With my work now, I try to share engaging and unexpected stories — history that will catch people’s attention — and then connect those stories to their broader historical context. The story ...

[1] Dorothy McMurray, Four Principals of McGill: A Memoir 1929-1963 (Graduates’ Society of McGill, 1974), 31-32; Stanley Brice Frost, The Man in the Ivory Tower: F. Cyril James of McGill (McGill-Queen ...

In his case for “steering a middle course” on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the history classroom, written partially as response to earlier pieces by each of us, Mark Humphries makes a ...

This is the final post in a three-part series about socialism at McGill in the 1930s. Raffaella Cerenzia 1930s McGill was a small, tight-knit place. Only 3,000 or so students roamed the ...

This is the final post in a three-part series about socialism at McGill in the 1930s. Raffaella Cerenzia 1930s McGill was a small, tight-knit place. Only 3,000 or so students roamed the university’s ...

This is the final post in a three-part series about socialism at McGill in the 1930s. Raffaella Cerenzia 1930s McGill was a small, tight-knit place. Only 3,000 or so students roamed the university’s ...

This week I talk with Peter Fortna, author of The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History.We talk about the origins of the Nation, which is located in northeastern Alberta, the community ...

Time to wake up!” In January 1933, deep in the midst of the Great Depression, a new student publication announced its arrival on McGill University’s campus. The paper was the production of McGill’s ...

Carrying on down the Trans-Canada Highway, we stop for a picnic on Fredericton’s Green next to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Known as Fredericton’s cruising area, the Green provided those seeking love ...

One thought on “ Selling the Sixties Scoop: Saskatchewan’s Adopt Indian and Métis Project ” Ian Henderson October 19, 2017 at 1:38 pm. I put this article on my Facebook page, Here’s what I wrote about ...

Sean Graham talks with Caitlin Keliiaa, author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labour and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program.They discuss the residential schooling system in the ...