Join Dr. Ian Mosby (Toronto Metropolitan University) as he shares how Canada’s Food Rules, the first version of Canada’s Food Guide, is able to demonstrate the biases and prejudices of settler colonialism. Dr. Mosby explores how history can be used as an act of service, to answer questions and help connect stories.

Join Brandon Mitchell, a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, as he shares the story of the 1st Listuguj Salmon Raid in 1980, told to him by his mother-in-law only a few years ago. While the 1981 Salmon raid is often the one remembered through family conversations.

Join Dr. Karen Flynn (University of Illinois) as she brings us the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse working in Montreal in the 1960s who won the first racial discrimination in employment case in Canada through the trial: Her Majesty the Queen vs. Hilton of Canada Ltd. (aka the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal). Through Gloria’s story, we can see behind the facade of this significant Canadian hotel and explore the intersection of race, class, gender, and the transnational nature of Canadian history. 

Dr. Flynn talks passionately about why we need to bring Gloria’s story into every history classroom, to learn about these groundbreaking court cases history has forgotten.

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Join Dr. Alanna McKnight, a fashion historian, as she demonstrates how a using a 19th century Eaton’s catalogue can open up conversations about the history of fashion, women’s bodies, leisure time, exploitive work practices, and settler colonialism. Specifically she shows two pages from the Fall and Winter catalouge from 1899-1900 and highlights the layout of the catalogue and the fashions of the period.

Dr. McKight also links this history to today’s “fast fashion” and asks us to consider how access to ready-made clothes contributed to the waste associated with fashion, and the continuation of negative labor practices.

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How can curling bring community together? How can we use sport to explore historical events?

How can a church be used as a source in history classrooms? How can you bring larger histories into your own neighbourhood?

À quand remonte la présence des communautés arabes au Canada? Comment ont-elles réagi face aux politiques migratoires discriminatoires du début du XXe siècle? Qu’est-ce que l’étude de ces communautés et de leurs mobilisations nous dit sur l’histoire canadienne? Pour répondre à toutes ces questions, joignez-vous à la conversation que Christine Chevalier-Caron a eue avec Brian Aboud.

How does history live within us?   

Join Leonard Paris as he shares his engaging memoir of growing up as a Black child in Nova Scotia in the 50’s and 60’s. Len brings stories of structural racism and generational poverty that impacted every area of his life. He works to dispel the myth that racism and discrimination were only an American experience and to create awareness that these problems continue to this day. We engage with this exciting memoir and how to bring it into your history classroom.  

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When you think of hockey, who do you picture? Do you teach the history behind some of your favourite sports?  

Join Dr. Courtney Szto (Queen’s University) as she discusses the history of hockey often forgotten. Courtney speaks of the Mi’kmaq creation of hockey sticks, the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, and the diverse and multicultural aspect of hockey that has long been ignored. We explore the game we recognize as one of Canada’s official sports - hockey - and question what we don’t know about the history of the game, and what stories we should be looking for.   

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How are Jamaica and Newfoundland connected? How can we put ourselves into recipes to connect with the people who made the ingredients possible?   

Join Xaiver Campbell as he shows the sticky history of molasses. Xaiver uses molasses as a way to explore empire, enslavement, colonialism, and capitalism through the creation, transportation, and consumption of the sweetener. We explore ways for students to put themselves into recipes to connect to the past and how we can use our historical imagination to connect to people who were not able to leave their own records behind.

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