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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 2d

In today’s post Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser explore historical and contemporary trends of masking and vaccination.

How the History of the Anti-mask and Anti-vaccination Movements Hang Together

Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is best known as a vaccination skeptic, but he is also skeptical about using masks for infection control. At the Libertarian National Conv…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 3d

Stan Vassilenko explores the perception of Russian civil society in today’s post.

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Histoire Engagée @histoireengagee.ca · 3d

En ce 200e du #CanalLachine, Samia Dumais revisite l'histoire ouvirère de la Petite-Bourgogne, à travers les porteurs noirs du CN, images de marque de l'entreprise et nénamoins victimes de racisme par l'employeur. #capitalism #racism #railway #canada ingeniumcanada.org/channel/arti...

Beyond the Uniform: The in/visible lives of Black porters in Canadian Railway Magazines

As one of the inaugural Black and African Canadian Scientific and Technological Innovations fello

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 5d

Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 6d

Cara Tremain discusses the future of Canadian museums and the need for continued support and policy change.

The Continuing Relevance of Museums in Canada

This summer, the Government of Canada helped to promote visits to museums through the Canada Strong pass. While initially focused on seven of the country’s nine national museums, other provinces an…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 9d

Hailey Baldock explores the intersection of feminist and media history through the 1970 Abortion Caravan.

When Protest Becomes News: The 1970 Abortion Caravan and the Politics of Media Coverage

By Hailey Baldock With a black coffin strapped to the top of their van and a fiery determination to scrap Canada’s abortion laws, the women of the 1970 Abortion Caravan knew they had to make a scen…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 12d

Today’s post is in recognition of the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

Read more about the shared ressources here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09...

Orange background, white text stating: On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which the federal government created to honour “the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities”, members of the Active History editorial collective offer suggestions on scholarship and resources they have found helpful in their own work and learning journeys

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · 16d

Check out @abbybeckett.bsky.social @activehist.bsky.social on Jean De Brébeuf’s Feast Day and how his remains were used to medically heal the sick shortly after his death!

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Jean de Brebeuf: Colonial Tensions and Spiritual Healing c. 1649-1660

This case study of Jean de Brébeuf emphasizes the intricacies of colonial tensions and complicates colonial narratives and ideas of civilization hierarchies. Indigenous cannibalism was used as a me…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 16d

In today’s post, Abigail Beckett (@abbybeckett.bsky.social) explores the Indigenous and colonial history behind Jean de Brebeuf’s Feast Day, celebrated on September 26th.

Jean de Brebeuf: Colonial Tensions and Spiritual Healing c. 1649-1660

This case study of Jean de Brébeuf emphasizes the intricacies of colonial tensions and complicates colonial narratives and ideas of civilization hierarchies. Indigenous cannibalism was used as a me…

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Histoire Engagée @histoireengagee.ca · 17d

Face à l’IA, les historien·nes oscillent entre deux tentations : abandonner ou se rallier, de gré ou de force. Et s’il existait une 3e voie, demande Edward Dunsworth @activehist.bsky.social @camille-robert.info #intelligenceartificielle #enseignement #histoire #pedagogie 👉 bit.ly/DunsworthHE

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Histoire Engagée @histoireengagee.ca · 19d

C'est cette semaine qu'aura lieu le #colloque de lancement de la Chaire en #histoire #contemporaine du #Québec. Plusieurs membres de notre collectif y prendront part, dont @cathlaro.bsky.social @camille-robert.info et @martinpaquet.bsky.social. 👉https://bit.ly/ColloqueCHCQ @activehist.bsky.social

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 19d

Today’s post, by Aidan Hughes from @uguelphhist.bsky.social, explores the history of women’s bodybuilding.

Triceps, Traps, and… Tiaras?: Gender Performance and Subversion in Women’s Bodybuilding through Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985)

In 1985, filmmakers George Butler and Charles Gaines produced Pumping Iron II: The Women. It followed women bodybuilders at a bodybuilding show in Las Vegas during 1983, but mainly focused on two v…

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Dominique Marshall @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social · 19d

Listen to the first Shannon Lecture speaker of this Fall 2025 series, Sarah Hogenbirk, on the history of women in the Canadian Air Force on the @activehist.bsky.social podcast activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09...

Archives of the department of national defense on display at the Shannon Lecture of September 22, 2025

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 24d

In today’s post, Hannah Roth Cooley explores early social media in Indigenous communities.

Kainai News: Social Media before Social Media

Hannah Roth Cooley Over roughly the last decade, settler Canadians and Americans have started to take note of Indigenous activist initiatives, thanks in large part to social media. Beginning with t…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 25d

Today’s post, by June Chow, explores the preservation of Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada. It is a sequel to a previous post by Chow published in March.

Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada

Author’s great-grandfather on his first trip back to China to marry. Note the poor quality of the microfilm image and especially photograph. “Wong Guey Yem,” Department of Employment and Immi…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s post by Daze Jefferies and Rhea Rollmann explores transfeminine histories in Newfoundland.

On Wave Relationships and Struggle at the Margins: Transfeminine Histories and Echoes in Newfoundland

Photo of Jeannie Sheppard (The Daily Register, December 18, 1980) overlaid with waves. Daze Jefferies and Rhea Rollmann Editor’s note: the following work by Daze Jefferies and Rhea Rollmann is a pi…

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Sean Graham @theseangraham.bsky.social · Sep 12

We're back from our summer hiatus on What's Old is News @activehist.bsky.social as I talk with @craigbaird.bsky.social about his book on the Trans-Canada Highway
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Trans-Canada Highway – What’s Old is News

By Sean Graham We’re back from our summer hiatus with a new season and we’re kicking it off by talking with Craig Baird, the host of Canada History Ehx about his new book Canada’s…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 11

In today’s post, Christine Cooling looks at the history of Canada’s broadcasting policy.

From Static to Streaming: Canada’s 100-Year Fight for Cultural Sovereignty

By Christine Cooling When Canadians tuned into their first radio broadcasts in the 1920s, much of what they listened to wasn’t Canadian. American stations with stronger signals and flashier program…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today’s post, by Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu, explores their creation of an OER (open educational resource) on the life of Kiyo Tanaka-Goto, a Japanese woman who lived in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Kiyo Tanaka-Goto: An Open Educational Resource on a Life of Defiance and Relation-Making in the Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Hand towel, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Kiyo Goto Collection, 2003.7.37, photo by Tadafumi Tamura. Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu What can one racialized migr…

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The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · Sep 3

In solidarity with Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans (CAIABB) we are sharing their recent peition “Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans”.

The CCBC supports the freedom to read. Our statement on the Alberta Book Bans can be found on our website.

Link: change.org/AB-book-ban

Sign the Petition

Tell the Alberta Government: No Book Bans

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 4

In today’s post Andrew Nurse explores the use of media in history and the value of community newspapers.

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 3

John Price’s second post on Canada’s history of involvement with Palestine is out now.

Elizabeth MacCallum and the Global South Confront Partition

Lester Pearson chairs the meeting on Palestine at Committee 1, United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly, May 6, 1947. Credit: UN Photo, UN7520510. John Price This is the second post i…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today’s post, by John Price, is the first of a two part series exploring Zionism and Palestine through the work of Elizabeth MacCallum.

In the Shadow of Genocide: Elizabeth MacCallum Challenges Anti-Jewish Racism and Zionism

Elizabeth MacCallum. Source: Queen’s Alumni Review Vol. 27, November 1952, p. 215, photo by Van’s Studio Ottawa. John Price This is the first post in a two-part series based on a recent…

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Aug 1

Read Erin Gallagher-Cohoon’s post on queer histories of family and divorce in Nova Scotia
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Quote graphic. Green background with rainbow border. White text says: “The judge’s verdict provides limited insight into the complicated social dynamics of a failing marriage at a time when homosexuality was still criminalized and when Canadian divorce law was in a transitional period.” “Erin Gallagher-Cohoon”

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Jul 30

In today’s post Sean Carleton and Adina Williams discuss their collaborative research on the residential school system as part of the Yúusneẇas Project.

Taking Care of the Truth: A Call for Collaborative, Community-Engaged Residential School Research

The Squamish Nation’s Yúusnewas project demonstrates the importance of data sovereignty, big data analysis, and the need for collaborative, community-engaged residential school research as pa…

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