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1 A Word from the President | Mot de la présidente 4 CHA Secretaries | Secrétaires de la SHC 8 News from 130 Albert | Nouvelles du 130 Albert 11 News from the Field | Nouvelles du milieu 33 Interview with Terence Fay | Entretien avec Terence Fay 36 2017 CHA Prizes | Prix 2017 de la SHC 38 CHA Call for Nominations | Appel de mises en candidature de la SHC 40 Obituaries | Nécrologies Loyalists in the 44 Historians in the News | Les historiens Classroom 31 font les manchettes A SHORT LETTER FROM OUR EDITOR

After I had my first child, I didn’t know what to do with myself. “A book is a highly personal I had an MA in History, had worked in fundraising for the Heart creation, even a text designed for and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, did communications work university use; UTP in university administration, and worked as a consultant first in recognizes that. I can only technical communications and then in management consulting. say that my experience with UTP But nothing felt… right. So I went to a career consultant and has been altogether after looking at my resume, she thought I would make a good positive, indeed a pleasure. editor. I liked reading and writing. I liked to listen and to learn. I I could not have asked for knew how to take an idea and to turn it into something useful. better colleagues or a And, I believed in the value of a history education. better press.”

I took courses at , did an internship at Random —Kenneth R. Bartlett, House, was hired at Broadview Press and then at University of Toronto Press as the History Editor in the Higher Education Division. And that felt… right.

I look up at my shelves every day and see books like A Short History of the Italian Renaissance, Canada and the Third World, Who Is the Historian?, and A History of Science in Society and I feel privileged that for the last ten years, I have been able to work with people like you who are dedicated to teaching the past to today’s present. Your impact on my life is immense, and I am grateful to all of you.

Thank you, Natalie Fingerhut

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t a recent stakeholders meeting in Ottawa, the ors d’un récent forum des partenaires de Bibliothèque et CHA/SHC, represented by myself and Michel Archives Canada à Ottawa, qui a lieu deux fois par année, la Duquet, joined other library and archives groups in SHC, représentée par moi-même et Michel Duquet, s’est jointe Aa twice annual meeting with Guy Bertiaume, Librarian and Là d’autres groupes de bibliothèques et d’archives pour converser avec Archivist of Canada and LAC/BAC’s staff. I would imagine Guy Bertiaume, bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada et le per- all historians in Canada can come up with a list of improve- sonnel de BAC/LAC. J’imagine que tous les historiens du Canada ments they would like to see to our national Library and pourraient suggérer toute une liste d’améliorations qu’ils aimeraient Archives as a result of more federal funding to our heritage voir apporter à notre bibliothèque et à nos archives nationales s’il y institutions. However, there is no doubt that we are facing avait un financement plus important de la part du gouvernement a more attentive atmosphere in our LAC stakeholders’ con- fédéral envers nos institutions patrimoniales. Toutefois, il ne fait sultations. If there are problems and needs, there is a will aucun doute que BAC/LAC est beaucoup plus attentive aux com- to listen to what they are. There are also newly constituted mentaires des parties prenantes lors de ces consultations. Il y a une public consultation Advisory committees on Acquisitions volonté de la part de BAC/LAC d’être informée des problèmes et and Services, with historians on all those committees. We des besoins dans la communauté. BAC/LAC a récemment constitué urge you to check out their names, contact information and des comités consultatifs et un processus de consultation publique the committee minutes under “About Us” on LAC’s website. sur les acquisitions et les services, et ces comités comportent tous des historiens. Nous vous invitons à consulter leurs noms ainsi que Just a few highlights from our stakeholders meeting: les coordonnées et les procès-verbaux des comités sous l’onglet « À notre sujet » sur le site Internet de BAC/LAC. The switch from the library catalogue system, Amicus to OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is still under- Voci quelques-uns des faits saillants de ce dernier forum des par- way. Staff conceded that this felt a bit like “groundhog” day, tenaires : an ever repeating story, but there are dates and deadlines set: data migration should take place between November La transition du catalogue collectif de la bibliothèque nationale 2016 and November 2017. Making records more accessi- Amicus au OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) est toujours ble through digitization is also a priority: LAC is working en cours. Le personnel a admis que c’était un peu comme le film « Un on the records of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and jour sans fin », toujours la même histoire, mais BAC/LAC a mainte- has partnered with Canadiana and Ancestry.Ca to digitize nant des dates et des délais fixés : la migration des données devrait other private and government records. LAC/BAC is also avoir lieu entre novembre 2016 et novembre 2017. De rendre les dos- suggesting a new initiative of ‘self digitization’: researchers siers plus accessbiles par le biais de la numérisation est également visiting the archives will be given access to LAC’s digitizing une priorité : BAC/LAC se concentre présentement sur les dossiers

Canadian Historical Association 1 Il ne fait aucun doute que BAC/ LAC est beaucoup plus attentive aux commentaires des parties prenantes lors de ces consulta- There is no doubt that we are facing a more tions. Il y a une volonté de la attentive atmosphere in our LAC stakeholders’ part de BAC/LAC d’être infor- consultations. If there are problems and mée des problèmes et des besoins needs, there is a will to listen to what they are. dans la communauté. equipment, along with training to use it, and then allowed to du Corps expéditionnaire canadien et a établi un partenariat avec digitize records that will be made available to other research- Canadiana et Ancestry.ca pour numériser d’autres documents ers. Finally, LAC is well aware of the need not only to have a privés et gouvernementaux. BAC/LAC suggère également une plan for web harvesting of data, but also to work with other nouvelle initiative d’« auto numérisation » : les chercheurs qui institutions doing the same to avoid overlap. visiteront les archives auront accès à l’équipement de numérisa- tion de BAC/LAC ainsi qu’à une formation pour l’utiliser. Ceux-ci As well as undertaking a users’ poll to ascertain how to seront autorisés à numériser des documents qui seront mis à la improve their web, telephone and in-person services, LAC disposition d’autres chercheurs par la suite. Enfin, BAC/LAC est continues to administer the Documentary Heritage Com- bien consciente du besoin de non seulement avoir un plan pour munities Program which provides badly needed funding to la récolte des données Internet, mais aussi de travailler de concert local archives, memory projects and heritage organizations. avec d’autres institutions pour éviter les duplications. While the ILL program as it was previously constituted is not going to return, we were told that there will always be some En plus d’entreprendre un sondage auprès de ses usagers pour “loans to other institutions” available, and that LAC remains déterminer comment améliorer leur site Internet, leurs services the lender of last resort if material is not available elsewhere téléphoniques et leurs services sur place, BAC/LAC continue – including newspapers on microfilm. That is good news. d’administrer le Programme sur les collectivités du patrimoine documentaire qui offre des fonds qui sont essentiels aux archives LAC/BAC is also developing an international strategy, an locales, aux projets liés à la mémoire et aux organismes du patri- important means of sharing best practices and engaging moine. Et bien que le programme de prêt entre bibliothèques tel with archives around the world as they wrestle with sim- qu’il était constitué ne sera pas rétabli, on nous dit que les « prêts à ilar problems and challenges. And looking to the global d’autres institutions » seront toujours disponibles et que BAC/LAC front, they encourage involvement in the UNESCO World demeure le « prêteur de dernier recours » si les documents ne sont Heritage Registry, whose first Chairperson was the previ- pas disponibles ailleurs - y compris les journaux sur microfilm. Ce ous head of LAC/BAC, Jean-Pierre Wallot. Institutions or sont de bonnes nouvelles. individuals can nominate heritage records for the UNESCO Registry, with two nominations per country allowed every BAC/LAC développe également une stratégie internationale, une second year. While making it on the Registry carries no formule essentielle pour le partage des meilleures pratiques et la col- lottery-like financial payout for the nominator, it does give laboration avec les archives à travers le monde puisqu’elles ont toutes prestige and visibility to our rich documentary heritage, and des problèmes et des défis similaires. Toujours à l’échelle internatio- may help some institutions lobby for the resources to pro- nale, BAC/LAC encourage la participation à la Liste du patrimoine tect them better. mondial de l’UNESCO, dont l’ancien administrateur général de

2 Société historique du Canada LAC/BAC is also developing an international strategy, an important means of sharing best practices and engaging with archives around the world ... BAC/LAC développe également une stratégie internationale, une formule essentielle pour le partage des meilleures pratiques et la collaboration avec les archives à travers le monde ...

Last but not least, LAC/BAC’s task force on the Truth and BAC/LAC, Jean-Pierre Wallot a été Reconciliation Commission is underway, with a set of le premier président. Les institutions goals: they are examining all their policy and practices in ou les individus peuvent désigner des order to eliminate barriers to reconciliation, meeting with dossiers patrimoniaux pour la liste Indigenous communities, extending their Project Nam- d’UNESCO, avec deux nominations par ing in the North to new geographical areas, reviewing pays autorisés tous les deux ans. Même the records on Aboriginal peoples available in an effort to si l’inscription de documents patrimo- maximize these, and LAC/BAC has signed an agreement niaux sur la liste ne comporte aucun with National Centre for TRC records in Winnipeg so that avantage financier, elle donne un certain prestige et accroît la visibilité de records can be digitized and used across the country. notre riche patrimoine documentaire et peut aider certaines institutions à faire pression pour obtenir des ressources afin de mieux les protéger. A Note on Academic Freedom Issues and the CHA Enfin, le groupe de travail de BAC/LAC sur la Commission de vérité While our Council Advocacy Portfolio person (right now, et réconciliation du Canada est établi et a des objectifs précis : exami- Esyllt Jones) keeps her eyes scanned for issues of con- ner toutes ses politiques et pratiques en vue d’éliminer les obstacles cern to the CHA, we also rely on our members to bring à la réconciliation, rencontrer les communautés autochtones, élar- issues of historians’ endangered academic freedom to us. gir son projet Un visage, un nom et le Nord canadien à de nouvelles We can then assess the situation and decide a course of zones géographiques et réviser les dossiers disponibles sur les peuples action. While letter writing to cabinet ministers may seem autochtones dans un effort de les optimiser. De plus, BAC/LAC a signé a small action in the face of terrible situations, we always un accord avec le National Centre for TRC records à Winnipeg afin hope that accumulated voices will help. Recently, Natalie que les documents puissent être numérisés et utilisés partout au pays. Zemon Davis sent us her concerns about the persecution of academics in Turkey, and we followed up with a letter Une note sur les questions en matière de to Minister Stéphane Dion. We are now assessing the wor- liberté académique et la SHC rying situation of new legislation about the history of the Holocaust in Poland, raised by University of Ottawa histo- Bien que notre responsable du portefeuilles des interventions rian Jan Grabowski. publiques (présentement Esyllt Jones) surveille les questions d’intérêt pour la SHC, nous comptons également sur nos membres pour nous Joan Sangster infomer des situations qui mettent la liberté académique des historiens President en danger. On peut alors évaluer la situation et décider d’un plan d’ac- Historical Association of Canada tion. Bien que la composition de lettres adressées à des ministres puisse sembler une intervention négligeable face à des situations terribles, (imagery, pp. 2-3, left to right) CEF 28th Battalion at Vimy Ridge, nous espérons toujours que l’ensemble de ce genre d’actions aura un LAC PA-001096; Khatyn Memorial, Belarus, Photo: John Old- effet positif. Récemment, Natalie Zemon Davis nous a informé de ses ale; Cree inhabitants of the Northwest Territories, LAC C-079631 préoccupations au sujet de la persécution des chercheurs universitaires e011156519; Canada’s most recent UNESCO World Heritage en Turquie et nous avons par la suite envoyé une lettre au ministre Sté- Site, celebrated by Canada Post; The UNESCO flag; the cover of J. phane Dion. Nous évaluons présentement la situation préoccupante de Grabowski’s 2013 book. | (Images pages 2 et 3 – de gauche à droite), la nouvelle législation sur l’histoire de la Shoah en Pologne. La question 28e bataillon CEC à la crête de Vimy, LAC PA-001096 ; Khatyn Memorial, Belarus, Photo: John Oldale ; Membres de la nation Cri a été soulevée par Jan Grabowski, historien à l’Université d’Ottawa. dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, LAC C-079631 e011156519 ; Le plus récent site canadien du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO Joan Sangster célébré par Postes Canada ; le drapeau de l’UNESCO ; la couver- Présidente ture du livre de Jan Grabowski publié en 2013. Société historique du Canada

Canadian Historical Association 3 CHA Secretaries Secrétaires de la SHC « Ce que peut l’histoire »

En ces temps troublants et paradoxaux, cette phrase prononcée notion de « productivité » et « d’utilité » qui affecte actuellement par Patrick Boucheron dans le cadre de sa conférence inaugu- le monde de l’enseignement5. rale au Collège de France résonne de plus en plus fort depuis l’automne 20151. Collectivement, nous semblons assaillis par Pourtant, face à l’état de siège qui confronte l’enseignement de de multiples crises qui apparaissent graduellement comme l’histoire aux cycles supérieurs, émerge une demande publique les nouveaux marqueurs de cette décennie : l’Irak, la Syrie, la exigeant la mise en contexte historique des problèmes de notre crise migratoire en Méditerranée, le retour de l’antagonisme temps. Tel que l’expose Andrew Moore, il s’agit d’un des aspects russo-américain, la permanence de la menace terroriste et la qui permet à l’histoire, en tant que science humaine et sociale, de montée des populistes en Europe et aux États-Unis et j’en passe. traverser les cloisons de sa perspective disciplinaire.

J’ai déjà abordé, dans ces pages, la nécessité de faire une place à C’est sans doute en ce sens que l’histoire peut trouver son uti- l’histoire en tant qu’outil de compréhension de notre époque2 et lité publique : utilité qui permet justement de prendre du recul c’est bien malgré moi que je reviens sur le sujet dans ce numéro du sur les événements qui nous entourent. Graham Allison et Niall Bulletin. En effet, depuis la fin de l’été et la rentrée universitaire, il Ferguson ont même été jusqu’à proposer récemment la créa- me semble que la quête de sens de nos sociétés, à propos de ces tion d’un « Council of Historians » rattaché au Bureau ovale6. multiples crises, exige des réponses provenant d’historiennes et La proposition d’Allison et de Ferguson a été critiquée dans son d’historiens d’horizons divers. Pourtant, cette demande apparaît opérationnalisation et dans la capacité des historiens à fournir dans un contexte particulièrement paradoxal. des « leçons » pour le présent7. Craignant probablement un retour de l’histoire-leçon typique du XIXe siècle, les critiques Tout d’abord, les institutions chargées de familiariser les citoyens de la proposition d’Allison et de Ferguson souhaitent prévenir et les décideurs vers l’usage de l’histoire comme outil d’analyse le glissement de l’usage de l’histoire vers une perspective « uti- semblent faillir à leur mission. Ainsi, la place de l’histoire est litariste », où la discipline serait mise au service du présent. Le malmenée dans l’enseignement collégial et supérieur. C’est risque est grand de laisser les politiques utiliser le passé comme particulièrement le cas au Québec alors que le ministère de caution pour leurs actions. L’utilisation d’analogies historiques l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur voudrait permettre pour comprendre le présent est une opération difficile et les his- aux directeurs de cégeps de moduler l’offre de cours de leurs pro- toriens sont les premiers à la souligner. grammes en fonction de la nature de la « clientèle » locale. C’est ce que le propose le « rapport Demers ». La formation devra alors Pourtant, il existe sans doute une voie mitoyenne basée sur s’adapter rapidement aux besoins du marché du travail régio- la capacité de l’histoire à démontrer la complexité de la vie nal3. Le professeur Gilles Gagné rappelait récemment alors que en société et la nécessité de la précision dans l’utilisation de les cours à vocation généraliste, comme l’histoire, deviendront concepts explicatifs à forte connotation historique. La cam- rapidement superflus4. La situation n’est pas exclusive au Qué- pagne électorale américaine est riche en ce sens. Certainement, bec alors que de nombreuses universités et collèges américains la surprise causée par la présence de Donald Trump à la course font disparaître certains cours d’histoire de leurs curriculums au à la présidence et la nature du candidat génèrent une recherche nom de la rentabilité des programmes. L’enseignement de l’his- d’explications historiques particulièrement forte. Il suffit de toire n’est pas la seule discipline menacée par cette perspective constater les diverses épithètes utilisées pour caractériser la et il partage le sort que subissent d’autres sciences sociales et dégradation des conditions du débat politique et des candidats. humaines. D’ailleurs, Andrew Moore expliquait récemment dans Pourtant, Williamson Murray et Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh rap- Affaires universitaires à quel point il est difficile pour les sciences pellent la nature délétère du processus électoral américain de humaines en général et l’histoire en particulier de résister à la la période Antebellum8. Parallèlement, alors que de nombreux

1 Patrick Boucheron, Ce que peut l’histoire, Paris, Collège de France/ 5 Andrew Moore, « We Need to Challenge the Primacy of « Productiv- Fayard, 2016 ity » as an Educational Metric », Affaires universitaires, vol. 57, no. 9, 2 « ‘’C’est moi qui fut la belle Clio’’ », Bulletin de la Société historique du p. 45. En ligne http://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/ Canada, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 3-4. need-challenge-primacy-productivity-educational-metric/ 3 Guy Demers, Rapport final du chantier sur l’offre de formation collé- 6 Graham Allison et Niall Ferguson, « Why the U.S. President Needs giale, Québec, ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur, a Council of Historians », The Atlantic, septembre 2016, http://www. 2014. theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/dont-know-much-about- 4 « Quel avenir pour nos cégeps », Désautels le dimanche, émission du history/492746/ 25 septembre 2016 (http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/desautels_le_ 7 Voir par exemple Jeremy Adelman, « Who Needs Historians? », The dimanche/2015-2016/chronique.asp?idChronique=417241). Voir éga- Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 63, no, 1, 2016 http://www.chronicle. lement Sébastien Mussi, dir., La liquidation programmée de la culture. com/article/Who-Needs-Historians-/237415 Quel cégeps pour nos enfants, Montréal, Éditions Liber, 2016. 8 Williamson Murray et Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh, A Savage War,

4 Société historique du Canada Les institutions chargées de familiariser les citoyens et les décideurs vers l’usage de l’histoire comme outil d’analyse semblent faillir à leur mission.... Pourtant, ... émerge une demande publique exigeant la mise en contexte historique des problèmes de notre temps.

(à gauche) Benito Mussolini. Domaine public. Donald Trump, 2011. Photographie : Gage Skidmore, https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/. (ci-dessous) Clio, Muse de l’Histoire dans la mythologie grecque. Détail d’une peinture par Pierre Mignard 1689. Domaine public.

commentateurs politiques américains font l’analogie entre la me fut en revanche long et difficile de comprendre qu’elle montée du fascisme en Italie et les tendances autocratiques de pouvait aussi se déployer comme un art de la pensée ». Donald Trump, l’historien John McNeill propose, avec beaucoup Face aux crises de son temps, Boucheron poursuit en rap- d’humour, de déterminer si le candidat républicain est véritable- pelant le rôle de l’histoire comme outil de compréhension. ment fasciste9. En comparant les deux personnages, il arrive à la « Comment se résoudre à un devenir sans surprise, à une conclusion que Trump, malgré ses tendances autocratiques, n’est histoire où plus rien ne peut survenir à l’horizon, sinon la pas une nouvelle incarnation du Duce. menace de la continuation? Ce qui surviendra, nul ne le sait. Mais chacun comprend qu’il faudra, pour le percevoir Cependant, il est difficile de réconcilier cette demande publique, et l’accueillir, être calme, divers et exagérément libre »10. qui recherche un mode de compréhension du monde qui nous entoure, alors que les institutions chargées de former les citoyens C’est ce que je vous propose modestement d’examiner dans le écartent et minimisent la place de l’histoire dans les curriculums. prochain numéro Bulletin : les moyens que peuvent proposer l’histoire et la communauté historique pour que nous restions Patrick Boucheron, peu de temps après les attentats parisiens, libres face à notre temps. rappelait à son auditoire réuni pour l’écouter au Collège de France l’origine de sa décision de « faire de l’histoire » : Martin Laberge Secrétaire de la langue « Je me souviens pourquoi j’ai choisi d’enseigner l’histoire : française parce que j’avais d’un coup compris que c’était prodi- gieusement amusant. Je me souviens combien il 10 Boucheron, op. cit., p. 71-72. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016. 9 John McNeill, « How Fascist is Donald Trump? There’s Actually a Formula for That », The Washington Post, 21 octobre 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/ posteverything/wp/2016/10/21/how-fascist-is-don- ald-trump-theres-actually-a-formula-for-that/?utm_ term=.11cb6f3606fc

Canadian Historical Association 5 CHA Secretaries Secrétaires How to improve career prospects de la SHC for our grads, including beyond academia?

A first-year student came to see me at the end of a class last dent to tell me more about himself and his interests in history. semester. He ask me a question that many in our profession I learned that he was trilingual – English, French and Spanish – professors, administrators, graduate and undergraduate stu- – and interested in colonial and New Spain. What dents alike – are asking themselves today: How hard is it to get about working in foreign affairs, I asked? With his language skills a job in history after graduating with a degree in, well, History? and a knowledge of the broader historical contexts that today inform the contemporary issues in nearly every country on this The question gave me pause, to say the least. The study of his- side of the Atlantic Ocean, he would be a great asset to Canadi- tory is in many ways its own reward, and the teaching of history an-based businesses, organizations or government departments is fundamental to the fostering of an informed citizenry, the with dealings abroad in the Americas. The student’s eyes widened encouragement of critical engagement with society, and for with the sudden realization that the study of history might not, speaking truth to power. But I didn’t want to settle for that kind after all, be as ‘pointless’ as he had been led to believe. answer. “Seek ye first the intellectual kingdom, and all else will follow,” may be a noble ideal, but for most people, intellectual Herein lies the problem: the historian’s skillset can be applied stimulation alone is not going to pay the bills – nor will it nec- in a variety of ways in the modern economy, but many parents, essarily convince the Bank of Mom & Dad to help finance one’s prospective students, potential employers, and even professors preferred path for post-secondary education. don’t realize it. This lack of awareness has doubtless contributed to challenges in enrolment, and it may also be contributing to Still, it is incredibly valuable to work in a field that relates to one’s history graduates’ difficulties in securing work that relates to interests. The student explained that he was majoring in engi- their skillset. If students aren’t informed by their professors neering… and that he absolutely hated it. His true passion was about the different types of skills that they have developed, and history. According to the student, his parents had pushed him about how those skills relate to different types of employment, to study engineering because they were convinced that the job then they might not think to seek out those jobs – they won’t prospects were much greater than they could ever be in history. necessarily know how to sell themselves to prospective employ- ers. If employers aren’t aware that history students have the skills One wonders how far the perceptions of parents, in particu- they’re looking for, then they won’t seek to hire those students. lar, have been serving to drive down the number of new history students in recent years. Statistics buried deep within the Govern- Allow me to provide an example. In my view, policy analysis is ment of Ontario website suggest that the student’s parents may one of the types of work that history graduates are well suited have had a point, but that things may not be quite as hopeless to, in light of the evidence-driven research, writing, informa- as they have been led to believe. According to the most recent tion synthesis, and critical analysis skills that are emphasized in Ontario University Graduate Survey, some 46% of 2012 Human- our field, and in light of their sensitivity to the crucial historical ities grads in the province had managed to find full-time work contexts that inform and sometimes drive the policy issues of by 2014-2015 that was “somewhat related” or “closely related” to today. And yet, a recent Government of Canada post-secondary the skills they had developed at university. Among Engineering recruitment campaign for new policy officers did not include grads, the figure was a much stronger 71%.1 (Both of these figures “History” among the nearly 50 different areas of educational may be overly optimistic, however, as a majority of graduates from specialization applicable to the competition.2 both fields did not complete the survey.) A few more interesting stats: out of those Humanities grads who were working, only 2% 2 The related areas of specialization were: Administrative Law, Human were food and beverage servers. So much for the barista-historian Rights, Labour Law, Law, Statistics, Women’s Studies, International trope! Academic jobs, however, are even more elusive – a minis- Law, Business Administration, Auditing, Commerce, Administration, cule 0.2% had found work as university professors or lecturers. Information Management, Finance, Public Finance, Financial Account- ing, Industrial Relations, Management, Marketing, Office Administra- In responding to my student, I wanted to be frank and honest tion, Project Management, Risk Analysis and Management, Taxation, without being unduly negative or discouraging. My answer can Public Policy, International Business and Supply Chain Management, Communications, Arts, Education, International Relations, Social be paraphrased as such: “It’s not easy to land a job that relates Policy, Sociology, Psychology, Economic and Finance Policy, Eco- directly to history, or in which history is used on a daily (or even nomics, Human Resources Management, Industrial Administration, weekly) basis, but there are jobs out there in which you can expect International Business and Management, Labour and Industrial Rela- to apply the skillset that you will have developed over the course tions, Management and Business Information Systems, Organizational of your history degree, and in which your ability to do your work Behavior and Development, Public Administration, Accounting, Mass may benefit from your knowledge of the past.” I asked the stu- communications, Media studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, Advertising, e-Business Supply Chain Management or International 1 http://www.iaccess.gov.on.ca/OsapRatesWeb/enterapp/home.xhtml Studies. http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/psr-rp/index-eng.php?p=2

6 Société historique du Canada How, then, can we help to improve the career prospects of our risks and opportunities, recommendations, and post-ap- grads, specifically, beyond academia? For its part, the CHA is in proval management of the site. the process of building a “Why a history degree” website where ›› Write a business case for a historical undertaking that the profile of successful graduate students and their present occurred in the past, from the perspective of an official employment will be posted. This, I think, is a great first step. I who would have been alive at the time – such as a histori- also have a few ideas, some of them a bit unorthodox, below… cal treaty, trade agreement, business arrangement, union, strike action, alliance or military engagement. For example, history departments should: ›› Write a follow-up report of a historical event or meeting between historical leaders, from the perspective of some- • Develop and implement a communications plan or pro- one who was there. motional campaign to encourage greater awareness among ›› Write a briefing note, complete with background students, parents, professors, the media and employers about information, strategic considerations and follow-up rec- the skills developed through a history degree and how these ommendations about a historical event or issue, for a skills can be applied in the job market. E.g.: historical figure or decision-maker who would have been ›› Editorials and outreach to local online and print media alive at the time. outlets. ›› Produce a media analysis report, based on newspaper, ›› Direct engagement with local employers to identify skills radio or television reports at the time of a historical event, that they are looking for in candidates, and to encourage or of the introduction of a ‘new’ technology or product. them to include history and related skills among the key ›› Develop an advertising campaign or communications requirements in job competitions. strategy for a historical consumer product or technology, ›› Information for local high schools and parents of prospec- geared toward a historical audience. tive history students about the value of a history degree, ›› Create a timetable for the completion of a series of tasks including the intellectual and professional advantages. or events that are part of a broader historical initiative or • Where appropriate, rename and/or redesign courses to bet- development. ter reflect the transferable or ‘soft’ skills that the course will ›› Write a speech or speaking notes for a historical actor. develop (see Adam Chapnik’s “A Profoundly Immodest Pro- posal” in the CHA Bulletin, 41.3 (Fall 2015), p.25). Developing these types of assignments should not prove diffi- • Work more closely with university career development centres, cult. The Internet is rife with useful templates that can be used and ensure that faculty and students attend career-oriented as a starting point (see, for example, the federal Treasury Board workshops that bring employers and alumni from different website3). Interdisciplinarity is all the rage these days, so why professional backgrounds together with students. not collaborate with colleagues in business school, in commu- • Create a departmental “Careers Committee” to study career nications, in political science, economics, etc., to develop such outcomes of recent alumni and to look at ways to connect assignments? students with potential employers. • Explore ways for the undergraduate and graduate degrees to To many outside our profession, the connection between a incorporate courses in other areas of specialization that are degree and a job in, say, engineering, can seem far more obvious being called for by employers. than the connections between a history degree and a history-re- lated job. As professors of history who benefit materially and For their part, professors could: intellectually from the hundreds of students who attend and participate in our courses every year, it is incumbent upon us to • Provide students with an overview of the specific skills that make the link between a history degree and history-related jobs they will develop in the course, and explain how they can more obvious for students and employers alike. convey that skillset to potential employers. • Attend and encourage students to attend sessions organized Robert J. Talbot by their university’s career development centre; or invite local English-Language Secretary professionals from outside academia with a history back- Email: [email protected] ground to talk to their class about the skills related to their Twitter: @Saskatoba work and career planning. • Where appropriate, give assignments that more closely reflect the types of projects that students might be expected to undertake in the professional world outside academia. In addition to developing skills and tangible experience that are more relatable to employers, these types of assignments will allow students to analyze the past in new and provocative ways. For example, students could: ›› Develop a business case for a new historic site, complete 3 http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/hgw-cgf/oversight-surveillance/itpm-itgp/ with an explanation of the strategic context, analysis of pm-gp/emf-cag/bct-mar-eng.asp

Canadian Historical Association 7 CHA Office Bureau News from 130 Albert de la SHC Nouvelles du 130, rue Albert Membership in a L’adhésion à une Scholarly Association société savante

Why do people renew, join, or don’t join scholarly associations Pourquoi les gens adhèrent-ils ou renouvellent-ils, ou non, à des like ours? Wiley conducted a wide-ranging membership survey sociétés savantes comme la nôtre ? Wiley a mené un sondage de in 2014. It was sent to 1.2 million professionals across 75 disci- grande envergure en 2014. Il a été envoyé à 1,2 million de profes- plines and 13,929 responded. Their investigation sheds light on sionnels de 75 disciplines et 13 929 y ont répondu. Leur enquête why these individuals are members of associations. Some of the offre des indications sur les raisons pour lesquelles ces individus reasons given may be in line with the motivation of CHA mem- sont membres de sociétés savantes. Certaines raisons invoquées bers to join or renew their membership. sont peut-être similaires à celles des membres qui renouvellent leur adhésion ou qui deviennent membre de la SHC. When asked which aspects of society membership were most appealing to them, respondents indicated, in no particular Lorsqu’on a demandé aux répondants quels étaient les éléments order; the benefit of receiving their association’s scholarly jour- de leur adhésion à la société qu’ils appréciaient le plus, ceux-ci nal, opportunities for continuing education and networking ont indiqué, sans ordre d’importance particulier ; l’avantage de opportunities, getting publications with the latest practices and recevoir la revue savante de leur société, les possibilités de for- developments in their field, the sentiment of being part of a mation continue et de réseautage, obtenir des publications sur les community, the prestige of the organization, sitting on various plus récentes pratiques et développements dans leur domaine, le committees, and participating in their association’s elections and sentiment d’appartenance à une communauté, le prestige de la social media. société, siéger sur divers comités ainsi que participer aux élec- tions et aux réseaux sociaux de leur société. Based on these criteria, I believe that the CHA is well-placed to attract and retain members. The Journal of the Canadian His- Sur la base de ces critères, je crois que la SHC est bien placée pour torical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada attirer et retenir ses membres. La Revue de la Société historique has an enviable reputation and has been in continuous publica- du Canada | Journal of the Canadian Historical Association a une tion since 1922. On the subject of publication, the content and réputation enviable et paraît depuis 1922. Au sujet de publica- appearance of the CHA Bulletin are continually improving and tion, des améliorations sont apportées constamment au contenu our newsletter offers members not only the latest CHA news but et à l’apparence du Bulletin de la SHC qui offre aux membres also information on the most recent developments in the histor- non seulement les toutes dernières nouvelles sur la SHC, mais ical community. Our Annual Meeting is also a great event where aussi des renseignements sur les développements les plus récents the latest trends in historical research are presented and where dans le domaine de l’histoire. Les membres offrent également members network extensively. And its popularity is constantly des communications sur les toutes dernières tendances de la increasing - attendance records were broken in 2009, 2010 and recherche en histoire lors de notre réunion annuelle, un évé- again in 2015. In addition, the CHA’s prestige is undeniable – it nement de réseautage qui est devenu un incontournable pour was founded in 1922 and is the most important historical associ- nos membres. Et elle gagne en popularité – le nombre record de ation in the country. The CHA also provides ample opportunity congressistes établi en 2009, a été dépassé en 2010 et à nouveau for its members to participate actively in the affairs of the asso- en 2015. De plus, le prestige de la SHC est indéniable - elle a ciation by; taking part in the elections of the Council members été fondée en 1922 et elle est la plus importante société histo- online, chairing or sitting on one of its numerous prize or pub- rique au pays. De plus, la SHC offre de nombreuses opportunités lication committees; or sharing their opinion on CHA social à ses membres de participer activement dans les affaires de la media. société en ; prenant part aux élections des membres du conseil d’administration en ligne, présidant ou siégeant sur l’un de ses Having said that, the CHA can do better to reach out to potential nombreux comités de prix ou de publication ; ou en partageant members. And our association is not alone in this. Aside from leur opinion sur les médias sociaux de la SHC. the most common response (24%) as to why respondents in the survey did not join - high cost (this is hardly surprising, unless Cela dit, la SHC peut faire mieux pour attirer des membres membership is free, there will always be a number of individ- potentiels. Et notre société n’est pas la seule à devoir en faire plus uals who deem membership as being too pricey, whatever the en ce sens. Outre la réponse la plus fréquente des répondants amount), no less than 39% of respondents in the Wiley survey (24%) – que le coût d’adhésion est trop élevé, pour expliquer said that they did not adhere because, a) they had not been pourquoi ils n’étaient pas membre d’une société (ce qui n’est pas invited to do so (15%), b) they never thought of it (12%) and, c) surprenant, à moins que l’adhésion soit gratuite, il y aura tou- they did not know that their association existed (12%). As such, jours un certain nombre de personnes qui jugent que les coûts

8 Société historique du Canada the CHA can redouble its efforts to be a key association for ALL d’adhésion sont toujours trop élevés, quels qu’ils soient), pas historians by continuing to improve the communication services moins de 39% des personnes interrogées dans l’enquête Wiley it offers to existing and potential members, including its digital ont répondu qu’ils n’étaient pas membre parce qu’ils, a) n’avaient presence (website, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr accounts and pas été invités à le faire (15%), b) n’y ont jamais pensé (12%) ou, its new Annual Meeting mobile app). c) ne savaient même pas qu’une telle association existait (12%). La SHC peut donc redoubler d’efforts pour être une association The CHA is also strengthening its close ties with history depart- clé pour TOUS les historiens en continuant d’améliorer les ser- ments on an on-going basis (section on the CHA website as well vices de communication qu’elle offre aux membres actuels et as a blog dedicated to history department Chairs, not to mention potentiels, y compris en ce qui a trait à sa présence numérique the annual Chairs’ meeting that the CHA organises). The CHA (site web et comptes Twitter, Facebook et Tumblr ainsi que sa is moreover creating a website that will champion the merits of nouvelle application mobile pour sa réunion annuelle). a degree in history. It will be up and running before year’s end. La SHC renforce également les liens étroits dont elle jouit avec les départements d’histoire sur une base continue (section sur These activities to maintain and increase our le site Internet de la SHC et un blogue dédiés aux directrices et membership are especially important at a time directeurs de département d’histoire, sans parler de la réunion des directrices et directeurs de département que la SHC organise when scholarly associations are currently facing chaque année). De plus, la SHC s’affaire à la création d’un site real and daunting challenges ... | Ces activités Internet qui vantera les mérites d’un diplôme en histoire. Il sera pour maintenir et accroître nos membres sont opérationnel avant la fin de l’année. particulièrement importantes dans le contexte Ces activités pour maintenir et accroître nos membres sont par- actuel où les sociétés savantes sont confrontées à ticulièrement importantes dans le contexte actuel où les sociétés des défis considérables bien réels ... savantes sont confrontées à des défis considérables bien réels :

• la pression exercée sur les revues savantes pour qu’elles soient These activities to maintain and increase our membership are accessible en libre accès pourrait éliminer l’incitation de cer- especially important at a time when scholarly associations are tains membres qui considèrent que la revue savante est l’un currently facing real and daunting challenges: des principaux avantages d’être membre de la SHC • les compressions budgétaires imposées aux universités ont • The pressure exerted on scholarly journals to be readily acces- également mené certaines bibliothèques à ne pas renouve- sible through Open Access might eliminate the incentive for ler leur adhésion à des sociétés dont les revues savantes font certain members who consider receiving the association’s partie intégrante de l’adhésion. La réduction du nombre journal one of the principal benefits of belonging to the CHA d’abonnements de bibliothèques de recherche et d’autres • Shrinking university budgets have also led some libraries not institutions est particulièrement accablant parce que cette to renew their membership to associations whose scholarly catégorie d’adhésion est une source de revenu stable pour les journal is part and parcel of membership. The reduction in sociétés savantes depuis des décennies. the number of subscriptions from research libraries and other • la baisse d’inscriptions en sciences humaines en particulier, institutions is particularly damning because that membership est à l’origine d’une diminution du nombre d’étudiants qui category has been a steady source of income for associations deviennent membre de sociétés savantes for decades • et le sérieux manque de possibilités d’emploi pour les diplô- • Declining enrolments, in particular in the humanities, are més qui souhaitent devenir professeurs d’université affecte causing a reduction in the number of students joining schol- directement le membership de toutes les sociétés savantes arly associations puisque les professeurs titulaires sont les principaux membres • And a severe lack of employment opportunities for graduates de ces associations. who wish to become university professors directly affects the membership of any scholarly societies since tenured profes- C’est dans ce contexte d’incertitude que les sociétés savantes sors are the core members of scholarly associations. doivent continuer à fournir les meilleurs services possibles à ses membres. La SHC est certainement prête à relever le défi ! It is in this context of uncertainty that scholarly associations must continue to provide the best services possible to its mem- Cordialement, bers. The CHA is certainly up for the challenge! Michel Duquet Sincerely, Directeur général

Michel Duquet Executive Director

Canadian Historical Association 9 An essential antidote to “Vimyism”!

THE VIMY TRAP OR, HOW WE LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE GREAT WAR Ian McKay and Jamie Swift

“The Vimy Trap is an essential antidote. The poison it seeks to counter is decades of English-Canadian nationalist history, both of the popular and academic variety, which constructs positive meaning out of a bloody, devastating, and pointless conflict.” Dr. Steve Hewitt, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Birmingham, UK

Available October 2016 Between the Lines btlbooks.com/book/the-vimy-trap

10 Société historique du Canada News from the Field History Departments and Cultural Institutions Nouvelles du milieu Départements d’histoire et institutions culturelles

Once again your department chairs have submitted their annual colleges for students wishing to complete a university degree overview of comings and goings, awards and events. We present following college graduation. A new stream in public history, this information in the language(s) of choice of each institution, introduced last year to provide students with fieldwork expe- and we include almost every tidbit of information received. As riences proved popular and successful. Plans are to expand it, readers will quickly note, some places have more news than oth- with a certificate option under review. A significant number of ers. Frequently this is tied to the size of a history department and students have, again, opted to complete a Honours Thesis this other times it is tied to what has been identified as newsworthy year. Warren Johnston is on sabbatical. by a particular chair. Regardless, we hope you will be accepting of the incredible variety in the reports that follow and think Athabasca University about what you would like your institution to include next year. We really do want to recount the news of every department in Gregory Johnson is the the country. department Chair. Athabasca University expects to post for a full-time tenure-track position Encore une fois, vos directeurs de département nous offrent une in History during the fall/winter of 2016. Eric Strikwerda was vue d’ensemble de leurs allées et venues, prix et activités. Nous appointed Assistant Professor. Fritz Pannekoek was appointed publions les renseignements que les institutions nous ont don- Full Professor. David Gregory retired as Professor of History nées, et ce, dans la(es) langue(s) de leur choix et nous avons inclus after 36 years. Dr. Gregory joined Athabasca University in 1979 toute l’information soumise, dans ses plus petits détails. Comme and played a key role in building the history program. He served les lecteurs pourront le constater, certaines institutions ont plus as Dean of Arts from 1992-1995 and as Chair of the Centre for de nouvelles que d’autres. Fréquemment, c’est une question de Global and Social Analysis on several occasions. His colleagues l’importance du département d’histoire ou bien de ce qui a été wish him all the best in his retirement. Athabasca University has identifié comme étant digne d’intérêt par un directeur en par- a mandate specializing in distance education. ticulier. Peu importe, nous espérons que vous approuverez cette variété incroyable dans les rapports qui suivent et réfléchirez à ce The undergraduate History program (BA with a 3-year History que votre institution aimerait soumettre l’année prochaine. Nous concentration or a 4-year major) is administered by faculty désirons sincèrement relater les nouvelles de chaque départe- in the Centre for Humanities, which is part of the Faculty of ment d’histoire au pays. Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to program stu- dents, AU has a number of students enrolled as visiting students (In alphabetical order) | (Par ordre alphabétique) from other institutions. AU also offers an undergraduate cer- tificate and a post-baccalaureate diploma in Heritage Resource University of Alberta Management through the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. Further information can be found at http://history.athabascau. David R. Marples is the ca/ and at http://heritage.resources.athabascau.ca/. department Chair. We have a decrease of two historians in the department: one retirement and one early resignation. Sean Brandon University Gouglas, History and Classics and Humanities Computing, was promoted to Full Professor on July 1, 2016. Ehud Ben Zvi, pro- James Naylor is the fessor of ancient history, retired. Lawrence Aronsen and Brian department Chair. Evans, both professors emeritus, passed away. Canada 150: The There has been no Department of History and Classics is planning a special event change in number of historians in the department. Enrollment for the 150th anniversary of Confederation on January 28, 2017 is rising again after some decline over the past few years. Lynn that will feature undergraduate proposals that indicate a Canada MacKay is on sabbatical. Rhonda Hinther has taken the lead in “connection,” including Aboriginal History. developing a new undergraduate Public History program with the participation of the Media Arts program at Assiniboine Algoma University Community College, which enables us to add film making and web design to our curriculum. Robert Rutherdale is the department Chair. No change has taken place in our Camosun College faculty complement, but a tenure-track appointment is anticipated. The history Susan Johnston is the department Chair. There has been a slight program at Algoma University is devel- decrease (.5 FTE) in the continuing instructor roster (our equiva- oping pathways initiatives with Ontario lent to tenure). We have increased the number of term instructors

Canadian Historical Association 11 teaching world history 1945 to full year sabbatical while Ali- present as dual credit courses in the son Rowley and Steven High local secondary schools. Hirings are on ½ year sabbatical. and promotions: Christian Lieb has Graham Carr was appointed been appointed to a 50% continu- Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Concordia Uni- ing position. Chris Morier is now a 100% continuing instructor. versity; Rachel Berger was appointed Undergraduate Program Retirements: Larry Hannant and Paula Young retired as of August Director; Barbara Lorenzkowski was appointed Graduate Pro- 31, 2016. Clarence Bolt will be retiring on December 31, 2016. gram Director and Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and We anticipate an appointment teaching western religions from Digital Storytelling (COHDS); Matthew Penney was appoint- a historical point of view for January but have not confirmed the ment Director of Public History Program; Eric Reiter was position yet. appointed Director of the Law and Society Program; Ronald Rudin was appointed Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Capilano University Digital Storytelling (COHDS); and Gavin Taylor was appointed Undergraduate Program Director (Honours program). The 22nd Cheryl Schreader is the department Annual History in the Making Graduate Student Conference Chair. We added one new part-time will take place March 31-April 1. faculty member. Dr. Dale Montgom- ery was hired to teach Ancient World and Modern Europe. Our Grant MacEwan University course offerings and enrollments are stable. Rob Falconer is the History Discipline Coordinator; Ed Lorkovic is Chair of the Dominique Marshall is the Humanities Department. There has been an increase in the department Chair. Visiting number of historians employed in the past twelve months. Dr. Professors: Historian of Canada’s , Jean-Pierre Morin Sean Hannan (Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University 2015-17 (Civil Servant in Residence); Digital archaeologists Tom of Chicago) has joined the Humanities Department as a Digital Brughmans, University of Konstanz, and Iza Romanowska, Fall Humanist with a specialization in the History of Christianity. 2016; historian of Australia Jeremy C. Martens, January 2017, Dr. Michael Carroll is spending his Sabbatical year (2016-2017) School of Humanities, University of Western Australia; Tanya in Mumbai, India. Since 2009, the Department of Human- Evans, October 2016, Macquarie University, Sydney (visiting ities at McEwan has hosted a humanities based undergraduate fellow at the Centre for Public History). On sabbatical for 2016- colloquium. This past year, a number of our History majors 17: Shawn Graham, Chinnaiah Jangam, Danielle Kinsey. The presented papers at the 2016 conference focussed around issues number of faculty is maintaining, the undergraduate enrolment of “Humanity and Morality.” The department has plans to once is maintaining and the graduate enrolment is steady. Special again host its undergraduate conference sometime in early 2017. events this year include the Shannon Lecture Series on “Critical Care: Treatment of Body and Mind in Social and Cultural His- University of Guelph tory”, hosted by Susanne Klausen and Christine Chisholm in the Fall 2016; the 2017 series on Expo 67 will be hosted by Paul Litt; Catherine Carstairs is the the Underhill Graduate Colloquium, March 9-11 2017; exhibi- department Chair. There has tions Remedies, Elixirs, and Medical Men from the Pinhey’s Point been no increase in the number of professors at the department Foundation (Fall 2016), and Envisioning Technologies an accessi- but we have someone new starting in January. Brittany Luby will ble exhibit dedicated to the history of educational technologies be starting January 1, 2017. Alan Gordon and Alan McDougall for people who are blind or partially sighted in Canada from were promoted to Professor. Postdoctoral Fellow Allyson Ste- 1820-present (Fall 2016). Recent books published by members venson began in September 2016. of the Department include Josh Blank (MA alumnus) Creating Kashubia History, Memory, and Identity in Canada’s First Polish Huron University College Community; Deborah Gorham (Emerita), Marian Dewar: A Life of Action; Rod Phillips, French Wine. A History; Jennifer Evans’ Nina Reid-Maroney is the guest issue of German History on “Queering German History.” department Chair. There has been no change in number of historians in the department. Concordia University Dr. Geoff Read is on sabbatical leave 2016-17; Dr. Tim Compeau has been hired as sabbatical replacement. Dr. Olivette Otlele, Peter Gossage is the department Chair. We currently we have Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University will be a Vis- 22 full-time faculty, which is a decrease by 1 from our previous iting Scholar, 2017. We have two transatlantic teaching projects: year’s list (1 retirement). There were no new hires. Alison Rowley was prompted to full professor and Max Bergholz to Associate 1. Dr. Amy Bell’s “Transatlantic Digital Victorians” communi- Professor. Rosemarie Schade retired. Norman Ingram is on a ty-based undergraduate research project, partnered with Dr.

12 Société historique du Canada Paul Ward of History at the University of Huddersfield. in Teaching at the University of Manitoba in 2016: Roisin Cossar received the 2016 Faculty of Arts Outstanding Professor: Pro- 2. Dr. Amy Bell and Dr. Nina Reid-Maroney, and Dr. Neil Brooks fessor Jorge Nállim received the 2016 Faculty of Arts Award in (English) “Phantoms of the Past: Slavery, Resistance, History Internationalization: Tina Chen was awarded the 2016 Faculty and Memory in the Atlantic World”-- undergraduate research of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. We have a new Probation- exchange with Bath Spa University and students of Dr. Olivette ary Faculty: Todd Scarth Julie Gibbings received the 2016 Best Otele (student research travel funded by the W. Galen Weston Article Prize from the journal, German History for her article: Fund for British History at Huron, and Bath Spa University.) “Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz,Guatemala”. Esyllt Jones ActiveHistory.ca won the CHA Public History Prize 2016 (Dr. received the Switzer-Cooperstock Prize in Western Canadian Tom Peace is a founding editor.) SSHRC: Tom Peace, IDG Jewish History for her paper “Mindel Cherniak Sheps and the Co-Investigator, “Indigenous Writing and Literacy Networks Founding of Medicare in Canada.” The prize is awarded by the in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Canada.” Nina Jewish Heritage Centre of . Reid-Maroney IG co-investigator, “Canada’s 19th Century Black Press: Roots and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication Upcoming events include: Western Canada at War - Panel dis- and Intellectual Activisms.” cussion with Esyllt Jones, James Blanchard, Tynne Petrowski and Andrea Martin (November 12, 2016). This is part of a series Université Laval of events and activities supervised by Esyllt Jones and Robert Coutts (PhD Student), funded by Canadian Heritage and in Michel Fortin est le directeur conjunction with the Manitoba Historical Society. University of du département. La situation est Manitoba Knight Distinguished Lecture (November 15, 2016): restée stable : ni augmentation ni diminution dans le nombre des Speaker: Bethany Moreton (Dartmouth College) and Sympo- professeurs au département. sium (November 14, 2016): “Decentering Capital: Embodied Histories”. Organisers: Tina Chen and David Churchill Depart- University of Lethbridge ment of History Assiniboia Lecture (tentative date: March 2017) - Speaker: William Cronon (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Christopher Burton is the department Jarislowsky Chair in the Modern History of the Middle East and Chair. Since I did not report last year, I will North Africa Speakers Series. Ongoing, with first speaker Keith report the appointment of Cindy Ermus David Watenpaugh on 14 September 2016. Workshop on “ A in July 2015 as an increase of one in our Century of Youth Engaging Politics in the Arab World”, to be department. Next year marks the Fiftieth held May 2017. Organiser: Jennifer Dueck Workshop on “Revis- Anniversary of the University - as a part of ting the Guatemalan Revolution: History, Memory, Politics” to this, the History Homecoming weekend in be held May 2017. Organised by Julie Gibbings as well as ‘Math March 2017. September 2015: The Governor General’s History in Art Demos’, Presented by the Box Gallery in the Department Award was won by the Coyote Flats Oral History Project and of History, June 27-30, 2016. Exhibition curated by Prof David S. the Centre for Oral History and Tradition was a partner in this Churchill (History) and Frank Livingston. Sponsored by the Uni- project. Janay Nugent won the university-wide Distinguished versity of Manitoba - University Creative Works Grant Program. Teaching Prize for 2016. McMaster University University of Manitoba Pamela Swett is the department Tina Chen is the depart- Chair. We have an increase in ment Chair. There has been one Wilson Postdoctoral Fel- a decrease to 24 faculty low, one Research Coordinator members (this includes 2 for the Wilson Institute, and two SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows. cross-appointments and 2 reduced appointments for 22 full- We presently have two L.R. Wilson Postdoctoral Fellows, Drs. time equivalents) as of July 1, 2016. This compares to 27 faculty Amandi Ricci and Stacy Nation-Knapper; one Research Coor- members+1 full-time instructor as of July 1, 2015. There were no dinator for the Wilson Institute, Dr. Maxime Dagenais; and two new hires or promotions. Retirements: Jean Friesen, Oleh Gerus, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr. Danielle Robinson, and Dr. Ravi Vaithees: Departures: Aubrey Neal (full-time term contract Daniel Vandersommers. instructor for over 12 years, previously sessional instructor for total of over 30 years in the Department). We have no antici- Two LR Wilson CLA appointments are to replace current pated tenure-track or term appointments in the coming year. appointments. History and Peace Studies Professor Bonny Current Post-Doctoral Students: Jessica Herdman (supervisor: Ibhawoh is one of three McMaster researchers elected to the Jarvis Brownlie) Stephanie Payne (supervisor: Greg Bak). Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dr. Ibhawoh’s research is centered on human rights, Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson received the award for Excellence peace and the history of Africa. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow,

Canadian Historical Association 13 Dr. Daniel Vandersommers is organizing a zoo studies work- on her forthcoming book, co-authored with David Cruise, about shop and co-editing a collection tentatively titled Zoo Studies Sitting Bull’s experiences in Canada in the late 1870s. Ms. Grif- and a New Humanities with Dr. Tracy McDonald. The Wilson fiths will conduct also a writers’ workshop for students and other Institute will have its Canada at 150 Speaker Series featuring interested persons. To commemorate the 600h anniversary of Matthew Hayday, Marcel Martel, Christopher Moore, and Tim the burning of Jan Hus for heresy at Constance, Germany, our Stanley. Also there will be a workshop on Diplomatic History department, in cooperation with the history departments of the with Wilson Fellows, Asa McKercher and Phil Van Huizen on University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, spon- 28-29 April 2017. sored in late October 2015 two public lectures by noted Hus scholar, Professor Thomas A. Fudge of the University of New Memorial University England, Australia. The department continues to build its library collection with generous support from the Morton Memorial Terry Bishop Stirling is the Fund. department Chair. No change in faculty numbers in 2015-16. Retire- Mount Royal University ment end of 31 December, 2015 professor Lewis (Skip) Fischer. Hire: Three-year Term Appoint- Jennifer Pettit is the department ment as of 1 July, 2016: Dr. Heather Stanley. Dr. Robert Sweeny Chair and is happy to report that won the 2016 CHA Macdonald prize for his monograph, Why the History program at MRU is Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montréal, 1819-1849. New sum- doing well. In the next year the department will hire a tenure mer field school: Urban History in Northern Europe. Students track position in the area of Indigenous History/Studies. The will visit northern Germany, Sweden and Finland to study the number of history majors has risen this year, largely due to a new history of Urbanization from the Viking age through the twen- university policy which allocates seats to each major. In addition tieth century. The instructors will be Dr. Stephan Curtis and Dr. we have a waiting list of students who sought admission to the Sébastian Rossignol. program but were turned away due to space considerations.

Université de Montréal The Historians Teaching History conference hosted by MRU prior to the annual meeting of the CHA in May 2016 was a Jacques Y. Perreault est le direc- success with numerous presentations on topics such as the teur du département. Il y a eu une Canadian history survey course, why the teaching of Canadian augmentation au département : 1 nouveau professeur (1er juin history is often so conservative, the mutuality of teaching and 2016) et une diminution : 1 professeur retraité (1er juin 2015). research, class in the classroom, etc. In addition, a compelling Il y a également eu Embauche de deux (2) postes de professeurs keynote presentation was given by Dr. O’Brien, author of Why : Histoire des États-Unis et Histoire de l’Allemagne, XIXe - XXe You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indi- siècles en plus d’une promotion : 1 professeur titulaire. Congé ans. Dr. Kirk Niergarth’s walking tour of Calgary that he hosted sabbatique : 3. Nous avons un chercheur invité un nouveau pro- during the annual CHA meeting was also a resounding success fesseur associé ainsi que deux professeurs invités. Nous avons as was the 11th annual Network in Canadian History & Environ- également un professeur émérite et un membre de la Société ment workshop entitled “Bison Landscapes, Mountain Places” royale du Canada. hosted in part by Dr. Liam Haggarty of MRU.

Mount Allison University In spring 2017 the department will host our fourth annual Foot- hills Colloquium in Undergraduate History. This conference has William Lundell is the depart- now grown to over 70 participants, and brings together under- ment Chair. We have had a graduate researchers from across Canada. Watch for the call for decrease in the faculty. Marie Ham- papers for this year’s event - which will take place in Calgary on mond-Callaghan, who held a cross April 30 and May 1, 2017 - in late November, and please encour- appointment in Women’s and Gender Studies, died in Novem- age your students to apply. ber 2015. She has not yet been replaced. Led by efforts of Dr. Hammond-Callaghan’s former students, a fund was established In addition to the aforementioned conferences, MRU continues to support annual awarding of the Marie Hammond-Callaghan to move forward with its Indigenization strategy which is having Women’s History Prize. The inaugural award was announced on an impact on all areas of the university from student support 8. March 2015, International Women’s Day, and celebrated by to curriculum and research. A four-day retreat in Banff which a lecture, “’An estimated value of female labour’: Documenting brought together faculty, elders, students and other community women’s work in nineteenth century New Brunswick”, delivered members has helped the plan move forward, as has our contin- by Dr. Hannah Lane, History, Mount Allison University. ued partnership with the Iiniistsi Arts Society.

Author, columnist, and television host Alison Griffiths will visit As always, the department continues to encourage courses that Mount Allison on January 17-18, 2017 to give a public lecture provide students with high impact learning practices such as our

14 Société historique du Canada internship course and our field schools and travel study courses Okanagan College including a trip in May 2016 to the battlefields of Europe, a Treaty 7 field school and an upcoming U.S. travel study course. Howard Hisdal is the department Chair. Additionally, students once again have published a volume of The History Department at Okanagan the Mount Royal Undergraduate Review, a peer-reviewed jour- College is still holding at four history nal that publishes the work of undergraduate students. A new professors. Dr. Shao-kang Chu has just Social Studies minor aimed primarily at Education majors was returned from a year of study leave. Dr. also developed this year. James Wood, who filled in for him for the year has gone to teach at UBC Okanagan Campus. Prof. Howard Hisdal won a teaching Our faculty have been busy as well. Dr. Liam Haggarty, Dr. Jar- excellence award in 2015 and has also just finished a year as the ett Henderson, Dr. Emily Hutchison and Dr. Kirk Niergarth chair of the History Articulation Committee for the Province of were all promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Carmen Nielson British Columbia. was awarded the 2015 Hilda Neatby Prize for the best English language article and women’s and gender history published in University of Prince Edward Island Canada for her article “Caricaturing Colonial Space: Indige- nized, Feminized Bodies and Anglo-Canadian Identity, 1873-94 Edward MacDonald is the published in the December 2015 issue of the CHR. In addition, department Chair. There Dr. Emily Hutchison was awarded a SSHRC grant for her project has been no change in the on “Policing Late Medieval Paris” and Dr. Jennifer Pettit and her faculty really. We had only co-applicants were awarded a SSHRC Partnership LOI Grant for one sessional lecturer last a project entitled “Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future.” year and this year have bundled a parcel of sessional release stipends in order to hire one person on a five-month full-time University of New Brunswick, Fredericton contract. Dr. Sarah Glassford has been hired on a five-month contract for Fall 2016. Dr. Richard Raiswell is on a six-month Jeffrey Brown is the depart- sabbatical. We may have a postdoc based at UPEI, but the deci- ment Chair. In the last 12 sion is pending. months our complement has increased from 11 to 12. Dr. Lisa Chilton received the Canadian Committee on Migra- Dr. Stefanie Kennedy was appointed on July 1, 2016. Drs. Lee tion, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism Article Prize from the Windsor and Lisa Todd received tenure and were promoted to Canadian Historical Association (CHA) for her article “Sex Associate Professor in 2016. Drs. David Frank and David Char- Scandals and Papist Plots: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century World ters retired on July 1 2015. Dr. Erin Morton is on sabbatical for of an Irish Nurse in Quebec,” published in the Journal of Wom- the 2016-2017 academic year. Dr. Ernie Forbes passed away on en’s History 27(3), September 2015. Dr. Edward MacDonald 10 November 2015. We have no other anticipated appointments received the G. E. Clerk Award from the Canadian Catholic or visiting scholars. Dr. Marc Milner won the United States Historical Association, given biennially to recognize “the broad Commission on Military History’s Brigadier General James L. commitment and contributions of the nominee to the field of Collins Jr. Book Prize for his monograph Stopping the Panzers: Canadian Catholic history (scholarly/educational/archival) and The Untold Story of D-Day, cited as “the best book written in to the administration and mission of the CCHA/SCHEC.” Dr. English on military history published during 2014 or 2015.” James Moran received from the UPEI Faculty Association a Hes- sian Award for Excellence in Teaching. Our Department is due Nipissing University for its periodic departmental review this year.

James Murton is the department Chair. We After several years of steep declines, enrollment in Faculty of Arts have lost one faculty member to retirement. courses is up 1.8% to date for 2016-17. In History, first year reg- Francoise Noel has retired. The department istrations are up 63%, in large measure due to the introduction wishes her well and thanks her for her many of a set of introductory level “boutique” history courses geared years of service to Nipissing and the depart- towards non-majors with an interest in history. This spring UPEI ment. We do not anticipate any new faculty Senate approved a significant overhaul of the History program, appointments this year. Dr. Margot Maddison-MacFadyen will which loosened pre-requisites, introduced a slate of new intro- join us as a Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. ductory courses, updated all course descriptions and titles, and Steven High will be our Anne Clendinning Memorial Lecturer slightly reduced the “field” and level requirements for History this year. Dr. Brian Thorn published From Left to Right: Mater- majors. e.g. Instead of four courses required at each of the 300 nalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada (UBC and 400 levels, now only three are required; and instead of being Press). Dr. James Murton co-edited Subsistence Under Capital- asked to fill four of six historical “fields,” students now fill three ism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (McGill-Queen’s of five [since the university has not filled the sole position in its University Press). Classics program].

Canadian Historical Association 15 Queen’s University social movement organizations on public policy decisions in the Atlantic Provinces. Dr. Ackerman also presented two papers at Rebecca Manley is the department this year’s CHA meetings in Calgary. Chair. In 2015-2016, the number of faculty in the department decreased by Dr. Mark Anderson recently published with the University of one following the departure of Ian McKay. Enrolment in both Regina Press, Holy War: Cowboys, Indians, and 9/11s. Beginning undergraduate and graduate programs remains steady. with the Mexican-American War and ending with the invasion of Iraq, Holy War probes presidential speeches, news reports, Awet Weldemichael was promoted to Associate Professor. The editorial cartoons, television programs, and films to uncover department is participating in a search for a new Hannah Chair how the United States reverts back to its creation mythology in the History of Medicine. This year, we welcomed three post- of “fighting Indians” to justify centuries of American imperial- docs: Abigail Agresta, the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral ism. Dr. Mark Anderson is also offering a second year course Fellow in medieval history, and two continuing post-docs, Vas- on Zombies: A History that explores where zombies come from sili Schedrin, Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellow in and why they have become so prominent in popular culture. The Jewish Studies, and Vaneesa Cook, Bader Postdoctoral Fellow course has proven immensely popular with students. in the Humanities. Department members received the follow- ing awards: Jane Errington won the 2016 School of Graduate Dr. Ian Germani recently returned from sabbatical leave where Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision; he continued his research on the death of the soldier. His most Tony D’Elia won a SSHRC Insight Grant; Ishita Pande and recent article, “The Soldier’s Death in French Culture: A Napole- Marc Epprecht were awarded grants from the Queen’s Research onic Case Study” appeared in Journal of War & Culture Studies. Opportunities Funds; Laura Carlson received the W.J. Barnes He also gave the opening lecture in The Art of Expressionism Teaching award for excellence in teaching, awarded by the Arts Speaker Series, “German Expressionism in Context: The First and Science Undergraduate Society; Karen Dubinsky received World War and the European Avant-Garde.” the International Educational Innovation Award. In 2015-2016, faculty authored and edited four books. Dr. Raymond B. Blake was renewed for his second term as Head. He was awarded the Clio Prize for the 2016 Atlantic Regional In addition to the regular department seminar series, the intel- History for his Lions or Jellyfish: Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations lectual life of the department was enriched by the Nugent since 1957. The book was published by the University of Toronto Lecture, delivered last year by Thomas W. Laqueur in a talk enti- Press and had earlier won the Canadian Studies Network-Ré- tled “Why we Care for the Dead,” and by the first two presenters seau d’études canadiennes Prize for the Best Book in Canadian in our inaugural Lower Workshop Series in Canadian History, Studies. He recently published «L’Ouest, les protestations et la Jeremy Milloy and Brittany Luby. Our Nugent lecture this year recherche de stabilité au Canada: Un assaut contre l’hégémonie will be given by Selcuk Esenbel of Bogazici University. du Centre du Canada» in L’OUEST ET LES AMERIQUES, Marie-Cristine Michaud, ed. Rennes, France, Presses universi- We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Global His- taires de Rennes, 2016, and “The Resettlement of Pushthrough, tory Initiative, a research forum for international partnerships, Newfoundland in 1969,” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 30 research collaborations, and student exchange in the field of (2) 2015. His edited collection with Matthew Hayday, Celebrating global history. Our regional partners are the Weatherhead Ini- Canada: Holidays, National Days, and the Crafting of Identities, tiative in Global History at Harvard University and the Global will be published in December. He was also awarded the Uni- History Collective at Princeton University. On April 20, 2017, we versity of Regina Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for will host the inaugural event of the initiative, a keynote lecture 2016 and was successful in the most recent competition for the delivered by Professor Jeremy Adelman of Princeton University SSHRC Insight Grants. and a roundtable on “Global History, Local Archives.” This will be followed by a conference on “Global Legal Regimes” on April 21. The Department of History is delighted to have Dr. Clay Burling- ham and Mr. George Hoffman teaching as Sessional Lecturers University of Regina again this year. They are among the most popular lecturers at the University of Regina and their classes are once again filled Raymond Blake is the to capacity. department Chair. Dr. Katrina Ackerman joined the Department of History as a Ryerson University SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow this year after completing her PhD in Canadian History at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Acker- Catherine Ellis is the depart- man’s project “On the Periphery of the Nation: Abortion Politics ment Chair. There was no in , 1969-1998” which is under consideration change in faculty numbers in 2015-16. Dr. Robert Teigrob was by the University of British Columbia Press, situates regional promoted to Professor. He published Living with War: Twenti- abortion politics within both a national and transnational his- eth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and torical perspective to demonstrate the long-term impact of Memory (University of Toronto Press, 2015) - http://www.

16 Société historique du Canada utppublishing.com/Living-with-War-Twentieth-Century-Con- Université de Sherbrooke flict-in-Canadian-and-American-History-and-Memory.html. Dr. Janam Mukherjee published Hungry Bengal: War, Famine Benoît Grenier est le and the End of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2015) - http:// directeur du département. Il n’y a eu aucun changement dans www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780190209889.html. Dr. Farzin le nombre de professeurs au département. Le prix Gérard-Pa- Vejdani published Making History in Iran: Education, National- rizeau 2015 (HEC / Université de Montréal), a été attribué à la ism and Print Culture (Stanford University Press, 2014) - http:// professeure émérite Micheline Dumont pour sa contribution www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24456. We will advertise one ten- exceptionnelle dans le domaine de l’histoire des femmes. http:// ure-stream position in urban history. www.hec.ca/fonds_gerard_parizeau/prix/index.html. Le prix Hilda-Neatby pour le meilleur article en histoire des femmes During Congress 2017, Ryerson’s Department of History will (français) a été attribué aux professeurs Louise Bienvenue et Guy host the CHA Annual Meeting and the Annual Conference of Laperrière, pour leur article « ‘Sans elles, le collège ne serait pas the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS). Ryerson’s ce qu’il est’ : Le travail des Petites Sœurs de la Sainte-Famille first cohort of History BA students graduated in June 2016. Our dans les collèges classiques au Québec ». Histoire sociale/Social Honours BA launched in Fall 2012, and our programs have sub- History, vol. XLVII, no 93 (Mai/May 2014), p. 5-35. - http:// sequently expanded to include double-majors in History and www.cha-shc.ca/francais/ce-que-nous-faisons/prix-de-la-shc/ English and History and Philosophy, a History Minor open to le-prix-hilda-neatby-article-de-langue-francaise.html#sthash. all Ryerson undergraduates, and a History Major available to DPnw07yS.vG7Av5OY.dpuf. students in Ryerson’s BA in Arts & Contemporary Studies. In Fall 2016, we welcomed our largest incoming BA class to date. Simon Fraser University

Saint Mary’s University Jennifer Spears is the department Chair. The number of continu- Kirrily Freeman is the depart- ing faculty has remained the same ment Chair. There has been an although we have added three limited-term positions in Scottish, increase of 1 faculty member. We welcomed a CRC in Atlantic Taiwanese, and modern German history. Willeen Keough was Canadian Communities, Dr. S. Karly Kehoe. Dr. John Munro, promoted to full professor as of September 1, 2016. Elise Chenier attained tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. received a SSRCH-Insight Grant for “Bridging the Gap: Connect- ing Community and University in Online Digital Archives” while University of Nicolas Kenny is a co-investigator for the SSHRC Insight Devel- opment Grant, “The Railway in the City: Industrial Montreal, Geoff Cunfer is the depart- 1850-1950.” Dr. Kenny also received the Arnold Hirsch Award ment Chair. We now have from the Urban History Association for the best article in urban two more historians in the history for his “City Glow: Streetlights, Emotions, and Nocturnal department - Ashleigh Androsoff (Western Canadian History) Life, 1880s-1910s” (Journal of Urban History, 2015). and Matthew Neufeld (British History). We also had one new promotion: Kathryn Labelle (Associate Professor). Kathryn Thomas Kuehn received a Visiting Research Fellowship from the Labelle was awarded the Provost Award for Outstanding New Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. The Department is hosting a Teacher, Active History (Jim Clifford) received the CHA’s Public lecture series, “Canada 150: Confederation in Question” (http:// History Prize and Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School (Keith Carl- www.sfu.ca/history/events/lectures.html) which began with Gwen son) won the Robert A. Hackenberg Memorial Award. Major Point’s talk entitled “Dear Canada as you Celebrate 150: Reflections grants won: 2 SSHRC Insight Grants, 1 SSHRC Insight Devel- from a First Nation’s Perspective” and will culminate in April with opment Grant, 1 Canada 150 Fund Grant – Canada Heritage, Shelagh Rogers discussing “Revelation: Bearing Witness to the 1 Museum Assistance Program - Canada Heritage, and 1 Law Transformative Testimonies of Residential School Survivors.” Foundation of Saskatchewan Grant. University of Toronto The UofS History department has launched a unique and orig- (Downtown Campus) inal Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES) initiative called the “Community-engaged History Collaboratorium.” With fac- Nicholas Terpstra is the department Chair. Program enrollment ulty oversight and intensive skill and methodology training for is 1640 and total course enrollment is slightly over 6400. These students, the Collaboratorium partners undergraduates with mark a decline from the height of the ‘double-cohort’ enrollment Indigenous and other community organizations such as Fly- bulge of 6-8 years ago, but remain ahead of levels reached in the ing Dust First Nation, the Saskatchewan History and Folklore period before the double cohort. Society, and Legal Aid Saskatchewan, to create paid summer internships where students co-design and then work collabora- Appointments in the tenure track include: Timothy A. Sayle tively on historical and cultural research projects identified as (Temple University, 2014): Modern Global Security; W. Christo- priorities by the communities. pher Johnson (Yale University, 2014): Gender and Transnational

Canadian Historical Association 17 History; Shauna Sweeney ( University, 2015): Gen- seurs au département). Embauche: Richard POLLARD, Histoire der and Transnational History; Shami Ghosh (University of du Moyen Âge. Embauche: Benjamin DERUELLE, Histoire de Toronto, 2009): Latin Languages and Medieval History. Joseph l’Europe moderne. Promotion (Professeur titulaire): Robert Goering and Denis Smyth retired in June 2016. Ruth Sandwell is GAGNON. Départ à la retraite: Janick AUBERGER. promoted to Professor. Adrienne Hood is appointed as Associate Chair Graduate, and Lori Loeb is appointed as MA Coordinator; Joanne BURGESS a été Li Chen is appointed as the Chair of the Department of Histor- admise au Cercle d’excellence ical and Cultural Studies, UTSC, and Ritu Birla is appointed as de l’Université du Québec. the Director of a Munk School initiative on “New Configurations L’ouvrage Sensible Moyen Âge, of Global Governance, Economy and Society”. We are saddened écrit par notre collègue Piroska NAGY, a reçu le Prix Augus- by the passing of Craig Brown, who taught Canadian History in tin-Thierry, remis par l’Académie française pour honorer un the Department from 1966-1998, and Ramsay Cook, who taught ouvrage d’histoire médiévale. Magda FAHRNI a reçu trois prix : Canadian History with the Department from 1958-1968. le Prix du Comité canadien de l’histoire du travail (2016); le Prix Neil-Sutherland, décerné par le Groupe d’histoire de l’enfance Natalie Zemon Davis is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of et de la jeunesse (2016); et le Prix pour le meilleur article publié Canada. Heidi Bohaker wins a SSHRC Partnership Development dans The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth en 2015. Grant for Growing GRASAC ( Research Alliance for Amélie BOURBEAU, qui a fait son doctorat ici au département, the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture), and is awarded the a obtenu le Prix Clio-Québec de la Société historique du Canada University of Toronto Faculty Association Academic Citizenship pour son livre Techniciens de l’organisation sociale. La réorgani- Award for Seeing Through the Cloud. Melanie Newton wins an sation de l’assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974), Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts & Science. une version remaniée de sa thèse doctorale dirigée par Magda In 2015-2016, faculty authored and edited over twenty new books. FAHRNI et Joanne BURGESS. Marise Bachand a remporté le A. Eric Jennings’ Free French Africa in World War II is awarded the Elizabeth Taylor Prize décerné par la Southern Association for Prix des Ambassadeurs of the Académie Française. Michael Bliss is Women Historians pour son article “Gendered Mobility and the the first historian inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Geography of Respectability in Charleston and New Orleans, 1790-1861,” paru dans Journal of Southern History, vol. LXXXI, The Department is currently undertaking a search in Colonial Latin no.1, February 2015. America-Hispanic World. The Department will organize a range of events throughout the year to mark the 150th Anniversary of Can- Vancouver Island University ada, including a day long workshop titled “The Other 60s: A Decade That Shaped Canada and the World” on Saturday 22 April 2017. Timothy Lewis is the department Chair. The number of professors in University of Toronto the department is stable. Dr. Gordon (Scarborough Campus) Hak retired in December 2013 and was replaced in August 2014 by Dr. Katha- Li Chen is the department Chair. rine Rollwagen (PhD Ottawa). Dr. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (PhD Prof. Donna Gabaccia’s book Gender and International Migra- Queens) is currently serving as the Executive Director of the tion: From the Slavery Era to Global Times (New York: Russell Western Association of Women’s Historians. Sage Foundation Press, 2015), co-authored with Katharine Donato, received an honourable mention from the American The Vancouver Island University History department will be Sociological Association’s Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award. hosting the biannual BC Studies Conference from May 4th to 6th, 2017 at the Nanaimo campus. The theme for the conference is (Un)Settling British Columbia, Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez and noted Indigenous author Arthur Manuel will be delivering is the department Chair. the keynote address; see call for papers below: There has been a decrease in the number of professors in the department. Finis Dunaway was promoted to full professor, Car- In the prize-winning book Unsettling Canada: A National oline Durand attained tenure and Tim Stapletonis is on leave for Wake-Up Call, Arthur Manuel strikes a hopeful note by sug- the University of Calgary. Caorline Durand’s Nourrir la machine gesting that “the flood waters of colonialism are, at long last, humaine, was awarded the prestigious 2016 Canada Prize granted receding” (223). Nonetheless, the arrival and settlement of by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. non-Indigenous peoples and species in North America utterly transformed relationships and environments, and the legacies Université du Québec à Montréal of colonialism remain profound. Unsettling British Columbia means acknowledging and confronting these legacies, disturb- Magda Fahrni est la directrice du département. Nous avons ing traditional perspectives of the province, and re-examining connu une légère augmentation (il y a actuellement 33 profes- its economic, social and political systems. As unsettling as this

18 Société historique du Canada may be for some, it is necessary if Indigenous and non-Indige- ments – Eric Sager and Wendy Wickwire and nous British Columbians are to build a better future for all. For no new hires. Emeritus professor E. Patricia BC Studies 2017, we seek papers that explore relationships and Tsurumi passed away in May 2015. Promo- tensions between the settled and the unsettled in British Colum- tions include Paul Bramadat, Martin Bunton, bia’s past, present, and future. and John Lutz to Professor and Peter Cook to Associate Professor. New Post-Doctoral Themes and ideas that this conference addresses include (but are Fellows: Nicole Longpre and Eiji Okawa. Vis- not limited to): iting scholars: Richard Griffiths, Zhijin Li, Jack Thomas, and Yan Wu. • Colonialism and resistance • Gender roles, identities, • Treaties and treaty-making and expressions All these historians were recognised in the past year: • Land - its uses and • Immigration and identities meanings • British Columbia in • Dr. Oliver Schmidtke - Social Sciences award for Research • Truth and Reconciliation Confederation Excellence, 2016 • Energy past, present, and/ • Indigenizing the Academy • Dr. John Lutz - UVic Engaged Scholars Award, 2016 or futures in BC • Dr. Sery Yekelchyk - AAUS prize for Best Book in the fields of We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, and posters Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture from scholars and researchers across all disciplines, and encour- for Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War age multi-disciplinary or thematic panels on any topic related to (Oxford University Press, 2014). British Columbia (including comparative/transnational studies). • Dr. Peter Cook - William Koren, Jr. Prize awarded to the out- Student proposals are encouraged, as are proposals for interac- standing journal article published on any era of French history tive workshops or roundtables. Panels, roundtables, workshops: by a North American scholar in an American, European, or a short description (100 words) of the theme for the session, as Canadian journal for “Onontio Gives Birth: How the French well as abstracts (250 words) for each paper or presentation, and in Canada Became Fathers to Their Indigenous Allies, 1645- a one-page CV for each presenter. Please indicate who will be 73,” Canadian Historical Review, 96, no. 2 (July 2015): 165-193. the main contact for the proposal. Individual papers: abstract (250 words) and a one-page CV. Posters: a brief description We have many events scheduled in the coming year including Dr. (50-100 words) of the theme and a one-page CV. Deadline for Samuel Moyn as Lansdowne guest speaker. Dr. Bose is hosting submission: Monday, October 31, 2016 a seminar series titled the “Global South Colloquium,” featuring scholars in history and allied disciplines presenting perspectives Please send proposals electronically to: [email protected]. on the history of globalization, with respect to an annual theme. 2016-17’s theme is “Religion, Secularism, and the Modern State.” The website for the VIU History department’s nationally-ac- Guests include Dr. Nile Green, History, UCLA, Dr. Smriti Sri- claimed Canadian Letters and Images Project, founded by Dr. nivas, Anthropology, UC-Davis, Dr. Sam Moyn, Harvard Law Stephen Davies (PhD McMaster) has recently undergone signif- School, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, Anthropology, UC-Santa Cruz, icant upgrades. www.canadianletters.ca and Dr. Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College.

The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive Other guest speakers include Amanda Littauer and William of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through Zachs. We are hosting a Pro-D event for high school History the letters and images of themselves. Begun in teachers as well as a History Fair for local high school students. August 2000, the Project is located in the Department of His- tory at Vancouver Island University. Through the digitization We will continue our hugely popular Café Historique series – of contemporary letters, diaries, photographs, and other related monthly events where community members come to hear a talk materials, the Project permits Canadians to tell their story, and and discuss new ideas about how the past has shaped our present Canada’s story, through their own words and images. It is history and future, as well as to drink, eat, converse, meet friends, and without a lens of interpretation by the present. have an evening to remember.

New features on the upgraded website include a more user We have had 2 very successful Colonial Realities bus tours. friendly search engine and audio versions of selected read by Members of the department and faculty were invited on a tour prominent Canadians such as: Governor General David John- of Songhees territory on which the University sits, that was led ston, Chris Hatfield, Wayne Gretzky, Alex Trebek, and actors RH by Songhees Acting Director of Local Services, Cheryl Bryce. Thomson, Cynthia Dale and Sheila McCarthy. The Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (CCAP), led by John Price and Zhongping Chen, is an integrated and publicly acces- sible database of artifacts held by museums on Vancouver Island John Lutz is the department Chair. There has been a decrease and the mainland. Launched on July 7, 2016, the database is now in the number of professors in the department, with two retire- part of UVIC’s Library permanent collections.

Canadian Historical Association 19 We will have an academic program review in February 2017. book The People’s Telephone: The Fight for the Network in The department with organizer Simon Devereaux will host the the United States and Can- Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies in spring 2017. ada. The invited speaker for the Goodman Lectures in September 2016 was Mark Ormrod, The Department has led an initiative to host a visiting Indig- , UK. enous Scholar this year. The $10,000 fellowship will assist an Indigenous Scholar in residence with a research project or com- Wilfrid Laurier University munity engaged initiative while s/he assists the faculty with advice on our initiatives to respond to the Truth and Reconcilia- Darren Mulloy is the tion commission’s recommendations. As part of the department’s department Chair. We response we will offer an upper level course on “De-colonizing have had a decrease of Canada” in January 2017. one professor: Dr. Erich Haberer, Associate Pro- The Department will co-host a conference with the Faculty of fessor of German History retired. Dr. Mary Chaktsiris was Law and the Songhees First Nation on the subject of Indigenous appointed as the inaugural Cleghorn Fellow in War and Society land and treaties in February 2017. at the Assistant Professor level on a two-year term.

University of Waterloo University of Windsor

Heather MacDougall is the Robert Nelson is the department Chair. department Chair. We have Robert Nelson - Visiting Fullbright Fel- added one new faculty member. lowship, City University of New York, Dr. Howard Chiang has joined Graduate Centre. Guillaume Teasdale uW History to teach global/ - SSHRC Insight Development Grant. transnational history with an Yukari Takai - SSHRC Insight Develop- emphasis on the history of medicine and science in Sinophone ment Grant. Miriam Wright - Ontario communities. We are sad to report the death of Professor Michael Trillium Foundation Grant (in partnership with the Chatham Craton who taught Caribbean imperial history at Waterloo from Sports Hall of Fame) for a public History project. Leslie Howsam 1966 until his retirement in 1997. Professor Lynne Taylor is on became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada at a ceremony in sabbatical this term and Professors Gary Bruce and Jim Walker Victoria, BC in November 2015. will be on leave in winter 2017. We do not anticipate any further appointments and do not have any invited or visiting scholars. University of Winnipeg Gary Bruce stepped down as department chair and Julia Roberts was elected as the next department chair. Since she is serving as James Hanley is the the Acting Associate Dean of Arts - Undergraduate until August department Chair. We 31, 2017, Heather MacDougall was appointed as Acting Depart- have had a decrease ment Chair from July 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. of one member in the department - Dr Nolan Reilly retired in July 2016. Drs Claire Two faculty members were honoured with the Order of Can- LaBrecque and Paul Lawrie were promoted to the rank of ada. James Walker was appointed to the order in recognition Associate Professor with tenure. Drs Mark Meuwese and Jason of his internationally-renowned scholarship on human rights Yaremko were promoted to Full Professor. and John English, now at the Munk Centre, was promoted in recognition of his many contributions to Canadian historical York University scholarship. Professor Lynne Taylor received H-France’s high- est honour, the H-France service award for her stellar service as Jonathan Edmondson is the department production editor to the online journal. On January 1, 2017, she Chair. There has been a decrease in the num- will become H-France’s editor-in-chief where she will direct an ber of historians employed in the last year: 37 international editorial team of more than 60 scholars. In addi- rather 41 tenured/tenure-track faculty and tion to our regular speaker’s series, uWaterloo is hosting the 19 rather than 27 sessional appointments. annual Tri-University History Conference on March 11, 2017. There were no news hirings. Promotion: Boyd Cothran was tenured and promoted to Asso- Western University ciate Professor with effect from July 1, 2016. Three colleagues currently being considered Francine McKenzie is the department Chair. We have had a for promotion to Full Professor. Retirements: decrease through retirement. We have also had 2 promotions none. Departures: Marc Stein (who had taught at York since to full professor. Rob MacDougall, Albert A Corey Prize for his 1998); Jaclyn Neel (Visiting Assistant Professor since 2012);

20 Société historique du Canada University of Toronto Press’s Canadian Studies Journals

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Jusque dans was threaded through multiple states and institutions: In Canada, people les années 1980, le mot dominion s’est faufilé dans le vocabulaire celebrated and protested Dominion Day, reported to the Dominion Bureau de nombreux États et de nombreuses institutions, même s’il n’a of Statistics, and deposited their pay cheques at the Toronto Dominion jamais eu les mêmes connotations au Québec francophone qu’au Bank. The Dominion Archivist was tasked with preserving the record of Canada anglais. Ainsi, au Canada, les gens ont célébré le jour de the national history. Canada was not alone. Throughout Britain’s imperial la Confédération (le Dominion Day) ou protesté contre celui-ci, ont realm, the language of Dominion evoked and legitimated ideas of Empire, fait rapport au Bureau fédéral de la statistique (le Dominion Bureau property, and territorial ambition and control. of Statistics) ou déposé leur chèque de paye à la Banque Toronto- th Dominion. L’archiviste fédéral (le Dominion Archivist) a quant à lui As we approach the 150 Anniversary of Confederation in Canada, été chargé de préserver les traces de l’histoire du pays. Le Canada Histoire Sociale / Social History invites historians working in diverse n’était pas seul. Dans tout l’Empire britannique, le mot dominion a national and geographic fields to re-evaluate the multiple histories and évoqué les idées d’Empire, de propriété, d’ambition territoriale et meanings of dominion across the globe. Essays might engage histories de mainmise, et légitimé ces idées. of colonialism and/or imperialism, state-formation, Indigenous peoples, political representation, migration, the gendering of states, racialization, e popular politics, and multiple kinds of property from a social history Histoire sociale / Social History invite les historiennes et les historiens perspective. Essays can engage places that received the formal title of Àqui l’approche travaillent du dans 150 diverses anniversaire aires de nationales la Confédération et géographiques au Canada, à Dominion status and the many parts of the British Empire that did not. réévaluer les multiples histoires et significations de la notion de We are open to approaches that focus on specific locations in the imperial dominion autour du monde. Les essais pourraient attirer l’attention world and to transnational and comparative approaches. sur l’histoire du colonialisme ou de l’impérialisme, de la formation des États (y compris des États multinationaux), des peuples The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2016. autochtones, de la représentation politique, des migrations, Those interested are invited to contact the journal in advance. Authors are la nature genrée de l’État, de la racialisation, de la politique invited to visit the journal’s website for presentation guidelines and send populaire et des multiples genres de propriété, et ce, du point de their submissions in electronic format—an e-mail attachment in Word is vue de l’histoire sociale. Les essais pourront porter aussi bien sur preferred—at the address in the blue box below. des lieux qui ont reçu officiellement l’appellation de dominion que sur les nombreuses parties de l’Empire britannique où cela n’a “The Surprise Packet” pas été le cas. Nous sommes ouverts aux démarches axées sur des Canada: “Rather large for him, is it not?” endroits précis à l’intérieur de l’Empire ainsi qu’aux perspectives Australia: “Oh his head is swelling rapidly. The hat will soon fit.” transnationales et comparatistes. (New Zealand Observer, September 21, 1907)

La date limite pour soumettre un article est le30 novembre 2016.

Les personnes intéressées sont priées de communiquer à l’avance avec la revue. Nous invitons les auteures et les auteurs à prendre connaissance des directives aux auteurs sur le site Web de la revue et à nous faire parvenir leur article par voie électronique — de préférence sous forme de fichier Word joint à un courriel — à l’adresse suivante :

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Rédacteurs invités / Guest Editors: Adele Perry, Université du Manitoba / University of Manitoba Jarett Henderson, Université Mount Royal / Mount Royal University

À l’avant-garde de l’histoire sociale! / At the forefront of social history! Alexia Yates (Visiting Assistant Professor since 2015) Sabbati- toral Thesis in Maritime History. Alexia M. Yates: 2016 Wallace K. cals in 2016-17: Boyd Cothran, Craig Heron, Janice Kim, Paul Ferguson Prize of the CHA for the outstanding scholarly book in a Lovejoy, Marcel Martel, Thabit Abdullah and Bill Wicken are on field of history other than Canadian history for Selling Paris: Prop- sabbatical. Adrian Shubert continues on leave as a Killam Fellow. erty and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard Deaths: Ramsay Cook (1931-2016, who taught History at York University Press, 2015). Boyd Cothran: 2015-2016 LA&PS Award from 1969 to his retirement in 1996); Bernard Luk (1946-2016, for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship – Emerging who had been teaching History at York since 1991); Orest Sub- Researcher, York University. Jonathan Edmondson: 2015-2016 telny (1941-2016, who taught History and Political Science at LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Schol- York from 1982 until his retirement in 2015). arship – Emerging Researcher, York University. Benjamin Kelly: SSHRC Insight Grant, 2016-2011, for his project, “The Roman Gilberto Fernandes, postdoctoral fellow in Portuguese-Cana- Imperial Court: methods, models, and materials.” dian Immigration history. Matthew Kerry, postdoctoral fellow in Modern European history. Richard Last, SSHRC-Banting Former M.A. student Jessie Thistle, now in the Ph.D. programme postdoctoral research fellow in ancient history. in History at York, won the 2016 Governor General’s Silver Medal, York University. Former Ph.D. student, Douglas Hunter, Douglas Hay: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, won Canada’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2016 in the 2016. Rachel Koopmans: Elected a member of the College of Fine Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences category from the Cana- New Scholars, Royal Society of Canada, 2016. Craig Heron: a) dian Association of Graduate Studies/Association canadienne 2016 Book of the Year by the International Labor History Asso- pour les études supérieures. ciation b) 2015 Clio Prize for Ontario by the Canadian Historical Association, c) 2015 Book of the Year award by the Canadian Forthcoming activities at York include Globalizing Confedera- Association for Work & Labour Studies, d) 2015 Fred Landon tion: How Governments, Nations and Communities Around the Award for local and regional history, given by the Ontario His- World Viewed the Emergence of Canada in 1867. Sept. 29-30, torical Society all for Lunch-Bucket Lives, Remaking the Workers’ 2016 Approaching Public History in a Globalized Toronto, Sept. City (Between the Lines Press, Toronto, 2015). 30, 2016. New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, Feb. 24-25, 2017. 150 Ideas that Shaped Canada – 150 idées qui ont Margaret Schotte: 2016 Frank Broeze Prize for Outstanding Doc- façonné le Canada, October 12-14, 2017.

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Canadian Historical Association 25 Recherche archivistique | Archival Research

De véritables coffres aux trésors Tant à découvrir, à lire, à voir et à entendre sur l’histoire du Québec

ue ce soit à Québec, à Montréal, à BAnQ favorise la conservation des archives dans leur milieu d’origine afin Trois-Rivières, à Sherbrooke, à Gatineau, à qu’elles soient mieux utilisées et mieux comprises. C’est pourquoi elle remplit Rouyn-Noranda, à Saguenay, à Rimouski, sa mission archivistique grâce à un réseau composé de 10 centres couvrant tout à Sept-Îles ou à Gaspé, les magasins des le territoire du Québec. Qcentres conservant des archives de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) renfer- Dans des salles de consultation agréables, animées par un personnel prêt à ouvrir ment des millions de documents qui n’attendent les portes de l’histoire et de la généalogie, le public a accès à de riches fonds et souvent qu’un curieux ou un chercheur pour racon- collections d’archives. Sur place ou à distance, le personnel reçoit et traite aussi ter leur histoire. Une histoire où, parfois, la réalité bien les demandes des spécialistes que celles de la population en général. dépasse la fiction! Une représentativité à la grandeur du Québec – Un réseau qui se met en place BAnQ conserve et diffuse les archives les plus repré- sentatives de l’histoire du Québec. Les ministères et Au moment de la création, en 1920, des Archives de la province de Québec avec les organismes gouvernementaux ainsi que les tribu- la nomination de Pierre-Georges Roy comme premier archiviste de la province, naux versent à BAnQ leurs documents destinés à une on ouvre un centre d’archives dans la ville de Québec. Ce centre a été situé conservation permanente. Les archives judiciaires pendant plusieurs années au Musée du Québec (aujourd’hui le Musée national et civiles (notaires et état civil) consignent divers des beaux-arts du Québec). Aujourd’hui, BAnQ Québec, qui abrite les bureaux aspects de la vie sociale, familiale, foncière et éco- de la Direction générale des Archives nationales de BAnQ, se trouve au pavil- nomique des citoyens, permettant à ces dernières de lon Louis-Jacques-Casault du campus de l’Université Laval, où le centre a été connaître leur histoire ou de faire valoir leurs droits. transféré en 1980. Pour compléter ce patrimoine « officiel », BAnQ acquiert aussi des archives privées en provenance Dans le respect de l’un des principes fondamentaux de l’archivistique, soit le prin- de personnes, de familles, d’organismes et d’entre- cipe de territorialité visant à conserver les archives dans leur milieu de création, prises d’horizons variés. À cet égard, BAnQ assume un vaste projet de régionalisation des Archives nationales du Québec a été amorcé la responsabilité de promouvoir la conservation et au début des années 1970. Au cours des 10 années suivantes, le réseau actuel a été l’accessibilité des archives privées, notamment en mis en place avec l’ouverture des centres de Montréal (1971), de Trois-Rivières offrant son expertise et ses conseils aux organismes (1975), de Gatineau (1977), de Saguenay (1978), de Rouyn-Noranda (1979), de détenteurs d’archives privées. Elle les soutient en Sherbrooke (1979), de Rimouski (1979) et de Sept-Îles (1981). En 2010 est sur- mettant à leur disposition de l’aide financière et en venue l’ouverture de BAnQ Gaspé, où les archives publiques gaspésiennes sont reconnaissant la richesse des fonds conservés par conservées et mises à la disposition du public. Avec ses 10 centres conservant des certains d’entre eux et la qualité de leur travail. archives, BAnQ est présente sur l’ensemble du territoire québécois.

26 Société historique du Canada Conserver et diffuser les archives photographies, des cartes et des plans ainsi que des documents audiovisuels qui révèlent l’histoire d’individus et de familles ou qui touchent la politique, les arts Les 10 centres conservant des archives de BAnQ : et la culture ou encore l’industrie et le développement économique du Québec.

• préservent et mettent en valeur le patrimoine Les 10 centres conservant des archives de BAnQ offrent divers services aux archivistique régional; publics variés qui les fréquentent : des salles de consultation; de la documenta- • soutiennent les organismes publics dans la ges- tion spécialisée en archivistique, en généalogie et en histoire régionale et locale; tion de leurs documents administratifs; le prêt entre centres d’ouvrages imprimés et de microfilms; la photocopie de • conseillent les organismes du secteur privé dans documents écrits et la reproduction de documents visuels et sonores; des expo- leurs efforts de mise en valeur de leur patrimoine sitions et des visites commentées; des activités pédagogiques et d’initiation à la archivistique. recherche généalogique; des services par correspondance, par télécopie ou par courriel; l’accès à distance à certains services, à des instruments de recherche et Ceux-ci abritent plus de 64 kilomètres linéaires de à des centaines de milliers de documents grâce au portail de BAnQ : banq.qc.ca. documents textuels, 1 280 000 cartes, plans et pho- tographies aériennes, 19 161 000 photographies, La base de données Pistard permet de repérer les documents d’archives désirés gravures et dessins et 90 576 documents audiovisuels. et en favorise l’accessibilité par un nombre croissant de documents numérisés Imaginez tout ce qu’il y a à découvrir, à lire, à voir et disponible dans l’outil. à entendre sur l’histoire du Québec et sur les hommes et les femmes qui la façonnent depuis quatre siècles !

Les archives gouvernementales BAnQ a procédé ... à la mise en place graduelle d’un réseau de services agréés qui, dans l’ensemble du Québec, constituent Les archives gouvernementales, documents représen- les partenaires privilégiés de ses centres régionaux en ce qui tant la mémoire de l’État, constituent une précieuse source de renseignements concernant l’adminis- a trait à l’acquisition, à la conservation et à la diffusion des tration gouvernementale, des débuts du Régime archives d’origine privée. français jusqu’à l’instauration de l’État québécois tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui, en passant par le Régime anglais et la Confédération. On y trouve Un réseau de partenaires notamment des documents sur la concession des terres, l’exploitation forestière et minière, l’éducation, BAnQ a procédé, au cours des 25 dernières années, à la mise en place graduelle la justice, les municipalités et la santé. d’un réseau de services agréés qui, dans l’ensemble du Québec, constituent les partenaires privilégiés de ses centres régionaux en ce qui a trait à l’acquisition, Les archives civiles à la conservation et à la diffusion des archives d’origine privée. L’agrément confirme la haute qualité et la performance de ces organismes. Ce réseau Les archives civiles sont composées de dossiers des compte maintenant 37 services d’archives privées agréés. tutelles et des curatelles, de testaments homologués, de registres de l’état civil et de greffes de notaires Les services d’archives agréés fonctionnent en lien étroit avec d’autres orga- (testaments, contrats de mariage, inventaires après nismes et institutions du milieu, notamment des bibliothèques, des centres décès); ces archives figurent parmi les plus consul- d’interprétation du patrimoine ou des musées, des sociétés d’histoire et de tées par les chercheurs intéressés par leurs origines, généalogie et également des municipalités et des municipalités régionales de leurs ancêtres et l’histoire de leur famille. comté. Les services d’archives privées agréés contribuent ainsi de façon mar- quante au développement culturel des régions. Les archives judiciaires BAnQ mise énormément sur la présence et le rôle du réseau des services d’ar- Les archives judiciaires rassemblent les dossiers chives privées agréés comme prolongement de son propre réseau en matière des débuts de la colonie jusqu’au milieu des années d’expertise et de mise en valeur du patrimoine archivistique privé. Cette préoc- 1970. On y trouve les documents des procès en cupation se démontre clairement par la collaboration que BAnQ entretient avec matière civile, criminelle et pénale du Québec. À le Regroupement des services d’archives privées agréés du Québec. titre d’exemples, mentionnons l’affaire du Sault-aux- Cochons ou le procès qui a suivi le décès d’Aurore Plus grande institution culturelle du Québec par sa fréquentation et la diversité de Gagnon, surnommée « l’enfant martyre » ses missions, pilier essentiel de la société du savoir, Bibliothèque et Archives natio- nales du Québec (BAnQ) a pour mandat d’offrir un accès démocratique à la culture Les archives privées et à la connaissance. Elle rassemble, conserve et diffuse le patrimoine documen- taire québécois ou relatif au Québec. Elle offre aussi les services d’une bibliothèque Les archives privées témoignent de plus de 400 ans publique d’envergure. Outre ses centres conservant des archives, BAnQ regroupe d’histoire. Elles comprennent des manuscrits, des BAnQ Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie et la Grande Bibliothèque à Montréal.

Canadian Historical Association 27 LAC across BAC dans l’ensemble Canada du Canada New Service Points in Halifax de nouveaux points de service and Vancouver à Halifax et à Vancouver

t Library and Archives Canada (LAC), we have Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC), nous avons parfois qua- sometimes referred to our offices in Vancou- lifié nos bureaux à Vancouver, Winnipeg et Halifax de « secret le ver, Winnipeg, and Halifax as LAC’s “best kept mieux gardé ». Cette situation commencera à changer en 2017, à Asecret.” This will start to change in 2017 as LAC redefines mesureÀ que BAC redéfinira sa présence au Canada et ouvrira des points its presence across Canada and moves into more publicly de service plus facilement accessibles au public. accessible service points. BAC est présent dans ces trois villes depuis le début des années 1970, LAC has been present in each of these cities since the alors que l’institution y établissait des centres régionaux de documents early 1970s, when it established Regional Records Cen- afin de fournir aux ministères du gouvernement du Canada des entre- tres to provide Government of Canada departments with pôts hors site abordables pour loger leurs documents inactifs. À partir inexpensive, offsite warehouse storage for their inac- des années 1990, BAC a embauché des équipes pour gérer les documents tive records. Starting in the 1990s, teams were hired to d’archives régionaux du gouvernement fédéral acquis et ajoutés à la col- manage the regional archival records of the federal gov- lection nationale, et pour rendre ce patrimoine documentaire accessible ernment that were acquired and added to LAC’s national au public sur place. collection, and to provide the public with onsite access to this material. Les documents versés dans la collection d’archives de BAC en prove- nance de toutes les régions du Canada illustrent bien la pluralité et la Records coming into LAC’s archival collection from across diversité de l’expérience canadienne. Par exemple, à Vancouver, les nom- Canada reflect the broad range and diversity of the Cana- breux documents provenant du ministère des Affaires autochtones et du dian experience. For example, in Vancouver, the many Nord Canada (MIKAN : 46) et de ses prédécesseurs sont particulière- records from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada ment pertinents lorsqu’on effectue des recherches sur les revendications (MIKAN: 46) and its predecessor departments are par- territoriales; à Winnipeg, les documents du programme Mincome visant ticularly relevant for local land claims research, and in à mettre en place un système de revenu annuel garanti à Dauphin, au Winnipeg, the records on Mincome, a guaranteed annual Manitoba, dans les années 1970 income experiment conducted in Dauphin in the 1970s (MIKAN : 46285) témoignent (MIKAN: 46285), provide evidence of both an innovative à la fois d’une expérience origi- social welfare initiative and life in rural Manitoba. nale en matière d’aide sociale et de la vie rurale au Manitoba. At Library and Archives Canada Même si les entrepôts de BAC (LAC), we have sometimes referred to sont spacieux, ils sont un peu our offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and à l’écart et n’ont pas été conçus Halifax as LAC’s “best kept secret.” This pour accueillir des expositions ou des événements publics, ni will start to change in 2017 ... pour conserver à long terme des fonds d’archives. Ces der- (right) A handbook of general information about Mincome, ca. nières années, BAC a entrepris 1974, MIKAN 212771 | (à droite) Guide de renseignements sur un virage qui l’a amené à réduire Mincome, vers 1974, MIKAN 212771 son offre de services d’entre- posage général auprès des While spacious, these warehouses are somewhat off the ministères pour se concentrer beaten path, and were not designed for public exhibitions sur l’entreposage de ses collec- or events or for the long-term preservation needs of archi- tions archivistiques (incluant les documents gouvernementaux qui ont val holdings. A shift at LAC in recent years has meant un intérêt historique) à des fins de préservation dans des installations moving away from providing general storage services conçues à cet effet. En conséquence, les besoins en entreposage à Van- to government departments and focusing on preserva- couver et à Halifax ont grandement diminué et les entrepôts, aujourd’hui tion housing for LAC’s archival collections (including all presque vides, seront fermés en 2017. BAC profite de l’occasion pour

28 Société historique du Canada À Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC), nous avons parfois qualifié nos bureaux à Vancouver, Winnipeg et Halifax de « secret le mieux gardé ». Cette situation commencera à changer en 2017 ...

(left) Photographs of inmates from the penitentiary at Stony Mountain, Man., ca. 1910, MIKAN 44893 | (à gauche) Photos de détenus au pénitencier de Stony Mountain, au Manitoba, vers 1910. MIKAN 44893

government records of historical significance) in pur- redéfinir son offre de services dans l’ensemble du pays, en collabora- pose-built facilities. As a result, the storage requirements tion avec d’autres institutions vouées au patrimoine documentaire. in Vancouver and Halifax were greatly reduced and the now near-empty warehouses will close in 2017. LAC is En novembre 2015, BAC a lancé un appel à candidatures en Nou- taking this opportunity to redefine its service offerings velle-Écosse et en Colombie-Britannique afin de trouver des across the country, in collaboration with other documen- organismes possiblement intéressés à héberger ses services dans leurs tary heritage institutions. locaux. À partir de ces nouveaux points de service, BAC offrira au public des services de réfé- In November 2015, LAC rence étendus et présentera launched a call for interest des expositions et des évé- in Nova Scotia and British nements publics mettant en Columbia to seek out other évidence ses collections. institutions that might be interested in hosting LAC at En avril 2016, BAC a signé their premises. From these un protocole d’entente avec new service points, LAC le Musée canadien de l’immi- would provide expanded gration au Quai 21 à Halifax. reference services to the pub- Cet accord de collaboration lic as well as launch public mutuellement avantageux events and exhibits featuring entrera en vigueur au début LAC collections. de 2017. Grâce à cet accord, BAC offrira au public, depuis In April 2016, LAC signed le rez-de-chaussée du Quai 21, a Memorandum of Under- des services d’orientation et de standing with the Canadian référence plus étendus. Même Museum of Immigration si les documents d’archives ne at in Halifax. This pourront plus être consultés collaborative, mutually ben- sur place à Halifax, l’équipe de eficial arrangement begins in early 2017. Through this BAC travaillera avec ses clients arrangement, LAC will be providing a broader orienta- afin de soutenir la recherche en ligne dans ses collections, en offrant tion and reference service to the public from the ground notamment un accès gratuit sur place à des bases de données permet- floor of Pier 21. While there will no longer be archival tant d’effectuer des recherches spécialisées. De plus, BAC collaborera collections available for consultation onsite in Halifax, aussi avec le Quai 21 à la préparation d’événements, d’expositions et the LAC team will work with clients to support online d’activités à l’intention du public. research in LAC’s collections, including free onsite (above) Paraplegics’ wheelchair football game on the roof of the Shaughnessy access to specialized research databases. LAC will also Hospital, Vancouver, 1947, MIKAN 4840889 | (ci-dessus) Match de soccer en work with Pier 21 to develop events, exhibits and public fauteuil roulant disputé sur le toit de l’hôpital Shaughnessy à Vancouver, en 1947. programming. MIKAN 4840889

Canadian Historical Association 29 On October 5, 2016, LAC and the Vancouver Public Library Le 5 octobre 2016, BAC et la Bibliothèque publique de Vancouver ont announced an arrangement whereby the public will be annoncé la conclusion d’une entente selon laquelle, à partir du prin- able to access LAC services from the Special Collections temps 2017, le public pourra accéder aux services de BAC à partir de la area of the 7th floor of Vancouver Public Library’s Central zone des collections spéciales, au 7e étage de la Bibliothèque publique Library downtown, starting in spring 2017. Like those in centrale de Vancouver, en plein centre-ville. Comme ceux d’Hali- Halifax, LAC’s clients in Vancouver will also benefit from fax, les clients de BAC à Vancouver pourront bénéficier de services that broader orientation and reference service, access to d’orientation et de référence plus étendus, et d’un accès aux bases de LAC’s databases and online content, and uniquely, they will données et contenus en ligne de BAC; de plus, par mesure exception- continue to have access to the archival records created by nelle, ils continueront d’avoir accès aux documents d’archives créés par Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada in British Colum- Affaires autochtones et du Nord Canada en Colombie-Britannique bia and Yukon which will be stored locally in the Vancouver et au Yukon, lesquels seront entreposés sur place, dans la région de area. Given the significance of Indigenous-related research Vancouver. Compte tenu de l’importance de la recherche concernant at this location, LAC determined that Canadians would be les Autochtones à cet endroit, BAC est convaincu que les Canadiens best served by maintaining these records in the Vancouver seront mieux servis en conservant ces documents dans la région de area. Vancouver.

 By making LAC’s service points in Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg more visible, we are aiming to make Canada’s documentary heritage even more accessible to all Canadians. | En améliorant la visibilité de ses points de service à Vancouver, Winnipeg et Halifax, BAC vise à rendre le patrimoine documentaire du Canada encore plus accessible à tous les Canadiens.

LAC is already hard at work with Pier 21 and VPL to plan BAC s’affaire déjà, en collaboration avec le Quai 21 et la Bibliothèque for the years ahead! publique de Vancouver, à planifier les prochaines années!

In Winnipeg, clients will have continuous access to LAC’s À Winnipeg, les clients bénéficieront d’un accès continu aux services services from its current location on Inkster Boulevard, and de BAC à partir de son emplacement actuel sur le boulevard Inkster, et LAC will be expanding its orientation and reference services BAC étendra ses services d’orientation et de référence de manière à ce to mirror those offered in Halifax and Vancouver, including qu’ils correspondent à ceux offerts à Halifax et à Vancouver, incluant free access to onsite databases. Further, as a result of recent un accès gratuit sur place aux bases de données. En outre, grâce à de renovations, clients now also benefit from an inviting refer- récentes rénovations, les clients pourront aussi bénéficier d’une salle ence room for onsite consultation of its archival collections. de référence accueillante pour la consultation des collections d’ar- chives sur place. LAC’s holdings reflect the historical national landscape and . By making LAC’s service points in Van- Les archives de BAC sont le reflet de la culture et du paysage national couver, Halifax, and Winnipeg more visible, we are aiming historique du Canada. En améliorant la visibilité de ses points de ser- to make Canada’s documentary heritage even more accessi- vice à Vancouver, Winnipeg et Halifax, BAC vise à rendre le patrimoine ble to all Canadians. documentaire du Canada encore plus accessible à tous les Canadiens.

(above) Employment card of Duncan Sydney Timmons, Dominion Coal Company, ca. 1922, MIKAN 4742174 & 4742191 | (ci-dessus) Carte d’employé de la Dominion Coal Company appartenant à Duncan Sydney Timmons, vers 1922. MIKAN 4742174 et 4742191

30 Société historique du Canada Teaching Corner | Espace enseignants Teaching Loyalist History Using blogs as teaching tools By Bonnie Huskins

Preface course at the University of New Brunswick devoted specifically to the Loyalists of the . As Loyalist Studies Coordinator at the University of New Bruns- wick, I am responsible for generating interest in Loyalist history. Their comments are summarized below by their professor Bon- This means engaging in research on the Loyalists, organizing pan- nie Huskins, followed by a brief postscript on the challenges and els, promoting the use of The Loyalist Collection at UNB’s Harriet rewards of teaching Loyalist history. Irving Library, as well as teaching courses on the Loyalists and the American Revolution. Dear Dr. Chris Minty:

In an effort to make these courses more interactive, I have been During our class on 13 November 2015, we read your blog on experimenting with the use of blogs as teaching tools. The follow- Loyalist Sources, and then compared the strengths and weak- ing is a blog posted initially in Borealia: a Group Blog on Early nesses of Loyalist Claims Commission records versus Loyalist Canadian History entitled “Loyalists in the Classroom: Students petitions. Reflect on Historical Sources (https://earlycanadianhistory. ca/2015/12/11/loyalists-in-the-classroom-students-reflect-on-his- Loyalist Claims Commission Records torical-sources/) This blog was composed collectively by third-year students in response to an earlier blog written by Dr. Chris Minty Before this assignment we had already consulted Loyalist claims called “Sources for Loyalist Studies.”(https://earlycanadianhistory. for a seminar, and many of us had used them for our first major ca/2015/09/21/sources-for-loyalist-studies/ ). In his blog, Minty written assignment, which involved “adopting a Loyalist” and analyzed the significance of Loyalist petitions vs. the records gener- then using the themes emanating from that person’s life to craft ated by the Loyalist Claims Commission. The students had already a thematic paper. We enjoyed using the claims for their graphic discussed the Loyalist Claims Commission in a seminar, so I had depictions of harassment and sacrifice, and for the clues they them read a sample of Loyalist petitions. I summarized their anal- presented regarding the claimant’s previous lifestyle. We were ysis in a response to Minty, which the editors of Borealia decided also able to assess the significance of the items that the Loyalists to turn into a stand-alone piece. Minty subsequently responded to were claiming, whether they were tea cups, books, or slaves. OUR blog. The blogs had essentially become mediums of commu- nication between students and historians. I took the opportunity in In our seminar, we discussed the interpretive issues involved in the blog to also reflect on teaching Loyalist history more generally. using Loyalist Claims Commission (LCC) records. We agree with you that the claims were biased in the sense that claimants were Before we turn to the Borealia blog, I would like to add that I am crafting their submissions to acquire compensation from the also using blogs in my second-year Canadian History survey course commission. But it was the subjective nature of the claims records at St. Thomas University. All students in the course are expected to which made them so fascinating. In our seminar we found that write a blog of their choosing: topics range from treaty-making to the the language used by the claimants was significant: for exam- debate over official languages. The blogs are then posted to Moodle ple, the phrases used by female claimants provided insight into (STU’s electronic learning platform) and fellow students are encour- the gender norms of the period. We also concluded that claims aged to respond to the blogs online as a form of class participation. records only applied to those who had access to the commission We then review the online responses in face to face discussions in process and could document their claims. The claimants were the classroom. The experience of writing blogs has helped many mostly male and mostly white. It was interesting to assess why it students craft succinct and precise arguments. Students also use was that Black Loyalists received so little from the commission. ActiveHistory blogs (http://activehistory.ca/) as sources for their research papers. This use of blog entries has introduced students to a Loyalist Petitions range of research findings and historical interpretations. In essence, it has become another way of introducing the students to the con- At first we found the petitions less “sexy” than the LCC records, cepts of historiography and historical understanding. I would be appearing as little more than a list of names. On closer read- interested in knowing whether other historians are using blogs as ing, however, we discerned considerable emotion behind the teaching tools. If so, how do you use them? language of petitions. This was particularly the case with the counter-petition to the famous “petition of the 55.” The initial Borealia blog: “Loyalists in the Classroom: Students Reflect petition explained why 55 elite Loyalists deserved significant land on Historical Sources” grants in Nova Scotia. The counter-petition, signed by 600+ Loy- alists in New York City, brimmed with anger over this sense of This response to Christopher Minty’s post on Loyalist Sources entitlement. We discussed the counter-petition’s loaded language, was composed collectively by the students of History 3403, a especially words such as “tenancy.” Why were Loyalists afraid of

Canadian Historical Association 31 sinking into “tenancy” in Nova Scotia? We concluded that, just can colonial records on the continent. Thus, it is imperative to as claims records were biased, so too were petitions: both were get students into the collection, although it is large and intim- composed, at the end of the day, to attain support and approval. idating. The librarians in charge of the Loyalist Collection are doing a wonderful job at making the collection more accessible Throughout the class, we also composed a series of questions (https://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/) which historians should consider when using petitions as his- torical sources: By studying the Loyalists, students also come to appreciate what goes into the crafting of historical categories and historical inter- • How many names appear on a particular petition? Why so pretations. For example, in this course we tackle such questions as: many or so few? • The names on many petitions are often all male. Why? • Who/what was a Loyalist? (not an easy question to answer, • Some of the names are written in the same hand writing even as Chris Minty notes in his posting The Future of Loyalist though they are different names. What does this suggest? Studies) • Some people are only able to sign with an X. What does this • What happens when we apply the categories of gender, race, tell us about literacy rates? ethnicity and class to our population? • Did the people who signed this petition do so because of • Are there merits to approaching this topic from the perspec- ideological reasons? Or did peer pressure play a role? tive of (s)? • Did petitioners come from the same families or neighbor- • What was involved in “choosing sides” during an event like hoods? Were they friends? the American Revolution? • Were the Loyalists “refugees” like the Syrians of today? Did Conclusions about Claims Records and Petitions they experience a “refugee crisis”? • To what degree was the “American Revolution” a “revolution” We have concluded that both claims records and petitions have or a “civil war”? strengths and weaknesses as historical sources. This exercise rein- forces the need to critically analyze all sources and corroborate Another reward of teaching Loyalist history at UNB is engaging findings using other primary and secondary sources if possible. with students from the Atlantic region, many of whom have Loyalist ancestry. Such students craft exquisite research projects by placing What made the counter-petition to the petition of the 55 more their own families within the larger context of the colonial period. exciting for us was that many of the people on this New York peti- tion also appeared as political dissidents in Saint John during the At UNB, it is also possible to call on a range of resident scholars first New Brunswick election in 1785. David Bell’s work on the who are interested in the history of the Loyalist era. It has been political riots in Loyalist Saint John was probably our most lively important for students to see the enthusiasm of researchers in seminar. It was rewarding to see the relationship between this action. Presenters have included Gwendolyn Davies on female event and the names on this petition. This made us realize how Loyalists, David Bell on political unrest in New Brunswick and challenging and rewarding it must be for you, Dr. Minty, to figure New York, John Leroux on Loyalist architecture, and Chantal out the connections between the people who sign these petitions. Richard on comparing Loyalist and Acadian identities.

Sincerely, Despite the richness of “the local” in New Brunswick, the Bonnie Huskins most challenging yet rewarding exercise has been to place this course within the multiple contexts of colonial North America/ On behalf of the following students of History 3403: the Atlantic World/the British Empire and global history more Caleb Goguen Tristan Workmann generally. Students respond well to the realization that one can Destiny Sewell Jenna Torraville study this population through multiple lenses. I think they have Seth Page Brittney Bedford enjoyed comparing and contrasting the experiences of Loyalists Eli Clerke Hattie Sheppey in such diverse places as Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone, the Baha- mas, Jamaica, and England. I am also very excited by the new Postscript on Teaching Loyalist History, by Bonnie Huskins literature emerging amongst young American historians on var- ious aspects of Loyalist history, including the reintegration of Many people have asked me over the years: “why offer a course Loyalists back into the United States. on the Loyalists of the American Revolution?” So, I think I will continue to offer this course as long as I am able, I approach this course as an example of the rewards of “doing” and it will continue to evolve as the literature evolves….. back to microhistory. By studying this group, students are able to prac- marking….. tice their critical skills by assessing primary sources, as they do above. This opportunity is enriched by the proximity of The Respectfully yours Loyalist Collection at the Harriet Irving Library at UNB, which Bonnie Huskins is one of the richest collections of British and North Ameri-

32 Société historique du Canada Members’ Corner | Coin des membres

Interview with Terence Fay Entretien avec Terence Fay

Recently, we asked long-time CHA member Terence Fay to Nous avons récemment demandé à Terence Fay, membre de longue answer a few questions for the Bulletin and to reflect on his date de la SHC, de répondre à quelques questions pour le Bulletin et time with the Association and as a member of the profes- de refléter sur son adhésion à la société et sa profession. Il a été très sion. He was very kind and obliged us! gracieux et a acquiescé !

What motivated you to join the CHA? What role do you Qu’est-ce qui vous a motivé à devenir membre de la SHC ? Quel rôle see for the CHA, and where would you like to see it heading voyez-vous pour le CHA, et où voulez-vous voir rubrique à l’avenir? in the future? Je suis devenu membre de la SHC afin de participer à une compréhen- I joined the CHA in order to participate in an understand- sion de l’histoire du Canada et de l’histoire religieuse canadienne. ing of Canadian history and Canadian religious history. Les conférences et les publications de la SHC peuvent agir comme CHA conferences and publications can help guide scholars guides aux chercheurs dans la direction que les historiens canadiens along the direction which Canadian historians are travel- prennent. La SHC a également inspiré des organisations parallèles ling. The CHA has also inspired parallel organizations such comme la Canadian Catholic Historical Association à contribuer as the Canadian Catholic Historical Association to contrib- à une compréhension plus profonde de l’histoire religieuse cana- ute to a deeper understanding of Canadian religious history. dienne. Les livres récents de Micah True, Masters and Students: Jesuit Recently published books like Micah True’s Masters and Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France et de Tim- Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century othy Pearson Becoming Holy in Early Canada sont des contributions New France and Timothy Pearson’s Becoming Holy in Early exceptionnelles à l’histoire religieuse du Canada et donnent espoir Canada make outstanding contributions to Canadian reli- pour le futur. gious history and give hope for the future. Parlez-nous un peu de vous. Quels sont vos intérêts de recherche et Tell us a bit about yourself. What are your research and d’enseignement ? Qu’est-ce qui vous a incité à étudier et à enseigner teaching interests? What made you want to study and l’histoire de la religion ? teach the history of religion? Après avoir complété des études philosophiques et théologiques en Having completed lengthy philosophical and theological tant que jésuite en 1967 et après avoir terminé un voyage en canot studies as a Jesuit in 1967 and in the same summer having de trois semaines de Saint-Marie-au-Pays-des-Hurons à Midland, completed a three-week canoe trip from Saint Marie Among en Ontario au Pavillon Christian à l’Expo à Montréal pour l’année the Hurons at Midland, Ontario to the Christian Pavilion at du centenaire du Canada ce même été, j’ai entrepris des études de Expo in Montreal for the Canadian Centennial Year, I initi- doctorat en septembre sur les relations diplomatiques canado-amér- ated doctoral studies in September on Canadian-American icaines à l’Université Georgetown à Washington, D.C. J’ai terminé diplomatic relations at Georgetown University in Washing- mon étude sur l’accord Rush-Bagot intitulée « Anglo-American ton, DC. My study on the Rush-Bagot Agreement entitled Detente, 1815-1818 » en 1975 et elle a été publiée par Xerox Univer- “Anglo-American Detente, 1815-1818” was completed and sity Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan la même année. published by Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1975. Après avoir accepté l’offre d’emploi du doyen du collège Saint-Paul à l’Université du Manitoba en 1970, j’ai découvert à mon arrivée Receiving a job offer from the dean of St. Paul’s College at au collège l’année suivant qu’il avait été intégré dans l’université et the University of Manitoba in 1970, I arrived the follow- qu’il n’était plus permis au collège d’engager son propre personnel ing year to discover that the college was integrated into the d’enseignement. J’ai donc dû accepté des postes à temps partiel ainsi university and could no longer hire its professorial staff to que des charges de cours à temps partiel et à temps plein. Pendant meet its own academic needs. Thus, I received part-time mon séjour à Saint-Paul, j’ai créé un cours d’histoire sur le catholi-

Canadian Historical Association 33 appointments, and as a sessional lecturer taught both part- cisme (de ses tous débuts jusqu’à aujourd’hui), en utilisant le livre time and full-time. While at St. Paul’s, I initiated a course in de Thomas Bokenkotter A Concise History of the Catholic Church Catholic history covering early Christianity to the present, et autres textes qui a attiré des étudiants et qui s’est ajouté aux cours using Thomas Bokenkotter’s A Concise History of the Cath- offerts au collège. Ces affectations à temps partiel et à temps plein se olic Church and other texts which attracted students and sont poursuivies pendant dix ans. Par la suite, à partir du début des enriched the college course offerings. This type of part-time années 1980, j’ai remplacé des professeurs qui prenaient des congés and full-time employment continued for ten years. In the sabbatiques à l’Université de Winnipeg et à l’Université Mount Alli- early 1980s, I was on the move replacing professors taking son. yearly sabbaticals at the University of Winnipeg and then Mount Allison University. Les jésuites anglophones m’ont invité en tant qu’historien à venir à Toronto pour produire un dictionnaire biographique sur les mem- bres de leur mission canadienne. J’ai entrepris mes recherches dans I joined the CHA in order to participate in les archives des Jésuites à Toronto, recherches qui ont essentielle- ment mené à une deuxième thèse, cette fois sur l’histoire de l’église an understanding of Canadian history and canadienne. Le premier volume du Dictionary of Jesuit Biography: Canadian religious history. CHA conferences Ministry to English Canada, 1842-1987 a été publié en 1991. Cette and publications can help guide scholars along même année, j’ai également édité un pamphlet intitulé Spiritual Roots: Historical Essays on the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto the direction which Canadian historians are at 150 Years of Age pour le centenaire de l’archidiocèse de Toronto. travelling. Bien engagé dans ces activités, je suis devenu un membre actif de l’exécutif de la Canadian Catholic Historical Association (CCHA), édité son Bulletin pendant 23 ans et a été son président de 1994 à The English-speaking Jesuits invited me as a historian to 1996. come to Toronto to initiate a biographical dictionary on the members of its Canadian mission. In 1985, I began work in the Jesuit Archives at Toronto effectively doing a second dis- sertation but this time in Canadian church history. The draft Je suis devenu membre de la SHC afin de participer of the first volume of Dictionary of Jesuit Biography: Ministry à une compréhension de l’histoire du Canada et to English Canada, 1842-1987 was published in 1991. In the same year for the centennial of the Archdiocese of Toronto de l’histoire religieuse canadienne. Les conférences in 1991 I also edited a small volume entitled Spiritual Roots: et les publications de la SHC peuvent agir comme Historical Essays on the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of guides aux chercheurs dans la direction que les Toronto at 150 Years of Age. While engaged in these activities I became an active member of the Executive of the Canadian historiens canadiens prennent. Catholic Historical Association (CCHA), edited its Bulletin for 23 years, and was its president from 1994 to 1996.

During this period, I taught Canadian Catholic History at Pendant cette période, j’ai enseigné l’histoire du catholicisme cana- St. Augustine’s Seminary of the Toronto School of Theology dien au Séminaire Saint-Augustin de la Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. Father Paul Crunican (Priests à l’Université de Toronto. Le Père Paul Crunican Crunican (Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896, and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896, 1975) a 1975) taught a course on Canadian Catholic Church History enseigné un cours sur l’histoire de l’Église catholique du Canada at the University of St. Michael’s College. During his illness à l’University of St. Michael’s College. J’ai hérité de son cours au in the early 1990s I inherited his course at St. Michael’s Col- Collège St. Michael quand il est tombé malade au début des années lege, and in response to university students who requested 1990 et, en réponse à l’appel des étudiants universitaires qui deman- a comprehensive text for the study of Canadian church his- daient un texte exhaustif pour faire l’étude de l’histoire de l’Église tory, I wrote A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, canadienne, j’ai écrit A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism (McGill-Queen’s University Romanism, and Canadianism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Press, 2002). Afterwards, discovering that I had omitted 2002). Par la suite, j’ai réalisé que j’avais omis les nouveaux immi- the new immigrants from Asia after 1967, I began a second grants en provenance d’Asie après 1967, j’ai donc entrepris l’écriture volume on Canadian religious history which was published d’un deuxième volume sur l’histoire religieuse canadienne qui a seven years later entitled New Faces of Canadian Catholics: été publié sept ans plus tard intitulé New Faces of Canadian Cath- The Asians (Novalis, 2009). Since then, I was invited to olics: The Asians (Novalis, 2009). Depuis lors, j’ai enseigné l’histoire teach History of Asian Christianity at St. Michael’s College du christianisme asiatique au Collège St. Michael à Toronto et au in Toronto and St. Joseph’s Scholasticate in Ho Chi Minh Scolasticat Saint-Joseph à Ho-Chi-Minh-Ville, Vietnam. Je donne City, Vietnam. I currently teach a reading course in Cana- présentement un cours sur l’histoire du de l’Église canadienne au dian Church History at St. Augustine’s Seminary. Séminaire Saint-Augustin.

34 Société historique du Canada I like teaching religious history because the courses make a J’aime enseigner l’histoire religieuse parce que les cours apportent une unique contribution to traditional university offerings. All contribution unique aux cours coutumiers offerts à l’université. Toutes things being equal, when initiating the doctoral program, I proportions gardées, lorsque j’ai entrepris mes études doctorales, j’au- would have been happy to focus on the history of religion, rais aimé me concentrer sur l’histoire de la religion, car cela aurait été as it would have been my first choice. My pleasure in the mon premier choix. Ma préférence pour le domaine de l’histoire reli- field of religious history was increased greatly by being a gieuse s’est considérablement accrue dans le cadre de mon adhésion à long-term member of the CCHA and in 2014 receiving its la CCHA et encore en 2014 lorsque j’ai reçu la plus haute distinction highest honour, the G. E. Clerk Award for “distinguished de celle-ci, le prix G.-E.-Clerk pour mes « réalisations exceptionnelles achievements as teacher, scholar, editor, and author ... and comme professeur, chercheur, éditeur et auteur ... et contributions for important contributions to the scholarship on Canadian importantes à l’érudition sur le catholicisme canadien ainsi que pour Catholicism, and devoted service to the CCHA.” mon service dévoué à la CCHA ».

En quoi peut servir votre foi dans votre travail? Est-ce possible (ou souhaitable) de les séparer? Scholars strive to be impartial in historical assessments and be free of religious biases Les chercheurs s’efforcent d’être impartiaux et d’être exempts de to give fair analysis of historical themes. Yet préjugés religieux dans leurs évaluations historiques pour pouvoir transmettre une analyse équitable de sujets historiques. Toutefois, nos because of our deeply held religious and non- croyances religieuses et non religieuses profondes qui font partie de religious beliefs ... it is difficult to keep free notre vision de la vie signifie qu’il est difficile de nous garder à l’abri from traditional pre-conceptions. de préconceptions traditionnelles. Mais il est essentiel de la faire pour que l’on puisse en arriver à des jugements équilibrés et réfléchis.

How does your faith inform your work? Is it possible (or even desirable) to separate the two? Les chercheurs s’efforcent d’être impartiaux et d’être exempts de préjugés religieux dans leurs évaluations Scholars strive to be impartial in historical assessments and be free of religious biases to give fair analysis of his- historiques pour pouvoir transmettre une analyse torical themes. Yet because of our deeply held religious équitable de sujets historiques. Toutefois, nos and non-religious beliefs which are part of our vision of croyances religieuses et non religieuses profondes ... life, it is difficult to keep free from traditional pre-concep- tions. Scholars continually strive to be free of pre-conceived signifie qu’il est difficile de nous garder à l’abri de notions to achieve balanced and thoughtful judgments. préconceptions traditionnelles.

For someone who is new to the field, what would you say are the seminal works that they should consult, and why? How do you see the history of religion developing in the Quelles seraient, selon vous, les ouvrages précurseurs qui sont des years to come? incontournables pour les non-initiés à l’histoire de la religion et pourquoi ? Quelle évolution prévoyez-vous pour l’histoire de la reli- Recent texts are available on Canadian religions such as gion dans les prochaines années ? Jamie Scott’s The Religions of Canadians, Robert Choquette’s Canada’s Religions, and Paul Bramadat and David Seljak’s De nouveaux textes sur les religions canadiennes sont disponibles, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada. But also useful are the entre autres, celui de Jamie Scott The Religions of Canadians, il y a scholarly journals of the Canadian Historical Review, Cath- également Canada’s Religions de Robert Choquette ainsi que Reli- olic Historical Review of the USA, and Historical Studies of gion and Ethnicity in Canada de Paul Bramadat et de David Seljak. the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Journals are Mais les textes publiés dans les revues savantes ; Canadian Historical especially useful for their articles, reviews, and their bibliog- Review, Catholic Historical Review aux État-Unis et Historical Stud- raphies which keep scholars informed on the new research ies de la Canadian Catholic Historical Association peuvent être aussi on Canadian religions. A valuable central source for books très utiles. Les revues sont particulièrement attirantes pour les cri- on Canadian religions can be found in the McGill-Queen’s tiques et bibliographies qui gardent les chercheurs informés sur les Studies in the History of Religion Series One and Two. As nouvelles recherches sur les religions au Canada. Une source centrale for the future of the study of religions, the understanding of inestimable pour les livres sur les religions au Canada est McGill- Indigenous beliefs and their relationship to Canadian reli- Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion, numéros 1 et 2. Pour ce gions are a future concern for religious history in Canada. qui est de l’évolution de la recherche, la compréhension des croyances autochtones et de leurs relations aux religions canadiennes est une préoccupation éventuelle dans l’histoire religieuse au Canada.

Canadian Historical Association 35 2017 CHA PRIZE COMPETITIONS LES CONCOURS DES PRIX 2017 DE LA SHC

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The CHA is pleased to announce the launch of its 2017 prize La SHC est heureuse d’annoncer le lancement de ses concours de competitions. Many thanks go to the two Council members prix 2017. Nous tenons à remercier les deux membres du CA qui responsible for the prizes – Lara Campbell (Clio, Albert B. sont responsables des prix - Lara Campbell (Clio, Albert-B.-Corey Corey and John Bullen) and Catherine Gidney (François- et John-Bullen) et Catherine Gidney (François-Xavier-Garneau, Xavier Garneau, Sir John A. Macdonald, Wallace K. Ferguson Sir-John-A.-Macdonald, Wallace-K.-Ferguson et Jean-Marie-Fec- and Jean-Marie Fecteau). The CHA is also grateful to the teau). La SHC est également reconnaissante envers les nombreuses numerous individuals who sit on the various prize committees. personnes qui siègent sur les différents comités de prix. Here are the 2017 prizes that will be presented at the 2017 CHA Voici la liste des prix qui seront présentés à la réunion annuelle Annual Meeting at the Ryerson University on May 30: 2017 de la SHC à l’Université Ryerson le 30 mai :

Sir John A. Macdonald Sir-John-A.-Macdonald Given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to Consacre l’ouvrage en histoire du Canada jugé comme apportant have made the most significant contribution to an understanding la contribution la plus significative à la compréhension du passé of the Canadian past. canadien. JURY MEMBERS - Donica Belisle, Regina; Gregory M.W. MEMBRES DU JURY - Donica Belisle, Regina ; Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Moncton; Dominique Marquis, UQÀM; Daniel Kennedy, Moncton ; Dominique Marquis, UQÀM ; Daniel Sam- Samson, Brock; William Wicken, York; Catherine Gidney, St. son, Brock ; William Wicken, York ; Catherine Gidney, St-Thomas Thomas (non-voting). (sans droit de vote).

Wallace K. Ferguson Wallace-K.-Ferguson Recognises the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history Récompense le meilleur ouvrage scientifique en histoire non cana- other than Canadian history. dienne. JURY MEMBERS - Susan Nance, Guelph; Sonya Lipsett-Ri- MEMBRES DU JURY - Susan Nance, Guelph ; Sonya Lipsett-Ri- vera, Carleton; Alexandre Klein, UQÀM ; Catherine Gidney, vera, Carleton ; Alexandre Klein, UQÀM ; Catherine Gidney, St. Thomas (non-voting). St-Thomas (sans droit de vote).

Clios Clio Given for meritorious publications or for exceptional Décernés aux meilleurs livres en histoire régionale, ainsi qu’aux contributions by individuals or organizations to regional individus ou aux sociétés historiques qui ont fait des contributions history. importantes à l’histoire locale et régionale. JURY MEMBERS MEMBRES DU JURY The Maritimes: Sasha Mullallly, UNB; Stephen Henderson, Les Maritimes : Sasha Mullallly, UNB ; Stephen Henderson, Acadia Acadia; Renée Lafferty, Brock. ; Renée Lafferty, Brock. Québec: Léon Robichaud, Sherbrooke; Denyse Baillargeon, Le Québec : Léon Robichaud, Sherbrooke ; Denyse Baillargeon, Montréal; Élise Detellier, Montréal. Montréal ; Élise Detellier, Montréal. Ontario: Kristin Burnett, Lakehead; Kevin Brushett, RMC; L’ O nt a r i o : Kristin Burnett, Lakehead ; Kevin Brushett, RMC ; Jane Jane Errington, Queen’s. Errington, Queen’s. The Prairies: James Muir, Alberta; Nancy Janovicek, Calgary; Les Prairies : James Muir, Alberta ; Nancy Janovicek, Calgary ; Shelly A.M. Gavigan, York. Shelly A.M. Gavigan, York. British Columbia: John Belshaw, Victoria; Wendy Wickire, Vic- La Colombie-Britannique : John Belshaw, Victoria ; Wendy Wickire, toria; Ashleigh Androsoff, Douglass. Victoria ; Ashleigh Androsoff, Douglass. The North: Caroline Desbiens, Laval; Ted Binnema, UNBC; Le Nord : Caroline Desbiens, Laval ; Ted Binnema, UNBC ; Tina Tina Adcock, Simon Fraser. Adcock, Simon Fraser.

36 Société historique du Canada John Bullen John-Bullen Honours the outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic sub- Accordé à la meilleure thèse de doctorat complétée dans une mitted in a Canadian. canadienne et portant sur tout domaine de spécialisation en histoire. JURY MEMBERS - Peter Cook, Victoria ; Valérie Lapointe-Gag- non, Alberta ; Annette Timm, Calgary MEMBRES DU JURY – Peter Cook, Victoria ; Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon, Alberta ; Annette Timm, Calgary Jean-Marie Fecteau Jean-Marie-Fecteau Awarded for the best article published in a peer-reviewed jour- nal (including peer-reviewed student journals) by a PhD of Décerné au meilleur article publié dans une revue évaluée par MA-level student, in French or in English. les pairs (y compris des revues étudiantes) par un étudiant au niveau de la maitrise ou du doctorat, en français ou en anglais. JURY MEMBERS - Joanna Pearce, York; Leah Wiener, Simon Fraser; Alan Gordon, Guelph. MEMBRES DU JURY – Joanna Pearce, York ; Leah Wiener, Simon Fraser ; Alan Gordon, Guelph. Best article prize in the JCHA/RSHC Prix du meilleur article de la RSHC/JCHA Awarded every year for the best essay published each year in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. The jury is Remis au meilleur article publié chaque année dans la Revue composed of the members of the Editorial Committee of our de la Société historique du Canada. Le jury est composé des publication. membres du comité de rédaction de la revue.

Albert B. Corey Albert-B.-Corey Jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association Une initiative conjointe de la Société historique du Canada et (AHA) and Canadian Historical Association (CHA) for the best de l’American Historical Association, est décerné à l’auteur du book on the history of Canadian-American relations or the his- meilleur livre sur l’histoire du Canada et des États-Unis ou des tory of both countries. The prize is administered by the AHA in relations entre les deux pays. Le prix est administré par l’AHA 2018. en 2018. Please note that the deadline for all of the prizes is December 31, Veuillez noter que la date limite pour les prix est le 31 décembre 2016. Visit the CHA website - www.cha-shc.ca for more details 2016. Consultez le site Internet de la SHC (www.cha-shc.ca) on the prizes. pour plus de renseignements.

Canadian Historical Association 37 2017 CHA Elections | Élection 2017 de la SHC APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION ET COMITÉ DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE

Afin de préparer les bulletins de vote pour l’élection des mem- leur proposition. Le comité de mises en candidature s’assur- bres du comité exécutif, du conseil et du comité de nominations era que chaque personne proposée accepte d’être candidat. Les qui entreront en fonction lors de l’Assemblée générale annuelle noms de tous les candidats dûment présentés seront inscrits sur des membres 2017 de la Société historique du Canada, le comité les bulletins de vote qui auront été préparés par le comité de mise de mises en candidature de la SHC tient à vous faire part de la en candidature et qui seront distribués à l’ensemble des mem- procédure suivante. bres de la SHC. Sur le bulletin de vote 2017, au moins 6 (six) candidats pour le conseil et au moins 4 (quatre) candidats pour Le bureau de la SHC acceptera jusqu’au 31 décembre 2016, par le comité de nominations doivent être inscrits pour remplir les 3 écrit, courriel ou télécopie, les propositions de candidats pour (trois) postes au sein du Conseil d’administration et les 2 (deux) des postes au sein du conseil d’administration et du comité de postes sur le comité de nominations. Si au 31 décembre 2016, le mise en candidature. Les lettres de proposition doivent porter nombre réglementaire de candidats n’est pas atteint, le comité de les signatures de la personne qui propose une candidature et de mises en candidature se chargera de trouver des candidats sup- la personne qui appuie cette candidature, les signataires doivent plémentaires. Les résultats de l’élection seront annoncés à notre être membres en règle de la SHC au moment où ils soumettent réunion annuelle à l’Université Ryerson.

FORMULAIRE DE NOMINATION

Nous, ______, et ______, membres en règle de la Société historique du Canada, proposons la candidature de

______, de ______(Fonction, titre, université ou emploi, ville) au poste de : Vice-Président(e) pour l’élection de 2018 Membre du Conseil d’administration Membre du Comité des mises en candidature La personne mise en candidature a accepté

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le (date) ______Veuillez, joindre une courte biographie (250 mots maximum) de la personne présentée (dans les deux langues officielles si possible). Veuillez faire parvenir votre mise en candidature par courriel, avant le 31 décembre 2016, au bureau de la SHC à [email protected] ou par la poste / télécopieur au bureau de la SHC ; 130, rue Albert, pièce 1201, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4, télécopieur 613 565-5445.

38 Société historique du Canada 2017 CHA Elections | Élection 2017 de la SHC CALL FOR NOMINATIONS COUNCIL AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE

In order to prepare a ballot for the election of candidates to take tee will assume the responsibility of ensuring that each person office at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical nominated agrees to appear on the ballot. The names of all duly Association, the Nominating Committee of the CHA wishes to nominated candidates shall appear on the ballot prepared by the draw your attention to the following procedure. Nominating Committee and submitted to the membership. This ballot shall include not less than six candidates for the Council Nominations of candidates for positions on the Council and on and four candidates for the Nominating Committee to fill the the Nominating Committee will be received in writing, email or three positions on Council and the two positions on the Nomi- fax until December 31, 2016. Letters of nomination shall include nating Committee. If fewer candidates than required have been the signatures of the nominator and a seconder, both of whom nominated by December 31, 2016, the Nominating Committee must be members of the Association in good standing at the shall nominate additional candidates. The elections results will time the nomination is submitted. The Nominating Commit- be announced at our annual meeting at Ryerson University.

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Canadian Historical Association 39 Obituaries | Nécrologies

IN MEMORIAM – Orest Subtelny (May 17, 1941 – July 24, 2016)

It is with much regret that I must report that Orest Subtelny, Pro- fessor Emeritus of History at York University, passed away here in Toronto on Sunday, July 24, 2016. Orest joined the Depart- ment of History in 1982 to take up a position that was in part funded by the Canadian Ukrainian community. Throughout his York career until his retirement in 2015, he was cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science.

Born in Krakow on May 17, 1941, Orest and his parents left Poland in 1949 for the United States as refugees and settled in Philadelphia. By coincidence, he went to the same high school (Central High School) as another member (now retired) of York’s History Department, Marc Egnal. Orest completed his B.A. in History in 1965 at Temple University before moving south to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where For his many scholarly and professional contributions, Orest he gained his M.A. in History in 1967. He then headed to Har- was awarded the Order of Merit by the Government of Ukraine vard for his Ph.D., which he completed in History and Middle in 2002. He was also named a Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Eastern Studies in 1973 with a thesis on “Unwilling Allies: The Academy of Sciences in 1993 and awarded an Honorary Doc- Relations of Hetman Pylyp Orlyk with the Ottoman Porte and torate by the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. In 1983 he won the Crimean Khanate”. After two years as a lecturer in Harvard’s the Antonovych Prize for the best work in Ukrainian Stud- History Department, he went on to teach as Assistant and then ies. In Canada he was awarded the Shevchenko Medal by the Associate Professor of History at Hamilton College in Clinton, Ukrainian Canadian Congress for his outstanding contributions NY, before moving to Toronto in 1982 to take up his position in to the development of the Ukrainian Canadian community in History and Political Science at York. He was promoted to Full the category of Education. Professor in 1987 and remained at York until his retirement in 2015. In 1993 he taught as a Visiting Professor at the University The President of Ukraine, Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko, has of Tübingen. expressed his condolences to Orest’s family as follows: “You have my deepest condolences regarding the aching void that was left During his scholarly career Orest Subtelny published six mono- after Orest Subtelny passed away. His contribution to the Ukraine’s graphs and numerous articles and book chapters on Ukrainian history is priceless.” and East European history. His books include The Mazepists: Ukrainian Separatism in the Early Eighteenth Century (Columbia On behalf of York’s History Department, I would like to convey University Press, 1981), Domination of Eastern Europe: Native our sincerest condolences to Orest’s immediate family, in partic- Nobilities and Foreign Absolutism, 1500-1715 (McGill-Queen’s ular to his wife, Maria Subtelny, Professor and former Chair of University Press, 1986) and Ukrainians in North America: the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Uni- An Illustrated History (University of Toronto Press 1991). But versity of Toronto, and his son, Dr Alexander Subtelny, Resident unquestionably it was his major history of the Ukraine, Ukraine: Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A History (University of Toronto Press, first published in 1988, 666 pp., but updated in three subsequent editions up to the Jonathan Edmondson fourth edition of 2009, extending to 784 pages, and translated Professor and Chair into a number of languages) that represented his major scholarly Department of History achievement. At the time of his death he was working on a his- tory of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting movement.

In addition, Orest served as Canadian editor of the journal Nationalities Papers from 1991 to 1998. From 1998 to 2012 he was a director of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) projects in Ukraine, some of which concerned initia- tives for the training of Ukrainian diplomats and foreign policy analysts.

40 Société historique du Canada Craig Brown

Our former colleague and long-serving department chair, Robert Craig Brown, passed away on September 22, following complications from surgery.

Craig was a generous, spir- ited, and loyal colleague. He was passionate about his- tory generally and about our History Department in par- ticular, and he worked hard to advance both.

Born in Rochester, New York, on 14 October 1935, Craig took his MA (1958) and PhD (1962) at the University of Through all of this, Craig Brown also found time to pub- Toronto, working with Donald Creighton. lish extensively: 11 single and co-authored books, beginning with Canada’s National Policy, 1883-1900 (1964), including a He began his teaching career at the University of Calgary, and two-volume biography of former Prime Minister Robert Laird in 1966 returned to the University of Toronto. He was made full Borden (1975 and 1980), and extending most recently to a his- professor in 1970, and he served our Department in many ways: tory of the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto as director of graduate studies in 1972-1973, as associate chair (2013). Beyond this, Craig wrote numerous articles, entries for from 1974-1977 and as chair from 1992 to 1998, which was the the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and countless reviews. year he retired from the U of T. Craig was always especially generous and supportive of his stu- Beyond our own Department, Craig was a generous Univer- dents. In 1998, the Robert Craig Brown Travelling Fellowship sity citizen who gave his energies to an extraordinary number was created and has since helped over 80 graduate students of committees and senior administrative appointments in the travel for dissertation research. The family has asked that those Faculty of Arts & Science, the Faculty Association, University of who wish to honour Craig’s memory with a donation, please do Toronto Press, the University generally, and many academic and so at: https://donate.utoronto.ca/give/show/69 professional groups. For the obituary and memorial details, please see: http://obits. Outside the university, he was an appraiser of numerous history dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Rob- departments across the country, served as editor of the Canadian ert-Brown&lc=3780&pid=181570695&mid=7100096 Historical Review (1968-73), president of the Canadian Histori- cal Association (1980), and chair of the Joint Committee of the Nicholas Terpstra Canadian Historical Association/American Historical Associa- Professor & Chair, Department of History tion. In 1984 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. University of Toronto

Canadian Historical Association 41 David Morice Leigh Farr 1922-2016

Our language has a tendency to take insightful observations of young nation’s journey from “colony to nation,” David fixed human nature and, through too frequent use, turn them into on chronicling Britain’s relations with Canada in the formative clichés. Their intrinsic relevance is thus undermined and their years immediately after Confederation. What attitude had the impact rendered commonplace and unexamined. Such has been Colonial Office in London taken to the process of loosening the the trajectory of that wonderful appellation “a scholar and a bonds with its former colony? This proposition drew David to gentleman”, now too often sadly reduced to an ironic salute. The study at the centre of what had once been called the Empire – at rich life of our now departed colleague David Farr prompts us to Oxford’s New College and Nuffield College. restore a genuine appreciation of what it means to be “a scholar and a gentleman” – a man of intellectual courtesy, vigour and Life as a graduate student in austere post-war Britain was hard breadth. but exhilarating for the young couple. Meagre scholarship sup- port forced the Farrs to live above a pub well outside Oxford, David Morice Leigh Farr hailed from the West Coast, where he from whence David daily cycled to his tutorials in town. His was born in Vancouver in 1922. As a student at the University of 1952 D.Phil. thesis on the Colonial Office became a book in British Columbia in the early 1940s, finding himself too young 1955, giving Farr the beginnings of an academic reputation. for active service, David took Other post-Confederation scholarship followed, particularly summer employment as a stores his investigation of financier Sir John Rose and constitutional clerk in the isolated cannery out lawyer John S. Ewart. Farr’s work fit neatly into the mould of port of Bella Coola. These sum- liberal national historiography – a chronicle of the construction mers remained an adolescent of Canada’s national autonomy. idyll for him, especially the cir- cuitous journey to the town on Oxford was but an interlude in a career that had brought David a coastal steamer. Later in life, to Carleton College in 1947, an appointment that would per- David recalled his exploration meate the rest of his life. He arrived at Carleton a full ten years of the nearby Chinese workers’ before the fledgling college moved to its present canal-side cam- camp and his wonder at the fra- pus and assumed full university status. Over the years, David grance of the seemingly exotic would serve Carleton with abiding devotion. In the yeasty 1960s foods they prepared each eve- when Ontario universities grew exponentially, David served as ning. A lifetime of irrepressible Dean of Arts and oversaw the exuberant growth of the human- curiosity was already evident in ities at Carleton. He also attached himself to Carleton’s budding the young man, a hint of aca- commitment to international affairs, associating himself with demic appetites to come. the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs as it estab- lished its métier in the 1970s. David’s willingness to see Canada After completing a bachelor’s degree at UBC in 1944, David in an international context also led him to act as director of joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve – the so-called “wavy Carleton International, the university’s clearing house for inter- navy” – before serving a stint in the merchant navy. Like so national academic relations. That inclination led to short-term many veterans, David returned to academe with the peace. An assignments in Kenya and Sri Lanka as an advisor on university MA at the University of Toronto followed in 1946. The post-war staff training in the 1970s and 1980s. And as if to further spread boom in enrolment sparked a hiring boom on Canadian cam- the news about Canada, David for many years contributed an puses. Even before his graduate studies were complete, David annual synopsis of Canadian affairs for prestigious publications consequently found himself behind a podium for the first time such as The World Book Year Book and The Britannica Book of as a youthful history professor at Dalhousie University. His time the Year. A year of teaching at Duke University and a sponsored in Halifax was eventful. While waiting for a streetcar on Spring tour of Japanese universities rounded out David’s proselytization Garden Road on VE Day in May 1945, he spied an unruly crowd of Canada to the world. coming his way. The infamous Halifax riot was breaking out all around him. Drunken sailors flipped his intended streetcar and Until his formal retirement in 1987, David maintained a steady set it on fire. Professor Farr ducked for cover and then discreetly flow of publication: high school textbooks and a history of his walked home. The fall of 1946 brought a happier, more domestic beloved Anglican church, St. Matthew’s in the Glebe (a book event. That September he married Joan Villiers-Fisher of Vic- that was as authoritative about this Ottawa enclave as it was of toria, launching a marriage that would sail happily through the the church itself). He lent his oversight to the preparation of next seventy years. the official history of the Department of External Affairs and to that department’s ongoing publication of its documents. The Dalhousie whetted David’s academic appetite. At a time when Carleton Library Series similarly benefitted from David’s adjudi- Canadian history was still largely dedicated to unravelling the cation of its reprinting of worthy volumes of Canadian history.

42 Société historique du Canada Not surprisingly, the Canadian Historical Association asked him In his tweed jacket, white shirt and tie, he even looked the part, to serve as its president in 1977-78. we smugly observed. The pipe and humidor on his desk con- firmed the role. We chuckled whenever he answered his phone In retirement, David remained benevolently and productively with a brisk “Farr here.” He was the past, we were the future. involved in departmental affairs. He developed a wonderful practice of asking new members of faculty out to lunch, partly Early in my first year at Carleton, David introduced himself to quiz them on their interests and also to connect them with to me one day in the corridor and inquired about my doctoral the heritage of the department. He happily examined theses. He topic. The steel industry, I answered, haughtily assuring myself was a front-row attendee at departmental lectures and a conviv- that the Colonial Office paled in comparison. David, it seemed ial regular at end-of-term lunches. He imparted graciousness to to me, made polite noises. Some days later, I received a tatty, all these affairs. Such devotion did not go unnoticed: in 2002 recycled envelope that had once held a phone bill. I opened it Carleton awarded David an honorary Doctor of Laws. to discover a clipping from The Guardian about the woes of the ailing British steel industry with a note from David – “this will David’s last academic contribution reconnected him with the interest you.” It was humbling moment for me, but it sowed the post-Confederation period that had years before first tweaked kernel of a friendship that would last decades. his interest in Canadian history. Asked by the Library of Par- liament to act as editor of a project to reconstruct the hitherto I witnessed David’s intellectual courtesy on many other occasions. unrecorded debates of Canada’s 1860s and early 1870s Parlia- For many years, we two couples went together to Cooperstown, ments, David plunged into the painstaking process of assembling New York for summer opera, museums, fine dining and a smid- snippets of parliamentary reporting scattered throughout news- geon of baseball. While walking through a gorgeous exhibit of papers and archives. When the reconstructed volumes appeared, paintings from the nineteenth century Hudson School of Amer- Canada was finally blessed with a continuous parliamentary ican art in the Fenimore Museum, we stopped in front of a huge record of its unfolding democracy. David was feted on the Hill canvas by Thomas Cole – a vast untrammeled landscape of Gothic for his meticulous achievement. proportion. Down in the corner, Cole had included a clutch of Natives, as if to suggest that man paled in significance to the maj- What therefore made David Farr a scholar and a gentleman? esty of nature. Beside us a group of American teenagers gawked at It was not just the list of publications set beside his name, not the picture. “Hey, look at the Indians,” one said. Without further just the administration he patiently brought to Carleton and prompting, David volunteered that the natives would probably his profession, nor was it only his avuncular activism within have been Abenaki and that meant “people of the dawn land” in the department. It was instead the admirable personal qualities their language. They probably came from the Adirondacks, which which he brought to these tasks and which infused his every David pointed out could be interpreted as hills populated by “bark action. eaters.” The teenagers were bowled over by this grandfatherly man who knew so much. And when David announced that he was a David was inveterately curious. He read voraciously and could Canadian, they were astounded. always be relied upon to insert a fact or a viewpoint purloined from some book he recently read into a conversation. When his Thus, David Farr was unfailingly a scholar and a gentleman, eyesight began to fail, a loyal group of volunteers read to him. whether the listener was a self-possessed doctoral student or an Biographies were a steady favourite. Talking books further fed unfocused American high school kid. For over forty years he David’s appetite for knowledge. At art and museum exhibitions, wore that mantle comfortably amidst his colleagues at Carleton. David insisted that Joan read every placard accompanying the He never indulged in the abrasion and cynicism that can so canvases or objects on display. To this acquisition of knowledge, often blight academic life. Jealousy was alien to him. Instead, he he applied his prodigious memory: “didn’t we see this painting won the respect of all he met. Let us hope that we will see his ilk once before at the Tate?” he would ask. again. The world is a better place for people such as David Farr, a conclusion we wish to convey to his wife Joan and his sons, David never used his knowledge as a prop for his ego. He lived Chris, Tim and Jeremy. to share what he knew and acquire new insights from those he encountered. My first encounter with David years ago fit this Duncan McDowall pattern, much to my future embarrassment. I had arrived at Carleton and Queen’s Universities Carleton as a cocky doctoral student in the mid-1970s. Together October 2016 with my classmates, we were going to change the way Canadians saw their history. Social, intellectual, economic and gender his- tory were going to topple the old political history. And from this perspective, Professor Farr was the “old” and we were the “new.”

Canadian Historical Association 43 Historians in the News | Les historiens font les manchettes

“Historians in the News” acknowledges some of the many suc- La bourse de recherche Alice Wilson a été décernée à Jenna cesses of historians in Canada, including their engagement Healey (Université Yale) pour sa recherche sur les technologies outside academia and with the public. If you know of someone de reproduction à la fin du XXe siècle et à Marie-Eve Ouellet who has delivered a public lecture, given an interview, written (Université de Montréal) pour ses travaux dans le domaine de an editorial, written a notable blog entry, won a non-academic l’histoire politique du Régime français. (http://www.rsc.ca/sites/ book or article prize, received a teaching award, or has been default/files/pdf/AW%20Citations%202016_4.pdf) awarded an honorary degree, let us know! Here are just a few developments that caught our attention over the past months: Tim Cook, a Research Associate of the Laurier Centre for Mili- tary, Strategic and Disarmament Studies and Adjunct Research « Les historiens font les manchettes » vise à reconnaître et à hono- Professor in History (Carleton University), won his second rer quelques-uns des nombreux succès d’historiens au Canada, y Charles P. Stacey Award for making an outstanding contribu- compris leur engagement avec le public. Si vous ou quelqu’un que tion to Canadian military history. He was named co-winner of vous connaissez a : gagné un prix du livre ou d’article, reçu un prix the 2014-2015 award for The Necessary War, the first of two vol- d’enseignement, donné une conférence publique ou une entrevue, umes about Canadian loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance écrit un éditorial, commencé un nouveau blog ou écrit un texte during the Second World War. He previously received the 1999- remarquable, été affecté dans un nouveau poste administratif, ou 2000 award for No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas reçu un diplôme honorifique, veuillez-nous en informer et nous Warfare in the First World War. (http://carleton.ca/history/2016/ tenterons de l’inclure dans notre rubrique. Voici quelques faits qui tim-cook-awarded-second-charles-p-stacey-award-military- ont retenu notre attention au cours des derniers mois : history/)

The Royal Society of Canada’s 2016 medals and awards have been announced, and include a number of historians. Michael Behiels (University of Ottawa), was awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s J.B. Tyrrell Medal, in recognition of his work as a leading authority on Canadian politics, federalism and consti- tutionalism. John Hall (McGill University) won the Innis Gérin Medal for his contribution to interdisciplinary research in his- tory, sociology, and political science. Alice Wilson Awards were Tim Cook, associé de recherche au Laurier Centre for Military, also given to Jenna Healey (Yale University) for her research Strategic and Disarmament Studies et professeur auxiliaire à on the history of reproductive technologies in the late twenti- l’Université Carleton, s’est mérité son 2e prix Charles-P.-Stacey eth-century, and to Marie-Eve Ouellet (Université de Montréal) pour sa contribution exceptionnelle à l’histoire militaire. Il a été for her work on the political history of the French Regime. corécipiendaire du prix en 2014-2015 pour The Necessary War, (http://www.rsc.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/AW%20Citations%20 le premier de 2 volumes sur l’esprit d’endurance, les sacrifices et 2016_3.pdf) le dévouement des Canadiens durant la Deuxième Guerre mon- diale. Il a de plus reçu le prix en 1999-2000 pour son ouvrage No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. (http://carleton.ca/history/2016/tim-cook-award- ed-second-charles-p-stacey-award-military-history/).

(above, left to right | ci-dessus, de gauche à droite : Michael Behiels, John Hall, Jenna Healey, Marie-Eve Oullet)

La Société royale du Canada a annoncé les lauréats de ses médailles et distinctions pour l’année 2016, dont plusieurs sont historiens : Michael Behiels (Université d’Ottawa) a reçu la Former War Museum historian Laura Brandon has been médaille J.B.-Tyrrell, pour son expertise sur la politique, le fédé- inducted into the Order of Canada, for her work as a lead- ralisme et le constitutionnalisme canadien. John Hall (Université ing authority on Canada’s war art. Brandon worked at the McGill) s’est mérité la médaille Innis-Guérin pour sa recherche museum from 1992 to 2015, where she curated nearly 40 exhi- interdisciplinaire en histoire, sociologie et science politique. bitions. She is also an award-winning author whose works

44 Société historique du Canada include Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Cana- Joan Schwartz (Queen’s University) has dian Artist and Art and War. (http://centretownnews.ca/ been elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society breaking-news-mainmenu-126/5974-former-war-museum-his- of Canada. Dr. Schwartz was an archivist at torian-inducted-into-the-order-of-canada.html). Library and Archives Canada. She has been at Queen’s for a number of years as a Profes- Laura Brandon, ancienne historienne au musée canadien de la sor of Art History, and is currently the Head guerre, a reçu l’Ordre du Canada en reconnaissance de sa contri- of the Department of Art History and Art bution dans le domaine de l’art militaire. Brandon a œuvré au Conservation. Chad Gaffield (University of musée canadien de la guerre de 1992 à 2015 où elle a mis sur Ottawa), a previous Tyrell Medal recipient, was elected as the pied près de 40 expositions. Laura est l’auteure primée de de la Royal Society of Canada’s new President-Elect. (http://www.rsc. biographie de Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, ca/en/about-us/our-people/our-priorities/royal-society-cana- Canadian Artist and Art and War. (http://centretownnews.ca/ da-elects-chad-gaffield-as-president-elect?platform=hootsuite). breaking-news-mainmenu-126/5974-former-war-museum-his- torian-inducted-into-the-order-of-canada.html). Joan Schwartz (Université Queen’s) a été nommée membre de la Société royale du Canada. Joan était auparavant archi- The 2016 Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française prizes have viste à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Elle est professeure been announced. Mary Anne Poutanen (Concordia Univer- d’histoire de l’art depuis plusieurs années et est présentement sity) won the Prix Lionel Groulx for her book Beyond Brutal la directrice du département de Art History and Art Conser- Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal. vation à Queen’s. Les membres de la Société royale du Canada Marc Vallières (Université Laval) won the Prix de l’Assemblée ont élu Chad Gaffield, de l’Université d’Ottawa et ancient nationale for his book Le Québec emprunte: syndicats financiers récipiendaire de la médaille Tyrrell, au poste de président et finances gouvernementales, 1867-1987. The Prix Hommage élu. (http://www.rsc.ca/fr/%C3%A0-notre-sujet/our-people/ à Guy et Lilianne Frégault went to Susanne Lachenicht (Uni- our-priorities/la-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9-royale-du-canada- versité de Bayreuth) for her article « Histoires naturelles, récits %C3%A9lit-chad-gaffield-%C3%A0-titre-de). de voyage et géopolitique religieuse dans l’atlantique français XVIe et XVIIe siècles », and to Thierry Nootens (Université du Matthew Hayday (University of Guelph) gave an interview to Québec à Trois-Rivières) for his article « Les plaideurs en Cours TVOntario’s “The Agenda” on the history of French immersion in supérieure, 1880-1890: classe, genre et juridicité durant la transi- Canada. (http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve- tion au capitalisme industriel ». (http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/ paikin/the-history-of-french-immersion). news/linstitut-dhistoire-de-lamerique-francaise-prizes.htm). Matthew Hayday a accordé une entrevue sur les ondes du programme « The Agenda » de TVOntario sur l’histoire de l’immersion française au Canada. (http://tvo.org/video/ programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/the- history-of-french-immersion).

Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa) was featured in a news story by Forward.com about his work examining the role of (above, left to right | ci-dessus, de gauche à droite : Mary Anne Pou- Poland’s police force in the Holocaust. A government bill in tanen, Marc Vallières, Susanne Lachenicht, Thierry Nootens) Poland proposes to make it a criminal offense to implicate Poland L’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française a divulgué les lauréats in Nazi crimes, which would put Grabowski at risk if he were de ses prix d’excellence 2016. Mary Anne Poutanen (Université to visit the country. (http://forward.com/news/world/349179/ Concordia) s’est méritée le prix Lionel-Groulx pour son ouvrage poland-is-poised-to-put-bad-historians-of-the-holocaust-in- Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Cen- prison/). tury Montreal. Marc Vallières (Université Laval) a reçu le prix de l’Assemblée nationale pour son ouvrage Le Québec emprunte: Jan Grabowski (Université d’Ottawa) a syndicats financiers et finances gouvernementales, 1867-1987.Le fait l’objet d’un reportage sur Forward.com prix Hommage à Guy et Lilianne Frégault a été octroyé à Susanne concernant sa recherche sur le rôle de la police Lachenicht (Université de Bayreuth) pour son article « Histoires polonaise durant l’Holocauste. Un projet de naturelles, récits de voyage et géopolitique religieuse dans l’at- loi du gouvernement propose que quiconque lantique français XVIe et XVIIe siècles » et à Thierry Nootens impliquerait la Pologne dans les crimes com- (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) pour son article « Les mis par les Nazis pourrait faire l’objet d’une plaideurs en Cours supérieure, 1880-1890: classe, genre et juri- poursuite au criminel, ce qui pourrait mettre dicité durant la transition au capitalisme industriel ». (http:// Grabowski en danger s’il visitait le pays. (http://forward.com/ www.cha-shc.ca/francais/news/linstitut-dhistoire-de-lame- news/world/349179/poland-is-poised-to-put-bad-historians- rique-francaise.htm). of-the-holocaust-in-prison/).

Canadian Historical Association 45 Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) co-hosted a “datathon” première année en fonction de Justin Trudeau et les sondages at the Library of Congress, during which researchers used dif- d’opinion à son sujet. (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/ ferent analytical tools to gain insight into ways to improve web world/canada/justin-trudeau.html?smid=tw-share&refe- archiving and related research. (http://blogs. rer=https://t.co/M0gS2gQVSg&_r=0). loc.gov/thesignal/2016/07/co-hosting-a-data- thon-at-the-library-of-congress/). Dominique Clément (University of Alberta) provided an inter- view to the National Post on the problems and controversies Ian Milligan (Université de Waterloo) a co-or- surrounding the challenge of “rights inflation.” (http://news. ganisé un « datathon » à la Library of Congress nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-human-rights-inflation- au cours de laquelle les chercheurs ont uti- could-spell-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-social-change). lisé différents outils d’analyse afin de mieux comprendre les façons d’améliorer l’archi- Dominique Clément (Université de l’Alberta) vage du web et de la recherche connexe. (http://blogs.loc.gov/ a accordé une entrevue au National Post au thesignal/2016/07/co-hosting-a-datathon-at-the-library-of- sujet des problèmes et controverses entourant congress/). le défi que présente « l’inflation des droits ». (http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ CHA President Joan Sangster (Trent University) wrote a letter why-human-rights-inflation-could-spell-the- to Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Ralph beginning-of-the-end-of-social-change). Goodale calling upon the federal government to amend Bill C-51. (http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/advocacy/the-cha-writes- The CHA is in the process of building a “Why a history degree” to-the-minister-of-public-safety-and-emergency-preparedness. website where the profile of successful graduate students and html). their present employment will be posted. We invite CHA mem- bers and department Chairs to tell us about what other elements La présidente de la SHC, Joan Sangs- should be added to the website. ter, a écrit au Ministre de la Sécurité publique et de la Protection civile Ralph La SHC œuvre présentement à mettre sur pied un site Inter- Goodale, incitant le gouvernement à modi- net sur les avantages d’un diplôme en histoire où les profils fier le projet de loi C-51. (http://www. d’étudiants diplômés et leurs emplois seront affichés. Nous invi- cha-shc.ca/francais/interventions-publiques/ tons les membres de la SHC et les directrices et directeurs de la-shc-ecrit-au-ministre-de-la-securite-pu- départements d’histoire de nous faire leurs suggestions au sujet blique-et-de-la-protection-civile.html). du contenu du site.

The work of Ronald Rudin (McGill University) into the con- troversial history surrounding the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park was featured in a story by the CBC. (http://www. cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/new-brunswick/book-displaced-fam- ilies-kouchibouguac-national-park-1.3691532). ActiveHistory.ca and HistoireEngagee.ca continue to post well researched articles and thoughtful podcasts from members of La recherche de Ronald Rudin (Univer- the historical profession. The websites’ aim is to connect the sité Concordia) sur l’histoire controversée work of historians with the wider public and the importance of entourant la création du parc national Kouchi- the past to current events. bouguac a été diffusée sur les ondes de CBC. (http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/ new-brunswick/book-displaced-fami- lies-kouchibouguac-national-park-1.3691532).

Norman Hillmer (Carleton University) was interviewed by to pro- vide a historical perspective on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first year in office and his -cur ActiveHistory.ca et HistoireEngagee.ca continuent d’afficher rent standing in the polls. (http://mobile. des articles et des baladodiffusions pour les friands d’histoire. Le nytimes.com/2016/09/15/world/canada/ but de ces sites est de faire le rapprochement entre le travail des justin-trudeau.html?smid=tw-share&refer- historiens et le grand public et de mettre l’emphase sur l’impor- er=https://t.co/M0gS2gQVSg&_r=0). tance du passé dans l’actualité.

Norman Hillmer (Université Carleton) a été interviewé par le New York Times pour offrir une perspective historique sur la

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