A conversational series for Canadian history teachers. We speak to historians, archivists, creators, artists, curators, sociologists, anthropologists about one primary source and ask: What is the source? What is the story? How can it challenge Canadian history?
Exploring the creation of Canada’s Food Guide with Dr. Ian Mosby & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
Join Dr. Ian Mosby (Toronto Metropolitan University) as he shares how Canada’s Food Rules, the first version of Canada’s Food Guide, is able to demonstrate the biases and prejudices of settler colonialism. Dr. Mosby explores how history can be used as an act of service, to answer questions and help connect stories.
Dr. Mosby draws on his research to craft an engaging discussion on the creation of the Food Guide, and the background factors that influenced the decisions of what made a healthy diet. He explores how settler colonial ideas lead to its creation and the experimentation of nutritional guidance on vulnerable populations.
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12 Jun 2023
The Listuguj Salmon Raid and the power of oral histories with Brandon Mitchell & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
Join Brandon Mitchell, a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, as he shares the story of the 1st Listuguj Salmon Raid in 1980, told to him by his mother-in-law only a few years ago. While the 1981 Salmon raid is often the one remembered through family conversations.
Brandon learned that police stormed the Listuguj community a year earlier. Learning about this previous raid inspired Brandon Mitchell to write "Migwite'tmeg: We Remember It", a contribution to the groundbreaking comic collection This Place, published by Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press.
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1 Jun 2023
Gloria Baylis and the groundbreaking racial discrimination court case of 1965 with Dr. Karen Flynn & Dr. Samantha Cutrara
Join Dr. Karen Flynn (University of Illinois) as she brings us the story of Gloria Baylis, a Black nurse working in Montreal in the 1960s who won the first racial discrimination in employment case in Canada through the trial: Her Majesty the Queen vs. Hilton of Canada Ltd. (aka the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal). Through Gloria’s story, we can see behind the facade of this significant Canadian hotel and explore the intersection of race, class, gender, and the transnational nature of Canadian history.
Dr. Flynn talks passionately about why we need to bring Gloria’s story into every history classroom, to learn about these groundbreaking court cases history has forgotten.
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