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Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
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).
Sources welcomes Michael Riordon2010-04-14
Michael Riordon
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio a...
Sources Select Resources
Activist archiving in TorontoLithgow, Michael
Article
2013
Alternative Archive
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
Alternative Canada 150 project redraws history to spotlight untold storiesBorn from opposition to Canada 150, Remember Resist Redraw posters are being used in schools across Canada
vanKampen, Stephanie
Article
2018
CBC News
During Canada 150 celebrations, a project titled "Remember Resist Redraw" releases illustrated posters depicting a variety of stories often left out of traditional history textbooks -- stories of oppr...
Berton, PierreConnexipedia Article
Article
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
The Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, 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...
Content Magazine - Number 43July 1974
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1974
Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentaryCram, Stephanie
Article
2016
CBC News
Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography OnlineWebsite
More than 8,500 biographies of Canadians.
Fame & Fortune OnlineWebsite
Sources
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
History Topic Index in Sources Directory of ExpertsSpokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Website
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A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
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.
The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?Weinberg, Paul
Article
2013
J Source - The Canadian Jorunalism Project
The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close ...
Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation 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...
New Hogtown PressConnexipedia Article
Article
2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
North-West RebellionConnexipedia Article
Article
A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the ...
On-to-Ottawa TrekConnexipedia Article
Article
A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
Operation SoapWikipedia article
Article
Wikipedia
Operation Soap was a raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981. More than three hundred men were arrested, t...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015Labour Day issue
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular educ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in ...
The Praxis AffairThere's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Weinberg, Paul
Article
2015
Canadian Centre for Policy Aletrnatives (CCPA)
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting g...
Rebellions of 1837Connexipedia Article
Article
Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
Red River RebellionConnexipedia Article
Article
Name given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba...
Riel, LouisConnexipedia Article
Article
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Seven NewsSerial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Seven News
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no long...
Slavery in CanadaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Slavery in what now comprises Canada existed into the 1830s, when slavery was officially abolished. Some slaves were of African descent, while others were aboriginal (typically called panis, likely a ...
Ten Lost Years discovery of superb social historyBook Review of Ten Lost Years by Barry Broadfoot
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1974
The Varsity
Barry Broadfoot's book consists almost entirely of excerpts from interviews he conducted with people who remember the Depression. The people speak for themselves: Broadfoot has edited them and organis...
They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples Lathem, Alexis
Article
2016
Toward Freedom
Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who we...
Trudeau, PierreSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Pierre Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.
Virtual Museum of CanadaWebsite
Canadian Musuem of History
A project of the Canadian Museum of History, featuring online exhibits.
War Measures ActSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The War Measures Act was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers in the event of "war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended". Enacted in August 1914...
Sources Bookshelf
After the Ice AgeThe Return of Life to Glaciated North America
Pielou, E.C.
Book
1991
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian HistoryTanner, Helen Hornbeck (ed): Cartography by Miklos Pinther
Book
1987
Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
Canada RediscoveredMcGhee, Robert
Book
1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the ...
Canada Since 1960: A People's HistoryA Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Gonick, By (ed.)
Book
2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
Canadian Who's WhoSerial Publication (Periodical)
1997
Biographical information about more than 15,000 prominent Canadians.
Communicating in Canada's PastEssays in Media History
Allen, Gene; Robinson, Daniel J. (eds.)
Book
2009
Address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada. Includes a substantial introduction to media history as a field of study and essays on a range of subjects, including print journalis...
Content Magazine - Number 43July 1974
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1974
Dictionary of Canadian Place NamesRayburn, Alan
Book
1997
Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
From Politics to ProfitThe Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Sotiron, Minko
Book
1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
History of the Book in CanadaVolume Two: 1840 - 1918
Lamonde, Yvan, Fleming, Patricia Lockhart, Black, Fiona. A.
Book
2005
The second of three volumes dealing with the history of publishing in Canada.
Keepers of the RecordThe History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives
Simmons, Deidre
Book
2009
Offers a comprehensive look at the development of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives over three centuries. Archives trace the history of the fur trade, North American exploration, the growth of a retai...
Kill The MessengersStephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know
Bourrie, Mark
Book
2015
Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
The Ojibwa of Southern OntarioSchmalz, Peter S.
Book
1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
The Oxford Companion to Canadian HistoryHallowell, Gerald (ed.)
Book
2004
Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation...
Pictures Bring Us MessagesSinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Brown, Alison, K., Peers, Laura, with members of the Kainai Nation
Book
2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
Press for Conversion #43December 2000
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2000
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic CanadaVarga, Darrell (ed.)
Book
2008
Scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. Provides a broad historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics such as contemporary popular ...
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Toronto RocksThe Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Eyles, Nick; Clinton, Laura
Book
1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
An Unauthorized Biography of the WorldOral History on the Front Lines
Riordon, Michael
Book
2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ...
Where is Here?Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell
Morantz, Alan
Book
2002
Morantz tries to show how maps and the art of map-making have shaped us as Canadians and what they reveal of who we are.
Beyond BoundariesThe journal publishes works that explore a sense of place in western Canada, the relevance of history in people's lives, and our impact on the world around us.
Canadian Historical ReviewAnalysis of the ideas, people and events that have molded Canadian society and institutions. Canada's past is examined from a vast and multicultural perspective.
KayakKayak: Canada's History Magazine For Kids.
Geared to 7-12 year olds. Includes comics, short articles, original games and jokes, designed to make discovering Canada and its stories fun and memorable.
LabourA bilingual journal holding no rigid position on the definition of labour. The editorial board hopes to foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an open ex...
Left HistoryAn interdisciplinary journal of historical inquiry and debate.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canada Aviation and Space MuseumThe museum's collection policy is to illustrate the development of the flying machine in both peace and war from the pioneer period to the present time.
Canadian Museum of HistoryTo enhance Canadians# knowledge, understanding and appreciation of events, experiences, people and objects that reflect and have shaped Canada#s history and identity, and also to enhance their awarene...
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of CanadaThe 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.
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