Jerry Bannister Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to access Borealia’s back-catalogue for at least another couple years. Thanks for reading, and thanks to E.A. Heaman, Max Hamon, and Jerry Bannister for… Continue Reading
Max Hamon Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to access Borealia’s back-catalogue for at least another couple years. Thanks for reading, and thanks to E.A. Heaman, Max Hamon, and Jerry Bannister for… Continue Reading
E.A. Heaman Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to access Borealia’s back-catalogue for at least another couple years. Thanks for reading, and thanks to E.A. Heaman, Max Hamon, and Jerry Bannister for… Continue Reading
It has now been a decade since Borealia was launched, in 2015, with the intention of amplifying scholarship on northern North America before the twentieth century. We hoped it would be a forum where historians of different sub-fields of “early Canadian history” could make connections, and to bring this great work to educators, non-specialists, and… Continue Reading
Mack Penner This post is the first in a series of essays derived from The Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online workshop which was held in late August 2024 at Huron College, London, Ontario. Borealia will cross-post the essays as they appear on Active History. The opening session of Active History’s late-August workshop on knowledge mobilization and… Continue Reading
It has now been almost a decade since Borealia was launched with the intention of amplifying scholarship on northern North America before the twentieth century. We hoped it would be a forum where historians of different sub-fields could make connections, and to bring this great work to educators, non-specialists, and an interested general readership. We… Continue Reading
It is always gratifying to learn that secondary, college, or university teachers are using Borealia in their classrooms. Over the years, we have had educators tell us they have included essays in their syllabi, have found them useful to get up to speed on new research, or even as a model for student assignments. Thanks… Continue Reading
Zachary A. Tingley In 1835, A. C. Buchanan, the crown’s agent for emigration in Upper and Lower Canada, sent a letter to Lord Aylmer, Governor of British North America, on the subject of possible improvements that could be made for vessels navigating the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In his opening remarks, Buchanan wrote “I have… Continue Reading
Alanna Loucks Over the last few months, I started writing a draft of the final chapter of my dissertation. This chapter reconstructs the household and larger web of relationships created by Mère d’Youville and the Grey Nuns of Montréal. This chapter fits into my larger project, which traces the familial and economic networks created by… Continue Reading
Dynamism and determination, wisdom and warmth: the late Elizabeth Mancke (1954-2023) exuded each of these positive attributes as well as countless others, as anyone who had the good fortune of knowing her can readily attest. Her recent passing is a massive loss for the many communities to which she contributed, whether as a pathbreaking historian,… Continue Reading
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