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Connexions Archive seeks a new home
2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?
2012-10-08
Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT).
Quilt of Belonging at the G20 Summit
2010-06-25
Quilt of Belonging
Quilt of Belonging, one of Canadas most powerful and comprehensive art projects, is a feature exhibit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the G20 Summit. The richly hued, 120-foot textile mosa...

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The Case for Grassroots Archives
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Doors Open Ontario
Website
From April to October each year, communities open the doors to some of our most intriguing and charming heritage sites.
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage project
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
An international research initiative to explore and facilitate fair and equitable exchanges of knowledge relating to archaeology.
Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Article
2012
Connexions
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Lynfield, Ben
Article
2015
The National
The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present dif...
The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Malik, Kenan
Article
2018
kenanmalik.wordpress.com
A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage...
Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Article
2012
Connexions and Beit Zatoun
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). G...
Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Dalrymple, William
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
Oral tradition
Wikipedia article
Article
Cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another.

Media

The Archivist/L'Archiviste
A free, bilingual, information-packed magazine highlighting the archival resources and services of the National Archives of Canada.
Canadian Geographic
An award-winning magazine known for accuracy and fairness. It publishes stellar work by Canada's most accomplished science, environment, natural and cultural history and travel writers and most celeb...
Continuit‚
Qu‚bec cultural heritage.
H Magazine
A new magazine about urban landscapes, examines faded signs, old buildings, architectural ornaments, lost and found items, apartments with names, and other things that often go overlooked or unquestio...
ROM
Magazine by Royal Ontario Museum. Articles on science, art and archaeology with regular editorial columns. All content concentrates on the research and collections of the ROM.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Department of Canadian Heritage
Amalgamation of certain programs from former Department of the Secretary of State, Parks Canada, Multiculturalism and Citizenship, Amateur Sport, and Communications Canada. Mandate is to ensure a stro...
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
The statutory advisory body to the Minister of the Environment and, through the Minister, to the Government of Canada on the commemoration of nationally significant aspects of Canada's history.
Old Port of Montreal Corporation Inc.
Manager of the Quays of the Old Port of Montr‚al and the Montr‚al Science Centre.


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