Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

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Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History) episodes

August 20, 2021 Surviving natural resource development and environmental degradation
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Brittany Luby, an associate professor of history at the University of Guelph. Her new book Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory was published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2020. Dammed is a history of natural resource development in the lands of the Anishinaabe in northwestern Ontario. Dr. Luby is the many-greats granddaughter of an Anishinaabe chief who negotiated the North-West Angle Treaty of 1873. Dr. Luby is also a creative writer who has written children’s books, including a book about Jacques Cartier’s first expedition to North America in 1534 and his encounter with a Stadaconan fisher. Her second picture book, This Is How I Know, is a bilingual Anishinaabemowin-English exploration of the seasons inspired by her time on the land with Knowledge Keepers.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
38 min
August 12, 2021 Women and the history of the Iraqi diaspora in Canada
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Dr. Nadia Jones-Gailani on her book Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora. Published by the University of Toronto Press in 2020, this book focuses on the individual life histories of Iraqi women refugees who have ended up in Canada and the United States. Dr. Jones-Gailani explores the shaping of identity by the Ba’ath party in Iraq and the redefining of identity by Iraqi women, many of whom faced persecution in Iraq as members of ethno-religious minorities. Dr. Nadia Jones-Gailani is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Religious Studies and the Department of History at Central European University now based in Vienna, Austria. Her research centres on the historical context of postcolonialism and feminism including Islamic feminism.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
33 min
August 06, 2021 A cultural history of Icelandic immigration to Canada
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Laurie K. Bertram on her book The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North America published by the University of Toronto Press in 2020. In her book, Dr. Bertram takes everyday forms such as clothing, baking, coffee-drinking, ghost stories, and the symbolic objects used in public festivals to explore the history and evolution of Icelandic popular culture and identity in North America since their first arrival in North America in the mid-1870s. An associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Dr. Bertram is a curator and historian of migration, material culture, gender, and sexuality in the global north.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
39 min
July 29, 2021 A History of the Idea of Inequality in Canada
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Eric Sager on his new book Inequality in Canada: The History and Politics of an Idea published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in December 2020. An history of how inequality has been understood and interpreted by Canadians from the 1830s until the end of the 20th century, Sager has written an ambitious book covering almost two centuries of intellectual history. Eric Sager is currently professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Victoria where he has taught since 1983. His past worked has ranged from book-length studies on the on the history of the merchant sailors as well as the shipping industry in Atlantic Canada to the unemployed in late Victorian Canada.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
24 min
July 23, 2021 A history of place and family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Robert Boschman on his new book White Coal City: A Memoir of Place & Family published by the University of Regina Press in 2021. Part memoir and part history, his book is a unique reflection on the continuing impact of past trauma, both familial and societal. Place is central in his account. Although Prince Albert (PA) is the focal point, the books describes the northcentral part of Saskatchewan, from Saskatoon to PA and the Mennonite and Indigenous communities in between and further north, and its difficult history of Indigenous-settler relations. Robert Boschman is currently professor and chair of the Department of English, Languages, and Culture at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He was the recipient of the Research Recognition Award from his university for his research output including White Coal City.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
32 min
July 14, 2021 A History of the Métis Nation
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Indigenous rights litigator Jean Teillet on her book The Northwest is our Mother: The story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation published by Harper Collins in 2019. Covering the evolution of the Métis as a people and nation since the 1790s, Teillet presents us with an highly crafted epic narrative. The great-grandniece of Louis Riel, the author is a very well-known Indigenous rights litigator who has appeared in twelve separate cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. She is also a visual artist who has also worked as a writer, dancer, actor, choreographer, director and producer. Currently, she is Senior Counsel to the law firm Pape Salter Teillet.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
44 min
July 09, 2021 The History and Impact of the New Left in Toronto
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Ian McKay on his co-authored book Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto published by Between the Lines Press in 2019. Co-authored with Peter Graham, Radical Ambition won the Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History, an award that is administered by the Champlain Society. Influenced by protests against the Vietnam War in the United States and other countries in the 1960s and early 1970s, the New Left in Canada was shaped by three main identity-based movements of antiracism, feminism, and gay-lesbian rights. Toronto was ground zero for the New Left, where its main thinkers, lifestyles and public confrontations took place. For many years Ian McKay was a professor of history at Queen’s University. He now holds an endowed Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University where he heads up the L.R. Wilson Institute of Canadian History, one of the sponsors of the Witness to Yesterday podcast series.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
37 min
July 02, 2021 A History of Immigrant Arrivals through Pier 21 in Halifax
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Steve Schwinghamer, the co-author along with Jan Raska of Pier 21: A History published by the University of Ottawa Press as part of its Mercury series in 2020. Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 was the main gateway for immigrants arriving in Canada and was transformed as the site for the Canadian Museum of Immigration. Th author is an historian in the Exhibitions, Research and Collections department of the Museum. Steve Schwinghamer is also an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
38 min
June 25, 2021 Decoding Indigenous Governance in the First Centuries of Contact
Patrice Dutil talks with Heidi Bohaker, Professor History at the University of Toronto, about the symbols various Anishinaabe communities used to identify themselves in their vast territory during the 17th and 18th centuries. Bohaker makes the point that these doodems were symbolic of various constitutional arrangements as well as social and legal codes. She also discusses how they evolved with time Bohaker is the author of Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, published by University of Toronto Press. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
32 min
June 18, 2021 Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
In this episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Sarah Carter on her book Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces published by the University of British Columbia Press in 2020. She examines the reasons why Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were the first provinces to extend the vote to women in 1916 and why this same franchise was not extended to First Nations men and women as well as targeted minorities such as Chinese-Canadians until much later. Sarah Carter is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and has published extensively on Indigenous history and gender in the Prairie Provinces.
If you like our work, please consider supporting it: https://bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.
30 min

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Immerse yourself in Canada’s history! Witness to Yesterday episodes take listeners on a journey to document a time in Canada’s past and explore the people behind it, its significance, and its…