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Podcast by Canada's History

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  • Interview with Shannon Leggett

    10/08/2021 Duration: 32min

    This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Shannon Leggett is a teacher at Brockton School in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she has developed a new take on a history classroom staple: the research essay. Shannon requires her students to create a 2000-word analytical historical investigation on a Canadian event between 1919-2011 with plenty of feedback from Shannon regarding anything from writing tips to gaps in research. In this process, students learn how to conduct in-depth research and produce papers using a multi-faceted, scaffolded approach. Once the paper is complete, students are tasked with defending their research finding in a 15-minute presentation/Q&A session with their peers. The purpose of this project is not only skill based but also to have students become experts in one area of post-WWI Canadian history, and be taught about a wide arra

  • Devoir de mémoire — Julien Rougerie

    06/07/2021 Duration: 08min

    La Société Histoire Canada s’est récemment entretenue avec l'un des finalistes de l’édition de 2020 du Prix d’histoire du Gouverneur général pour l’excellence des programmes communautaires. La Fondation Émergence s'est vu décerner par le jury une mention honorable pour son projet Devoir de mémoire. Ce prix a été créé pour mettre en lumière le travail des organismes culturels, communautaires et bénévoles à vocation patrimoniale qui ont réalisé des projets originaux visant à commémorer des aspects importants de notre patrimoine. Dans cette entrevue, monsieur Julien Rougerie nous donne un aperçu du projet réalisé par la Fondation Émergence en plus de montrer ses effets remarquables et durables pour la communauté. Julien Rougerie est diplômé en 2011 d’un Master en gestion de projets à l’université de la Sorbonne, il a œuvré depuis en tant que professionnel de la gestion pour des projets ou organismes à but non lucratif en France, aux États-Unis et au Québec. Interpellé par l’invisibilité des personnes aînées LG

  • Home Made Visible — Ananya Ohri & Elizabeth Mudenyo

    06/07/2021 Duration: 13min

    Canada’s National History Society spoke with finalists of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming who additionally received honourable mention distinction for their projects. The award aims to inspire small or volunteer-led community organizations in the creation of innovative programming that commemorates unique aspects of our heritage. In the interviews, project representatives give insight into how their projects engaged the public in Canadian history, the unique community partnerships they forged, and the lasting community impact. Ananya Ohri was born in India and moved to Canada when she was ten years old. She was the Executive Director at the Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF), Toronto’s longest running free community film festival, for seven years. At RPFF, Ananya founded and directed the Lieutenant General Award winning project, Home Made Visible, which worked to preserve old home movies for BIPOC families across Canada and celebrate acts of personal archiving

  • The Toxic Legacies Project — John Sandlos

    06/07/2021 Duration: 21min

    Canada’s National History Society spoke with finalists of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming who additionally received honourable mention distinction for their projects. The award aims to inspire small or volunteer-led community organizations in the creation of innovative programming that commemorates unique aspects of our heritage. In the interviews, project representatives give insight into how their projects engaged the public in Canadian history, the unique community partnerships they forged, and the lasting community impact. John Sandlos is a professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he studies and teaches in the area of Canadian and environmental history. Since 2007, he has conducted extensive archival and community-based research on the history of mining in northern Canada. He is the co-editor (with Arn Keeling) of Mining and Communities in the Canadian North: History, Politics, Memory (University of Calgary Press, 2015). From 20

  • Cold War Tech and Its Discontents

    27/01/2021 Duration: 29min

    The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line was a radar defense network in Canada’s Arctic. It was a Cold War engineering marvel, but it had terrible effects on the land and Inuit communities.

  • From Wall Street to Bay Street

    19/01/2021 Duration: 41min

    The financial history of the US and Canada since the late 18th century. In his lecture, professor Joe Martin discusses how Canada and the United States diverged in their development of a banking system after the conclusion of the War of 1812.

  • Gouzenko Deciphered Part 3 - Andrew Kavchak

    10/11/2020 Duration: 26min

    Dundonald Park in Ottawa sits across the street from the apartment that Igor Gouzenko, the first Cold War defector, previously resided. This apartment building was where Gouzenko and his family hid from Soviet pursuers, and this park was where RCMP officers kept watch of the premises. Today, seventy-five years later, a plaque stands in Dundonald Park memorializing Gouzenko. Andrew Kavchak, former federal civil servant, autism advocate, and amateur historian, explains his lengthy efforts for the municipal and federal recognition of Gouzenko in Ottawa. The author of several books, Kavchak discusses the writing of Remembering Gouzenko: the Struggle to Honour a Cold War Hero, as well as other books related to Soviet history.

  • Election Reflections Canada and the US 2020

    03/11/2020 Duration: 14min

    Allen Priest provides insights into the history of American elections’ impacts on Canada. On the day of the 2020 United States presidential election, it is a great opportunity to reflect on the history of American elections’ influence on Canada and the dynamics between Canadian and American leaders. Allen Priest guides us through many of the most cooperative, competitive, and controversial moments between the leaders of the two neighbouring countries, and how the past can be clarifying in observing the impact of the current election.

  • Gouzenko Deciphered Part 2 - Dr. Calder Walton

    07/10/2020 Duration: 10min

    The defection of the Russian cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko, in September, 1945, revealed to Canadian authorities a web of Soviet espionage spun throughout Canada, with threads running through atomic military research, Canadian parliament, and across the world – in Washington DC, London, and Moscow. Seventy-five years later, we can observe how this single defection sent ripples and cracks throughout the global military and political landscape. Dr. Calder Walton, a historian of espionage, grants us a peek behind the Iron Curtain, describing the intentions, perspectives, and practices of Soviet spying coordinated by Stalin and his officers. He explains how the various Western nations responded to the knowledge of these spying rings revealed by the Gouzenko defection. Dr. Walton explains how the first Cold War defection has relevance that extends across the West, the world, and to the present day.

  • Karine Duhamel Speaks about Life on the Land

    21/09/2020 Duration: 09min

    For decades, The Beaver depicted Indigenous societies as primitive peoples in need of “civilization.” In actuality, the magazine’s images reveal vibrant cultures, resilient communities, and crucial new perspectives on the North. Karine Duhamel, Ph.D., who is Anishinaabe-Métis, wrote “Life on the Land” in our special centennial issue. “As an Indigenous person, I am looking at the pictures in The Beaver differently. I am looking at the things that make Indigenous peoples and communities strong, which are family and kinship and connection to the land. For me, that’s what stands out in the images.” Photo: Inuit children leap across large supply sacks at Frobisher Bay, in what’s now Nunavut, circa 1960 in this photo by British photographer Rosemary Gilliat. The image appeared in the Winter 1962 issue in a story on children in the North. [Credit: HBCA-1987-363-E-210-018]

  • Gouzenko Deciphered - Evy Wilson

    09/09/2020 Duration: 23min

    Evy Wilson, the daughter of Igor and Svetlana Gouzenko, remembers her parents’ stories on the 75th anniversary of their escape to Canada — the first Cold War defection. Photographs of Svetlana Gouzenko in 1948 (left) and Evy Wilson, her daughter, in 1970 (right) - both at the age of 24.

  • Entrevue avec Tommy Guénard

    27/08/2020 Duration: 05min

    L’histoire est une discipline merveilleuse et riche en enseignement. Toutefois, les étudiants.es à qui j’enseigne, des jeunes de 17-18 ans pour la plupart, ont souvent développé un sentiment négatif vis-à-vis cette matière durant leur parcours scolaire. Particulièrement par rapport à notre histoire nationale dont ils ont de la difficulté à s’identifier. Mon principal objectif est donc de leur redonner le goût, la curiosité et le désir de se plonger dans cette histoire qui leur appartient. De là est venue l’idée de les initier à la généalogie historique et de leur faire retracer les racines de leur histoire familiale afin qu’ils constatent qu’ils sont le fruit du labeur de leurs ancêtres. En relatant leur histoire familiale, un sentiment d’appartenance se développe en prenant conscience que leurs ancêtres figurent parmi les bâtisseurs de notre pays qui ont mis en place les fondations de la société dans laquelle ils évoluent aujourd’hui.

  • Entrevue avec Rémi Lavoie

    27/08/2020 Duration: 08min

    Le projet présenté est une expérimentation de la formation à distance au secondaire associée à la constitution d’un environnement de classe différent (aménagement flexible), invitant, engageant et en évolution où la technologie et la réalisation de projets (en classe ou en parascolaire) occupent une place importante. Il permet à l’élève de se responsabiliser à l’égard de son apprentissage et de développer son potentiel d’interprétation du passé tout en actualisant sa maîtrise d’outils du 21e siècle. Conçu sur le concept de la classe inversée, libérant du temps pour du travail d’interprétation, le projet a notamment permis d’amener les élèves à visiter, de façon virtuelle, des lieux marquants de l’histoire du Québec et du Canada ainsi que d’exploiter divers documents d’archives les initiant aux sources primaires. Ce projet en est un d’apprentissage tant pour les élèves que pour l’enseignant qui les accompagne dans le développement de leur maîtrise des opérations intellectuelles propre à la pensée historique.

  • Entrevue avec Marie-Claude Monette

    27/08/2020 Duration: 10min

    La classe inversée sur la Révolution française est un grand projet en histoire et éducation à la citoyenneté en deuxième secondaire. Avec l'étude de textes, de sources, de vidéos et de documents variés, les élèves deviennent les acteurs de l'époque et font revivre la France du 18e siècle en classe. Le concept de "droit fondamental" est au cœur du projet, qu'on parle de la Révolution française, de la Russie tsariste ou du Canada d'aujourd'hui.

  • Entrevue avec Francis Lalande

    27/08/2020 Duration: 08min

    Histoire à vélo est un projet dynamique, écoresponsable et transdisciplinaire qui a utilisé la bicyclette comme moyen d’enseigner l’histoire. Dans la première partie du projet, l’apprenant était un citoyen réfléchi et autonome qui a préparé sa visite à vélo au canal de Lachine. En résumé, l’étudiant a établi son itinéraire avec Google Maps et l’idée d’observer les infrastructures importantes du canal. Dans le but d’interpréter l’évolution de ce lieu historique, l’apprenant a ensuite comparé ses observations avec des sources historiques. Dans la deuxième partie, l’étudiant a continué son aventure et ses apprentissages avec une vidéo GoPro de l’enseignant qui se déplace à vélo dans les différents quartiers de Montréal. Enfin, l’apprenant a compris que l’histoire est omniprésente et qu’elle enrichit nos activités quotidiennes.

  • Entrevue avec Dominique Laperle

    27/08/2020 Duration: 15min

    Le projet intitulé Dollard et Groulx vise à permettre une réflexion sur l’instrumentalisation des faits historiques à des fins politiques. À partir d’une fausse nouvelle d’un journal (culture des médias), les élèves doivent réfléchir et interpréter une réalité sociales dans un texte de type éditorial sur la conservation ou non d’une statue de Dollard des Ormeaux. Les élèves appuient leurs arguments sur une analyse de sources primaires de l’époque de la Nouvelle-France et de sources secondaires d’historiens du 19e et du 20e siècle, comme ceux de Lionel Groulx. Grâce au projet, les élèves comprennent le poids des idéologies dans les choix de société, mais aussi des préjugés qui sont colportés, volontairement ou pas, sur certains groupes, notamment sur les Premières Nations.

  • Folk On The Rocks: An Enduring Festival

    29/07/2020 Duration: 07min

    Carly McFadden, the Artistic and Executive Director for the music festival Folk on the Rocks, spoke with Canada’s History intern Brendan McShane about the history and future of this festival, and how it changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Carly shares some of her favourite moments from this festival’s 40-year run and welcomes Canadians to experience all it has to offer.

  • Perceptions relatives à la Rébellion de la rivière Rouge

    04/11/2019 Duration: 16min

    Perceptions relatives à la Rébellion de la rivière Rouge by Canada's History

  • More Democracy... or Less?

    16/10/2019 Duration: 13min

    In the October-November 2019 issue of Canada's History, Christopher Moore's article “The Ballots Question,” explores the origins of Canadian political party leadership conventions. In 1919, a federal political party held the first convention to choose its leader, and it forever changed the way politics is practised in Canada. In this interview, political scientist Royce Koop responds by discussing the process of choosing a party leader, whether the system we have now is more or less democratic, and how other countries choose the leaders of their parties. To read Christopher Moore's article, go to https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/prime-ministers/the-ballots-question.

  • Perceptions of the Red River Resistance

    03/10/2019 Duration: 16min

    Perceptions of the Red River Resistance by Canada's History

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