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Update from Graeme Decarie, retired MCHS and Concordia history teacher: Three children in school, one at McGill, two at Concordia
/3 Comments/in Commentary, MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI recently told Graeme Decarie that I would put together an update based on a recent email exchange with him. The update follows below. On Jan. 9, 2018, Graeme Decarie wrote: One of my boys, Nicholas, has been studying at university in Fredericton, and will graduate this year. Today, he got accepted for a master’s […]
The Canadian Oral History Reader (2015) “is an important work”
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillYou can access a review of the book here. The Canadian Oral History Reader ed. by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly (review) Heather Read From: The Canadian Historical Review Volume 97, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 145-147 The opening paragraphs of the review read: [I have broken the longer text into shorter […]
First Story is an interactive map of Toronto’s Aboriginal history
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’m pleased to share with you the following information from the Toronto Native Community History Project: FIRST STORY is an interactive multimedia map of Toronto’s Aboriginal history, empowering the Indigenous community of Toronto to reveal and explore our geography and culture. Users will have access, via a smartphone, to stories, photographs, archival documents, audio and video clips that illuminate Aboriginal presence and history in […]
Toronto has no history! and other abstracts (Thorncrest Village in Etobicoke and Hamilton’s King Street West) from Urban History Review
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillToronto has no history! (Victoria Jane Freeman) The following abstract is from Urban History Review, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2010). In 1884, during a week-long commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Toronto’s incorporation in 1834, tens of thousands celebrated Toronto’s history and its relation to British colonialism and imperialism. The author’s analysis of the historical tableaux […]