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Congratulations to this week's winner: @benbradleyca! He was the first to correctly guess Canol Project.
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This image depicts the preparation for The Canol Project at Fort Fitzgerald in 1942. The Canol Project was short for the Canadian Oil Road; a pipeline and road built during the Second World War that spanned from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories to Whitehorse, Yukon. A North American initiative to provide fuel to Allied Forces who relocated from the Pacific Ocean to Alaska to defend against the Japanese Imperial Army. At the cost of 135 million dollars in 1943, 2,600 km of pipelines, 830 km of gravel roads, 830 km of telephone lines, 2,400 km of winter roads and 10 aircraft landing strips were used. The Canadian Oil Road was shut down in 1945 for not preforming well.
Credit: Hudson's Bay Company, Negative No.: 84-19
Congratulations to this week's winner: @aab_123
For some twenty years (1877-1897) the Grand Rapids tramway was a profitable operation, efficiently conveying freight and passengers across the portage. Constructed by Walter Moberley in 1877, the Grand Rapids tramway was used by the Hudson's Bay Company to move goods around the rapids between the Saskatchewan River and Lake Winnipeg. The Grand Rapids tramway played a significant role in developing the Saskatchewan River as a prominent northern transport route. Its importance waned as the railways expanded into the Northwest.
Read more about The Grand Rapids tramway at Manitoba Historical Society's Digital reproduction of Transactions, Series 3, Number 32, 1975-76 Season.
Credit: Manitoba Archives File No: G-24.2
Congratulations to this week's winner: @BrantStock who guessed the Fernie fire of 1904. The photo is actually of the 1908 fire (read below), but we felt he was close enough!
Credit: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Catalogue No. 56005
Men stand in the wreckage of the Great Fire of 1908 in Fernie, British Columbia. On August 1st 1908 fire swept through Fernie and destroyed majority of the town. After the 90 minute emblazoned hell, the Fernie city council passed a bylaw that buildings should be constructed of fireproof materials. Fernie has restored and continues to use many of the 1908 buildings.
See more photos of Fernie before and after the Great Fire of 1908.
Read about the restoration of Fernie's Canadian Pacific Railway building, the now called Arts Station.
One of the best things about the Canadian historical association meetings, for me, is that it gives me the chance to scout out potential stories for Canada's History magazine.
Each year, I attend all kinds of presentations on history. They're each interesting in their own ways, of course, but lots of these presentations — more specifically, the papers they are based upon — translate very well into feature articles for our magazine.
Some of our best articles are discovered this way. I think immediately of a feature we ran a couple years back on the first women to join the RCMP and the discrimination they faced. That feature was based on a paper presented by a PhD candidate, Bonnie Reilly-Schmidt.
This year has been no different. Indeed, I discovered a real trove of presentations relating to the looming 100th anniversary of the Great War. For instance, any of the presentations I attended on Day 1 of the conference relating to church responses to WWI and conscription would make great feature articles. On Day 2, another fantastic topic was discussed — the practice of letter writing by soldiers to loved ones at home. Hopefully, Nicholas Kenny of Simon Fraser University, will be able to work with us to turn his paper into a feature article.
I also ran into Tim Cook, the Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum and an award-winning writer-historian (and former Canada's History board member). He gave one of the Big Thinking lectures here, on the topic of soldiers and their belief in the supernatural while serving at the front. I can guarantee that will somehow make the pages of Canada's History, too!
Another great aspect of the CHA meetings is simply running into the many great historians who collectively make up the larger Canada's History writing family. Tim has written for us several times, and has three chapters to his credit in our soon to be published book, Canada's Great War Album (published by Harper Collins and available in fall 2014). But it was nice as well to also run into Tim's mother, Sharon Cook, who recently wrote "When Smoking Was Chic," a feature article on how cigarette companies targeted women through ads that hyped the 'glamorous' side of smoking.
I'm going to digress for a bit now… On a side note, I realize that some people outside the ivory tower criticize academic research, especially research that seems a bit 'out there.'
Sometimes, they have a point. But by and large, the research being by Canadian historians is vital to understanding ourselves — as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.
On Tuesday night, I had the pleasure of attending the annual CHA awards gala, where the very best in academic history writing is honoured. There were more than 25 awards in total, and the top prize is called the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize. It's handed out each year to the best academic Canadian history book.
This year's winner was James Dashuk. His book, Clearing the Plains, is a searing indictment of the Macdonald government's practice of deliberately withholding food rations — in effect starving — First Nations peoples of the plains as a way of forcing them onto reserves. James and I chatted after his big win, and he couldn't help by note the irony of winning an award named after Sir John, given that in his book, Macdonald's policies regarding the treatment plains Aboriginals were so terribly destructive.
This isn't frivolous research. It's vital. This is just one of myriad stories that need to be told about our past. To tell them properly, we need academic historians. Only they have the expertise, knowledge, drive, and curiosity necessary to delve deep into archival material and oral histories and bring forth new ways of understanding ourselves. And we need that understanding if we are to move forward into the future as informed citizens of this diverse land we call Canada.
A "sweeping and disturbing account" of the devastating impacts of colonization on First Nations of the plains has captured the 2014 Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research: the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize — awarded annually to the best academic book on Canadian history.
Judges said Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, by James Daschuk, "chronicles the role that epidemic disease, global trade, the changing environment and government policy had on the lives of Aboriginals living on the Canadian Plains from the early eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Daschuk skilfully draws on ethnohistory, medical history, environmental history, economic history and political economy to present a compelling overall analysis."
The Sir John A Macdonald Prize is presented by the Canadian Historical Association, with the support of Manulife Financial. Daschuk will receive his award from the Right Honourable David Johnston this November at the Governor General's History Awards, administered by Canada's History Society.
Shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association's top book prize were:
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is one of a host of awards handed out each year during the Canadian Historical Association annual conference, this year held at Brock University on May 27, 2014. In a way, it's the Oscars of the academic historian set — a time to praise the best in book and article writing and research. A host of prizes were handed out during the ceremony. The full list of winners is as follows:
Ferguson Prize for best book on non-Canadian history
Mark Salber Phillips, On Historical Distance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Jean-Marie-Fecteau Prize for best article published in a peer-reviewed journal by a PhD or Masters-level student in English or in French.
Alexandre Turgeon, « "Toé, tais-toé!" et la Grande Noirceur duplessiste. Genèse d'un mythistoire » Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. XLVI, no 92 (Novembre / November 2013).
JCHA, issues #1 and #2 Best Article Prize
Winner: Madeline Rose Knickerbocker. "What We've Said Can Be Proven In The Ground: Stó:Lō Sovereignty And Historical Narratives At Xá:Ytem, 1990-2006 " in JCHA/RSHC volume 1
Bullen Prize
Nicholas Paul May, Feasting on the Arm of Heaven: the Christianization of the Nisga'a 1860-1920 Département d'histoire de l'Université de Toronto
Clio Prizes (These annual awards are given for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history
Atlantic Region
Renée N. Lafferty, The Guardianship of Best Interests. Institutional Care for the Children of the Poor in Halifax, 1850-1960.
Mario Mimeault. L'exode québécois, 1852-1925. Correspondence d'une famille dispersée en Amérique. (Septentrion, 2013)
William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013)
The Prairies
James Dashuk. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. (University of Regina Press, 2013).
British Columbia
Sean Kheraj, Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (UBC Press, 2013).
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jean Wilson: Arguably Jean Wilson has had a larger impact on the writing of British Columbia History than any other single person, a claim that is certainly true for the decades 1988-2008. Jean Wilson has been midwife to hundreds of books of BC History over an outstanding career as Associate Director, Acquisitions of UBC Press. Jean is one of Canada's most preeminent editors, universally admired by members of the Canadian book publishing community, and has been an ally to just about every scholar of B.C. history, no matter the field.
Social History Best Article Prize
Brian Gettler, "Money and the Changing Nature of Colonial Space in Northern Quebec: Fur Trade Monopolies, the State, and Aboriginal Peoples during the Nineteenth Century."
CHR Best Article Prize
Sean Mills, "Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974" (#94.3, September 2013)
Media and Communication History Committee - Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
Rafico Ruiz, "The Moving Image on the North Atlantic, 1930-1950"
Prix Eugene Forsey Prize (Awarded by the Canadian Committee on Labour for graduate and undergraduate work on Canadian labour and working-class history
Bruno-Pierre Guillette. « "Le Jour du Seigneur vendu à l'encan": regard sur la Commission d'enquête sur l'observance du dimanche dans les industries de pâtes et papiers du Québec (1964-1966), » Mémoire de maîtrise, 2012, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Neil Sutherland Prize for the Best Scholarly Article published on the History of Children and Youth
Jennifer Robin Terry, "'They 'Used to Tear Around the Campus Like Savages': Children's and Youth's Activities in the San Tomas Internment Camp, 1942-1945," The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5, no. 1 (Winter 2012).
Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize
Sean Mills, "Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974" (Histoire sociale / Social History, 94.3, September 2013)
The Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality Best article prize
Valerie Korinek, "'We're the girls of the pansy parade': Historicizing Winnipeg's Queer Subcultures, 1930s–1970," Histoire sociale/Social History 45(May 2012).
Prix Hilda Neatby Prize (Awarded by the Canadian Committee on Women's History, it recognises each year the best articles in French and English on women's history
Winner (English): Adele Perry, "James Douglas, Amelia Connolly, and the Writing of Gender and Women's History" (In Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek, Feminist History in Canada. New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation. UBC Press, 2013 )
Winner (French): Thierry Nootens, « Des privations ne peuvent pas constituer une fortune » : Les droits financiers des femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise face au marché , 1900-1930 (Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 65, numéro 1, été 2011)
Hilda Neatby Book Prize
Robertson, Leslie A. with the Kwagu'ł Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom.
Public History Prize
Ronald Rudin, Philip Lichti, and the Archinodes Lab, Returning the Voices to Kouchibouguac National Park.
Political History Group - Best Article in English Prize
Political History Group Book Prize
Dimitry Anastakis, Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade (UTP, 2013).
Aboriginal History Prizes - Best Article Prize
Isaiah Lorado Wilner, "A Global Potlatch," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37, no. 2 (2013).
Aboriginal History Prizes - Book Prize
James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013.
Congratulations to this week's winner: @EditorPamela.
Governor Charles V. Sale giving his address at the Sir George Simpson Centennial Celebration, Sept. 17, 1928 at Fort St. James, British Columbia. Present: G.W. Allan, K.C., Miss Mackenzie, His Honour R. Randolph Bruce and Rev. Father Coccola, (sitting) C.F. Brabant, Mr. Hosie, Mr. Graham and Judge Howay, (standing).
Credit: CNR
The history community has lost a good friend and ambassador this week with the passing of Dr. Terry Cook.
Terry was a leading figure in the field of archival studies, having worked at the National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) for more than 20 years and as a professor at the University of Manitoba Archival Studies program since 2000. An internationally-recognized scholar, Terry made vast contributions to the theory, research, and understanding of the role of archives in Canada. Read Terry Cook's obituary published May 16, 2014 in the Globe and Mail.
Of all the tributes and memories of Terry that are being shared this week, his closing plenary talk from the 2010 Association of Canadian Archivists' conference stands out the most. His speech, entitled "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Next Generation of Canadian Archivists. Reflections and Prospects," is now required reading for any introductory archives course, and a touching reminder of Terry's "giant" contributions to the field. Here is an excerpt:
"If you are standing on shoulders of giants, all you young archivists, then you should be poised to leap from those shoulders and fly off in exciting new directions. Don't climb off those giants' shoulders, slide down their stumpy legs, and tramp along behind in their footsteps. Rather, take the archival ideal, the best from the past, and go and re-invent how society can best archive itself, in an entirely new context of record making and record keeping in a wired, socially networked, and inter-active world.
Well, there, that's about all I really wanted to say, to pass that torch to you bright young archivists, who now so happily dominate our association's demographics the past couple of years, and here today, to pass that torch to you to take our profession to a better future as my generation fades into the past."
Everyone at Canada's History offers their deepest condolences to Terry's wife, Sharon Anne Cook, and children, Graham and Tim Cook.
Photo source: Literary Tourist. To listen to an interview with Terry Cook, visit literarytourist.com.
Congratulations to this week's winner: @MJPatchouli!
Instructor Neal Grant's Reading Tent, Swanson's Camp, Mile 6, B.C. 1911. Alfred Fitzpatrick introduced Reading Tents to lumber camps in 1899 hoping to provide reading and writing skills to young and new immigrant labourers.
Visit Frontier College to learn what they are up to now and how you can become a member.
Congratulations to this week's winner: @JanetHH
A group of North-West Mounted Police officers pose for photo in 1874. This is one of the earliest known photos of Canadian Mounties.
Credit: Glenbow Archives
For more information, visit the Glenbow Museum.
Congratulations to this week's winner: @softgrasswalker!
A group of Métis men from the Red River Colony (a territory in Manitoba centred at modern-day Winnipeg) stop for a rest during a journey to Pembina, North Dakota. Surrounding the men are several Red River Carts. These iconic vehicles were usually made entirely of wood, and made a loud squeaking noise as they rumbled across the prairies.
Credit: Manitoba Provincial Archives 30323
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An examination of the impacts of colonization on the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada has won the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research: The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best history book.
Written by William C. Wicken, a history professor at York University, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy is a "finely crafted and tightly argued study of memory and meaning," judges said, "written in a style that is spare and clean, makes imaginative use of a wide range of existing sources to answer innovative epistemological questions fundamental to the historical project."
The winner of the Sir John A Macdonald Prize will receive his award from the Right Honourable David Johnston this November at the Governor General's History Awards, administered by Canada's History Society.
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is one of a host of awards handed out each year during the Canadian Historical Association annual conference, this year held at the University of Victoria.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Jarrett Rudy, "Do You Have the Time? Modernity, Democracy, and the Beginnings of Daylight Saving Time in Montreal, 1907–1928," (December 2012 issue).
Jarrett Rudy's well-written article makes an original contribution to our understanding of modernity in urban Canada. By exploring debates over daylight savings time in Montreal, Rudy sheds new light on how politics and social pressures shaped public policy. Rudy places these debates in the larger context of the "disembedding of time from place" and local issues such as rural-urban tensions. He draws deeply on an array of primary sources, deals broadly with Canadian historiography, and engages creatively with the theoretical literature. His article skilfully demonstrates the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which Canadians participated in the processes of modernization.
Prix Eugene Forsey Prize (Awarded by the Canadian Committee on Labour for graduate and undergraduate work on Canadian labour and working-class history / Le Comité canadien sur l'histoire du travail remet le prix à un(e) étudiante(e) qui œuvre dans le domaine de l'histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière)
Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes. "City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State." Duke University (History Department, 2010).
Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes's PhD thesis, "City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State", examines an important moment in the rise of the technocratic state during the Progressive Era. Using a wide array of Canadian and American sources, Remes brilliantly examines the tensions arising between the state and working class survivors' formal organizations and informal groups. Remes's transnational work displays great insight and originality, with its stress on how rescue and relief operations are unavoidably political.
Prix Hilda Neatby Prize (Awarded by the Canadian Committee on Women's History, it recognises each year the best articles in French and English on women's history / Le Comité canadien de l'histoire des femmes remet le prix annuellement au meilleur article de langue française et le meilleur article de langue anglaise sur l'histoire des femmes)
Sheyfali Saujani, "Empathy and Authority in Oral Testimony: Feminist Debates, Multicultural Mandates, and Reassessing the Interviewer and her 'Disagreeable' Subjects." Histoire social/Social History, vol. XLV, no. 90 (November 2012), 361-391.
Sheyfali Saujani's article makes significant contributions to feminist historical theory and methodology, demonstrating that oral history interviews can contain conversational ruptures in which interviewees withhold empathy and assert authority. According to Saujani, some interviewees rejected being addressed as ethnic subjects, for in their views, "ethnic" labelling contained subtle insinuations of ignorance. Combining perceptive textual analysis with discussions of broader racial tensions during the 1970s, "Empathy and Authority" offers valuable new insights into oral history practice, as well as into feminist historiography more generally.
Le prix n'est pas offert cette année / The prize is not awarded this year
James Opp, Anthony Whitehead and Will Knight, "Rideau Timescapes". A free downloadable app for Apple iOS.
This innovative iPhone application takes its users on a journey through the past, allowing them to interact with the visual heritage of lockstations along the historic Rideau canal. GPS technology allows visitors of the lockstations to overlay the past and present views. The unique Timescape view allows them to witness the changes in the landscape through time. By combining historical documentation and technology, the creators of this tool have made an outstanding contribution to public history, in the process creating a platform that can be used in contexts other than the Rideau Canal.
Political History Group
Prix du meilleur article en français / Best Article in French Prize
Mourad Djebabla pour « Le gouvernement fédéral et la diète de guerre proposée et imposée aux Canadiens ». Bulletin d'histoire politique (vol. 20, no 2) Automne 2011.
Cet article comporte plusieurs qualités. Son auteur aborde le thème de la consommation alimentaire pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Mourad Djebabla montre que la politique canadienne en matière de rationnement est le produit du contexte d'une guerre qui exige la maximalisation des ressources aux fins de la victoire finale, et que cette politique dépend fortement de l'évolution du conflit et des relations internationales. L'auteur analyse les efforts étatiques pour réorienter la production des 3 B (blé, bacon et bœuf) dans le but d'aider les alliés. Enfin, cet article est basé sur de solides sources variées et est appuyé par une analyse fine.
Best Article in English Prize / Prix du meilleur article en anglais
Peter Price. "Fashioning a Constitutional Narrative: John S. Ewart and the Development of a 'Canadian Constitution'". Canadian Historical Review : 93.3 (2012)
In a cogently argued and well-written article, Peter Price analyses lawyer John S. Ewart's efforts to craft and popularize a constitutional narrative supporting an independent Canadian nationalism. Price demonstrates the importance of competing constitutional narratives in debates about politics and identity in Canada. In drawing upon the work of political scientists, historians, and legal scholars, and from his careful analysis of Ewart's personal correspondence and publications, Price shows how Ewart resisted the hegemony of British imperialism. Price thus breathes new life into debates about the constitution, and invites scholars to re-visit this subject in their considerations of national identity, state formation, and attitudes towards the British Empire.
Political History Group Book Prize / Prix du livre en histoire politique
Bruce Curtis. Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical Sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Ruling by Schooling Quebec is an innovative and forceful examination of the links between education, power, and governance from 1759 to 1841. Meticulously and exhaustively researched, it examines the attempts of colonial administrators and their local allies to introduce structures and modes of liberal government in Quebec and Lower Canada through schooling the population. As one prize committee member described it, "this book is a tour de force of creativity, breadth, and flair" and is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the contested history of liberal governance and education in Quebec in the 19th century.
Aboriginal History Prize
a) Best Article Prize / Prix du meilleur article
Miles Powell, "Divided Waters: Heiltsuk Spatial Management of Herring Fisheries and the Politics of Native Sovereignty" in The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter 2012, pp. 463-484)
Powell's important article links history to contemporary politics and offers dynamic insights from a variety of disciplines. It is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the utility and successful implementation of traditional practices within aboriginal communities. In brief, Powell demonstrates how the Heiltsuk effectively managed their herring fisheries through complex systems of marine space. It traces this management by looking at how the Canadian state originally deemed these systems primitive and unlawful, but later adopted a quota system that paralleled its aboriginal antecedents. Powell effectively demonstrates how this new spatial order continued to privilege the interests of the colonizers.
b) Book Prize / Prix du livre
SHORT LIST / LISTE COURTE - In alphabetical order / Par ordre alphabétique
Tolly Bradford, Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75. Vancouver:University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Leslie A. Robertson with the Kwagu'ł Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
William C. Wicken, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
This book is a revisionist biography of Kwakwaka'wakw leader and activist Jane Constance Cook or Ga'axsta'las (1870-1951), written in response to community and scholarly representations that depicted her only narrowly as an "anti-potlatcher." The work also offers a rich history of a local community's negotiation with colonialism by examining community interpretations of smallpox, treaties, trade and the economy, relationships with missionaries, ceremonial practice, and local perspectives of health care, among other things. Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las is an especially innovative work in Canadian Aboriginal History.
Ian Milligan. "Mining the 'Internet Graveyard': Rethinking the Historians'Toolkit" in JCHA/RSHC volume 2
The deluge of information created in a digital format in the last fifty years has changed the game for historians of recent times. In his timely article, Ian Milligan proposes that historians need not abandon their methods, but rather expand their toolkits to handle the volume and form of digital information, by focusing on "distance reading," such as machine-reading of large amounts of information to find broad patterns. He walks us through existing tools for managing digital information, and then considers how historians may develop their own software to create tools specific to historians' concerns. This excellent article encourages historians to embracing programming as a new skill for historical research.
Prix Bullen Prize (The John Bullen Prize honours the outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident / Le prix John-Bullen est accordé à la meilleure thèse de doctorat complétée dans une université canadienne et portant sur tout domaine de spécialisation en histoire)
Helen Dewar. ¨Y establir nostre auctorité ¨: Assertions of Imperial Sovereignty through Proprietorships and Chartered Companies in New France, 1598-1663¨. History Department –University of Toronto, 2012
Mary Helen Dewar opens new perspectives on the history of the first decades of New France by inscribing this troubled period in the Atlantic context, from a perspective of the construction of the modern state and the French empire. By adroitly analyzing the designs and the exercise of authority and power entrusted to trading companies, she reconstructs the transatlantic networks of influence and skillfully weaves the complex web of tensions that are played out at the Royal Court and in the courts of provincial justice. This thesis has the potential to transform the interpretation generally advanced for the period 1598-1663 with regards to New France.
Prix Clio Prizes (These annual awards are given for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history / Les prix sont attribués à des œuvres méritoires ou contributions exceptionnelles d'individus ou d'organismes à l'histoire régionale)
Atlantic Region / L'Atlantique
Wiliam C. Wicken. The colonization of Mi'kmaw memory and history, 1794-1928 : The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy. (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
In this engaging and inventive study, Wicken explores the "living tradition" of a treaty relationship across some 200 years. His narrative hook is a 1928 appeal of the conviction of Gabriel Sylliboy, Grand Chief of the Mi'kmaq, for violating Nova Scotia's game laws. Wicken illustrates the way that Sylliboy and five other Mi'kmaw witnesses "remembered" the 1752 treaty between their ancestors and the British Crown, based on "collected" memories from earlier generations. The book is an interrogation of the relationship between shifting Mi'kmaw experiences within colonialism and the gradual modification of collective memory over time.
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec's educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis's double-award-winning Politics of Population.
Drawing on a mass of archival material, Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
Dan Malleck. Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44. (University of British Columbia Press, 2012)
This book examines the ways in which the public consumption of alcoholic beverage became regulated by the state in the years between the end of Prohibition in 1927, when the Province created the iconic and powerful Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), and 1944, when new legislation altered and divided the regulation apparatus of liquor distribution and sales in Ontario. The book is informed by social theory, but as good history should, it allows its rich empirical evidence to speak loudest. The best compliment that can be paid to any scholarly history is true of this one: it is convincing.
The Prairies / Les Prairies
Shelley A.M. Gavigan. Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Hunters, Horses and Government Men is a meticulously researched, carefully argued, and subtle account of the relationship between Aboriginal people and the law on the Plains at a time when the new Canadian state sought to assert its colonial power over the indigenous inhabitants of the region. Shelley A.M. Gavigan's study historicizes and complicates current assumptions about the criminalization of Aboriginal peoples. Based upon close study of criminal cases in the region from 1870 - 1905, the book draws important distinctions between the workings of the criminal law, and what Gavigan refers to as the "Indianization" of Aboriginal peoples subject to the Indian Act (1876).
The North / Le Nord
Wendy Dathan, The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977. (University of Calgary Press, 2012)
The Reindeer Botanist is a remarkable account of the botanical career of Alf Erling Porsild, spanning not only the Yukon and the Northwest Territories but also Alaska and Greenland. Porsild is perhaps best known for his involvement in northern reindeer projects, but his work as the Curator of Botany at the National Museum of Canada, and his long botanical career and northern field experience made him a key figure in twentieth-century northern science. Dathan's sensitivity and effort has produced a personal history of Canadian botany, by a botanist, but also a history of an extraordinary life.
British Columbia / La Colombie-Britannique
Leslie A. Robertson, with the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan, for Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).
This groundbreaking book deploys the toolkits of both anthropologists and historians to tell the story of a complex and controversial person – Ga'axsta'las, or Jane Constance Cook – at a difficult moment in the history of the Kwakwaka'wakw. The book takes the reader into the heart of Cook's historical moment when her opposition to the potlatch and her deep Christianity led her to be dismissed by many as a sell-out to colonialism. The result is a book that sets a new standard of sophistication, challenging historians to work harder to move past the simple colonial frames in which BC history is still often told.
Lifetime Achievement Award / Prix Honorifique
Patricia Roy
The BC Clio Prize Committee is very pleased to award Dr. Patricia Roy a 2013 Clio "Lifetime Achievement" Award in recognition of her distinguished career as a leading historian of British Columbia. Dr. Roy's studies of the political history of the province, in particular, her analyses of the anxiety about race in the context of colonialism, are mainstays of the region's historiography. Her breadth and insight are evident in her long list of publications. We consider her extremely deserving of a Clio Lifetime Achievement Award, and wish to thank her for all that she has taught us about her home province.
Ferguson Prize (It is awarded to outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history / Le prix récompense le meilleur ouvrage scientifique en histoire autre que canadienne)
Stephen Brooke, Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Jeremy Brown, City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial : American Military Justice in Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
In City versus Countryside in Mao's China, Jeremy Brown presents a series of meticulously researched case studies of villages and enterprises in the region southeast of Beijing to overturn the received history of the first three decades of the People's Republic of China. Brown argues that, while Mao Zedong may have led his revolution from the countryside, he built the state and economy of the People's Republic by subordinating agriculture to industry and protecting the cities at any cost. Brown is particularly to be commended for his success in connecting local case studies to a larger revision of China's Communist revolution.
The Mauthausen Trial is a masterful study of one of the many Dachau trials organized by the American military after the Second World War to address Nazi war crimes arising from the incarceration and murder of civilians. Thoroughly documented, systematically presented, and compelling to read, The Mauthausen Trial strikes a deft balance between exposing the intricate details of legal procedure and precedent and representing the very human motivations and reactions of prosecutors, camp survivors, and the accused. The current controversy over the constitutional validity of trial by military commission for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay only makes this book all the more timely and relevant.
Sir John A Macdonald Prize (It is awarded to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past / Le prix consacre l'ouvrage en histoire du Canada jugé comme apportant la contribution la plus significative à la compréhension du passé canadien)
Michael Boudreau, City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Bruce Curtis, Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical Sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey and Andrew Parnaby, Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
a) Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Bridging the fields of law and history, and documenting the complex relationship between Plains First Nations and Canadian criminal law, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 engages with a vast current of recent criminal justice history that attempts to balance control/domination and agency. Based substantially on data derived from two sets of criminal court records from 1876-86 and 1887-1903, the book explores what law meant to Aboriginal people at a time of increasingly coercive colonization. In attempting to understand the "actual process of criminalization," Gavigan makes an important contribution to both Canadian legal history and prairies history.
This book promises to be the definitive work on the history of intelligence and security in Canada for some time to come. Analytic, yes, but also lively, it clearly illustrates that for most of its history, the Canadian secret services did not spy abroad but at home. They were obsessed with "subversives" who could disrupt the Canadian status quo. Despite the obvious difficulties in accessing the material, this is a thoroughly well documented book, elegantly written, and remarkably balanced, considering the sensitivity of the topic, and the fact that one of the authors had himself been a target of surveillance.
This finely crafted and tightly argued study of memory and meaning, written in a style that is spare and clean, makes imaginative use of a wide range of existing sources to answer innovative epistemological questions fundamental to the historical project. Working backward in time from the Gabriel Sylliboy court case of 1928, the book uncovers how successive generations of Mi'kmaq remembered a treaty signed in the eighteenth century. Such questions about the relationship between memory and aboriginal rights makes The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History a book that advances a challenging argument about an important subject in Canadian history.
They have come from across the country — and the world — to share new research, and also, to offer insights into the way we lived. Several hundred historians have gathered in Victoria, British Columbia, for the annual conference of the Canadian Historical Association.
The CHA conference is part of Congress 2013, the annual gathering of humanities and social sciences researchers. There are more than 7,000 delegates to the event, which brings together scholars, students, policy-makers and leaders involved in a broad spectrum of disciplines, including history, political science, literature, sociology and education.
Over the next few days, Canada's History will bring you stories on cutting-edge history, exclusive interviews with historians and researchers, and also, news reports from the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Awards, which will be held on Tuesday night.
Stay tuned to CanadasHistory.ca for more from the CHA conference at Congress 2013.
Mark Reid
Natalie Zemon Davis, right, gave the keynote address this morning to the CHA.
If history is to have a future, then we need to find ways to get young Canadians engaged and involved in our collective past.
That's why we at Canada's History were happy to have — if even for a single day — student Geneviève Michaud, a Grade 9 student of College Louis Riel in Winnipeg.
During a recent visit, she was given the following assignment: to find three history-related news stories, synthesize them into web-based news promos, and provide links to the full story. She did a fantastic job for us, and here are the items she has chosen for your reading pleasure.
War Of 1812 artifacts
As Canadians continue to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, artifacts from that war are more desirable than ever. Unlike in the First and Second World Wars, the people who lived and fought in the War of 1812 did not typically save their weapons or uniforms. Examples of weapons or uniforms today are very valuable and rare. They are often found in public collections such as museums. However, this does not stop collectors from seeking them.
A recent issue of the National Post contains a feature article on these avid War of 1812 collectors and their prized artifacts. To read the story, go to the link.
— by Geneviève Michaud
"Eat right, feel right — Canada needs you strong!" This was the slogan for the new wartime nutritional guidelines during the Second World War.
Between sending food overseas to soldiers and rationing it at home, the time of the world wars were not an easy one.
Many women found themselves cooking for very large families, as well as sending packages of food to their husbands overseas.
Some wartime dishes were tastier than others. The recipes ranged from delicious boiled Canadian lobster, to the rather bland Canadian war cakes.
When it comes to changing our currency, even the smallest adjustments can spark controversy. When the Canadian government recently decided to introduce a new $20 bill, it immediately caused a stir.
Some people claimed that they were able to see the silhouette of a nude woman on the polymer bill.
Others complained that the Vimy memorial which is featured on the bank note, looked too much like the World Trade Center that had been destroyed in a terrorist attack in 2001.
However, controversies concerning currency aren't new to this country. Recently Canada.com explored the history of controversy surrounding Canada's money.
You can read about it here.
Last week we received the following letter from a reader responding to the article "Face of Fiction" [June-July 2012] by Sarah Scott. Mr. Stewart is correct in that Gertrude Kearns should be acknowledged. In fact, her sketch is among the illustrations in our Photo Gallery of the exhibit review for 1812: One War, Four Perspectives.
"I suggest that Sarah Scott literally missed the bigger picture when she overlooked Tecumseh's 2008 portrait by Canadian artist Gertrude Kearns. Kearns was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Military Institute to create portraits of both General Brock and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, which were unveiled at RCMI in November 2008.
I am attaching a pdf of the program from that unveiling. The artist, who was part of the Canadian Forces Artists Program in Afghanistan, took the time and care to research collections of clothing, weapons and personal items associated with the man, the circumstances of his life and the period, as well as interview and sketch a direct descendant together with other Shawnee individuals in Oklahoma, before creating a series of study sketches from live models in Toronto.
This was an important creative project with a significant historical purpose by a highly accomplished and recognized Canadian artist resulting in a pair of portraits as well as studies (now owned by the Canadian War Museum) that I should think warrant some acknowledgement in your article."
Each year, there's an event that I look forward to immensely — but it's one that most Canadians know very little about.
It's the annual gathering of the Canadian Historical Association – an event that brings together the brightest minds in Canadian history to share new research into our nation's past.
This year, the meetings are being held at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. The title of the conference is "Scholarship at a Crossroads."
On Monday morning, I headed to the campus to hunt for new research that has what we call in the magazine business "story potential."
Although I'm the Editor-in-Chief of a history magazine — and although I have published several books that deal with public history — I'm not what you would consider an upper-case "H" Historian. I don't spend countless hours in dusty archives searching for new source material – in the magazine business, there's always a new and looming deadline to meet. And so, I'm incredibly grateful to the professional and academic historians who do the heavy lifting in the trenches to uncover new perspectives – and new stories – in Canadian history.
Most of my first day at the CHA meetings was spent attending sessions relating to the War of 1812 bicentennial that's currently underway across Canada.
It's a fascinating subject, because it's a conflict filled with shades of grey. Involving Britain, Canada, Aboriginal nations and America, it was a smaller part of the wider Napoleonic wars that torn apart much of Europe in the early 1800s. Some might say that it decided the ultimate geo-political fate of North America.
A day earlier, on Sunday, I had the privilege of traveling through the Niagara region of Ontario, visiting three different War of 1812 battlefield sites. It was great preparation for Monday's conversations surrounding the way we commemorate the war, and the controversies that have arisen around those commemorations.
There are many schools of thought in terms of what is the "right" way to remember the war. For traditional military historians, and indeed, for many typical Canadians, the war is largely remembered for its military aspects – who fought who, when did the battles occur, did we win or lose, etc, and why.
But some historians have decried what they claim is an "overly militaristic" tone surrounding the current and upcoming bicentennial commemoration events. For me, it's a tough one. Surely there's a way to ensure all sides are fairly represented in the narrative, without totally ignoring the "traditional" military aspects of the war. The courage it required for soldiers to fight in this bloody and brutish conflict is beyond belief. This was a war that saw both sides commit and suffer what we today would call "atrocities." Civilian populations were attacked, homes and communities were put to the torch, and prisoners were massacred. It's a war of promises and betrayals, often fought with incompetence and ill planning. When I think of the War of 1812, I think of repeated battles where defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory; hills and forts are stormed for no apparent strategic reason, only to be given up days or weeks later. For the Aboriginal nations, it was a war fought to preserve their traditional homelands. In that sense, they were the biggest losers of the entire affair.
During a session on "Conflict and its Legacies: Indigenous Peoples and the War of 1812," Robin Jarvis Brownlie of the University of Manitoba spoke about how the European newcomers not only stole Aboriginal land – they even co-opted the Six Nations' greatest warrior chief, Tecumseh and used him as a propaganda tool in attempts to "civilize" Aboriginals.
It's been 200 years since the war, but its repercussions are still felt today. Stephanie Danyluk of the University of Saskatchewan shared with use the story of the Dakota people, who have fought a long legal battle with the government of Canada to be granted the same rights as Canadian "status Indians." The debate stems from events in the War of 1812. Danyluk explained that that the Dakota originally lived between modern-day Detroit and Minnesota, and fought for the British during the War of 1812 during the campaigns on that frontier. The Dakota claim that, in exchange for helping the British fight the war, they were promised land and protection in Canada if they ever required, or desired it. Beginning in the 1860s, a series of clashed with the Americans forced the Dakota north into Canada. But rather than being welcomed, the Dakota were treated like illegal aliens, considered American Indians who had no right or title to land in Canada. So far, efforts by the Dakota to use the courts to force Canada to accept their historic demands have failed.
A little later in the day, I attended a session on the commemoration of the war — specifically, on how Canadians sought to celebrate the war's centenary. Historians Brandon Dimmel of the University of Western Ontario, Ross Fair of Ryerson University, and Elaine Young of the University of Guelph each gave compelling talks about the public and political struggles Canadians faced with regards to the commemoration.
In Toronto, for instance, there was a big drive to build a national War of 1812 monument. But, as Ross Fair showed us, the drive ultimately stalled, in part, because no level of government was willing to foot the $200,000 bill for the planned monument.
It also turns out that not all Canadians were keen to commemorate the war – or at least, to commemorate it in the way the government of the day intended – as a celebration of a "century of peace" with the Americans. Dimmel said that while Canadians living far from the War of 1812 battlefields thought it was a great idea, those closer to the action still had long memories of the atrocities committed. With so many of their relatives injured or killed in the conflict, there was little stomach for partying it up with the Americans. At that point, they weren't ready to forgive, or forget.
Two hundred years ago, Canadians found themselves at the epicentre of a war between Britain and the United States — one in which Canada would be the main battleground.
The War of 1812 in many ways shaped the future of the continent. On Sunday, I finally had a chance to travel to the Niagara Peninsula to visit many of the key battlefields that helped decide the course of the conflict.
Fort George National Historic Site.
Along with Canada's History Publisher Deborah Morrison and a bus full of history enthusiasts, we travelled to three main sites: Fort George National Historic Site, which was the headquarters for the British's Centre Division until it was captured and ultimately captured by the Americans in 1813. It was occupied for seven months before the British could recapture it.
The tour was led by Terry Copp, professor emeritus of history at Wilfrid Laurier University and the director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies.
We travelled to Queenston Heights, home of the imposing and impressive monument to General Isaac Brock, the quintessential hero of the conflict who was killed while leading a charge on the American-occupied Redan at the Heights. The monument is 184 feet tall, and a real killer to climb; I know, as I managed to mount all 200 plus steps to take in the view from the top.
Our tour ended at Fort Erie, which was captured by the Americans in both 1813 and 1814. It's known today is Canada's bloodiest battlefield. So many men were killed, mass burials were required to deal with the dead. The following are some images from our battlefields tour, which I would recommend to anyone with an interest in our nation's past.
Fort Erie National Historic Site.
There's an old saying — don't judge a book by its cover.
However, the truth is — in the magazine world — the cover matters. And behind the scenes, a lot of thought goes into picking the cover for Canada's History.
Our covers generally feature one main story and image, with other stories promoted across the top or bottom of the page.
It all starts with a conversation about which stories might make good "cover stories."
Much depends on the art that is available. Sometimes, an award-winning article, by its very nature, might have rather mundane photos or illustrations. And sometimes, articles such as photo essays are driven by the art, and would make fantastic covers.
Eventually, art director Michel Groleau heads to the "kitchen" to start something brewing.
He then comes back with several options for covers, and the debate begins.
The cover choices are narrowed, until finally we pick a design. Then the tweaking begins — trying different headline and sub-headline combinations, different colour schemes, etc., until voilà!
Well, now we want to let you join the conversation.
Starting with the December-January issue, we will post on our website sample cover "contenders" that we ourselves are debating.
Cast your vote for the cover you prefer. I can't guarantee it will be the one we choose, but we do cherish your feedback.
Mark Reid Participates in the 2010 Terry Fox Run from Canada's History on Vimeo.
If you recall, I spent about two months on the road last fall, promoting our then-new book, 100 Photos that Changed Canada.
During the book tour, I gave countless media interviews and did a presentation on the book at seven cities, at my hometown highschool, and even my alma mater, the University of King's College in Halifax.
At every stop, people would ask me which photo was my favourite, and each time, I would answer: Terry Fox.
Well, it's now time for me to put my money where my mouth is.... two Sundays from now, I'll be running the Terry Fox run in Winnipeg — skinny white legs and all. It's a 10-km run, and I can honestly admit that I haven't run 10 kilometres in at least 20 years — at least, not all at one time....
To me, Terry Fox is at the top of the list for inspiring Canadians. Running to honour his memory, and hopefully, helping to someday cure the terrible disease that claimed his life, is the least I can do.
Wish me luck!
If you want to read the original 2008 magazine essay on Terry Fox that helped inspire the 100 Photos book, click here.
"Look, I've wiped more liquor off my chin than those other fellas drank, now you want to believe that."
— Charlie Chamberlain, vocalist, Don Messer and the Islanders, 1969.
With his trademark bowler hat and his silky smooth tenor, Charlie Chamberlain (see image below) was the unmistakable voice of the group Don Messer and his Islanders.
A CBC biography of Chamberlain describes him as Messer's "hard-living, hard-drinking sidekick." He certainly did like the occasional swig. Unfortunately, Chamberlain passed away in 1972 at the age of 61.
As I was only nine months old at the time, my memories of Don Messer's troupe are largely limited to the few black-and-white reruns I remember seeing on CBC television during my childhood. However, I recently discovered an online video clip of Charlie and the rest of Messer's band that offers great insights into the man and his music.
The movie, just two minutes and six seconds long, is titled Canada Vignettes: Don Messer — His land and his music — Charlie Chamberlain 1911-1972 Pt. 1. It was made for the National Film Board in 1969 to capture Messer's farewell tour. The long-running CBC TV program Don Messer's Jubilee had just been cancelled, and there's a definite air of sadness in the documentary; for Chamberlain and his mates, it's the end of the line.
One of my favourite scenes shows Charlie reminiscing about sharing smokes and booze at barn dances: "Two dollars a gallon — and you got a gallon of that between the four of ya — you went to a dance with a package of tailor-made cigarettes and you were a millionaire, mister. Everybody was all around ya."
Now, I could try to describe Chamberlain's Irish-by-way-of-New Brunswick lilt, his bear-like frame, and his leprechaun grin. But the truth is, there are some stories that are better seen and heard, rather than told.
September is Canadian Country Music Month, and we're exploring our rich country music legacy with Charlie's video, as well as those of groundbreaking pioneers like Hank Snow and Wilf Carter and superstars like Anne Murray and Shania Twain. We also have a country music timeline starting in 1918.
The "Caledonia," first square-rigged vessel on the Great Lakes
As a history buff, I love historical mysteries that needsolving. And when The Beaver magazine is the key to solving the puzzle, all the better!
That's the situation today at Lake Erie, or rather, should I say, under Lake Erie, as officials debate whether to raise a finely preserved shipwreck that could be an important vessel from the War of 1812.
The story, "Legal battle brews over War of 1812 shipwreck," was written by a former colleague of mine, Randy Boswell, of Canwest News Service.
In it, Randy details the controversy surrounding the shipwreck, which is purported to be the Canadian-built frigate Caledonia.
The Caledonia started the War of 1812 on the side of the British — which, technically, was the Canadian side — and wound up in 1813 on the side of the Americans after being captured by U.S. forces.
Now, this is where The Beaver comes in.
In the December 1934 issue, an article by historian George Cuthbertson details the fate of the Caledonia. Cuthbertson writes that after the war, the ship eventually scrapped and "sold for firewood and old iron" in Erie, Pennsylvania.
If true, this blows out of the water the theory held by those who want to raise the wreck that the ship is indeed the Caledonia.
A group in Buffalo wants to raise the wreck and make it the centrepiece of a new tourism destination in New York state.
As the anniversary of the War of 1812 draws nearer, controversies such as this will likely hit the news with increasing regularity as both Americans and Canadians try to find ways to commemorate the almost 200-year-old conflict.
However, I predict that doing so will pose a challenge for both sides of the border, largely because the actual war doesn't fit into an easily digested black-and-white scenario.
I have just started researching the war in order to prepare for a special issue of Canada's History magazine that will focus on the War of 1812.
In fact, yesterday, I finished a book on the subject by Jeremy Black, titled "The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon."
I was struck by how the war was really a series of half-victories, punctuated by missed opportunities on both sides. It really was a conflict in which both sides regularly found ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
It's also a war of what-ifs: what if England had not been embroiled in a battle against Napoleon at the time of the War of 1812, and had been able to bring the full weight of its army and navy to bear on the Americans?
Would the United States today only be a shadow of itself, comprised of the original 13 colonies and a handful of others in the southeast?
What if the British had pushed harder to win for their native allies the creation of a new "Indian Country" centred around the southern Great Lakes region.
The British had hoped this new nation would give natives a common homeland, and also would box in the Americans, preventing them from flooding westward in search of new lands to conquer. Sadly, for the natives at least, this demand was dropped from the Treaty of Ghent that brought the war to an end.
As for the Americans, what if they actually had believed in maintaining a strong regular army after the War of Independence, rather than trying to capture Canada with poorly trained militias who often refused to fight outside of their home states?
Imagine what Canada would look like today if a powerful, professional American army have swept over the St. Lawrence and captured Quebec and Montreal during the War of 1812?
In Randy's story, he mentions that that Caledonia played a role in smashing the Royal Navy's fleet on the Great Lakes.
That's true.
But it's also true that the Americans were no match for the Brits on the high seas. The Royal Navy dominated the oceans, while the Americans held the lakes.
Just another stalemate in a war of stalemates.
With the Beaver at the centre of the upcoming court case involving the Caledonia, we'll certainly be watching with interest here at Canada's History.
I'm sure, as we get closer to the anniversary date, that this won't be the last time that Canadians and Americans go to "war" over the War of 1812.
One of the great joys of working at the Canada's History Society.
Today I bid farewell to an old friend. Well, we have only known each other for roughly eight weeks — but it feels like its been much longer.
Of course, I'm referring to the latest issue of the magazine! It was sent to the printer this morning — and, as usually, I have mixed feelings.
I'm proud of our latest issue; it has great feature articles, including a rollicking tale of piracy on the East Coast, as well as great departments (hockey fans will especially like Brushstrokes, which examines the famous goalie painting, At the Crease).
However, the mixed feelings come in because it is sometimes tough to let go of an issue. Every eight weeks, we are forced to literally "turn the page" and move on to the next issue in the lineup.
To be honest, it's been a whirlwind of activity here at Canada's History over the past year. In the past 12 months, we redesigned and relaunched the magazine, complete with a new name; we did the same to our websites; we published a nationally best-selling book, 100 Photos that Changed Canada, as well as a special edition of a new magazine, called Teaching Canada's History.
When you work on an issue, you can immerse yourself in the daily rhythms of publishing. The first few weeks are all about editing, editing, editing. Then comes the search for images -- art and photos and illustrations that will help make the stories come alive.
Then it's time to ship the stories to our talented art director, Michel Groleau, who works in our Montreal bureau.
Suddenly, I arrive at work to find his designs in my inbox — signalling the start of the back-and-forth creative process of transforming designs into finished layouts.
One of the last things we do here is pick a cover — which can be a unique challenge, when we do this by committee, and everyone has their own preferences and personal aesthetic!
The last week or so is all about the details - checking spellings, fixing captions, correction errors, hoping that we caught them all.
And then.... poof... the magazine is gone, and all you're left with is a cluttered desk piled with papers that need sorting, and the incessant hammering of the roadworks jackhammer crew outside your Winnipeg office window!
In a way, it feels a bit like being in a time machine. As you, the reader receives your copy of the June-July issue, we have just sent the August-September edition to the printer, and are about to start the eight-week journey toward October-November!
Anyhow, they say its not the destination, but the journey that matters -- and here at Canada's History, we believe our magazine is a journey worth taking.
Thanks for listening...
Imagine trying to co-ordinate the largest meeting of academics of multiple disciplines -- in the world.
That equals more than 9,000 academics from every discipline in the broad spectrum of humanities, arts and social sciences.
Well, that's the job that Dr. Ronald Rudin has been tasked with -- and so far, it is has been a great success. Dr. Rudin teaches history at Concordia University, which is hosting the annual Congress that I am attending in Montreal.
I sat down with him today to chat about the logistical challenges of hosting such an event, and also, the great opportunities it provides for academics from different disciplines to come together and learn from each other.
He says it is important to make the conference accessible to the general public. He also says academics should reach out to the larger community of Canadians.
He believes that the public has a right to know what is being discussed in the ivory tower, so to speak, and that, as taxpayers, they should also be included and interested in broader discussions surrounding post secondary institutions.
Listen to my full interview here:
Just read a news item saying that relatives can't decide whether they want the Nova Scotia government to declare a day honouring the legacy of Viola Desmond, the Canadian civil rights icon.
Desmond is a woman from New Glasgow, N.S., who became embroiled in a court case that was spurred on by racism in the 1940s.
Dean Jobb, a professor of journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, profiled Desmond in the April-May 2009 issue of our magazine.
Hopefully both sides will work out their differences, because if anyone deserves a day named after them, it's Desmond.
To read the full story, click here.
Jessie Aberhart's Heavenly Hash
1/3 kilogram of graham-wafer crumbs
1/3 kilogram of miniature marshmallows
¼ kilogram marachino cherries
two cups walnuts
one can sweetened condensed milk
sprinkling of icing sugar
Combine ingredients in medium sized pan, and then pop into the freezer. Enjoy!
This recipe was concocted in the 1920s by Jessie Aberhart, wife of William "Bible Bill" Aberhart (premier of Alberta from 1935–43), in the interest of fattening up a young Ernest Manning (premier of Alberta from 1943–68). Author Brian Brennan describes the recipe in his 2008 book "The Good Steward," a biography of Ernest Manning.
To learn more about "The Good Steward," go to BrianBrennan.ca/writings.html (ed: link revised September 9, 2011).
John Cabot and David Thompson, though born centuries apart, shared common traits. They were businessmen who used exploration to gain advantages over their competitors. They also shared the courage to go beyond the edges of the map, to push back the horizon that had constrained previous generations.
Exploration today is far easier than it was back then. Crossing the Atlantic used to take weeks in a tall ship. The journey is now measured in hours by plane. Pleasure cruises now ply the frozen waters of the Northwest Passage, passing by the cairns and bones of dead explorers. Even the summit of Mount Everest is accessible for people who are relatively fit — and well-off.
For decades, The Beaver magazine has chronicled the exploits of the explorers who increased our understanding of Canada. And so we thought it was only fitting to focus on explorers as we begin our new journey as Canada's History magazine.
In this issue, two of our greatest explorers — David Thompson and John Cabot — are the subjects of major features. We also bring you the story of courageous Aboriginal men who in 1710 crossed the Atlantic to visit the strange homeland of the European newcomers. And we present the story of a modern-day conflict over a river with a rich historic legacy.
In our inaugural issue, we introduce new departments and new columnists. And the magazine itself has been redesigned.
New items include: "Timeline," a visually driven look at key moments in Canadian history; "Brushstrokes," in which we feature a historic painting and tell the stories behind the image and of the artist who created it; and "Laugh lines," a spotlight on editorial cartoons from the past.
We are proud of The Beaver's ninety-year legacy, as well as our ongoing relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company. That's why we created "Trading Post," a new department that highlights stories from The Beaver from thirty, sixty, and ninety years ago and also presents the history behind artifacts from the HBC fur trade.
For those of you who enjoy engaging commentary, we have added two new columnists to our roster of writers. Joining regular and long-time columnist Christopher Moore are historian Tina Loo of the University of British Columbia (page 49), and best-selling non-fiction author Ken McGoogan,who will appear in the June-July issue.
Some changes have been made to enhance the readability of the magazine. The editor's note, for instance, has moved deeper into the magazine to make room foran improved contents listing.
And for even more Canadian history, visit CanadasHistory.ca, our dynamic new online portal. It features a host of content — much of it exclusive to the website — including podcasts, video blogs, breaking history news,photo galleries, and even a Canada's History Photo Club for avid camera buffs.
Much has changed here at Canada's History,but our commitment to telling Canada's stories remains as strong as ever. So please, do explore your new magazine. We hope you enjoy it.
"This is a 'journal of progress' in every sense." — Clifton Thomas, founding editor of The Beaver, October 1920.
The cover of this issue depicts a scene from Nanook of the North — considered the world's first feature-length documentary film. The image shows Nanook — played by a Canadian Inuit man named Allakariallak — with his arm cocked and ready to hurl a harpoon at his prey.
Shot by American moviemaker Robert J. Flaherty, the film captivated audiences around the world after it debuted in 1922. Released two years after the founding of The Beaver in 1920, Nanook, like The Beaver, offered a window on a world most Canadians would never witness first-hand.
Viewers obviously connected with Nanook's realistic vision of life in the Canadian North, just as they yearned for the stories found in The Beaver.
Launched as an internal newsletter of the Hudson's Bay Company, The Beaver: A Journal of Progress soon outgrew its modest aspirations. By the 1930s, it had a large following among many non-HBC employees and was relaunched as The Beaver: A Magazine of the North.
Over the next few decades, The Beaver carried a fascinating mélange of travelogues, photo essays, book reviews, and news from the North. It featured history stories, too, but for much of its existence The Beaver was not a history magazine. It was, as the founding editor stated in the inaugural issue, a "journal of progress," with eyes clearly focused on both the present and the future.
Over time, our vision of, and fascination with, the North, changed.
With the Arctic no longer inaccessible, old ways of life fell to the wayside. Spears were replaced by rifles, dogsleds by snowmobiles. As the nation moved forward, we increasingly looked backwards, reminiscing about the stories and people who came before us. The magazine was no different. And so we redefined ourselves again, this time as The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine.
This issue will be our last as The Beaver. Beginning in April, we will begin a new journey as Canada's History. It is more than just a name change — it's a reaffirmation of who we are and what we do. While born of the fur trade, the magazine's mission today is to tell the stories of all Canadians.
As we take this bold next step, I think back to the words of Clifton Thomas and the well-thumbed copy of that first issue of The Beaver that sits on my desk. Under the title "We Make Our Bow," Thomas promised readers he would endeavour to make The Beaver a worthy journal of the HBC.
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Prosecutor says death penalty is unlikely in Kennewick murder case
The Benton County prosecutor says it is unlikely he will seek the death penalty in Kennewick's most recent murder case.
Grant Wayne Scantling is accused of killing 24 year-old Franklin Palmer at a duplex on East 8th Place last month.
Prosecutor Andy Miller says he is still waiting on police reports to review, and he has not decided if he will seek the death penalty.
However, he says it appears this case will not meet the criteria for a death penalty case.
Scantling will be back in court for an update on this issue on April 24th.


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Revealed: A sneak peek of Move "fashtronics" store in Sydney's Bondi Junction, yesterday.
The first ever Move store located at Ground floor, Westfield Bondi Junction, Sydney, will open this Saturday with a special performance by pop sensation, Timomatic, at Westfield Centre Court on Level 4, before meeting with fans and signing autographs at the store.
Move will celebrate its opening with some incredible one-off opening deals on the day.
Read: Dick Smith's "Move": A Trendy Tech Emporium
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Convenient access to the garage is available by utilizing the new Royal Brougham overpass. Vehicles approaching from the west will use the overpass ramp to reach the upper-level garage entrance. From the east, follow the overpass up and over the railroad tracks to the garage entrance on the right hand side. With the completion of the ramps, Royal Brougham is now permanently closed at grade to vehicles and pedestrians at the railroad tracks.
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They even give each other black eyes.
It's another one of Chelsea Handler's late-night stunts.
She got naked in the shower with Sandra Bullock last October to promote the new season of her E! Chelsea Lately talk show.
And now she's naked with Conan O'Brien in a new video. It's not completely clear why he's there, but his buff bare chest is bringing out the raves online.
It stars with Chelsea entering the show's staff shower. She's surprised by Conan. "How do people keep getting in here?" she asks him, her breasts blurred out.
He's angry and accuses her of stealing his old Tonight Show studio and his parking space. "That's just weird," she tells him.
More: A timeline of 'The Tonight Show'
And, he says, she took his "back massager," he says, to which she replies, "I do use that back massager, although I had no idea it was for my back."
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A fire that has been burning much of the summer near Richfield flared up again on Tuesday filling the areas of Carbon and Emery counties with smoke.
The same thing happened about a month ago when winds from the south brought smoke into the Carbon and Emery area and residents thought a wild fire was burning.
When the smoke appeared on Tuesday afternoon, crews were dispatched to the area east of the Wasatch Plateau to find out if there was a fire in the area, but as of 6 p.m. no fire had been found burning in the local area based on information that came from the Moab Interagency Fire Center on Tuesday evening.
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England coach Stuart Lancaster has ruled out making wholesale changes for Sunday's clash against Italy at Twickenham.
England coach Stuart Lancaster has ruled out making wholesale changes for Sunday's clash against Italy at Twickenham but has suggested he will give a few replacements a chance to start.
Toby Flood, Danny Care, Billy Twelvetrees, Mako Vunipola and his brother Billy are all candidates for a starting berth as the England coach looks inject some freshness into his team ahead of the potential Grand Slam decider in Cardiff a week later.
"I wouldn't want to make wholesale changes going into Italy because I think combinations working and learning together on the field is the important part of it as well," Lancaster told the Telegraph.
"One or two people are suggesting let's make seven, eight, nine or ten changes and bring in a whole load of people who are playing well in the Premiership. I think that would be hugely disrespectful to Italy and definitely the route we will not go down.
"I think there is a difference between that and freshening the side up with players of equal quality who have sat on the bench and waited patiently."
Lancaster explained that it was important to strike a balance between the need for immediate results and building for the 2015 World Cup.
"I have always had to balance the needs of winning in the here and now and developing a team for the future and I don't think my mindset is any different now going into these last two games," he added.
"I think it is important to win in the here and now. It does build confidence and builds space for the team to grow. But equally I have never been dominated by it so I have always had one eye on the big picture and think about where we are going.
"But now we are going to the Italy game, it is not a case of experimentation in order to grow a team and bring young players in for 2015. It is actually about giving the right group of players that we think we have got now more experience over the next two games."


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Zions Bank continues its long-held holiday tradition this year, inviting elementary school students from throughout the state to decorate a Christmas tree with handmade ornaments in the lobby of each Zions Bank branch. The bank provides the lighted tree and students contribute ornaments they make themselves. In return for the creative decorations, bank branches make cash donations to each participating school.
This year, Huntington Elementary kindergarten through sixth grade students decorated a tree inside Zions Bank's Huntington office on Dec. 2. Students, teachers, parents and Zions Bank employees gathered in the branch's lobby for the Lights On ceremony.
Zions Bank presented a contribution of 35 cents per ornament to the school, and participants sang Christmas carols, met Santa Claus and enjoyed refreshments. The tree will be on display in the bank's lobby through the holidays.
In addition, Cottonwood Elementary students celebrated Lights On at Zions Bank's Castle Dale branch on Dec. 8, at 4:30 p.m. Zions will make a contribution to the school and students will have the opportunity to meet a visitor from the North Pole.
"We have been hosting 'Lights On' for nearly 17 years now," said Ed Christianson, manager at Zions Bank's Huntington office."It's always been a great opportunity to bring school children and their parents together in celebration of the holiday spirit."
More than 60 Utah and Idaho elementary schools will participate in Zions Bank's Lights On holiday celebration this year. In addition, a number of Zions Bank branches have invited students from low-income neighborhoods and special-needs children to decorate the trees in their lobbies. Zions Bank has been inviting students to participate in this annual holiday event for more than 33 years.


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Lessard and Martin equal best result this season on World Tour
KRISTIANSAND, Norway - Marie-Andrée Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., and Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., equalled their best result this season on the World Tour beach volleyball circuit placing ninth following a loss on Friday.
The Canadian veterans produced a strong run at the 13th stop on the circuit and were finally stopped by eighth-seed Brazilians Maria-Clara and Carol Salgado 21-18, 21-16. The Brazilians won their next two matches and are in the semifinals.
On Friday, Lessard and Martin led the first set 16-13 but couldn't adjust when the Brazilians changed their strategy.
"We tried a different strategy as well to try and get the lead back but it didn't work," said Lessard. "Still we are happy with our final placing."
The Canadians had a bye to the main draw this week and won three of their five matches in the double elimination tournament. They earn $6,000 in prize money.
The next stop on the circuit starts Tuesday in Aland, Finland.


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Simply put, it's a wiki for Greek texts. It currently contains scans of the Nestle 4th edition (BFBS 1904) from archive.org, and an online transcription of that text that someone from this discussion board posted to their website. It has a wizard for indexing texts, which is rudimentary but already identifies the bulk of NT words correctly. Once indexed, a text has mouse-over parsing, auto-generated vocabularies, and (when I update the code from a previous version) grammatical pattern matching. It combines Strongs glosses and the Perseus lexicon for word data.
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By Alan J. PetersonHelper
There has been a lot of talk lately about the Obama Administration's Wild Lands Policy known as Secretarial Order #3310. This "top-down" approach is very disturbing. It's also in direct contradiction to what the Obama Administration recently instructed the public to do. The Obama Administration's new policy is dividing us instead of bringing all users to the table in order to move forward.
I've lived in Carbon County all of my life. With my family, I've camped on the Wasatch Plateau, ridden dirt bikes throughout the San Rafael Desert, mountain-biked with the MECCA club, and hiked more miles than I'm willing to admit. I've closely followed and understand public land issues, as I've been involved in the process for nearly 30 years.
There's a lot of uncertainty surrounding management of public lands because with each new administration in Washington D.C., there comes a change in policy at the BLM and Forest Service. But that doesn't mean there isn't something we can do locally. We can, and we must, let our voice be heard.
I fully support Emery County Commissioners Jeff Horrocks, Laurie Pitchforth and JR Nelson, and The Emery County Public Lands Council. I urge them to continue their work on the Emery County Public Lands Bill. I applaud their efforts and their commitment to making sure our voices are heard.
We should be focused on working together to create a bill that represents the desires of the local community, where everyone with an interest has a seat at the table. We should all have a say in what happens to our public lands. We are its stewards, its protectors and its patrons. These lands are where we hunt, fish, hike, ride, camp and spend time with our families.
I know that discussions around land use and wilderness designation are difficult but we've seen in Utah's own Washington County that a "bottom-up" collaborative process can result in a workable agreement.
I hope that the work being done by the ECC and the ECPLC will create an even better bill for Emery County. I also believe that the Emery County Public Lands Bill process prevented (or at least influenced) the Obama Administration when they chose not to designate a new monument in the San Rafael. My belief is that if Emery County had not been developing it's ECPLC, the Obama-Salazar regime would have used the magic pen to designate the San Rafael as a national monument. I understand that this remains a real threat, and it could still happen. I'm trusting that Obama-Salazar will back off as long as Emery County is actively pursuing a locally grown solution.
I believe the only thing that the end to the 30-year debate over the amount of wilderness will come thru an ECPLB. But, only if the bill is created through open collaboration of all stakeholders who are willing to get out on the ground and see the facts. Facts are obvious once you get out on the land and touch, feel, smell and kick the dirt. That's exactly what the ECPLC has been doing for more than a year now. They have taken many field trips to all parts of Emery County. These trips have involved all stakeholders willing to invest the time and energy to get out and see for themselves.
The ECC, ECPLC, and staff need your help. They need your involvement. They need you to participate in the process. They don't know everything about every area of Emery County. They need you to speak up. We've elected them to be our voice on land use issues, but they can't speak for us unless we let them know what our concerns are. They've heard from me many times. Have they heard from you?
I will continue supporting the Commissioners and Public Lands Council as they work on a "bottom-up" lands bill. They have my support, and gratitude for being willing to lead on these tough issues. Their job is to represent us, so now it's up to you and I to let them know our desires.


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