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
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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
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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
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This essay is also being made available by our friends at Active History. E.A. Heaman I am very sorry to see Quebec raising the fees on students not from Quebec. A long time ago I was one of those out-of-province students. I grew up in British Columbia and had never been east when I transferred… Continue Reading
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Joe Borsato When examining Anglo-Indigenous relations and colonization in the early seventeenth century Americas, scholars rarely treat colonial experiences in North America and South America together. Yet, a hemispheric framework brings fresh insight into the history of colonial expansion.[1] In northern South America, a region commonly referred to as Guiana, or Güiri noko (“the land… Continue Reading
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Andrew Nurse The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) and the Friends of Canadian History have issued a statement in “In Defence of Sir John A. Macdonald and his Legacy.” The statement–which is actually not just a statement but a petition—is a response to the on-going statue wars in which Macdonald and his legacy have come under an… Continue Reading
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Dale Barbour Jessica Dunkin, Canoe and Canvas: Life at the Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880-1910. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Canadians are drawn to the canoe. While it leaves barely a ripple in the historiography of nation building, colonialism, and leisure in other countries, Canadian historians have dug deep into the role… Continue Reading
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Brent Wilson [This essay is part of a series of contributions to be published over the coming years by members of the research group “Military Service, Citizenship, and Political Culture: Studies of Militias in Atlantic Canada.” Any questions about the project can be sent to Gregory Kennedy, Research Director of the Acadian Studies Institute at the Université de Moncton… Continue Reading
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Denis Robillard In the spring of 2015, a watercolor dated to 1762 entitled An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara was sold at a Christie’s auction house in London for the stunning price of $217,000. The painting is one of the earliest works by Thomas Davies, an artillery gunner who did several tours… Continue Reading
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Nicolas Landry Nul besoin d’insister sur le fait que la guerre de course et les corsaires n’occupent pas une grande place dans l’historiographie militaire de la Nouvelle-France. Du moins, pas au même titre que les troupes de la marine, la milice ou encore les alliances entre communautés amérindiennes et eurocanadiennes. Une explication possible à ce… Continue Reading
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