interested in contributing to the project should Canadian Committee on Women’s History | contact the editorial team at [email protected]. Finally, the Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes CIHC will also be sponsoring panels at this year’s CHA Annual Meeting in Regina where it will also hold its annual business The executive of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History/ meeting. Those interested in international history with a Can- Comité canadien de l’histoire des femmes has been engaged adian angle are encouraged to come out or to sign-up any time on several fronts this year. In 2017-18 we have significantly online at: http://cihhic.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp? improved our on-line presence, in large part due to the work of our social media manager, Andrea Eidinger. Our new web- Le Comité d’histoire internationale du Canada (CHIC) a connu site (http://chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/ccwh-cchf/) offers une année fructueuse ayant presque doublé en nombre de detailed information about the Committee and its contribu- membres. Le CHIC est un réseau de discussion ouvert à tous tions. Our blog (sign up at http://chashcacommittees-comitesa. ceux – érudits, auteurs, historiens, responsables de politiques, ca/ccwh-cchf/blogblogue/), Facebook page, and Twitter feed (@ ou autres – qui s’intéressent à l’histoire des relations étrangères cchf_ccwh) have become important sites for information dis- canadiennes, tant gouvernementales que non-gouvernemen- tribution and social connection for our members. At this year’s tales, de n’importe quelle période ou de toute discipline. Avec Congress, the Committee is sponsoring the panel “Diversity and l’aide généreuse du Centre Bill Graham pour l’histoire inter- Motherhood: Debating Family Life in Canada, 1960s-1980s” nationale contemporaine, le CHIC a mis à jour son site Web: and co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary feminist panel on “The https://cihhic.ca. Le Comité et ses membres ont également Futures of Feminisms,” hosted by Socialist Studies. The Commit- formé des partenariats de recherche avec le Projet sur l’histoire tee will also host a reception and book launch on Monday 28 May du renseignement étranger du Canada (PHREC): http://carle- to celebrate the accomplishments of our members who published ton.ca/csids/canadian-foreign-intelligence-history-project/. Il monographs and edited collections in 2017-18. In addition to our a également lancé un nouveau blogue intitulé Canadian Eyes annual general meeting, the Chair has called a Special Meeting Only qui met l’accent sur les nouvelles sources, l’état des lieux, on Sunday 27 May to discuss proposed changes to the Commit- des publications nouvelles et à venir, et des réflexions historiques tee’s charter and motions arising from the survey of membership sur des questions contemporaines. Les personnes intéressées à data collected in 2017. This year the Committee will award the contribuer au projet doivent contacter l’équipe éditoriale à cih- Hilda Neatby prize, the CCWH-CCHF book prize, and the Bar- [email protected]. Enfin, le CHIC commanditera également bara Roberts prize (please visit our website for more information des panels lors de la réunion annuelle de la SHC de cette année about these prizes). The executive would like to encourage any- à Regina, où il tiendra également sa réunion d’affaires annuelle. one interested in teaching, research, or community outreach Les personnes intéressées à l’histoire internationale avec une related to women’s and/or gender history to attend our business perspective canadienne sont encouragées à venir ou à s’inscrire meetings and our reception at Congress and consider joining the en ligne à http://cihhic.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp? Committee and following us on social media. Kevin Brushett Carmen Nielson

Canadian International History Committee | Comité d’histoire internationale du Canada

The Canadian International His- Canadian Network on Humanitarian History | tory Committee (CIHC) has had a Réseau canadien sur l’histoire de l’humanitaire successful year having nearly doubled its membership. The CIHC serves as Events and visitors: The CNHH welcomes international visiting a discussion network open to schol- fellows and colleagues: in March 2018, Kevin O’Sullivan, National ars, policymakers, authors, historians University of Ireland, Galway, spoke on “Populist Humanitari- and others interested in the history of anism: Responding to Famine in Africa, 1984-86”; in May-June Canadian foreign relations, both gov- 2018, Swiss colleague and expert on the visual culture of humani- ernmental and non-governmental, from any time period or tarianism, the history of communication and humanitarian action disciplinary focus. With generous assistance from the Bill Gra- and to the evolution and uses of photojournalism in modern ham Centre for Contemporary International History, the CIHC times, Valérie Gorin, will visit Carleton University and Regina’s has updated its website - https://cihhic.ca. The Committee and Annual Meeting. German colleague Soenke Kunkel will join the its members have also formed research partnerships with the CNHH events in Regina, from in May: his work is on American

12 Société historique du Canada History in a global context, global media, history of development, natural disasters, global cities and humanitarianism; Dutch doctoral candidate and specialist of the history of asylum seekers in Europe Teuntje Vosters, visited Carleton in November 2017 at the invitation of the Mobility and Politics network. The CNHH will host a panel at Congress on “Histories of Humanitarianism and (Visual) Media”, as well as a workshop for its members on May 31. In December 2017, the Network hosted and exhibition on Cana- urbane (UHR/RUH), Canada’s journal of urban history (founded dian academic solidarity towards Chilean refugees in the 1970s, in 1972). UHR/RUH’s editorship was recently taken over by Harold collaboration with Carleton University’s Department of History. Bérubé (Université de Sherbrooke) and Owen Temby (Univer- sity of Texas Rio Grande Valley). They also serve as co-chairs of Archives: The CNHH has collaborated with Margaret Dixon the CUHC/CHUC and, along with several of UHR/RUH’s asso- of LAC to ensure that the Canadian International Develop- ciate editors, make up the caucus’s voting executive. Over the ment Agency (CIDA) 8000+ photos have a better finding aid next year, the caucus’s main task will be to write bylaws defining and that the slides are better housed and better described. It has its relationship with UHR/RUH and governing its and the jour- also secured access for researchers to the International Devel- nal’s operations, including the selection of officers, editors, and opment Photo Library housed in the Lester B. Pearson building term length. Beginning 2019, the CUHC/CHUC will conduct in Ottawa. Continuing its work of archival rescue, it has collab- meetings and organize a panel at the CHA/SHC annual meeting. orated with Carleton Archives and Research Collection to find Follow UHR/RUH on Twitter @UrbanHistoryCan. a safe home for the papers of John Foster, veteran humanitarian of Oxfam Canada, Oxfam International, and the Latin America Owen Temby Working Group. Ian Smillie (Development practitioner, con- sultant and writer) and Hunter Davies (School of International Development, University of Ottawa) are finalizing the bilingual call to retired humanitarian and development workers, and to their families, to save their archives.

News from members: The CNHH now has a Twitter handle: @ AidHistoryCan. Sonya DeLaat and Dominique Marshall continue Environmental History Group | to work on the project of a virtual exhibit on images of refugees Groupe d’histoire environnementale and aid launched last Spring. In collaboration with the Carleton University Disability Research Group, a virtual exhibit on migra- The Environmental History Group will be meeting at the annual tions, aid and disability was launched online in December 2018. meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Regina, Sas- katchewan. Please check the conference schedule for the time, Publications: The collection of essays out of the conference date, and location and join us to discuss new initiatives for organ- “A Samaritan State” Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Cana- izing environmental history researchers in Canada. All CHA dian Foreign Aid, 1950–2016, Ottawa, Global Affairs Canada, members whose research addresses the intersections of nature, December 2016, edited by Greg Donaghy and CNHH member society, and history are welcome. We are especially interested David Webster is with the publisher. Recent CNHH blog posts in inviting graduate students to participate and get involved in include: “Leiden University PhD candidate Teuntje Vosters vis- Environmental History Group activities through the Network in its Carleton University “, January 23, 2018, by CNHH Research Canadian History and Environment New Scholars Group. Assistant S. Murray; “José Venturelli Eade’s art exhibit at Car- leton University”, January 9, 2018, by S. Murray; “New Additions The Network in Canadian History and Environment leads the to the John William Foster Fonds”, November 22, 2017, by Chloe Environmental History Group of the CHA. This year, NiCHE has Dennis; “Lantern Slides Reveal Missionary Work in China”, launched a new scholar-led, open-access, peer-reviewed publi- October 31, 2017, also by Chloe Dennis. cation called Papers in Canadian History and Environment. We invite scholars to submit any manuscript that addresses issues Dominique Marshall, Coordinator concerning nature, society, and the Canadian past (minimum 5,000 words). We publish in HTML and PDF following a double- Canadian Urban History Caucus | blind peer review process. Caucus de l’histoire urbaine du Canada To find out more and read our first paper, visit: The Canadian Urban History Association has been reactivated http://niche-canada.org/piche. We also publish a podcast: as an organized committee of the CHA/SHC, rechristened the http://niche-canada.org/naturespast. And a blog: http:// Canadian Urban History Caucus / Caucus de l’histoire urbaine niche-canada.org/otter du Canada (CUHC/CHUC). The purpose is to create an affiliated organization for Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire Sean Kheraj

Canadian Historical Association 13 (recognizing the best scholarly article on the history of young people published between January 2016 and December 2017), which will be awarded in May 2018 at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at the University of Regina.

Graduate Student Committee | We would like to warmly invite anyone who is actively research- Comité des étudiant.es diplômé.es ing, teaching, or studying the history of children and youth in Canada or elsewhere, or who would simply like to be kept The Graduate Student Committee has been hard at work address- informed about current developments in the field, to attend the ing graduate student member needs across the country this year. group’s business meeting at Congress 2018 in Regina, or to join While finding creative ways to get a handle on our administra- the group. Information about joining the HCYG may be found tion and finances, we have also been improving our web presence on the group’s web page, https://www.hcyg.ca. to create a welcoming collegial environment online. The executive is made up of Carly Ciufo (McMaster University) as chair, Kristine Alexander & Jamie Trepanier Trevor Stace (Wilfrid Laurier University) as treasurer, Jessica DeWitt (University of Saskatchewan) as webmaster, Kassandra Luciuk (University of Toronto) as social events coordinator, and Mark Currie (University of Ottawa) as social media coordinator.

In preparing for Congress in Saskatchewan, we are holding our annual general meeting and social across the street from the University of Regina at Stone’s Throw Coffee Collective (1101 Kramer Boulevard) from 4 to 6pm on Sunday May 27. Follow- ing this event, our co-sponsored roundtable on the Becoming Political History Group | Groupe d’histoire politique a Historian handbook will begin on campus at 6:30pm. With several esteemed colleagues spearheading the handbook’s revi- The PHG has had a busy year both showcasing and recogniz- sions, this panel promises to be full of important conversations ing new and exciting work about Canada’s political past. In about what it means to be a historian today and how best to pre- September 2017, the PHG also hosted its first-ever confer- pare current graduate students for their future. With a variety ence, organized by Bradley Miller at the University of British of academic, public, and student historians in attendance, this Columbia and Penny Bryden at the University of Victoria, will be a chance for us all to discuss the professional futures of at UBC-Vancouver. For two days participants discussed and our discipline both within and outside of the university sphere. debated the many new approaches to our field and enjoyed the Our co-sponsorship of this roundtable hopes to shape many of hospitality of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC. We are the conversations on graduate student life and livelihood for the grateful to the Liu, UBC (especially the History Department), duration of the conference and beyond. and SSHRC for providing generous support for the conference. We also had the pleasure of hosting a celebration of the Carly Ciufo launch of Shirley Tillotson’s Give and Take (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2017). Another Canadian political history conference is already in the works.

Meanwhile, at the CHA conference in June 2017 we awarded prizes for the best book and the best French-language article in History of Children and Youth Group | Canadian political history to two exemplary contributions to the Groupe d’histoire de l’enfance et de la jeunesse field. Paul Litt received the book prize for Trudeaumania (Van- couver, UBC Press, 2016), while Eric Fillion received the article The History of Children and Youth Group (HCYG) was formed prize «Jazz libre : «musique-action» ou la recherche d’une praxis in 2004. The group’s goals are to promote research and teach- révolutionnaire au Québec (1967-1975)», Labour / Le Travail 77 ing in the field of history of children and youth in Canada and (2016), p. 93-120. Also at the CHA, the PHG hosted a vibrant abroad. The group’s co-chairs are Kristine Alexander (University roundtable discussion on the state of the field of political history of Lethbridge) and Jamie Trepanier (Canadian Museum of His- in Canada, with contributions from Colin Grittner, Will Lang- tory). ford, Elizabeth Mancke, Stéphane Savard, Shirley Tillotson, and Jennifer Tunnicliffe. Every two years the HCYG awards the Neil Sutherland Arti- cle Prize. The prize honours the pioneering work of Canadian In 2018 we are looking forward to another CHA roundtable, this historian Neil Sutherland in the history of children and youth time on women’s suffrage in Canada, featuring authors from a by recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. We have forthcoming UBC Press series on the subject. We will also be received a number of excellent nominations for this year’s prize offering prizes for the best book and best English-language arti-

14 Société historique du Canada cle prize. Calls for submissions for the 2019 prizes will be sent together like never before, while also tearing them apart along out in the fall. existing and new fault lines.

The PHG welcomes new members, especially graduate stu- Le Comité canadien d’histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale dents. Anyone wishing to join should contact Bradley Miller at et la Commission canadienne d’histoire militaire attribuent le [email protected] or check out our website at http://chash- Prix annuel C.P. Stacey au meilleur livre portant sur le vaste cacommittees-comitesa.ca/phg-ghp/. thème : conflits et société au Canada. Le jury (Serge Bernier (président), Tim Cook, Roger Sarty) a pu considérer une très Bradley Miller bonne sélection de livres publiés en histoire militaire canadienne en 2016. Après mûre considération, le comité a attribué le prix à Canadian Committee for the History of the Second Brock Millman poiur son livre Polarity, Patriotism and Dissent in World War | Comité canadien sur l’histoire de la Great War Canada, 1914-1919. Seconde Guerre mondiale Ce livre offre une lecture à la fois provocatrice et enrichissante The CHA’s Canadian de la Grande Guerre telle que vécue au Canada. Il fait avancer Committee for the His- plusieurs champs d’étude, mais se penche surtout sur la façon tory of the Second World dont le gouvernement Borden a géré la contestation entre War and the Canadian 1914 et 1919. En généralisant de façon consciente, l’auteur Commission for Military divise la société en trois : un Canada anglais très impérialiste, History award the annual pro-guerre et pro-conscription après 1916; un Canada fran- C.P. Stacey Award for the çais, centré autour du Québec, prudent dans son engagement best book written on the et anti-conscription; et, ceux qu’il désigne de Nouveaux Cana- broad area of conflict and diens, issus des plus récentes vagues d’immigrations, plusieurs society in Canada. The jury (Serge Bernier (chair), Tim Cook, ayant quitté des pays au régime autoritaire quelques fois devenus Roger Sarty) had to consider an excellent collection of books des ennemis de l’Empire britannique à compter d’août 1914. En in Canadian Military History for the 2016 C.P. Stacey Prize. It général, ceux-ci appuient l’effort de guerre canadien : cependant finally concluded that the winner was Brock Millman’s Polar- certains, cherchant à se tenir à l’écart de tout engagement, sont ity, Patriotism and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919, a facilement identifiables par les Canadiens les plus patriotiques. provocative and enriching interpretation of Canada’s home front Millman démontre comment le gouvernement a géré au mieux struggle during the Great War. son engagement de plus en plus prononcé dans la guerre ainsi que la majorité de sa population qui semble prête à la poursuivre The study contributes to many fields of study, but Millman ably coûte que coûte. À mesure que le nombre de morts augmente, situates how the Borden government managed dissent during les Canadiens, en colère, affligés et frustrés en ont de plus en plus the years of 1914 to 1919. He sees Canadian society divided contre ceux, parmi leurs compatriotes, qu›ils perçoivent, le plus into three broad groups: British Canada, a very imperialist and souvent à tort, comme déloyaux. La Loi des mesures de guerre enthusiastic pro-war part of the population ready for conscrip- a permis au gouvernement Borden de contrôler en grande par- tion after 1916; French Canada, centered around the province tie les oppositions par la censure et des emprisonnements. Mais of Quebec and ready to do its bit for the war, but anti-conscrip- Millman décrit également comment certains ultra patriotes et tionist; and what he calls the New Canadians, recent immigrants des soldats revenus du front ont parfois intimidés et agressés to the country, many of them escaping war or authoritarian ceux qu›ils avaient perçus comme déloyaux. Millman utilise de regimes, and some coming from countries with which the Brit- nombreuses sources démontrant que la Grande Guerre a, à la ish Empire was now at war. As a whole, new Canadians generally fois, réunis les Canadiens tout en creusant des lignes de fracture supported the war effort although with some opposition, but qui existaient déjà ou qui sont apparues durant le conflit. they were easily identifiable targets for patriotic Canadians who saw them as different. Millman demonstrates how the govern- Norman Hillmer ment struggled with the increasingly unlimited war effort, and with a strong majority of Canadians who seemed willing to pros- ecute the war to the bitter end, no matter the cost. As the death toll reached unimaginable numbers, Canadians, angry, grief- stricken, and frustrated, sought out those in their midst whom they perceived as disloyal. Most were not, but tensions ran high. The War Measures Act allowed the Borden government to suppress opposition through censorship and imprisonment, but Millman also describes how hyper-patriotic citizens and returned soldiers often took to the streets, intimidating and assaulting those deemed disloyal. Millman draws upon a rich selection of sources to show that the war brought Canadians

Canadian Historical Association 15 CHA’S ADVOCACY LES INTERVENTIONS How and Why PUBLIQUES DE LA SHC Le pourquoi et le comment One of the main activities of the CHA|SHC is what we refer to as advocacy. We are an organization representing almost a thousand teachers, researchers, and scholars of history who L’une des principales activités de la CHA|SHC est ce que nous appe- work in Canada. Part of our job is to advocate for that com- lons les interventions publiques. Nous sommes une organisation munity and the issues that concern them and their work, représentant près d’un millier de professeurs, de chercheurs et de spé- whether in Canada or elsewhere. cialistes de l’histoire qui travaillent au Canada. Une partie de notre travail consiste à plaider en faveur de cette communauté et des ques- What do we advocate for? tions qui les concernent ainsi que leur travail, que ce soit au Canada ou ailleurs. We advocate for issues that directly affect historians working in Canada. This includes federal funding, including from the Que préconisons-nous ? Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which provides critical funding for graduate students, post- Nous abordons les questions qui touchent directement les historiens doctoral fellows, and scholars affiliated with a university. œuvrant au Canada. Notamment le financement fédéral, dont celui The CHA|SHC also advocates for funding to research facil- du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, qui offre ities, including Library and Archives Canada, and BAnQ. un financement essentiel aux étudiants des cycles supérieurs, aux sta- We also advocate in response to federal Canadian policy, giaires postdoctoraux et aux chercheurs affiliés à une université. La including, most recently, the current federal government’s CHA|SHC plaide également pour le financement des établissements recent failure to live up to election promises to rigorously de recherche, dont Bibliothèque et Archives Canada et BAnQ. Nous reform Canada’s privacy policies. We are currently working répondons également aux politiques du gouvernement canadien, y on the way to best advocate for the interests of early career compris, plus récemment, le manquement récent du gouvernement researchers who face a difficult job market for conventional fédéral actuel à respecter ses promesses électorales de réformer rigou- academic employment in Canada, and indeed elsewhere. reusement sa politique de protection de la vie privée du Canada. Nous nous penchons présentement sur la meilleure façon de pouvoir défendre les intérêts des chercheurs en début de carrière qui font face CHA interventions are most effective when à un marché du travail difficile en termes d’emploi universitaire con- we consult with other relevant bodies of ventionnel au Canada et ailleurs. scholars and professionals and develop our La CHA|SHC s’occupe également de questions qui affectent ou qui responses in conversation with them. pourraient affecter ses membres qui travaillent à l’extérieur des fron- tières du Canada. Au cours des dernières années, nous avons appuyé l’American Historical Association au début de l’année 2017 quand elle The CHA|SHC also advocates for issues that affect or might a critiqué la tentative du président américain Donald Trump d’im- affect our members who work outside of Canada’s borders. poser une interdiction de voyager à des ressortissants de sept pays In the past few years, we have weighted in to support the à majorité musulmane. En 2016, nous avons écrit au gouvernement American Historical Association’s critical response to US polonais suite à l’adoption de lois sévères pour les historiens ou les President Donald Trump’s attempt in early 2017 to impose a membres du public liées aux « camps de concentration ou de mort travel ban on people from seven Muslim majority countries. polonais ». Nous avons également écrit contre l’érosion de la libre cir- In 2016, we responded to the Polish government’s passing culation des chercheurs et des enseignants et contre les menaces qui legislation that introduced harsh legal punishment for his- pèsent sur la liberté universitaire en Turquie. torians or members of the public referring to “Polish death or concentration camps.” We likewise wrote in opposition Comment procédons-nous ? to the erosion of free movement of researchers and teachers and threats to academic freedom in Turkey. Lors de nos interventions, nous utilisons principalement les techniques éprouvées qui ont produit les archives sur lesquelles les How do we advocate? historiens du monde moderne dépendent si fortement. Nous écrivons des lettres que nous envoyons aux fonctionnaires pertinents, que ce When we advocate, we do so mainly through the time- soit au Canada ou à l’étranger. Et nous affichons le corpus de ces lettres worn techniques that produced the archive that historians sur notre site Web et dans nos réseaux sociaux. Ces interventions sont

16 Société historique du Canada of the modern world depend so heavily on. We write letters plus efficaces lorsque nous consultons d’autres organismes de cher- which we send to the appropriate officials, whether at Can- cheurs universitaires et de professionnels et définissions la ligne de ada and abroad. This also creates a public record, and we post conduite à prendre en consultation avec ceux-ci. these letters on our website and through social media. These interventions are most effective when we consult with other Comment décidons-nous ce sur quoi nous devrions intervenir ? relevant bodies of scholars and professionals and develop our responses in conversation with them. Les membres de la CHA|SHC soumettent des questions à notre membre du conseil d’administration responsable des interventions How do we decide what to advocate for? publiques, qui est présentement Esyllt Jones. Les membres font éga- lement part de leurs préoccupations à notre exécutif ou à d’autres Members of the CHA|SHC bring issues to our Council mem- membres du conseil d’administration. L’exécutif de la CHA|SHC se ber responsible for Advocacy, currently Esyllt Jones. Members réunit sur Skype, par téléphone ou en personne quelques fois par also bring their concerns to our executive or other members année. Lors de ces réunions, nous discutons de la défense d’intérêts of council. The CHA|SHC executive meets over skype, the des membres et des questions que la CHA|SHC pourrait soule- phone or in person a few times a year, and at those meetings ver et comment procéder. Parfois, l’exécutif prend la décision de we discuss issues of advocacy, and what issues might be worth passer à l’étape suivante. En d’autres occasions, la question d’une the CHA|SHC to raise, and how to best do so. Sometimes we intervention publique est soumise au conseil d’administration de will take the next step after an executive meeting, and some- la CHA|SHC. times we might bring issues of advocacy to the CHA|SHC Council. Avez-vous des sujets ou préoccupations qui, selon vous, exigent l’intervention de la CHA|SHC ? N’hésitez pas à communiquer avec Do you have an issue or concern that you think the CHA|SHC l’un des membres du conseil d’administration. Si vous appuyer nos should get involved with? Please consider emailing any of the interventions publiques, vous êtes priés de bien vouloir faire cir- Council members. If you support our advocacy, consider sig- culer celles-ci dans les réseaux sociaux ou d’en discuter avec vos nal-boosting our material on social media or in conversation collègues. with your colleagues.

Canadian Historical Association 17 Addressing Precarity La Question de la in the Profession précarité dans la profession A new ad hoc working group has emerged from Council discussions about employment prospects for historians. This Working Group on Precariously Employed and Non-Ten- Les nombreuses discussions qu’a tenu le Conseil d’administration de ured Track Historians will be coordinated with, and la SHC sur les perspectives d’emploi des historiens ont mené à la integrated into, the “outreach” portfolio of the CHA. The création d’un nouveau groupe de travail spécial. Ce groupe de travail working group reflects both continuing trends and changing sur les historiens en situation d’emploi précaire et ceux qui n’ont pas economic realities for historians. In the former case, many de poste menant à la permanence collaborera avec, et sera intégré au historians have long been employed in a range of jobs in portefeuille « Rayonnement et partenariats » de la SHC. L’existence research, government, heritage, NGOs, and more. We rec- du groupe de travail reflète à la fois les tendances persistances ainsi ognize that those areas of employment may become more que les réalités économiques changeantes pour les historiens. Dans and more important to history PhDs as changes in post-sec- le premier cas, de nombreux historiens occupent depuis longtemps ondary education have led to fewer full-time, permanent des postes de recherches ou diverses fonctions dans des organes gou- positions, a veritable shrinking of the university professori- vernementaux, des organismes du patrimoine, des ONG et autres ate. This fact of life seems unassailable. As data taken from institutions. Nous sommes conscients que ce genre d’emploi peut the Council of Ontario Universities, recently published on devenir de plus en plus chose commune pour les titulaires d’un the CHA indicate, the percentage of teaching done by those doctorat en histoire car les changements dans l’enseignement postse- with tenure-track jobs is barely a majority: “55% of courses condaire ont entraîné une baisse du nombre de postes permanents à and student enrolments are taught by full-time faculty mem- temps plein et une véritable diminution du professorat universitaire bers, ….At the undergraduate level…part-time instructors… en général. Cet état de chose semble être une réalité incontestable. teach 46% of students and 50% of courses.” The increasing use Comme l’indiquent les données tirées du rapport du Conseil des of precarious labour in the university sector is only one factor universités de l’Ontario publiées récemment par la SHC, « 55% reshaping the profession; another is the sad reality that many des professeurs qui enseignent dans les universités ontariennes ont history departments are facing shrinkages as universities’ put un poste menant à la permanence tandis qu’au premier cycle ... les fewer resources into the Humanities. instructeurs à temps partiel ... enseignent à 46% des étudiants et donnent 50% des cours. » L’utilisation croissante de la main-d’œuvre précaire dans le secteur universitaire n’est qu’un facteur qui réoriente la profession ; un autre est la triste réalité que de nombreux départe- This fact of life seems unassailable. As data ments d’histoire font face à des contractions budgétaires alors que les taken from the Council of Ontario Universi- universités consacrent moins de ressources aux sciences humaines. ties, recently published on the CHA indicate, the percentage of teaching done by those with tenure-track jobs is barely a majority .... Puisque de nombreux groupes de pression du secteur universitaire, ainsi que nos propres syndicats, ont accepté cette nouvelle « réalité », What can the CHA do? Many of us deplore trends in the university sector but dealing with them is much harder. We la bataille semble être d’autant plus difficile, certainly can advocate for a balanced university in which mais ce n’est pas une raison pour ne pas the Humanities and History are respected and replenished, continuer à faire valoir notre cause. as well as for secure rather than precarious positions. The latter has created a two-tier employment system, with those in part-time or ‘teaching only’ jobs less able to do research as they cope with intense workloads (and many continue to do research). Since many university-sector lobby groups, as Que peut faire la SHC? Beaucoup d’entre nous déplorent les ten- well as our own unions have accepted this new ‘reality,’ advo- dances dans le secteur universitaire, mais il est beaucoup plus cacy feels like an uphill battle, but that is no reason not to difficile de remédier à celles-ci. Nous pouvons certainement plaider continue to put forward our case. en faveur des sciences humaines et de l’Histoire pour qu’elles soient

18 Société historique du Canada A second set of initiatives the working group is pursing estimées et rétablies et préconiser les emplois sécuritaires plutôt que involves facilitating discussion about, and fostering informa- précaires dans les universités. Ces dernières ont créé un système tion sharing on the range of employment prospects available d’emploi à deux vitesses, les personnes travaillant à temps partiel ou to historians outside of universities. We want to use existing « enseignant seulement » étant moins aptes à faire de la recherche networks, but also build new ones. Michel Duquet is using afin de composer avec une charge de travail intense (et beaucoup our members list to seek out contacts, and we are creating a tentent tant bien que mal de faire de la recherche). Puisque de nom- LinkedIn site specifically for this purpose. We have also estab- breux groupes de pression du secteur universitaire, ainsi que nos lished initial links with historians working in the federal and propres syndicats, ont accepté cette nouvelle « réalité », la bataille some provincial governments. We will be working with them semble être d’autant plus difficile, mais ce n’est pas une raison pour to develop strategies to ensure that historians’ knowledge and ne pas continuer à faire valoir notre cause. skills are recognized in civil service hiring priorities and practices. Our aim is also to create a network of historians who Le groupe de travail poursuit également une deuxième série d’initia- can help mentor others looking for work, discuss the benefits tives qui consiste à faciliter la discussion et à favoriser le partage de of these jobs, and contribute to our outreach campaign. Hav- renseignements sur l’éventail des perspectives d’emploi offertes aux ing a list of resource people in public service available for historiens à l’extérieur du milieu universitaire. Nous voulons utili- people looking for advice has already proven beneficial to ser les réseaux de communication existants, mais aussi en ériger des some historians seeking employment, and we need to build nouveaux. Michel Duquet utilise notre liste de membres pour établir more of these links at the provincial level. If you can help, des contacts et nous avons créé un compte LinkedIn spécifiquement let us know. à cette fin. Nous avons également établi des liens préliminaires avec des historiens du gouvernement fédéral et de certains gouvernements Third, we are continuing our public campaign on the value provinciaux. Nous travaillerons avec eux pour élaborer des stratégies of history degree. We began in December 2016 by creating visant à faire en sorte que les connaissances et les compétences des a webpage entitled with a ‘what can you do with a history historiens soient reconnues dans les priorités et les pratiques d’em- degree’ on our website, and our plan is to expand our discus- bauche de la fonction publique. Notre objectif est également de créer sion to ‘historians are everywhere,’ with profiles of historians un réseau d’historiens qui puisse faciliter la recherche de travail, dis- at work in a multitude of areas, including information on the cuter des avantages de ces emplois et contribuer à notre campagne de pathway to this employment. Providing some links on our sensibilisation. Une telle liste de personnes-ressources dans la fonc- website to other ‘job advert websites’ like that of the CSN- tion publique pour les personnes qui ont besoin de conseils s’est déjà REC is also an option we are looking at. The CHA/SHC’s révélée bénéfique pour certains historiens qui cherchent un emploi, Becoming a Historian booklet is currently being revised, and et nous devons établir davantage de liens au niveau provincial. Vous we hope to use it to facilitate discussion about the range of pouvez nous aider ? Dites-le nous. options for employment. Troisièmement, nous poursuivons notre campagne publique sur la A panel on these issues is being organized by Alison Nor- valeur d’un diplôme d’histoire. Nous avons créé une page Web inti- man and Jean-Pierre Morin for this year’s annual meeting, tulée « Que peut-on faire avec un diplôme d’histoire? » en décembre and we encourage those interested to attend. If you would 2016, et notre plan est d’élargir la portée de notre discussion à « les like to be a contact person for our growing network of men- historiens sont partout », avec des profils d’historiens qui œuvrent tors, please contact Michel Duquet @ [email protected]. dans une grande diversité de domaines et des renseignements sur le meilleur moyen de s’y prendre pour obtenir ces emplois. L’affi- Joan Sangster chage d’hyperliens vers des sites qui affichent des annonces d’emplois Past President comme celui de la CSN-REC est également une option que nous exa- Canadian Historical Association minons. La brochure Devenir historien ou historienne de la CHA/ SHC est en cours de révision, et nous espérons l’utiliser pour faciliter la discussion sur la gamme d’options en matière d’emploi.

Alison Norman et Jean-Pierre Morin organisent un panel sur ces questions pour la réunion annuelle de cette année et nous encou- rageons les personnes intéressées à y assister. Si vous souhaitez être une personne-ressource pour notre réseau croissant de mentors, veuillez communiquer avec Michel Duquet @ [email protected].

Joan Sangster Présidente sortante Société historique du Canada

Canadian Historical Association 19 The TRC AND THE CHA | LA CVR ET LA SHC

In the summer of 2017, the CHA Executive voted to estab- À l’été 2017, l’exécutif de la SHC a voté en faveur de la création lish a working group to address the Truth and Reconciliation d’un groupe de travail chargé d’examiner les appels à l’action de la Commission’s Calls to Action and to consider concrete ways Commission de vérité et réconciliation et d’envisager des moyens for the CHA to support change and implement initiatives to concrets d’appuyer les changements et de prendre des initiatives en this end. The working group, whose members include Adele ce sens. Le groupe de travail, composé d’Adele Perry, de Jo-Anne Perry, Jo-Anne McCutcheon, Alison Norman, Sarah Nickel, McCutcheon, d’Alison Norman et de Sarah Nickel (et guidé par (and steered by Michel Duquet) first met in August 2017 to Michel Duquet), s’est réuni pour la première fois en août 2017 pour draft an official response to the TRC’s Calls to Action to be élaborer une réponse officielle aux appels à l’action de la CVR et de endorsed by Council. In preparation, the group researched a la soumettre au Conseil pour son approbation. En guise de prépara- number of similar responses by academic departments and tion, le groupe a étudié un certain nombre de réponses semblables professional associations across Canada and reached out to de la part de différents départements d’universités et d’associations Indigenous membership for feedback. The group received professionnelles à travers le Canada et a demandé l’avis de membres important feedback not only on potential CHA undertakings autochtones. Le groupe a reçu des commentaires fort précieux non regarding the Calls to Action, but also on the way in which seulement sur les engagements possibles de la SHC relatif aux the committee asked Indigenous scholars for their feedback, appels à l’action, mais aussi sur la façon dont le comité a demandé pointing out that they had not been consulted beforehand l’avis des chercheurs autochtones, soulignant qu’ils n’avaient pas été with regards to deadlines and that their contributions to the consultés au préalable au sujet des échéances et que leurs contribu- process were not being acknowledged. With that in mind, the tions au processus n’étaient pas reconnues. C’est dans cet esprit que working group drafted guidelines and best practices to recog- le groupe de travail a rédigé des lignes directrices et des meilleures nize the intellectual labour many community members have pratiques pour reconnaître le travail intellectuel que nombreux provided through concrete service inputs. membres de la communauté nous ont offert par l’entremise de services concrets. Through continued outreach and conversations, the working group has identified several issues in need of attention. There Grâce à une sensibilisation accrue et aux conversations qu’il entre- is widespread recognition of the need to hire more Indige- tient, le groupe de travail a identifié plusieurs problèmes nécessitant nous faculty members in History departments, as well as to une attention particulière. La nécessité d’embaucher plus de membres pursue collaborations with Indigenous historians working autochtones du corps professoral dans les départements d’histoire outside of History departments. This capacity building within et la nécessité de poursuivre des collaborations avec des historiens the discipline and the CHA is essential to ensuring adequate autochtones travaillant à l’extérieur des départements d’histoire est Indigenous representation in universities, the CHA executive largement convenue. Ce développement des capacités au sein de la and its affiliated committees, at yearly conferences, and in discipline et de la SHC est essentiel pour assurer une représentation the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. The work- adéquate des Autochtones dans les universités, sur l’exécutif de la ing group is currently considering a number of initiatives to SHC et ses comités associés, lors des conférences annuelles ainsi better recruit Indigenous scholars (at all career stages) to the que dans la Revue de la Société historique du Canada. Le groupe de organization including incentives for membership and cre- travail examine présentement un certain nombre d’initiatives pour ating a committee of Indigenous scholars to work with the mieux recruter des chercheurs autochtones (à tous les stades de CHA’s Equity and Diversity Committee. carrière), y compris des incitatifs pour devenir membre et la créa- tion d’un comité de chercheurs autochtones pour collaborer avec le Additionally, at the fall 2017 CHA Council meeting, a fund Comité sur l’équité et la diversité. was established to support scholars and history-related endeavors responding to the TRC Calls to Action. As a pilot De plus, un fonds a été établi à la réunion du Conseil de la SHC à project, this $2500 fund will be awarded in March 2018 and l’automne 2017 pour soutenir les chercheurs et les initiatives en his- successful applicants announced in the second issue of the toire qui répondent aux appels à l’action de la CVR. Dans le cadre CHA magazine Intersections and posted on the CHA website d’un projet pilote, ce fonds de 2 500 $ sera remis en mars 2018 et in 2018. Projects must be completed by the end of December les candidats retenus seront annoncés dans le deuxième numéro 2018. The goal of this fund is to encourage a wide range of du magazine Intersections de la SHC et affichés sur le site Internet scholars to take up work that they might otherwise not be in a de la SHC en 2018. Les projets doivent être complétés d’ici la fin position to do. Finally, the working group remains committed de décembre 2018. L’objectif de ce fonds est d’encourager un large to crafting an official statement that speaks to the CHA’s role éventail d’universitaires à entreprendre un travail qu’ils ne pour- in implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action. raient peut-être pas accomplir autrement. Enfin, le groupe de travail est toujours déterminé à rédiger une déclaration officielle sur le rôle The working group is also dedicated to supporting mem- de la SHC dans la mise en œuvre des appels à l’action de la CVR.

20 Société historique du Canada 2018 CHA Prizes | Prix 2018 de la SHC

The CHA is pleased to inform its members of the 2018 short- La SHC est heureuse d’annoncer à ses membres les finalistes lists for its Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, given to the non-fiction 2018pour le prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald, remis à l’ouvrage en work of Canadian history judged to have made the most signif- histoire du Canada jugé comme apportant la contribution la plus icant contribution to the understanding of the Canadian past, significative à la compréhension du passé canadien, le prix est the prize is sponsored by Manulife Financial in the amount of parrainé par la Financière Manuvie au montant de 5 000 $ ; et le $5,000; and the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes the prix Wallace-K.-Ferguson qui récompense le meilleur ouvrage outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Cana- scientifique en histoire non canadienne. Ces prix seront remis dian history. There prizes will be announced at the CHA Annual lors remis lors la Réunion annuelle de la SHC à l’Université de Meeting at the University of Regina on Tuesday, May 29. This Regina le mardi 29 mai. Les livres en lice sont (par ordre alpha- year’s shortlisted books are (in alphabetical order by author): bétique des auteurs) :

The 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Shortlist | The 2018 Sir John A. Macdonald Shortlist | Les finalistes du prix Wallace-K.-Ferguson 2018 Les finalistes du prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald 2018

E.A. Heaman. Tax, Order, and Good Gov- ernment: A New Political History of Canada, Roisin Cossar. Clerical Households in Late 1867-1917. Montreal and Kingston: McGill- Medieval Italy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Queen’s University Press, 2017. University Press, 2017.

Susan M. Hill. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand John Forrester & Laura Cameron. Freud in River. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- Press, 2017. sity Press, 2017.

Jeffers Lennox. Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Behnaz A. Mirzai. A History of Slavery and Competition for Territory in Northeastern Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929. Austin: North America, 1690-1763. Toronto: Univer- University of Texas Press, 2017. sity of Toronto Press, 2017.

Padraic X. Scanlan. Freedom’s Debtors: Brit- J.R. Miller. Residential Schools and Reconcili- ish Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age ation: Canada Confronts Its History. Toronto: of Revolution. New Haven: Yale University University of Toronto Press, 2017. Press, 2017.

Cecilia Morgan. Travellers through Empire: Lisa M. Todd. Sexual Treason in Germany Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada. during the First World War. Palgrave Mac- Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s millan, 2017. University Press, 2017.

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Hashtag #IndianHorseFilm Accounts @Elevation_Pics @taropr @indianhorsefilm The trailer | La bande-annonce @ http://www.indianhorse.ca/ Website | Le site web https://www.elevationpictures.com/ Indian Horse will be in theatres on Friday, April 13. | La sortie en salle aura lieu le 13 avril. bers whose work is not centered on Indigenous histories. Le groupe de travail s’emploie également à soutenir les membres dont We recognize the need for concrete and practical resources le travail n’est pas centré sur les histoires autochtones. Nous convenons in research and teaching, particularly around the issues of de la nécessité de ressources concrètes et pratiques pour la recherche the TRC Calls to Action, and we will therefore be updating et l’enseignement, particulièrement en ce qui concerne les appels à l’ac- the website to provide additional information and tools for tion de la CVR. Nous mettrons donc le site Internet de la SHC à jour all scholars and historians in Canada. Currently, the CHA pour offrir de l’information et des outils supplémentaires à tous les website contains “Syllabi Central” a syllabi-sharing page that chercheurs et historiens du Canada. Le site affiche déjà une « banque we hope to further populate with course materials related to de plans de cours », une page de partage de syllabus que nous espé- Indigenous issues, decolonization, and settler-colonialism. rons bonifier avec du matériel de cours sur les questions autochtones, Further, we anticipate creating a related page with relevant la décolonisation et le colonialisme de peuplement. De plus, nous links and resources for members interested in teaching prévoyons créer une page connexe avec des liens et des ressources per- and learning more about Indigenous and settler-colonial tinents pour les membres qui désireraient enseigner et en apprendre histories. For instance, a recent blog by Andrea Eidinger davantage sur les histoires autochtones et coloniales. Par exemple, un and Sarah York-Bertram http://www.unwrittenhistories. récent blog d’Andrea Eidinger et de Sarah York-Bertram http://www. com/imagining-a-better-future-an-introduction-to-teach- unwrittenhistories.com/imagining-a-better-future-an-introduc- ing-and-learning-about-settler-colonialism-in-canada/ tion-to-teaching-and-learning-about-settler-colonialism-in-canada/ can provide a starting point to understanding the history peut être un point de départ pour comprendre l’histoire et les réa- and socio-political realities of Indigenous peoples from a lités socio-politiques des peuples autochtones dans une perspective critical decolonizing rather than a passive content-learning critique de décolonisation plutôt que de se limiter à une perspective perspective. passive de contenu pédagogique.

The working group recognizes our diverse membership base, Le groupe de travail est conscient de la grande diversité de ses and thus members are encouraged to provide feedback, com- membres. Nous vous demandons de bien vouloir nous faire part de ments and suggestions with regard to ways that the CHA vos commentaires et de vos suggestions sur les façons dont la SHC should respond to the TRC’s Calls to Action. devrait répondre aux appels à l’action de la CVR.

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Canadian Historical Association 21 CHA Annual General Meeting | Réunion annuelle de la SHC

Word from the Program Chair | Mot de la présidente du comité de programme

In a few months, historians will gather in Regina for the 97th annual Dans quelques mois, les historiens se réuniront à Regina pour la 97e meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. The Congress assemblée annuelle de la Société historique du Canada. Le thème du theme of “Gathering Diversities” provides an important opportunity congrès « Diversités convergentes » offre à notre profession une belle for our profession to explore the diversities within our methodolog- occasion d’explorer les diversités de nos approches méthodologiques, ical, geographical, and temporal approaches to studying the past. géographiques et temporelles de l’étude du passé.

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Blair Stonechild is the keynote Je suis heureuse d’annoncer que Monsieur Blair Stonechild est le conféren- speaker for the 97th annual meeting. Dr. Stonechild, an internation- cier d’honneur de la 97e réunion annuelle. M. Stonechild, un chercheur de ally renowned scholar, has taught at First Nations University since renommée internationale, a enseigné à l’Université des Premières nations its founding in 1976 (then Saskatchewan Indian Federated College). depuis sa fondation en 1976 (alors connue sous le nom de Saskatchewan One of the central features of the Congress 2018 theme is the growth Indian Federated College). L’une des principales caractéristiques du thème in post-secondary education, more specifically, Indigenous educa- du Congrès 2018 est la croissance dans le secteur de l’enseignement postse- tion. Over the past forty years, Dr. Stonechild has demonstrated condaire, plus particulièrement celui de l’éducation autochtone. Au cours leadership in the fields of Indigenous education and Indigenous des quarante dernières années, le Dr Stonechild a fait preuve de leadership history. He has published a number of books, and his most recent dans les domaines de l’éducation autochtone et de l’histoire autochtone. Il work, The Knowledge Seeker: Embracing Indigenous Spirituality, was a publié un certain nombre de livres. Son plus récent ouvrage, The Knowle- published in 2016. dge Seeker: Embracing Indigenous Spirituality, a été publié en 2016.

There are a number of exciting events to partake in during Congress Il y aura plusieurs activités très intéressantes auxquelles vous pourrez 2018. There is a joint plenary session with the Canadian Society for prendre part au Congrès 2018 dont une session plénière conjointe avec la Renaissance Studies on Sunday, May 27th with historian Andrew Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance le dimanche 27 mai, avec Gow as the keynote speaker. On the evening of Monday, May 28th, l’historien Andrew Gow comme conférencier d’honneur. Dans la soirée the Lost Stories Film Festival: The Lost Stories Project, will take du lundi 28 mai, le festival Lost Stories: The Lost Stories Project, sera place from 17:00-18:30 at the University of Regina’s Shubox Theatre. déroulera de 17 h à 18 h 30 au Shubox Theatre de l’Université de Regina. The Lost Stories Project was created by historians Ronald Rudin, Le projet Lost Stories a été créé par les historiens Ronald Rudin, John John Walsh, and Keith Carlson, and it is an open event featured in Walsh et Keith Carlson. Il s’agit d’un événement ouvert à tous qui est the Congress 2018 Cultural Connections programming. On Tues- présenté dans le cadre de la programmation Liens culturels au Congrès day evening, the prize ceremony and Cliopalooza will take place 2018. La remise des prix de la SHC et Cliopalooza auront lieu mardi soir on campus to ensure accessibility for all members. On Wednesday, sur le campus pour en assurer l’accessibilité à tous les membres. Le mer- May 30th, there is a joint plenary session with the Canadian Catho- credi 30 mai, il y aura une séance plénière conjointe avec la Canadian lic Historical Association and Canadian Society for Church History Catholic Historical Association et la Société canadienne d’histoire de featuring Dr. Luca Codignola-Bo as the keynote speaker. l’Église avec le Dr Luca Codignola-Bo comme conférencier d’honneur.

In addition to the Canadian Historical Association’s conference Outre le programme de conférence de la Société historique du Canada, programming, there are diverse events taking place both on cam- plusieurs autres activités auront lieu sur le campus et dans la ville. L’Uni- pus and around the city. The University of Regina has chosen an versité de Regina a choisi cinq conférencières pour ses causeries Voir all women line-up for the Big Thinking speakers, and historian grand. Pour sa part, l’historienne Margaret MacMillan donnera sa confé- Margaret MacMillan will provide her lecture on Sunday, May 27th rence le dimanche 27 mai de 12h15 à 13h15. Un concert gratuit de Buffy from 12:15-13:15. On the evening of Monday, May 28th, there is a St-Marie sera offert et se déroulera à l’Academic Green dans la soirée free Buffy St-Marie concert beginning at 19:00 in the Academic (19h00) du lundi 28 mai. L’Academic Green sera le lieu de nombreux évé- Green. The Academic green will be the site of many events and the nements et c’est là que sera située la brasserie en plein air. Tout au long de beer garden. Throughout the week, attendees will have access to la semaine, les participants auront accès aux programmes de la série Liens the Cultural Connections and Community Connections program- communautaires | Liens culturels, tel que Regina, ville gaie : une visite à ming, such as Queering the Queen City: An Audio Walking Tour. pied audioguidée. Il y a également le Programme de réconciliation avec, There is also Reconciliation programming, such as Bringing Back entre autres, Bringing Back the Buffalo, un projet qui examine la destruc- the Buffalo, a project that will explore the destruction of the plains tion du bison des plaines à travers les politiques colonialistes dans l’Ouest. buffalo through colonialist policies in the west and feature an artist Il met à l’affiche un artiste qui se sert d’une cervelle de bison pour tanner brain tanning and smoking a buffalo hide. These are free events and une peau de bison et la boucaner par la suite. Ce sont des activités gra- should provide a thought-provoking experience. tuites qui offriront une expérience stimulante aptes à susciter la réflexion.

I hope to see you in Regina! Je vous donne donc rendez-vous à Regina !

Katrina Ackerman Katrina Ackerman University of Regina Université de Regina

22 Société historique du Canada 2018 CHA Elections | Élection 2018 de la SHC

2018 CHA Elections | Élection 2018 de la SHC

The election for CHA Executive and Council members, the Within the discipline, Professor Bryden has served on the execu- Nominating committee and the Graduate Student Representa- tives of the Canadian Historical Association and the Association tive will be held over a three-week period from April 23 to May of Canadian Studies, and been President of the Canadian Inter- 14. You will receive your ballot electronically through email and national Council, Victoria Branch. She was the program chair voting will be conducted online. The professional profiles of can- for the Canadian Historical Association’s annual meeting at didates are below and will be included as part of the ballot that Congress, 2013, has served for a number of years on SSHRC voters receive. The elected candidates will be announced at the adjudication committees in both history and political science, CHA Annual General Members’ Meeting at the University of and is currently a member of the Aid to Scholarly Publication Regina on Tuesday, 29 May. Program board.

The CHA would like to thank this year’s nominating committee: Professor Bryden’s research focuses on Canadian political his- Matthew Hayday (2016-2018), Laura Ishiguro (20016-2018), tory. Her most recent book, Canada: A Political Biography Gregory Kennedy (2017-2019) and Sarah Nickel (2017-2019). (2016) is a textbook for Oxford University Press. Another recent book, ‘A Justifiable Obsession’: Ontario’s Relations with Ottawa, Les élections des membres de l’Exécutif et du Conseil d’admi- 1943-1985 (University of Toronto Press, 2013), examined inter- nistration de la SHC, du Comité de mises en candidature et du governmental relations, while her current SSHRC-funded représentant étudiant se dérouleront du 23 avril au 14 mai. Vous research is a history of the Prime Minister’s Office in Canada. recevrez un avis que votre bulletin de vote est disponible en ligne. She has begun work on a new project on a long history of polit- Voir les profils professionnels des candidats plus bas. Ceux-ci ical scandal in Canada. seront également inclus dans le bulletin de vote numérique qui est envoyé aux membres. Les candidats élus seront annoncés à Penny Bryden est professeure d’histoire à l’Université de Victoria l’Assemblée générale annuelle des membres de la SHC à l’Uni- depuis 2005. Elle a auparavant obtenu son doctorat à l’Univer- versité de Regina le mardi 29 mai. sité York et a enseigné à l’Université Mount Allison pendant une douzaine d’années. À Mount Allison, la professeure Bryden était La SHC aimerait remercier le Comité de mises en candidature : directrice du département d’histoire et chaire du Programme Matthew Hayday (2016-2018), Laura Ishiguro (20016-2018), Gre- d’études canadiennes, membre de l’exécutif du syndicat des pro- gory Kennedy (2017-2019) et Sarah Nickel (2017-2019). fesseurs et membre de nombreux comités de l’université, du corps professoral et du département. À l’Université de Victoria, Candidates for the Executive |Candidats – l’Exécutif elle a siégé à divers comités de la faculté (comité sur les comités, comité des programmes, comité consultatif du doyen, comité Candidate for Vice-President | Candidate : Vice-présidente consultatif du vice-doyen) et a maintenu un programme actif (Penny Bryden, UVic) d’enseignement et de recherche.

Penny Bryden is a Professor of History at Au sein de la discipline, la professeure Bryden a siégé au conseil the University of Victoria, an institution she d’administration de la Société historique du Caanda et de l’As- came to in 2005, after receiving her PhD at sociation d’études canadiennes, et a été président du Conseil York University and teaching at Mount Alli- international du Canada, section de Victoria. Elle a présidé le son University for a dozen years. At Mount congrès annuel de la Société historique du Canada en 2013, a Allison, Professor Bryden was Head of the siégé pendant plusieurs années aux comités de sélection du Department of History and Chair of the CRSH en histoire et en science politique et est présentement Canadian Studies Program, a member of the membre du conseil d’administration du Programme d’aide à executive of the faculty union, and served l’édition savante. on numerous university, faculty and departmental committees. At the University of Victoria, she has served on various faculty Les recherches de la professeure Bryden portent sur l’histoire committees (Committee on Committees, Curriculum Commit- politique canadienne. Son plus récent livre, Canada: A Poli- tee, Dean’s Advisory Committee, Advisory Committee to the tical Biography (2016) est un manuel pour Oxford University Associate Dean) and maintained an active teaching and research Press. Un autre livre récent, « A Justifiable Obsession » : Ontario’s program. Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985 (University of Toronto Press, 2013), examine les relations intergouvernementales, tandis que

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sa recherche financée par le CRSH est une histoire du Cabinet Depuis 1987, Jo travaille comme chercheuse, historienne et du Premier ministre au Canada. Elle a commencé à travailler sur consultante à Ottawa, fusionnant ses connaissances des projets un nouveau projet sur la longue histoire des scandales politiques de recherche publics et privés tout en maintenant les liens, les au Canada. adhésions et les relations avec la communauté universitaire. Elle a également siégé au conseil d’administration du Conseil Candidate for Treasurer | Candidate - Trésorière (Jo-Anne de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH) et a été McCutcheon, Ottawa) membre du comité du programme du CRSH. Elle a récemment joint l’Association of Canadian Archivists à titre de directrice Jo holds her doctorate in Canadian his- générale. tory from the University of Ottawa and has been teaching part-time at the university’s Candidate for French-Language Secretary | Candidat - History department since 1997 and more Secrétaire de langue française (Marie-Michèle Doucet, recently in the Institute of Canadian and CMR|RMC) Indigenous Studies. She teaches a diversity of Canadian and American survey history Marie-Michèle Doucet a obtenu son doc- courses from contact to the present, focus- torat en histoire à l’Université de Montréal ing also on First Nations, Inuit and Metis en juin 2016. Elle a effectué sa maîtrise et experiences with an emphasis on Indig- son baccalauréat à l’Université de Moncton enous education and microhistory research methods. She has au Nouveau-Brunswick. Depuis septembre served as a Board Member of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2016, elle est professeure adjointe au dépar- Research Council (SSHRC) and as a SSHRC program committee tement d’histoire du Collège militaire member. She is also an active member of several CHA affiliated royal du Canada à Kingston (Ont.) où elle committees including the History of Children and Youth Group enseigne l’histoire de l’Europe, l’histoire and the Public History Group. Her current academic research des femmes et les relations internationales. Sa thèse de maîtrise, focuses on the ways historians and researchers can use hair to Héros et héroïnes : Stéréotypes et représentation genrés dans la lit- learn more about the construction of gender and growing up in térature patriotique de la Grande Guerre en France (1914-1919) a North American context. a remporté le prix Vo-Van de la meilleure thèse à l’Université de Moncton en 2010. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur la Since 1987, Jo has worked as a researcher, historian and con- pétition féminine internationale pour le désarmement de 1930- sultant in Ottawa, merging her knowledge of public and private 1932. Adoptant une approche transnationale, elle s’intéresse à research projects while maintaining ties, memberships and rela- la façon dont les femmes françaises, britanniques, allemandes tionships with the academic community. She has been learning et canadiennes travaillent au désarmement universel après la about and working to embrace social and digital media knowl- Première Guerre mondiale. Marie-Michèle compte à son acquis edge in her research, teaching and work worlds. She recently plusieurs publications dans des revues et ouvrages collectifs en joined the Association of Canadian Archivists as the Executive Europe et au Canada. Elle a également coédité le livre Le géno- Director. cide des Arméniens : Traces, mémoires et représentations paru en février 2017 aux Presses de l’Université Laval. C’est avec grand Jo détient un doctorat en histoire canadienne de l’Université plaisir qu’elle se joint à l’exécutif de la Société historique du d’Ottawa et enseigne à temps partiel au département d’histoire Canada à titre de secrétaire de langue française. depuis 1997 et plus récemment à l’Institut d’études canadiennes et autochtones. Elle y donne une variété de cours en histoire Marie-Michèle Doucet received her doctorate in history at the canadienne et américaine, en mettant l’accent sur l’expérience Université de Montréal in June 2016. She completed her mas- des Autochtones, des Métis et des Inuits et en particulier l’his- ter’s and bachelor’s degree at the Université de Moncton in New toire de l’éducation autochtone et des méthodes de recherche Brunswick. Since September 2016, she has been Assistant Profes- sur la micro-histoire. Elle a servi comme membre du Conseil sor in the Department of History at the Royal Military College of d’administration au Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines Canada in Kingston, Ont, where she teaches European History, (CRSH) et a siégé au sein de son comité de programme. Elle Women’s History and International Relations. Her master’s the- est également membre active de plusieurs comités associés de sis, Héros et héroïnes : Stéréotypes et représentation genrés dans la la SHC, y compris le Comité de l’histoire de l’enfance et de la littérature patriotique de la Grande Guerre en France (1914-1919) jeunesse, le Comité canadien d’histoire numérique et le Groupe won the Vo-Van Award for the best thesis at the Université de d’histoire publique. Ses travaux de recherche en cours portent Moncton in 2010. Her current research focuses on the interna- sur l’utilisation de cheveux par les chercheurs qui désirent en tional women’s petition for disarmament of 1930-32. Taking a savoir plus sur la construction du genre et grandir dans un transnational approach, she is interested in how French, British, contexte nord-américain. German and Canadian women worked towards universal dis-

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armament after the First World War. Marie-Michèle has several tiques gouvernementales concernant la nourriture et la diète et publications in magazines and collective works in Europe and à la culture culinaire populaire. Caroline Durand est l’auteure de Canada. She also co-edited the book Le génocide des Arméniens : Nourrir la machine humaine. Nutrition et alimentation au Qué- Traces, mémoires et représentations published in February 2017 bec, 1860-1945 (MQUP, 2015), lauréat 2016 du Prix du Canada at the Presses de l’Université Laval. It is with great pleasure that en sciences humaines. Ces dernières années, elle a également she joins the Executive of the Canadian Historical Association as publié ses travaux dans le Bulletin canadien de l’histoire de la a French-language secretary. médecine, dans Globe : revue internationale d’études québécoises et dans la Revue de Bibliothèques et archives nationales du Qué- Candidate for English-Language Secretary | Candidat bec. Entre 2007 et 2016, elle a occupé plusieurs postes au sein - Secrétaire de langue anglaise (Matthew Bellamy, du comité exécutif du Comité canadien d’histoire des femmes, Carleton) groupe dont elle est toujours membre.

Dr. Matthew J. Bellamy is an associate pro- Caroline Durand holds a PhD in History from McGill Uni- fessor of history at Carleton University in versity and has been Associate Professor in the Department of Ottawa. He specializes in Canadian business History at Trent University in Peterborough since 2011. She and political history. He is the author of Profit- teaches Quebec and French Canada history and the history of ing the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, food all the while pursuing her research on the history of food 1942-1990 and Canada and the Cost of World in Quebec since 1945. Her current interests are the social move- War II: The International Operations of Cana- ments advocating for healthy and affordable food, government da’s Department of Finance, 1939-1947 (with policies on food and diet as well as popular culinary culture. R. B. Bryce). His latest research has taken him into the realm Caroline Durand is the author of Nourrir la machine humaine. of brewing history. His work on brewing has been recently Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (MQUP, 2015), published in The Walrus, Business History, and the Canadian winner of the 2016 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences and Historical Review. He is currently working on a book-length his- Humanities. She has also published her work in the Bulletin tory of the Labatt’s brewery. canadien de l’histoire de la médecine, Globe : revue internationale d’études québécoises et Revue de Bibliothèques et archives natio- Matthew J. Bellamy est professeur agrégé d’histoire à l’Univer- nales du Québec. Between 2007 and 2016, she held a number of sité Carleton à Ottawa. Il se spécialise dans les affaires et l’histoire positions on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Com- politique du Canada. Il est l’auteur de Profiting the Crown: Can- mittee for Women’s History, a group that she continues to be a ada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 et de Canada and the member of today. Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada’s Department of Finance, 1939-1947 (conjointement avec R. B. Nancy Janovicek (Calgary) Bryce). Ses recherches les plus récentes portent sur l’histoire de la fabrication de la bière. Son travail sur le brassage de la bière Nancy Janovicek is an Associate Professor a récemment été publié dans The Walrus, Business History et of History at the University of Calgary, the Canadian Historical Review. Il rédige présentement un livre sur author of No Place To Go: Local Histories l’histoire de la brasserie Labatt. of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement, and co-editor of two collections on women’s Candidates for Council (in alphabetical order) | and gender history. In 2016, she received Candidats – Conseil d’administration (par ordre the Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Wom- alphabétique) en’s History, awarded biennially by the National Capital Committee on the Schol- Caroline Durand (Trent) arship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History.

Caroline Durand détient un doctorat en his- She has been an active member of the CHA throughout her career. toire de l’Université McGill et depuis 2011, In 2003, she was one of the authors of the CHA’s Submission to elle est professeure associée au Département the Inter-Agency Panel on Research Ethics Consultation on the d’histoire de l’université Trent, à Peterbo- Tri-Council Policy Statement on Research Involving Humans. She rough. Elle y enseigne l’histoire du Québec et was the chair of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History du Canada français et l’histoire de l’alimen- in 2012-13. She has been a member of the Hilda Neatby Prize tation tout en poursuivant ses recherches sur Committee, the CCWH Best Book Prize Committee, Marta l’histoire de l’alimentation au Québec depuis Danylewycz Doctoral Award Committee, and the Clio West- 1945. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement aux mouvements sociaux ern History Committee and served on the CHA’s Nominations militant pour une alimentation saine et abordable, aux poli- Committee from 2015 to 2017. She was the program chair and

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local organizer for the 95th Meeting of the CHA hosted by the Movements from Conservatism to Fascism (2014), as well as sev- University of Calgary in 2016. She has been a board member eral journal articles. He teaches courses in modern French and of the Women’s Centre of Calgary since 2015 where she chairs European history, the history of imperialism, and international the Social Policy Committee, writes blog posts on women’s his- history. He is a longtime member of the Canadian Historical tory, and participates in feminist Jane’s Walks. She has recently Association, and a member of the editorial board for the CHA/ launched the Annie Gale Project. The mission is to commem- University of Toronto Press Short Book Series, “International orate the first woman elected to Calgary City Council with the Themes and Issues.” goal of raising awareness about the importance of women’s participation in politics. Sean Kennedy est professeur d’histoire à l’Université du Nou- veau-Brunswick où il enseigne depuis 1999. Ses recherches Nancy Janovicek est professeure agrégée d’histoire à l’Univer- portent sur l’histoire politique et intellectuelle de la France sité de Calgary, auteure de No Place To Go: Local Histories of moderne et il s’intéresse également aux expériences de la popu- the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement et corédactrice de deux lation civile en temps de guerre de l’ère moderne. Il est l’auteur recueils sur l’histoire des femmes et du genre. En 2016, elle s’est de Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and mérité le prix Marion-Dewar en histoire des femmes du Canada, the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945 (2007), The Shock of War: décerné tous les deux ans par le National Capital Committee on Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945 (2011) et de plusieurs articles the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s de revues savantes. Il est codirecteur, avec Samuel Kalman de History. St. Francis Xavier University, de The French Right between the Wars: Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Elle a toujours été une membre active de la SHC tout au long de Fascism (2014). Il enseigne des cours sur l’histoire moderne de sa carrière. En 2003, elle a été l’une des auteurs de la présentation la France et de l’Europe, l’histoire de l’impérialisme et l’histoire de la SHC au Groupe consultatif interagences en éthique de la internationale. Il est membre de longue date de la Société histo- recherche sur l’Énoncé de politique des trois Conseils : Éthique de rique du Canada et membre du comité de rédaction de la série la recherche avec des êtres humains. Elle a présidé le Comité cana- de courts ouvrages publiée par la SHC et University of Toronto dien de l’histoire des femmes en 2012-2013. Elle a été membre Press, intitulée « Thèmes et enjeux internationaux ». du comité du prix Hilda-Neatby, du comité du prix du meilleur livre du CCHF, du comité du Fonds commémoratif Marta-Da- John Lutz (UVic) nylewycz et du comité d’histoire de Clio Western, et elle a siégé au comité des candidatures de la SHC de 2015 à 2017. Elle a été It is easy to describe John Lutz as a profes- la présidente du comité de programme et organisatrice locale de sor and Chair of the History department at la 95e Réunion annuelle de la SHC qui a eu lieu à l’Université de the University of Victoria but after that he is Calgary en 2016. Elle est membre du conseil d’administration hard to pin down. His research focuses on du Women’s Centre de Calgary depuis 2015, où elle préside le the Pacific Northwest from the first contact Comité de la politique sociale, rédige des articles sur l’histoire between Indigenous People and Europeans des femmes et participe aux promenades féministes Jane’s Walks. in the 1770s to the refinements of the welfare Elle a récemment lancé le projet Annie-Gale. La mission consiste state in the 1970s and he focuses particu- à commémorer la première femme élue au conseil municipal de larly on the histories of race, labour, and Calgary dans le but de sensibiliser la population à l’importance indigenous-settler relations. He has a keen interest in the impact de la participation des femmes à la vie politique. of digital technologies on research, teaching and dissemination of history, is a co-director of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Sean Kennedy (UNB) Canadian History Project and several other historical website projects. Lately he has been dabbling in computer assisted tex- Sean Kennedy is Professor of History at the tual analyses and historical Geographic Information Systems, University of New Brunswick, where he has has curated an art history exhibit at Victoria’s Legacy Gallery taught since 1999. His research has focused and is playing a leading role in his department’s new Public His- on the political and intellectual history of tory program. He co-teaches an ethnohistory field school with modern France, and he is also interested in the Stó:lõ First Nation, was a co-founder of THEN/HIER and civilian wartime experiences in the modern has served as director of the university’s Office of Community era. He is the author of Reconciling France Based Research where he expanded his commitment to bring- against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the ing the university to the wider community. His book, Makuk: A Parti Social Français, 1927-1945 (2007), The New History of Native-White Relations, won what is now called Shock of War: Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945 (2011), and the the Canada Prize for the best book in the Social Sciences in Can- co-editor, with Samuel Kalman of St. Francis Xavier University, ada in 2010 and he or his projects have won the Pierre Berton of The French Right between the Wars: Political and Intellectual Prize from Canada’s National History Society, The Hackenberg

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Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology and one was lications, 1995); Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522 (co-authored short listed for the SSHRC Impact Award. with Norman Tanner), Camden Fifth Series, vol. 23 (Cambridge University Press, 2003); Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Il est facile de décrire John Lutz comme un professeur et direc- Late Medieval London (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); teur du département d’histoire à l’Université de Victoria, mais il and Seeking Sanctuary: Law, Mitigation, and Politics in English est plus difficile à le dépeindre par la suite. Ses recherches portent Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has won sur le nord-ouest du Pacifique, des premiers contacts entre les several awards for her research and teaching and was elected a peuples autochtones et les Européens dans les années 1770 aux fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the U.K. in 2002. raffinements de l’État-providence dans les années 1970 tout en mettant l’accent sur l’histoire de la race, du travail et des relations Shannon McSheffrey est professeure d’histoire à l’Université entre autochtones et colons. Il s’intéresse notamment à l’impact Concordia où elle enseigne l’histoire de l’Europe médiévale. Elle des technologies numériques sur la recherche, l’enseignement a été directrice de son département de 2007 à 2010 et a siégé et la diffusion de l’histoire. Il est également codirecteur du pro- à divers titres au sein de comités et conseils d’administration jet Les grands mystères de l’histoire canadienne et de plusieurs de plusieurs sociétés savantes canadiennes et internationales autres projets de sites Web consacrés à l’histoire. Récemment, : la Société canadienne des médiévistes; la North American il a contribué à des analyses textuelles assistées par ordinateur Conference on British Studies ; la Society for Medieval Feminist et à des systèmes d’information géographique historiques. Il Scholarship ; la Berkshire Conference of Women Historians ; et a organisé une exposition sur l’histoire de l’art à la Victoria’s la Société historique du Canada (au comité du prix Ferguson). Legacy Gallery et joue un rôle de premier plan dans son nou- Elle a également été rédactrice adjointe du Journal of British veau programme d’histoire publique. Il codirige une école de Studies de 2010 à 2014 et rédactrice en chef des compte rendus terrain en ethnohistoire avec la Première nation Stó: lõ, est un à The Medieval Review de 2008 à 2010. Ses recherches portent cofondateur de THEN / HIER et a été directeur de l’Office of sur le droit, les mesures d’atténuation, le genre, la sexualité, le Community Based Research de l’université où son engagement à mariage, la culture civique, l’alphabétisation, l’hérésie et la reli- rendre l’université plus pertinente auprès de la communauté s’est gion populaire à la fin de l’époque médiévale en Angleterre. accru. Son livre, Makuk: A New History of Native-White Rela- Elle a publié de nombreux articles savants ainsi que cinq livres tions, a remporté ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui le Prix du meilleur : Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, livre en sciences sociales du Canada en 2010 et ses projets ont 1420-1530 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995); Love and remporté le prix Pierre-Berton de la Société Histoire Canada, le Marriage in Late Medieval London (Medieval Institute Publi- prix Hackenberg de la Society for Applied Anthropology et un cations, 1995); Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522 (corédigé avec de ceux-ci a été présélectionné pour le Prix Impact du CRSH. Norman Tanner), Camden Fifth Series, vol. 23 (Cambridge University Press, 2003); Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia) Late Medieval London (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); et Seeking Sanctuary: Law, Mitigation, and Politics in English Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of His- Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017). Elle a rem- tory at Concordia University, where she porté plusieurs prix pour ses recherches et son enseignement et teaches medieval European history. She a été élue membre de la Royal Historical Society of the U.K. en served as chair of her department from 2007 2002. to 2010 and has sat in various capacities on committees and councils of a number Corey Slumkoski (MSV) of Canadian and international learned societies: the Canadian Society of Medie- Corey Slumkoski is an Associate Profes- valists; the North American Conference on sor in the History Department at Mount British Studies; the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; Saint Vincent University, where he teaches the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; and the Cana- courses in Canadian and Atlantic Canadian dian Historical Association (the Ferguson Prize committee). She history. His primary research interest lies in also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of British Studies the intersection of regionalism and identity, from 2010-14 and as a review editor for The Medieval Review with a secondary focus on the digital human- from 2008-10. Shannon’s research interests centre around law, ities. He is the author of Inventing Atlantic mitigation, gender, sexuality, civic culture, marriage, civic cul- Canada: Regionalism and the Maritime ture, literacy, heresy, and popular religion in late medieval Reaction to Newfoundland’s Entry into Canadian Confederation England. She has published numerous scholarly articles and five (University of Toronto, 2011), as well as articles in the Journal books: Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Commu- of the Canadian Historical Association, Sport History Review, nities, 1420-1530 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995); Love Acadiensis, The Journal of New Brunswick Studies, and Digital and Marriage in Late Medieval London (Medieval Institute Pub- Studies / Le champ numérique. Corey has also been involved in

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the development of a number of online history projects, such making a documentary film, tentatively titled “The Fogo Island as the Atlantic Canada Portal and the Atlantic Canada Virtual Films,” which highlights the innovative uses of film as a tool for Archives, and he is currently working on a book, co-written with community development that were developed in 1967. Martha Walls, that examines the Micmac Community Develop- ment Program of the late-1950s and 1960s. He has served on Jeff Webb est professeur d’histoire à l’Université Memorial de the Nova Scotia Historical Society’s Executive Council and on Terre-Neuve. Il est surtout connu comme historien de la radio- the Nova Scotia government’s Special Education Programs and diffusion et pour son travail sur l’histoire de la recherche en Services Committee. Corey is also the Digital Communications sciences sociales et humaines à Terre-Neuve. Webb a enseigné Editor for Acadiensis, where he oversees the journal’s social media un large éventail de cours allant de l’histoire de la période pré- presence and edits the Acadiensis Blog. contact des peuples autochtones jusqu’au Canada du vingtième siècle, en passant par l’historiographie et les méthodes histo- Corey Slumkoski est professeur agrégé au Département d’his- riques. Il est l’auteur de The Voice of Newfoundland: A Social toire de l’Université Mount Saint Vincent, où il enseigne des cours History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, sur l’histoire du Canada et du Canada atlantique. Sa recherche 1939—1949 (University of Toronto Press, 2008) et de Obser- porte principalement sur le croisement du régionalisme et de ving the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Society and Culture l’identité et, dans une moindre mesure, sur les humanités numé- (University of Toronto Press, 2016). Il a publié dans Canadian riques. Il est l’auteur de Inventing Atlantic Canada: Regionalism Historical Review, Social History/Histoire sociale, Labour/Le and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland’s Entry into Cana- Travail, Acadiensis et plusieurs revues internationales. Il a été dian Confederation (University of Toronto, 2011), ainsi que des rédacteur en chef de la revue Newfoundland and Labrador Stu- articles dans la Revue de la Société historique du Canada, Sport dies et préside maintenant son comité de rédaction. Webb réalise History Review, Acadiensis, The Journal of New Brunswick Studies actuellement un film documentaire, provisoirement intitulé et Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Corey a également par- « The Fogo Island Films », qui met en lumière les utilisations ticipé au développement de plusieurs projets d’histoire en ligne, novatrices du film comme outil de développement communau- tels que le Atlantic Canada Portal et le Atlantic Canada Virtual taire qui ont été développées en 1967. Archives et rédige présentement un livre, coécrit avec Martha Walls, qui examine le Programme de développement des collec- Candidates for the Nominating Committee (in tivités des Micmacs de la fin des années 1950 et 1960. Il a siégé alphabetical order) |Candidats – Comité de mises en au Conseil exécutif de la Nova Scotia Historical Society et au candidature (par ordre alphabétique) Comité des programmes et services d’éducation spécialisée du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Corey est également le Tina Adcock (Simon Fraser) rédacteur en chef des communications numériques pour Aca- diensis, où il supervise la présence de la revue sur les médias Tina Adcock is an assistant professor in the sociaux et rédige le blogue Acadiensis. Department of History at Simon Fraser Uni- versity, and a cultural and environmental Jeff Webb (MUN) historian of modern Canada. She studies the relationship between colonialism, moder- Jeff Webb is a Professor of History at nity, and the production of knowledge, with Memorial University of Newfoundland. He a special focus on the twentieth-century is best known as a historian of radio broad- North. Her work has most recently appeared casting and for his work on the history of in the Journal of the Canadian Historical social science and humanities research on Association, Histoire sociale/Social History, and Ice Blink: Navigat- Newfoundland. Webb has taught a broad ing Northern Environmental History (University of Calgary Press, range of courses from the pre-contact his- 2017). She is currently completing a project on the cultural history of indigenous peoples, to twentieth tory of northern Canadian exploration between 1920 and 1980. century Canada, historiography and histor- She is also co-editor of Made Modern: Science and Technology in ical methods. He is the author of The Voice of Newfoundland: A Canadian History, forthcoming from UBC Press in 2018. She sits Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, on the executive committee of the Network in Canadian History 1939—1949 (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and Observing and Environment (NiCHE) and the Clio Prize (The North) jury of the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Society and Culture (Uni- the Canadian Historical Association. She was recently appointed versity of Toronto Press, 2016). He has published in the Canadian an associate (2017-20) of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian Historical Review, Social History/Histoire sociale, Labour/Le Tra- History at McMaster University. vail, Acadiensis, and several international journals. He is past editor of the journal Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and Tina Adcock est professeure adjointe au Département d’histoire now serves as chair of its editorial board. Webb is currently de l’Université Simon Fraser et ses domaines de recherche sont

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l’histoire culturelle et environnementale du Canada moderne. socio-economic and urban history of Quebec and Canada and Elle étudie la relation entre le colonialisme, la modernité et la is involved in the training program in museology. Joanne Bur- production de connaissances, avec un accent particulier sur le gess has been the Director of the Laboratoire d’histoire et de Grand Nord du vingtième siècle. Son travail a récemment été patrimoine de Montréal since 2006 as well as Director of the publié dans Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, His- Montréal, plaque tournante des échanges : histoire, patrimoine, toire sociale/Social History, et Ice Blink: Navigating Northern devenir. Her recent projects focus on representations of Victo- Environmental History (University of Calgary Press, 2017). Elle rian Montreal, the history of practices and commercial spaces termine présentement un projet sur l’histoire culturelle de l’ex- in the city, as well as geography and food supply patterns in ploration du Nord canadien entre 1920 et 1980. Elle est également the city. Her achievements reflect fundamental and applied corédactrice de Made Modern: Science and Technology in Cana- research, often conducted in partnership with the community, dian History, à paraître à UBC Press en 2018. Elle siège au comité and its dissemination through a wide range of media: scien- exécutif de la Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’en- tific and outreach publications; communications and public vironnement (NiCHE) et au jury du Prix Clio (le Nord) de la lectures; in situ and virtual exhibitions; heritage studies and Société historique du Canada. Elle a récemment été nommée reports; organization of scientific meetings and public events; associée (2017-20) de la L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian His- content development for websites; etc. Her work has been tory à l’Université McMaster. awarded, including the 2015 Acfas André-Laurendeau prize and the l’Ordre de Montréal. Joanne Burgess (UQÀM) Joanne Burgess’s career also reflects a sustained commitment Joanne Burgess est professeure titu- to professional life, from participating in various management laire au Département d’histoire de bodies within UQAM, the management of professional associa- l’Université du Québec à Montréal. tions (IHAF) and scientific journals, sitting on juries to funding Elle y enseigne l’histoire socio-éco- agencies and cultural institutions. In 2017, she was appointed to nomique et urbaine du Québec et du the Commission de toponymie du Québec. Canada et intervient dans la formation en muséologie. Joanne Burgess dirige Allan Downey (McGill) le Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal depuis 2006, ainsi Allan Downey is Dakelh, Nak’azdli que le Partenariat de recherche Montréal, plaque tournante des Whut’en, Chair of the Indigenous Studies échanges : histoire, patrimoine, devenir. Ses projets récents s’in- Program and an Assistant Professor in the téressent aux représentations du Montréal victorien, à l’histoire Department of History and Classical Stud- des pratiques et des espaces commerciaux dans la ville, ainsi qu’à ies at McGill University. He is a graduate of la géographie et aux modalités de l’approvisionnement alimen- Wilfrid Laurier University (PhD History, taire de la métropole. Ses réalisations témoignent de recherches 2014) and his most recent research has fondamentales et appliquées, souvent menées en partenariat focused on the history of Indigenous iden- avec le milieu, et de leur diffusion au moyen d’un éventail diver- tity formation and nationhood. He is the sifié de média : publications scientifiques et de vulgarisation; author of The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous communications et conférences publiques; expositions in situ et Nationhood (2018) and has published articles in the Journal of virtuelles; études patrimoniales et rapports; organisation de ren- Canadian Studies, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Asso- contres scientifiques et d’événements grand public; élaboration ciation, and the Canadian Journal of History. As an early career de contenu pour sites Web; etc. Ses travaux ont été récompen- scholar, Allan has been fortunate to receive several awards for sées, notamment par le prix Acfas André-Laurendeau 2015 et his scholarship including the 2017 McGill University Principal’s l’Ordre de Montréal. Prize for Outstanding Emerging Scholar, the 2017 Aboriginal History Group Article Prize, a 2016-17 SSHRC/ McGill Emerg- Le parcours de Joanne Burgess témoigne également d’un ing Scholar Award, and the 2015 Honorable Mention for the engagement soutenu dans la vie professionnelle, participant à Canadian Historical Association’s John Bullen Prize. Beyond diverses instances de gestion au sein de l’UQAM, à la direction teaching, one of his greatest passions is working with Indigenous d’associations professionnelles (IHAF) et revues scientifiques, youth, and he volunteers for several Indigenous communities aux travaux de jurys d’organismes subventionnaires et d’institu- and youth organizations throughout the year. tions culturelles. En 2017, elle a été nommée à la Commission de toponymie du Québec. Allan Downey est Dakelh, Nak’azdli Whut’en, directeur du programme d’études autochtones et professeur adjoint au Joanne Burgess is Professor in the Department of History Département d’histoire et d’études classiques de l’Université at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She teaches the McGill. Il est diplômé de l’Université Wilfrid Laurier (PhD,

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histoire en 2014) et ses recherches les plus récentes portent sur et de plusieurs études sur les voyageurs britanniques dans les l’histoire de la formation de l’identité autochtone et de la nation. colonies des Maritimes, l’histoire intellectuelle du libéralisme et Il est l’auteur The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indige- l’emprisonnement pour dettes. nous Nationhood (2018) et a publié des articles dans le Journal of Canadian Studies, la Revue de la Société historique du Canada et Candidates for the Graduate Student Representative Annales canadiennes d’histoire. En tant que chercheur émergent, on Council (in alphabetical order) | Allan a eu la chance de recevoir plusieurs prix pour sa recherche, Candidats – Représentant étudiant diplômé au CA y compris le Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Scho- (par ordre alphabétique) lar de l’Université McGill en 2017, le Prix du meilleur article du Groupe d’étude d’histoire autochtone la même année, le Prix Carly Ciufo (McMaster) chercheur émergent CRSH / McGill 2016-17 ainsi qu’une mention honorable au Prix John-Bullen de la Société historique du Currently in her second year of doctoral Canada en 2015. Outre l’enseignement, l’une de ses plus grandes studies at McMaster University’s LR Wil- passions d’Allan est de travailler avec les jeunes autochtones ; il son Institute for Canadian History, Carly fait ainsi du bénévolat pour plusieurs communautés autochtones Ciufo is writing her dissertation on the et organisations de jeunesse tout au long de l’année. content, input, and criticism of racialized communities who are displayed in human Jeff McNairn (Queen’s) rights museums like those constructed in Winnipeg, Liverpool, and Atlanta. After Jeff McNairn has been a member of the defending her MA thesis on the Catholic history department at Queen’s University foundations of Québécois separatism at Queen’s University in since 2002 where he is associate chair and 2012, she held multiple research, exhibit, and librarian posi- teaches courses on early Canada and the tions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Canadian history of the law, schooling, and the state. Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Museum of Immi- He has been a member of the CHA for lon- gration at Pier 21 prior to returning to graduate study in 2016. ger than he cares to remember; he’s tried to forget the reception of his first paper at its Carly Ciufo, présentement en deuxième année de doctorat annual meeting at UQAM in 1995 – but he à l’Institut LR Wilson en histoire canadienne à l’Université keeps coming back! He served on the asso- McMaster, rédige sa dissertation sur le contenu, la contribution ciation’s John Bullen prize committee and is currently a member et la critique des communautés racialisées qui sont exposés dans of the publications review committee of McGill-Queen’s Uni- des musées des droits de la personne comme ceux de Winnipeg, versity Press. He completed two terms on the publications de Liverpool et d’Atlanta. Après avoir soutenu sa thèse sur les committee of the Aid-to-Scholarly Publishing Program and fondements catholiques du séparatisme québécois à l’Université seven years on the editorial board of the Canadian Historical Queen’s en 2012, elle a occupé plusieurs postes de recherche, Review, three as the journal’s co-editor. He is the author of The d’exposition et de bibliothécaire au Musée canadien des droits Capacity to Judge: Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy de la personne, à la Société Radio-Canada et au Musée canadien in Upper Canada and a number of studies of British travelers to de l’immigration du Quai 21 avant de retourner aux études supé- the Maritime colonies, the intellectual history of liberalism, and rieures en 2016. imprisonment for debt. Trevor Stace (WLU) Jeff McNairn est membre du département d’histoire de l’Univer- sité Queen’s depuis 2002 où il est présentement directeur associé. Trevor Stace is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Il donne des cours sur les débuts du Canada et l’histoire du droit, Wilfrid Laurier University. His research cen- de l’enseignement et de l’État. Il est membre de la SHC depuis tres on early-twentieth century coalmining aussi longtemps qu’il ne se souvienne ; et tente d’oublier l’accueil in Canada, and in particular the province of qui lui a été réservé lorsqu’il a offert sa première communication Alberta. He received both his B.A. (2013) and à la réunion annuelle de 1995 à l’UQAM - mais il y retourne M.A. (2015) from the University of Alberta. toujours ! Il a siégé au comité du prix John-Bullen de la Société et est actuellement membre du Comité de révision des publications Trevor Stace est doctorant en histoire à l’Uni- de McGill-Queen’s University Press. Il a complété deux mandats versité Wilfrid Laurier. Ses recherches portent au Programme d’aide à l’édition savante et sept ans au comité de sur l’industrie houillère du début du vingtième siècle au Canada rédaction de la Canadian Historical Review, dont trois à titre de et en particulier en Alberta. Il a obtenu son baccalauréat (2013) codirecteur de la revue. Il est l’auteur de The Capacity to Judge: et sa maîtrise (2015) de l’Université de l’Alberta. Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada

30 Société historique du Canada Irish Nationalisms and Canadian Confederation

“All the news just repeats itself,” runs a line in John Prine’s song field defeat, tempered by a common resilience to fight another “Hello in There.” Read Toronto’s newspapers, and you’ll find day – to never surrender. When Canada was being made, Ridge- that the city loses its innocence roughly every five years. Read way was the battle that made Canada.” Take that, Justin Trudeau. Canadian history books or – if you have a strong enough constitution – watch Canadian history on television, and you’ll find *** that Canada was “made” over and over again. Canada was made on September 13th 1759, when the impeccably dressed General What happens when Canadian historical James Wolfe scaled L’Anse au Foulon (with a little help from his boosterism meets Irish historical hyperbole? friends) and secured Canada for the British Empire. No, scratch that. Stephen Harper assured us that it was made during the War Why, this: Canadian Confederation may have of 1812. Or, if you’re John Ralston Saul, it was made by the Lafon- made Canada, but the Fenian raids made taine-Baldwin alliance and responsible government in 1848. Not Canadian Confederation. Ergo, the Fenian so, says Richard Gwyn; Sir John A Macdonald was “the man who made us.” Roll over, Sir John; Justin Trudeau told us earlier this raids made Canada. month that Canada was born at Vimy Ridge. Wrong again; we also read that Tommy Douglas and Medicare gave Canada its distinct identity. The country has had more remakes than Star I’m sitting at a bar in downtown Toronto, with the New Bruns- Trek. wick historian Peter Toner on my left, and Donald Creighton on my right. Toner has an Irish Catholic background; his people So it goes with the marketing of Canadian history – the eleva- came from County Derry, and there were Fenians in the fam- tion of important events into defining moments. All this pales ily. Creighton has an Irish Protestant background; his ancestors in comparison, though, to the World O’Celts, where ethnofilio- were Presbyterians from Tamlaght O’Crilly parish in County pietism runs amuck. Here, we have books such as How the Scots Derry. Both are gifted historians; both reflect ethnic values, Invented the Modern World and, more modestly, How the Scots assumptions and attitudes that have persisted through several Invented Canada. Not to be outdone, the Irish have put in a claim generations and across three thousand miles of ocean. Toner is for the Hibernian basis of all civilization, which they apparently drinking whiskey. Creighton is drinking gin, rye and vermouth saved during the Dark Ages. cocktails. Between sips, he is mocking the Fenians and their invasion plans. “Nothing,” he says, or rather pronounces, “nothing What happens when Canadian historical boosterism meets Irish could have been more characteristically ‘Irish’ in the broadest, historical hyperbole? Why, this: Canadian Confederation may most farcical meaning of the word than the conception and have made Canada, but the Fenian raids made Canadian Con- execution of this great enterprise. With one or two significant federation. Ergo, the Fenian raids made Canada. Little did the exceptions, the leaders of the Fenian movement against British Fenians who gathered by the New Brunswick border in April America were a crew of grandiloquent clowns and vainglorious 1866 realize the true significance of their action: “Thanks to the incompetents.” Toner bristles, downs his glass of whiskey, and intervention of the Fenians,” asserted Robert Dallison, “New gives him chapter and verse on what the Fenians were about Brunswick was firmly set on the path to Confederation. With- – trying to employ Irish Civil War veterans against the British out New Brunswick, there would have been no Confederation, Empire, seeking revenge for the Famine, believing they had the and without Confederation there could be no modern Can- tacit support of the American government, hoping to trigger ada. Canada is real legacy of the Fenian crisis of 1866.” Q.E.D. an Anglo-American war that would provide Fenians in Ireland Writing about the Fenian incursion into the Niagara peninsula with an opening for revolution. Toner is winning this one. The and the subsequent battle of Ridgeway in June 1866, Gearoid O mood is darkening. Their grandparents could have been having hAllmhurain, the Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish the same argument. History at Concordia University, described it – without a shred of supporting evidence – as “the Irish invasion that changed Then Toner turns to the New Brunswick election of 1866 – the Canada forever.” And in an otherwise fine book on the battle, pivotal one, on which the immediate success of Confederation Peter Vronsky assured us that Ridgeway was “Canada’s Bunker depended. He recounts the family stories – men drilling in the Hill, down to its subtext of national identity flowering in battle- moonlight to protect themselves from loyalist attacks, the night

Canadian Historical Association 31 riders who showed up at the family farmhouse, looking for Ton- Arthur Gordon had been convinced since November 1865 that er’s grand-uncle, beating up the father, giving the mother fifteen he could buy a union majority in the legislature. The government minutes to get out, burning the place down. On election day, he would have lost the election, even if the New York Fenians had continues, the militia were out in force, to intimidate any Cath- never gone anywhere near New Brunswick. Haven’t you read olic who might have attempted to vote. He speaks as if all this my Road to Confederation? he asks, his voice rising. It’s all there: happened just yesterday. It was the most anti-Irish Catholic elec- “Fenianism would unquestionably injure the Anti-Confederate tion in New Brunswick’s history, he says, slamming his whiskey cause; but it could not deal it a mortal blow. The movement’s on the counter, and it worked. By tarring Irish Catholics with chief disability was caused, not by any external force, but by its the brush of Fenianism, and by playing up the Fenian scare, the own inward deterioration – by the doubts, uncertainties, and Confederates carried the day. He agrees with Robert Dallison contradictions that distracted and inhibited it.” that the Fenian invasion attempt brought New Brunswick into Confederation, but there the agreement stops. The Maritimes, Toner looks at the whole row of glasses along the bar. We differ, he he says, have been paying for it ever since. He’ll be damned if he says, on which ones are half empty and half full, but you’ve got it celebrates the 150th this coming First of July. ass backwards. Yes, I’ve read your damned book, and yes, all those things played a part, but the Fenian raid was the fatal blow to the Creighton rounds on him. The Anti-Confederate government in Anti position. The tension is unbearable. I escape to the washroom, New Brunswick, he says, was an unstable compound of those mulling it over. This time, I think that Creighton has the better of who opposed Confederation because it concentrated too much the argument, but who knows? The fact is that the Fenians did power in a central government, and those who opposed it because threaten New Brunswick, and that the loyalty card was played and it did not concentrate enough power in a central government. played hard during the election. And the Anti-Confederates were Among the former was Timothy Warren Anglin, the leading hammered. But is this the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy? Or an voice of Irish Catholic opposition to Confederation; among the instance of historical analysis assuming that because something latter was his fellow cabinet minister Robert Wilmot. During the actually happened in a certain way, it had to happen that way, and winter of 1865-66, both men resigned from the government, and implicitly ruling out contingency? Time to leave them fighting it Wilmot converted to federalism. The premier himself, Albert out at the bar of history, knowing that neither will concede ground Smith, was wavering on the issue, and the Lieutenant Governor to the other, and that this can never be resolved.

The charge of the Fenians under Colonel O’Neill at the Battle of Ridgeway, near Niagara, Ontario, on 2 June 1866. Courtesy Library and Archives Canada C-18737.

32 Société historique du Canada On the question of the battle of Ridgeway, the issue is clearer. By within the British Empire, plural- the time John O’Neill and his thousand men crossed over from ism and minority rights, cultural Black Rock and clobbered the Queen’s Own Rifles at Ridgeway, and economic nationalism, railway Confederation was already a done deal as far as the United Prov- development, and a strong sense of ince of Canada was concerned. True, as C.P. Stacey pointed out, destiny – all had been central com- the raid did heighten a sense of national feeling in Canada, and ponents of both his early Irish and made it even more difficult for the Anti-Confederates to push his later Canadian views. McGee back. But that’s about as far as you can go – and that’s not, in was not a major player at the Char- truth, very far at all. lottetown and Quebec conferences, and his admirers have elevated his contribution to Canadian Confed- But there’s another, less visible Irish influence eration, in the best “how the Irish saved civilization” tradition. But he was important, nonetheless. McGee expressed the case on Confederation that needs to be considered for Confederation in memorable, poetic language that none of – that of constitutional Irish nationalism, his political contemporaries could match – drawing, by the way, in the tradition of Daniel O’Connell and the partly on Irish oratorical models. He did more than any other Canadian politician to publicize the cause of Confederation in moderate wing of the Young Ireland move- the Maritimes. And he also helped to ensure that the separate ment.... For Irish constitutional nationalists, school legislation for Catholics in Canada West was carried ... there was a natural affinity between their over into Confederation – a point of particular pride for him. “So far as I know,” he later said, “this is the first Constitution aspirations and Canadian realities. ever given to a mixed people, in which the conscientious rights of the minority, are made the subject of formal guarantee. I shall never So … when we consider the effect of revolutionary Irish nation- cease to remember with pleasure alism, in its Fenian form, on Canadian Confederation, the that I was the first proposer of that verdict is mixed. It doubtless helped the Confederates in New guarantee in the Quebec Confer- Brunswick, but it’s entirely possible that the colony would have ence; a guarantee by which we have elected a pro-Confederate government even if the Fenian leaders carried the principle of equal and had decided to stay at home instead. And the argument that the reciprocal toleration a step further Ridgeway raid contributed to Confederation doesn’t hold much in Canada, than it has yet been car- water, as far as I can see. ried in any other free government – American or European.” *** So, what I’m suggesting is a mildly subversive revision of the But there’s another, less visible Irish influence on Confederation relationship between Irish nationalism and Canadian Confed- that needs to be considered – that of constitutional Irish nation- eration, away from the sturm und drang of the bold Fenian men alism, in the tradition of Daniel O’Connell and the moderate versus the heroes of Ridgeway, and towards something quieter wing of the Young Ireland movement. For Irish revolutionary and less obvious, but perhaps more influential – the transmis- nationalists, the republican government of the United States was sion and transmutation of Irish constitutional nationalism into the model, at least in theory. For Irish constitutional national- British North America, and the possibility that moderate Young ists, on the other hand, there was a natural affinity between their Irelanders played a greater role in the making of Canada than aspirations and Canadian realities. Irish reformers had been at did militant Fenians. That argument will never make it into the the forefront of the campaign for responsible government in high schools, let alone a TV series on Canadian history. But Canada, going back to the days of Robert Thorpe and William there just might be something in it. Weekes. As Robert Fraser points out in his biography of William Warren Baldwin in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Bald- David A. Wilson, History Department, University of Toronto win drew on “Irish models for the question of the sovereignty of colonial legislatures.” And the Dictionary of Canadian Biogra- phy, as you know, is never wrong.

But the most interesting and important figure in this respect is Thomas D’Arcy McGee, whose vision of the “new national- ity” for Canada applied and adapted his earlier Young Ireland nationalism – at least in its moderate, pre-French revolution- (above, from top) Thomas Davis, chief organiser and poet of the ary iteration – to British North America. Legislative autonomy Young Ireland movement, and Daniel O’Connell. Public Domain.

Canadian Historical Association 33 COMMUNIQUÉ DES BOURSES D’UNE VALEUR DE 200 000 $ REMISES À DES ÉTUDIANTS DE PARTOUT AU PAYS Les Prix d’histoire du gouvernement du Canada récompensent 192 étudiants de niveau secondaire et universitaire

Mentions de sources, dans le sens horaire, à partir du haut à gauche : Florence Sallows (Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol); James R. Johnston (Norman Studio, archives de la Nouvelle-Écosse); Personnel du Service féminin de l’Armée canadienne (ministère de la Défense nationale. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-145516); Portrait d’Evee (George Hunter / Office national du film du Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-166471); Agnes Wong, travailleuse sino-canadienne dans une usine de munitions (Ronny Jaques / Office national du film du Canada. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada); Harry Kigiona, (Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada); Anna Pansek (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada); Sonja Royes (ministère de la Main-d’oeuvre et de l’immigration / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada).

OTTAWA, le 13 mars 2018 – En tout, 192 étudiants de partout au pays se partagent des entre les partenaires d’une même équipe retenue, selon les cas. Les étudiants devaient bourses d’une valeur de 200 000 $ remises dans le cadre des Prix d’histoire du gouvernement proposer un écrit original d’au plus 1000 mots sous la forme d’un essai, d’une fiction du Canada 2017. Offerts pour la quatrième année consécutive, ces prix visent à souligner le historique ou encore d’un contenu numérique. Ces textes devaient aborder l’un des travail exceptionnel des étudiants universitaires : ceux en histoire pour l’importance de leurs thèmes suivants : la réconciliation avec les Peuples autochtones, la Première Guerre recherches sur l’histoire canadienne ou ceux en enseignement pour l’originalité d’une activité mondiale, L’Expo 67, l’identité canadienne ou encore l’élaboration d’un nouveau site d’enseignement de l’histoire canadienne. Ces prix récompensent également le travail des historique national. Les travaux devaient témoigner d’une recherche originale, d’une étudiants du secondaire 4 et 5 ainsi que ceux du Cégep qui ont manifesté, par leurs écrits, un analyse historique, d’une bonne connaissance du sujet et d’une capacité de réflexion intérêt pour de grands moments de l’histoire canadienne. Au total, plus de 800 présentations critique. Les lauréats ont été sélectionnés par un jury indépendant composé de juges d’étudiants de partout au pays ont été reçues. La liste complète des lauréats est publiée provenant du milieu de l’enseignement de l’histoire. ci-bas. À propos des Prix d’histoire du gouvernement du Canada « Je tiens à féliciter les lauréats des Prix d’histoire du gouvernement du Canada et Les Prix d’histoire du gouvernement du Canada ont été créés en 2013. Leur objectif à remercier tous les participants, a déclaré l’honorable Mélanie Joly, ministre du Patri- est de rapprocher les jeunes de leur histoire en soulignant le travail exceptionnel d’étu- moine canadien. Notre gouvernement a à cœur d’encourager les Canadiens, notamment diants qui s’intéressent aux grands moment de l’histoire canadienne. Les Prix sont les jeunes, à mieux connaître la riche histoire du pays, et nous sommes fiers d’appuyer administrés par la Société Histoire Canada. l’excellent travail de la Société Histoire Canada par l’entremise du Fonds pour l’histoire du Canada. » À propos de la Société Histoire Canada

Catégorie : universités La Société Histoire Canada est un organisme de bienfaisance national dont le mandat consiste à populariser l’histoire canadienne, principalement grâce à ses programmes Dans la catégorie universités, les Prix du gouvernement du Canada 2017 récompensent de publication, d’éducation et de reconnaissance. En plus de remettre les Prix d’his- 20 étudiants qui se voient attribuer une bourse de 2000 $ – montant réparti entre les toire du gouvernement du Canada et de publier Canada’s History ainsi que Kayak : partenaires d’une même équipe retenue, selon les cas. Les étudiants à la maîtrise devaient Navigue dans l’histoire du Canada, la Société produit de nombreux programmes édu- soumettre un essai original sur l’histoire canadienne reposant sur leur programme ou leur catifs afin de favoriser la découverte et la compréhension de notre culture et de notre domaine de recherche. Les étudiants en enseignement devaient, de leur côté, proposer histoire communes. une activité originale d’enseignement de l’histoire canadienne. Les textes, d’au plus 2000 mots, ont été analysés en fonction de critères suivants : la qualité de l’écriture, la réflexion Pour en savoir davantage sur les lauréats, visitez prixhistoire.ca historique, l’innovation, la diversité et les Peuples autochtones. Les lauréats ont été sélec- tionnés par un jury indépendant composé de juges provenant du milieu de l’enseignement Relations avec les médias de l’histoire. Claude-Sylvie Lemery Responsable des communications Catégorie : écoles secondaires Société Histoire Canada 514 433-3405 Dans la catégorie écoles secondaires (et Cégep), les Prix du gouvernement du Canada [email protected] 2017 sont remis à 172 étudiants qui reçoivent une bourse de 1000 $ – montant réparti

34 Société historique du Canada PRESS RELEASE $200,000 IN PRIZES AWARDED TO STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY The Government of Canada History Awards honour 192 high school and university students

Photo Credit Clockwise from Top Left: Florence Sallows (Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol); James R. Johnston (Norman Studio Nova Scotia Archives); Canadian Women’s Army Corps Personnel (Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada, PA-145516); Portrait of Evee (George Hunter / National Film Board of Canada / Library and Archives Canada / PA-166471); Agnes Wong, Chinese-Canadian munitions worker (Ronny Jaques / National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada); Harry Kigiona, (Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Library and Archives Canada); Anna Pansek (Library and Archives Canada); Sonja Royes (Canada. Dept. of Manpower and Immigration / Library and Archives Canada).

OTTAWA, March 13, 2018 – A total of 192 students from across the country are sharing writing of no more than 1,000 words in length in the form of a historical essay, a a total of $200,000 in prizes presented as part of the 2017 Government of Canada historical work of fiction, or digital content. The submissions had to address one of the History Awards. Presented for the fourth consecutive year, the awards honour the following topics: reconciliation with indigenous peoples, the First World War, Expo 67, exceptional work of university students studying history (for the significance of their Canadian identity, or the development of a new national historic site. Submissions were research in Canadian history) or education (for the originality of an activity for teaching also required to demonstrate original research, historical analysis, a good knowledge Canadian history). The awards also recognize the work of high school students (in of the subject matter, and critical thinking skills. The winners were selected by an grades 10, 11 and 12/ Secondary 4, 5 and Cégep) who, through their writing, have independent jury made up history educators. shown an interest in great moments in Canadian history. In all, more than 800 student submissions were received from across the country. The complete list of winners About the Government of Canada History Awards appears below. The Government of Canada History Awards were created in 2013. Their goal is to con- “I would like to congratulate the recipients of this year’s Government of Canada His- nect youth to their history by honouring the work of outstanding students who show tory Awards and thank everyone who took part,” said the Honourable Mélanie Joly, an interest in great moments in Canadian history. The awards are administered by Minister of Canadian Heritage. “Our government is committed to encouraging Canadi- Canada’s History. ans—especially young people—to learn more about our country’s rich history. We are About Canada’s History proud to support the excellent work of Canada’s History Society through the Canada History Fund.” Canada’s History is a national charitable organization whose mission is to promote greater popular interest in Canadian history, principally through its publishing, educa- Category: Universities tion, and recognition programs. In addition to administering the Government of Canada History Awards and publishing In the University category, the 2017 Government of Canada History Awards honours Canada’s History magazine and Kayak: Canada’s History 20 students who each receive a $2,000 prize—divided between partners for team Magazine for Kids, Canada’s History produces a number of educational programs to submissions. Masters students were required to submit an original essay on Canadian further encourage the exploration and understanding of our shared culture and history. history relating to their program or field of research. Education students had to propose For more information on the winners, see historyawards.ca an original activity focused on the teaching of Canadian history. The submissions—a maximum of 2,000 words in length—were reviewed based on the following criteria: Media Contact quality of writing, historical thinking, innovation, and indigenous and diverse perspec- Claude-Sylvie Lemery tives. The winners were selected by an independent jury made up of history educators. Communications Manager Canada’s History Category: High Schools 514 433-3405 In the High Schools (and Cégep) category, the 2017 Government of Canada History [email protected] Awards go to 172 students who each receive a $1,000 prize—divided between partners for team submissions. Students were required to submit an original piece of

Canadian Historical Association 35 At the Intersection of Syria and Canada

It was my daughter’s idea. She had seen the heartbreaking images ble-double. “Too sweet,” they say.) When Gord Downie died they of Alan Kurdi, the little boy who had drowned trying to escape wanted to know who he was and why their teary-eyed English the war in Syria, his lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach. teacher had made a point of announcing it in class. “Why all Dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, he was still wearing his sneakers. Canada so sad?” Manal asked. I struggled to explain who he was and why his music touched so many people, but how does any- A few weeks later Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would one translate “Fifty-Mission Cap” or “Three Pistols”? Eventually I accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February 2016, a gave up and played “Bobcaygeon.” To everyone’s laughter, Qassim number that has since grown to 40,000. When the local CBC and I even danced! That night Alaa, the oldest girl, decided to do reported that several hundred refugees would be coming to her grade 7 social studies project on The Tragically Hip. Fredericton in less than a month and that the Multicultural Association was desperate for volunteers, we also learned that Qassim and Manal have made an important decision. Many of we were not social workers or care providers, as First Frederic- their friends, in search of a larger labour market, have moved to ton Friends we were to be just that: friends. Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. One family went to Edmonton. The Albrdans even took a short trip to Toronto last summer and The Oxford English Dictionary defines a friend as “a person with were impressed by its tall buildings and its economic opportu- whom one has developed a close and informal relationship of nities. Qassim has a brother in Toronto (as well as in Germany, mutual trust and intimacy.” It’s as good a definition as any but it Sweden, the United States, Turkey, and Jordan) and the kids doesn’t fully capture the friendship that has developed between miss their cousins. But Qassim and Manal have decided – Manal the Albrdans and the Wrights: from the moment we greeted them especially – to stay in Fredericton: it is clean, quiet, and, above at the airport we have been on a journey without a destination. everything else, safe. After the tragedy in Quebec City, the Fred- ericton police visited the local mosque – a former Anglican We spent our first nights together playing simple card games church – to explain that, while they didn’t foresee anything like and exchanging basic words in English and Arabic: hello, thank that happening in Fredericton, they would drive by the mosque you, winter, snow, and cold. It was 44° when they left Jordan and more often in the coming days. “Incredible,” said Qassim. -15° when they landed in Fredericton. On one of our first nights “Incredible. In Syria, the police come, you disappear. In Canada, together I brought an atlas. They showed me their city in Syria the police come, you get help. Incredible.” and I showed them their new city in Canada. They were struck by the enormous distances separating New Brunswick from How has my friendship with the Albrdans changed me? It’s like British Columbia. “Canada?” Qassim asked incredulously, run- asking me why I love my daughters. I just do and it just has. Cer- ning his finger from east to west. tainly, I have become much more interested in Canada’s refugee history and have incorporated it into my lectures. (Parenthet- Using Google translate, Qassim and Manal shared their story. The ically, I recommend Marlene Epp’s fab CHA booklet on the war came to their city in 2012, forcing them to leave everything, history of refugees in Canada.) But I have also begun to re-think their house, their gardens, their possessions. The women and chil- Canada. It isn’t only a project of liberal rule and white settler dren were packed into overcrowded cars and driven to Jordan nationalism. It’s also a project in diversity and multiculturalism, while the men escaped the shelling by walking into the mountains making it a pretty decent place. In short, multiculturalism works: and crossing the border on foot under the cover of darkness. A when individuals feel secure and confident in their ethnic, reli- few weeks later, families were re-united in the refugee camps. Of gious, and linguistic identities they are more willing to accept course, some weren’t. Not everyone made it across the border. “We the ethnic, religious, and linguistic identities of others. At least, have had dark days,” Qassim said. But, he added, “we are lucky.” that is the promise. True, it can be official and facile self-congrat- It’s one of his favourite words. Today, Qassim and Manal are thriv- ulations, but, according to Maurice Careless, multiculturalism ing: their English has progressed immeasurably, due in part to the is very Canadian, its roots lying in the historical imperative to efforts of Linda Kealey who has worked with them for over a year. accommodate the French language and the Catholic faith.

One of my projects with the Albrdans has been to teach them At the Canada 150 celebration in downtown Fredericton, the about Canada, its history and its geography. For Christmas, I gave happiest guy in the crowd was a Syrian refugee named Eid. He Qassim and Manal a subscription to Canadian Geographic and, and his wife and their two boys had been in Canada for just a to the three younger girls, a subscription to Kayak. (Harriet loved few months and their English was still very weak, just a hand- that magazine when she was a kid!) And although the Albrdans ful of words really. Greeting me with a bear hug, he said “I love have been spared lectures on asymmetrical federalism, I have Canada,” over and over again. “I love Canada. I love Canada.” In shared my new interest in the history of Canadian symbols, for that moment, at the intersection of Queen and Regent, so did I. example, the flag, the national anthem, the beaver, hockey, and Tim Horton’s. (Qassim and Manal are not so sure about the dou- Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick

36 Société historique du Canada La crise historique polonaise La nouvelle législation pour le « bon nom de la nation polonaise » et ses conséquences

En décembre 2015, deux mois après l’élection du gouver- au sein du gouvernement. L’article 55a stipule donc que nement polonais Droit et Justice (PiS) se dernier enfreignait la « Toute personne qui prétend publiquement et constitution par rapport à la nomination des juges de la Cour contrairement aux faits que la Nation polonaise ou la constitutionnelle, tribunal responsable d’examiner les recours République de Pologne est responsable ou coresponsable contre les lois votées par le parlement. En d’autres mots, cette des crimes commis par le Troisième Reich, comme le cour doit s’assurer que les lois passées par le gouvernement ne prévoit l›article 6 de la Charte des Nations Unies […] ou vont pas à l’encontre de la constitution et des droits de la per- pour d›autres crimes constituant des crimes contre la paix, sonne. Cette série de nominations frauduleuses mit ainsi, les crimes contre l›humanité ou les crimes de guerre, ou de façon définitive, la hanche dans le système démocratique toute autre personne qui diminue de manière flagrante la polonais et fut rapidement suivie de la création de politiques his- responsabilité des véritables auteurs desdits crimes, sera toriques pour mettre un frein à la recherche et l’enseignement de passible d›une amende ou d›une peine d›emprisonnement l’histoire de la Pologne durant l’occupation allemande. Depuis, pouvant aller jusqu›à trois ans. Le PiS a pris possession des institutions publiques et des médias afin d’avoir un contrôle total sur la diffusion d’informations his- 2. Si l’acte spécifié au paragraphe 1 est commis involon- toriques. Rappelons que le gouvernement congédia et remplaça tairement, l’auteur est passible d’une amende ou d’une par des historiens conservateurs et affiliés au PiS les directeurs restriction de liberté. de l’Institut de la Mémoire nationale (IPN), Dr Krzysztof Persak, 3. Aucune infraction n’est commise si l’acte criminel visé à l’été 2016 et celui du musée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à aux clauses 1 et 2 est commis dans le cadre de son activité Gdansk, Dr Pawel Machciewicz en mars 20171. Dans les deux artistique ou académique. cas, le PiS justifia ces congédiements en expliquant que les historiens ne respectaient pas la vision du passé du parti au pouvoir. 4. Indépendamment de la réglementation en vigueur sur le lieu de l’infraction, la présente loi s’applique aux Ces renvois présentaient la ligne de parti à suivre : dire ce que le citoyens polonais et étrangers en cas de commission des PiS souhaite entendre ou se taire. Cette campagne d’intimidation infractions2». traversa finalement l’océan, en juin 2017, lorsque le professeur d’histoire à l’université d’Ottawa Jan Grabowski, spécialiste des Deux ans et demi donc après l’élection du parti ultraconser- relations judéopolonaise durant l’Holocauste, fut accusé de salir vateur, le gouvernement polonais passait enfin à l’action en le bon nom de la nation polonaise. La Ligue anti-diffamation mettant de l’avant cette politique historique qui vient nier et polonaise (Reduta Dobrego Imienia – Polska Liga Przeciw Znie- rendre illégale toute discussion sur la complicité de certaines sławieniom), comité de vigilance près du PiS, envoyait une lettre franges de la population polonaise dans l’extermination des Juifs officielle au Département d’histoire de dans laquelle elle discréd- de Pologne. Étrangement, les termes à bannir, « Camps d’exter- itait le travail de l’historien et encourageait le département au mination polonais », qui étaient à la base même du projet de renvoi du professeur. Notons aussi que parmi la centaine d’uni- loi n’apparaissent pas dans l’article en question. Cette omission versitaires polonais qui signèrent la lettre, aucun n’est historien. laisse volontairement un flou dans l’application possible de la loi, L’Université d’Ottawa n’a pas écouté la plainte et, même au con- l’inscrivant ainsi dans un climat politique de peur et d’autorita- traire, a montré la solidarité qui règne en son enceinte entre les risme. Il est désormais évidemment que le PiS cherche à faire membres du personnel – cadres et professeur – et les étudiants. taire les universitaires (polonais comme d’ailleurs), à imposer une vision unilatérale de son passé tout en faisant table rase des La législation sur l’Holocauste notions historiques qui ne lui plaisent pas. Depuis son élection, le gouvernement du président Andrzej Plus troublant encore que cette nouvelle dictature de l’histoire, Duda souhaitait mettre en place une loi interdisant l’utilisation le PiS demande désormais à ses citoyens (et à la diaspora) de du terme « camps d’extermination polonais ». Cette expression, dénoncer aux autorités gouvernementales toute personne con- rarement utilisée en français, donne la fausse impression que les trevenant à la loi. Cette délation légale, qui semble surréaliste en camps de la mort érigés par les Allemands étaient une initiative 2018, est pourtant bel et bien réelle et ressemble étrangement à polonaise et que les Polonais eux-mêmes étaient collaborateurs celle utilisée en Union-Soviétique durant la période stalinienne. du régime nazi. Ce projet de loi proposé par le gouvernement L’application de dénonciation spontanée a fait une première vic- dans son programme électoral permettrait de condamner toute time à la fin du mois de février. Le groupe nationaliste appelée personne qui utilise l’expression. Le 31 janvier 2018, ce projet de La Ligue anti-diffamation polonaise a officiellement accusé loi était présenté en chambre et ne rencontra aucune opposition 1 Pour plus d’information consulter l’article http://histoireengagee. 2 https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-polands-controver- ca/?p=6957 sial-holocaust-legislation/

Canadian Historical Association 37 l’Argentine de contrevenir à la loi en ayant sous-entendu la par- est au cœur du discours du PiS. Elle a été utilisée par la min- ticipation des Polonais au régime nazi dans un article Pagina 12, istre de l’Éducation en juillet 2016 en parlant du pogrom de paru en décembre 20173, sur le massacre4 de Jedwabne5. Kielce; le plus important pogrom d’après-guerre commis par la population locale. Madame Anna Zalewska affirma que des Les réactions à la loi : ici et ailleurs antisémites avaient tué les Juifs, mais qu’il était impossible d’af- Les réactions au projet de loi furent internationales et immédi- firmer qu’ils étaient polonais. Ces deux réactions provenant du ates. Dès les premières heures suivant l’annonce faite par le PiS, gouvernement polonais démontrent que ce dernier est prêt à de nombreuses pétitions et articles circulaient déjà à travers le tout – à mentir, à jouer sur les mots, à réinventer l’histoire – afin monde. Les réseaux sociaux se sont enflammés et les discus- d’imposer leur « vérité historique ». sions multipliées. Les historiens ont pris la parole, dénonçant Si les réactions à l’international furent vives face à la distorsion la censure et la fin de la liberté de recherche académique en historique pratiquée par le PiS, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’en Pologne. La loi fut condamnée par le gouvernement israélien Pologne, les mouvements pro-PiS sont de plus en plus présents. et par la maison blanche menaçant ainsi les relations interna- Déjà, le 11 novembre 2017, lors de la journée de l’Indépendance tionales. Le gouvernement polonais a essayé tant bien que mal polonaise, une manifestation nationaliste, anti-juive, antimusul- de défendre la nécessité de cette loi « pour le bon nom de la mane et procatholique s’était emparée des rues de la capitale. Des nation polonaise 6», mais il n’a réussi qu’à attiser plus de haine. expressions xénophobes arboraient les affiches géantes – quelques- Ainsi, en tentant d’expliquer que la question de l’implication uns affichaient même la croix gammée – et le slogan « la Pologne des civils n’était pas couverte par la loi, le premier ministre aux Polonais » retentissait dans la foule11. Cette manifestation est polonais Mateusz Morawecki dit lors d’une entrevue accordée symbolique des idéaux du PiS qui, lors du dernier sondage élec- à la télévision allemande : « il y eut des collaborateurs et des toral de février 2018, a obtenu 50,2 % des intentions de vote. Cela bourreaux polonais, ukrainiens, mais aussi des Juifs durant l’Ho- démontre bien qu’une partie bruyante du peuple polonais appuie locauste 7». La même journée, M. Morawecki alla porter des le gouvernement et la loi sur l’Holocauste et est prête à la défendre fleurs sur la pierre commémorative de l’unique groupe polonais en dénonçant les individus qui y contreviennent. officiellement collaborateur du régime nazi8. La loi sur la diffamation de la Nation polonaise au Canada Rapidement après cette double bévue le discours bifurqua et s’engagea sur la sensible question de l’antisémitisme polonais. Quand est-il des historiens et chercheurs canadiens? La loi les L’opinion publique voyait désormais dans la législation sur l’Ho- vise certainement ceux qui travaille sur l’Holocauste, mais la locauste, le racisme polonais réduit à sa plus simple expression. réalité c’est que ces chercheurs sont presque totalement immu- Les universitaires de partout dans le monde réaffirmèrent que nisés. Bien que la délation soit désormais monnaie courante pour la Pologne avait avant tout un problème avec les Juifs polonais, le PiS et qu’elle fonctionne théoriquement hors des frontières rappelant que l’antisémitisme était bien ancré dans la tradition polonaises, il n’en demeure pas moins que les répercussions pour polonaise avant comme après la guerre. Nous retrouvons cette les chercheurs d’ici seront inexistantes. Dans une telle situation, haine dans la campagne de mai 19689, par exemple, dont les pour quelle position ces universitaires canadiens doivent-ils cinquante ans sont commémorés cette année. Lorsque le premier opter? Doivent-ils continuer leur recherche ou demeurer silen- ministre fut confronté aux questions relatives à cette campagne, cieux comme l’entend le PiS? Dans quelque temps, quelques il affirma que ces actes avaient été commis par des communistes mois peut-être ou quelques années, la Pologne et ses politiques et non des Polonais10. Cette rhétorique de déresponsabilisation de distorsion historique ne feront plus la Une des journaux. L’actualité se réajustera et de nouveaux débats apparaitront. 3 Un des journaux de centre-gauche les plus lu d’Argentine, publié à En Pologne, la loi continuera d’exister et sera peut-être même Buenos Aires depuis 1987 appliquée. Les universitaires canadiens n’en sauront rien. Nous 4 Massacre qui eut lieu le 10 juillet 1941 où la population catholique de devons comprendre la chance que nous avons de travailler dans la ville enferma les quelques 100 juifs dans une grande avant d’y mettre un environnement sans censure, où la liberté académique et de le feu. Pour plus d’information consulté : Jan T. Gross, Les voisins, Paris, recherche n’est pas remise en question. Plus importants encore, Ed. Fayard, 2002. 5 nous devons continuer d’appuyer les chercheurs polonais qui Pour plus d’information, voir l’article suivant https://www.haaretz. risquent désormais de perdre beaucoup plus que leur emploi com/world-news/europe/poland-s-holocaust-law-first-lawsuit-filed- s’ils ne suivent pas la ligne de parti imposée par le PiS. Nous using-contentious-law-1.5867841 6 http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/350832,PM-says-antiPolish- leur devons notre soutien, et contrairement à ce que le gouver- sentiment-around-the-world-has-been-gaining-in-power-report nement polonais tente de faire à son propre peuple, nous devons 7 https://www.timesofisrael.com/scholars-polish-pm-distorts-histo- nous souvenir de ce moment où la Pologne a franchi la ligne de ry-by-saying-jews-participated-in-holocaust/ l’autoritarisme. 8 Voir l’entrevue qu’a accordé Prof. Jan Grabowski à la télévision israé- Marie-Dominique Asselin est candidate au doctorat, Université lienne https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F4fgrVEoyV1Z2URbkQw2_ XXsWuKe1c36/view d’Ottawa. 9 En 1968, le régime communiste polonais a démarré une campagne antisémite qui aboutit au bannissement de milliers de personnes, afin haunt-poland-50-years-on/a-42399907 de briser la montée du mouvement protestataire en Pologne. 11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/white-eu- 10 http://www.dw.com/en/echoes-of-1968-anti-semitic-campaign- rope-60000-nationalists-march-on-polands-independence-day

38 Société historique du Canada Obituaries | Nécrologie

John Sainsbury Francess G. Halpenny (1919–2017) The Brock community lost an important figure this week with the death of John Sainsbury, retired Professor Emeritus in the Francess G. Halpenny, who Department of History. Sainsbury, who died Tuesday, Nov. 14, passed away on 25 Decem- was 71. ber 2017, officially served as General Editor of the DCB/ “John Sainsbury was an erudite and witty colleague. He was an DBC from 1969 to 1988, and, important contributor to the growth of the Department of His- working with her counter- tory, the Faculty of Humanities and Brock University. He will parts at the Université Laval, be sorely missed,” says Carol Merriam, Dean of the Faculty of oversaw the completion of Humanities. ten volumes of the Dictio- nary, comprising more than Born in England, Sainsbury 5,000 biographies – a truly came to Canada in the late 1970s remarkable achievement. to complete a PhD at McGill She adhered to and fur- after having obtained his BA and thered the principles on which the Dictionary was based MA at Cambridge. – a bilingual partnership with the Université Laval (with the result that the DCB/DBC became and remains the His first book, Disaffected Patri- most important bilingual project in the Canadian human- ots, made a major contribution to ities); the organization of biographies by period of death research on English sympathiz- date rather than alphabetically; and the insistence that the ers of the American Revolution, biographies be based on primary sources – a practice that while his second book was a distinguishes the DCB/DBC from all other dictionaries of biography of John Wilkes and received high praise for the deep national biography. look it took at Wilkes’ life. Dictionary of Canadian Biography | Dictionnaire As a department chair, the first-ever Associate Dean of Graduate biographique du Canada Studies and Research for the Faculty of Humanities and a Brock Senator, Sainsbury was a powerful voice throughout his career with the ability to push colleagues to take the right course of relished it, telling many wonderful stories and reminding his col- action. leagues that none of them ever got to make up their own facts.

“John was a leader, a mentor and a friend,” said Daniel Samson, Everyone who knew Sainsbury also knew his wife, Lisa. Their Chair of the Department of History. “He was savvier and funnier dinners were legendary, the conversations always engaging and than most of us combined. We will miss him enormously.” the evenings long. The couple made people feel welcome.

Jane McLeod, who followed Sainsbury as department chair, said Sainsbury was also a mentor, assisting new arrivals to Brock over he was a key figure in moving the department forward to become the years. a major research centre. “His imagination and drive made the department forward looking on all fronts,” she said. “John and Lisa were two of the first people to make us feel like members of the Brock community,” said Professor Andrew Sainsbury was a respected teacher whose courses on British McDonald, who came to Brock in 2002. “We were struck by history were popular and his seminars on witchcraft and lib- their warmth, sincerity, compassion and humanity.” ertinism offered students powerful introductions to important topics. Several of his students went on to complete PhDs. Sainsbury is predeceased by his wife Lisa. He is survived by sons Edward and Ben. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, Nov. His career took him to many places — from teaching at McGill, 25 at 11 a.m. at the Hulse and English Funeral Home and Chapel Brown, Western and the American University in Cairo, he also in St. Catharines. worked as a reporter for several years at the National Examiner. While many academics might have buried this detail as an unfor- The Brock News tunate low-point in his search for a university job, Sainsbury

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Gerald Tulchinsky

Gerald Tulchinsky, a much-loved University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym, a leading professor and prolific author who scholar of Jewish trends, said Tulchinsky was “the dean of chronicled Canada’s Jewish history Canadian Jewish historians. His work laid the foundation for and its many colourful characters, future research on the history of Canadian Jewry and will be died at his home in Kingston, Ont., recognized as such for many generations.” Historian Erna Paris on Dec. 13, after a lengthy bout with echoed similar sentiments. She considers Tulchinsky “among cancer. He was 84. Tulchinsky began Canada’s foremost scholars of Canadian Jewish history. His loss his professional career as a historian to the community is a substantial one, but I am confident that of Canadian business and labour, his books and articles will continue to enlighten Canadian read- but later expanded his interests to ers for years to come.” Morton Weinfeld, a sociology professor include Canadian Jewish history. His at McGill University, said Tulchinsky’s work was “outstanding” book, Taking Root: The Origins of the because he blended two perspectives: “He was a historian who Canadian Jewish Community, which understood that Jewish life in Canada was a result of the inter- covers the period from 1762 to 1920, was published in 1992. A section of the Jewish experience and the Canadian context. He second volume, Branching Out: the Transformation of the Cana- knew both. He had an eye for details that could illustrate broad dian Jewish Community, came out in 1998. His other books themes. He was a superb scholar and colleague.” Michael Marrus included Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey (2008); Joe Salsberg: of the University of Toronto knew Tulchinsky as “a fair-minded, A Life of Commitment (2013); and Shtetl on the Grand (2015), gentle scholar” and “a devoted teacher and colleague,” while Wil- a collection of short stories. His first volume, The River Barons: liam Shaffir, a sociologist who has also studied Canadian Jewish Montreal Businessmen and the Growth of Industry and Transpor- trends, said Tulchinsky was “the foremost academic of Canadian tation, 1837-53, published in 1977, was based on his doctoral Jewry. A prolific scholar, his work laid the foundation for anyone thesis, which was supervised by J.M.S. Careless, a giant of Cana- interested in Jews in Canada. His research was meticulous and dian history. The work exposed Tulchinsky to the Canadian opened the door for making studies of Canadian Jewry reputa- Jewish merchants who lived in Montreal at the time. ble beyond the Jewish community.”

Gerald Jacob Joseph Tulchinsky was born in Brantford, Ont., on Tulchinsky is survived by his wife of 56 years (Ruth), three chil- Sept. 9, 1933, to Harry and Anne Tulchinsky. He was educated at dren (Steve, Ellen and Laura), two grandchildren, a brother the University of Toronto and McGill University. He taught his- (Ted) and a sister (Norma Sautman). tory to generations of students at Queen’s University from 1966 until 2000 and was director of the university’s Jewish studies program after he retired from the history department. He wrote and edited dozens of articles on business, transportation, immigration and anti-Semitism.

“If one were to look up mensch, one would find Jerry’s photograph,” remarked fellow historian Frank Bialystok. “Above all, Jerry was generous, unpretentious, supportive and opinionated. He was a wonderful and inspiring teacher to students, colleagues and audiences.” Tulchinsky was searching for photographs for his latest work, a history of the Canadian clothing industry, the day before he died, Bialystok added. “We may never see the likes of him again.” Ira Robinson, professor of Judaic studies at Concordia University in Montreal, said Tulchinsky will be remembered as a major scholar “who successfully fostered the transition between the study of Canadian Jewry as a subject largely of interest within the Jewish community, to a topic of academic importance and relevance within Canadian universities. “His synthesis of Canadian Jewish history remains the standard by which any other interpretation of that history will be mea- s u re d .”

40 Société historique du Canada Historians in the News | Les historiens font les manchettes

“Historians in the News” acknowledges some of the many suc- for Asian American Studies prize for Best Book in the Social Sci- cesses of historians in Canada, including their engagement ences, for her work, Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants and the Cold outside academia and with the public. If you know of someone War (Harvard University Press). https://www.facebook.com/ who has obtained employment in or outside of the academy, associationforasianamericanstudies/posts/858139114364664 delivered a public lecture, given an interview, written an editorial or a notable blog entry, won a non-academic prize or a Laura Madokoro s’est méritée le prix du teaching award, or has been awarded an honorary degree, let us meilleur livre en sciences humaines de l’ know! Here are a few developments that members have told us Association for Asian American Studies about over the past months: pour son œuvre Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants and the Cold War (Harvard Uni- « Les historiens font les manchettes » vise à reconnaître et à hono- versity Press). https://www.facebook. rer quelques-uns des nombreux succès d’historiens au Canada, com/associationforasianamericanstudies/ y compris leur engagement avec le public. Si vous ou quelqu›un posts/858139114364664 que vous connaissez a : gagné un prix du livre ou d’article, reçu un prix d›enseignement, donné une conférence publique ou Miriam Wright, Department of History, University of Windsor, une entrevue, écrit un éditorial, commencé un nouveau blog ou was part of group which received a Lieutenant Governor’s Excel- écrit un texte remarquable, été affecté dans un nouveau poste lence in Conservation Award from the Ontario Heritage Trust administratif, ou reçu un diplôme honorifique, veuillez-nous for a digital/oral history project, “Breaking the Colour Barrier: en informer et nous tenterons de l’inclure dans notre rubrique. Wilfred ‘Boomer’ Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars” Voici quelques faits qui ont retenu notre attention au cours des (http://cdigs.uwindsor.ca/BreakingColourBarrier/ ) on Feb- derniers mois : ruary 23, 2018. Co-recipients included Heidi Jacobs and Dave Johnston, both of Leddy Library, University of Windsor, as well The Graphic History Collective’s latest project, Remember | as the Harding family (Pat and Blake Harding) and the Chatham Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project, was profiled Sports Hall of Fame. The project, funded by the Ontario Tril- by CBC online, on the radio show World lium Foundation, explores the stories of the Chatham Coloured at 6, and on television news programs All-Stars, the first African-Canadian team to win an Ontario across the country. CHA members Sean Baseball Amateur Association championship in 1934. Carleton and Julia Smith helped curate the collaborative project that offers alternative perspectives on well-known historical events and highlights histories of Indigenous peoples, women, workers, and the oppressed that are often over- looked or marginalized in mainstream historical accounts. The posters are free for personal, education, and activist use and can be downloaded from the GHC’s website: http://graphichistorycollective.com.

Le plus récent projet du Graphic History Collective, Remember | Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project, a été rapporté par CBC online, l’émission radiophonique World at 6, et des émissions d’information de télévision de partout au pays. Les Photo by Tracey Harding: Don Bruner, Ontario Lieutenant Governor membres de la SHC, Sean Carleton et Julia Smith, ont participé Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Miriam Wright, Pat Harding, Harvey McCue à l’organisation du projet de collaboration qui offre de nouvelles (Ontario Heritage Trust), Blake Harding. | Image de Tracey Harding: Don Bruner, la lieutenante gouverneure de l’Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell, perspectives sur des événements historiques bien connus et Miriam Wright, Pat Harding, Harvey McCue (Fiducie du patrimoine met en lumière l’histoire de peuples autochtones, de femmes, ontarien), Blake Harding. d’ouvriers et d’opprimés souvent négligée ou marginalisée. Les affiches sont gratuites pour un usage personnel, éducatif et acti- viste et peuvent être téléchargées sur le site Web du GHC : http:// Miriam Wright, du département d’histoire à Université de graphichistorycollective.com. Windsor, faisait partie d’un groupe qui a reçu le Prix du lieutenant-gouverneur pour réalisations en matière de conservation Laura Madokoro (McGill University) has won the Association du patrimoine ontarien pour un projet d’histoire numérique /

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orale intitulé « Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred ‘Boo- mer’ Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars » (http:// Breaking News | Nouvelle de dernière heure cdigs.uwindsor.ca/BreakingColourBarrier/) le 23 février 2018. Les colauréats étaient Heidi Jacobs et Dave Johnston, The CHA is sad to hear the passing of the tous deux de la bibliothèque Leddy de l›Université de Wind- great historian and one of its past presi- sor, la famille Harding (Pat et Blake Harding) ainsi que le dent (1987-88), H. Blair Neatby. Members Chatham Sports Hall of Fame. Le projet, financé par la Fon- of the CHA’s Executive and Council would dation Trillium de l’Ontario, explore les récits des Colored like to extend their sincere condolences All-Stars de Chatham, la première équipe afro-canadienne to Professor Neatby’s family and to his à remporter un championnat de l’Ontario Baseball Amateur daughter, Nicole, who served on CHA’s Association en 1934. Council from 2013 to 2016.

Western University PhD candidate La SHC est attristée d’apprendre la nou- Samantha Desroches was invited velle du décès du grand historien et ancient président de la SHC to speak with CBC radio about her (1987-88) H. Blair Neatby. Les membres de l’Exécutif et du dissertation, “Christmas during Conseil d’administration de la SHC tiennent à offrir leurs plus WW2.” She spoke with 12 radio sta- sincères condoléances à la famille du professeur Neatby et à sa tions over the course of 4 hours, fille en particulier, Nicole, qui a siégé sur le Conseil d’administra- from Whitehorse to Halifax. https:// tion de la SHC entre 2013 et 2016. twitter.com/westernuHistory/status/943977741199839233 Herbert Blair Neatby 1924-2018 Samantha Desroches, doctorante à l’Université d’Ottawa a été invitée par CBC Radio-Canada pour discuter de sa Blair Neatby, born in Renown, Saskatchewan in 1924, died thèse « Christmas during WWII ». Elle a partagé pendant peacefully at the Ottawa Civic Hospital surrounded by family on 4 heures sur 12 stations radiophoniques, de Whitehorse March 11, 2018. à Halifax. https://twitter.com/westernuHistory/status/943977741199839233 He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 47 years Jacque- line (née Côté) in 2008. He is survived by two of his seven siblings Check out the CHA Media Contact List and our “What can Ken (Pat) and Philip (Marian), his sister-in-law (Denise Boisson- you do with a history degree page?” on the CHA website neault), his children Nicole, Pierre (Anne Delmas) and Jacques (www.cha-shc.ca) two great venues for engaging in the pub- (Anne-Marie Migneault), and three bright young granddaugh- lic discourse. ters Christine, Stephanie and Gabrielle whose accomplishments were a source of pride. He also leaves behind several nieces and Consultez la liste des personnes-ressources destinée aux nephews who brought him joy. médias ainsi que le blogue « Que faire avec un diplôme ne histoire » sur le site de la SHC (www.cha-shc.ca), deux Blair Neatby was a WW II veteran and professor of Canadian his- excellents points d’entrée pour s’intégrer au débat public. tory who received multiple prizes for his teaching. He authored studies on the Depression, Quebec political history and was an official biographer of Prime Minister Mackenzie King. His deep commitment to improving French-English relations led him to accept the position of research director for the Bilingual and Bicultural Commission and to live his home life in French.

The family wishes to extend their heart-felt thanks to the caring staff at the Villagia in the Glebe residence (formerly Palisades) and to the many there who became good companions.

Friends are invited to visit at the Central Chapel of Hulse, Play- fair and McGarry, 315 McLeod St., Ottawa, on Friday, April 13 from 2:00-4:00pm and 7:00-9:00 p.m. A Celebration of Life will be held at in the Chapel on Saturday, April 14 at 11:00 am. Dona- tions may be made, in lieu of flowers, to the United Way.

42 Société historique du Canada New from University of Toronto Press

Contours of the Nation Making Obesity and Imagining Roads to Confederation Canada, 1945–1970 The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1 by Deborah McPhail edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Contours of the Nation is the first et. al. book which explores obesity in Canada in the post-war period In recognition of Canada’s from a critical perspective. sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection.

Northern Star J.S. Plaskett Roads to Confederation by R. Peter Broughton The Making of Canada, 1867, This book explores the fascinating Volume 2 life of Canada’s pre-eminent edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, astronomer John Stanley Plaskett et. al. and highlights the reputation he built for Canada as a nation Roads to Confederation surveys making important contributions to the way in which scholars from basic science. different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada.

Roots of Entanglement Essays in the History of Native- Newcomer Relations edited by Myra Rutherdale, Whitney Lackenbauer, and Kerry Perogies and Politics Abel Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891- 1991 Roots of Entanglement is a direct response to the Truth and by Rhonda L. Hinther Reconciliation Commission’s call Perogies and Politics explores the for a better appreciation of the twentieth century history of left- complexities of history in the wing Ukrainians in Canada and relationship between Indigenous how changing social, economic, and non-Indigenous peoples in and political forces affected them. Canada.

utorontopress.com CONGRATULATIONS / FÉLICITATIONS SARAH CARTER

2017 recipient of The Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research: The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

Lauréate de l’édition 2017 duPrix d’histoire du Gouverneur général pour la recherche savante : Le Prix Sir-John-A.-Macdonald

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