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What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 1d
Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!

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Green background with corded phone graphic in the bottom left corner. White text says: “Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!” “We are particularly interested in Series Editors, Contributing Editors, Regular Contributors.” “More info @ activehistory.ca” White active history logo in bottom right corner.
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 5d
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 · 8d
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 · 12d
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 · 12d
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 · 13d
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 · 15d
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 · 15d
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 · 15d
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 · 20d
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 · 21d
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 · 22d
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 · 26d
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 · 27d
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 · 28d
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
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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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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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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Jul 23
In today’s post Francesco Coirazza explores Quebec’s Bill 84 and immigration.
Two Lefts, Two Paths: Quebec Left Politics and the Immigration Question through Bill 84
Francesco Coirazza “Multiculturalism finally no longer applies to Quebec! […] It’s a model that has always been harmful to Quebec,” claimed Minister of the French Language Jean-François Roberge in …
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Jul 16
In today’s post Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton explore recent book bans in Alberta and what it means for 2SLGBTQ+ youth.
2SLGBTQ+ Youth, Parental Rights, and Alberta Standards for School Libraries
Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton This button is from Nancy’s political button “archive.” She first wore it in the 1990s when groups attempted to ban books from libraries, including Lesléa Newman’…
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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · Jul 15
UTP author Jennifer Neville was a guest on a recent episode of the Active History podcast, discussing her new book Truth is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles. @activehist.bsky.social

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January 2025 – Active History
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