How can an everyday object like an egg engage students in conversations about history? How can students connect to the past using objects lying around the house?

Join Dr. Madeleine Mant (University of Toronto) as she shows an egg-cellent source and how it connects to the 1942 Canadian Food Guide. Dr. Mant uses the egg to show us how we can use everyday objects as an entry point to teach students about the past, their own positionality, and how health history is all around us.

Bring meaningful learning into your classroom using the “Anthropology of Health in 100 Objects” project, asking students to connect an object to a theme and answer the questions: What is the item, why was it selected, how does it relate to the theme, and how does it connect to a broader (re)examination of Canadian history?

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How do we find the stories of enslaved people in Canada beyond the stories of the Underground Railroad? How do we unsettle the notion that slavery in Canada was benign? How do we use our imagination to place these people into our historical understanding of Canada? Join Dr. Michele Johnson and Dr. Funke Aladejebi as they show us how to read Canadian runaway slave ads and use our historical imagination to build lives for people who were not able to leave the same records we often use to learn Canadian history. This conversation is just the start of the rich conversations found in the edited collection, Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, published by University of Toronto Press (2022).

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How have the conversations about pronouns, trans identity, and the LGBTQ2S+ community changed over time? 

Join Dr. Aaron Devor, Chair in Transgender Studies (University of Victoria), talk about Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues), Rupert Raj, Reed Erickson, and how these histories come together in a 1982 issue of Metamorphosis, a newsletter for trans men, published in Canada in the 1980s.

Learn more here: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/

Join Buxton National Historic Site & Museum for a virtual tour around their historic schoolhouse built in 1861. Buxton/Elgin was settled as a Black community in the 1800s and understanding their schoolhouse provides us with an Afrocentric perspective on long-term community building in Canada. Buxton Museum Curator, Shannon Prince (a recent Ontario Heritage award winner!), and Assistant Curator, Mariah Kaak, join our Principal Storytelling Officer Dr. Samantha Cutrara for this conversation for Canadian history teachers.  

In this video, like all our Histoire Source | Source Story videos, we ask: 

What is the Source? 

What is the Story? 

How can using it in your classroom help us challenge Canadian history?  

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