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Update on the Ryerson Fiasco
1619 Project Aboriginals Biography Cancel Culture Colonial Era Corrective History Education Egerton Ryerson First Nations Indian Residential Schools Indigenous Ronald Stagg Woke Hypocrisy
In The Ryerson Affair: An Update, Professor Ronald Stagg judges the judges and finds them wanting. The reports that informed the decision-makers were feeble work, he concludes.
L’Affaire Dundas in Toronto: Falling for a Hoax
1619 Project Canada Colonial Era Corrective History Egerton Ryerson History Debates History Wars Patrice Dutil Slavery Statue-Toppling Woke Hypocrisy
Henry Dundas was actually a hero of the Anti-Slavery Movement, writes Dr. Patrice Dutil. The City of Toronto must reverse its stupid plan to change the name of Dundas Street.
The Fall and Rise of Military History
Book Reviews Canada Canadian Defence Defence of Canada First World War Historiography John Ferris Second World War Tim Cook War & Weaponry War and Society
“Cook argues, rightly, that Americans, Australians, and Britons consistently have recollected this war in reasonably accurate ways, which emphasise their sacrifices and successes. Canadians, alone among the victor powers, have tended to forget why they fought this 'necessary war,' and to remember their defeats more than their deeds.” BY JOHN FERRIS The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War. Tim Cook. Allen Lane, 2020. THIS BOOK ASSESSES how an unmilitary people remembers its military history. Tim Cook’s account of how Canadians have viewed the Second World War says much of value,...
“They Were Not Forced”
1619 Project Aboriginals Brian Giesbrecht Canada History Debates History Wars Indian Residential Schools Indigenous Kamloops Nina Green Politically Corrective History Politics & Government Public History Thomas Flanagan
The claim that 150,000 status Indian children were 'forced' to attend residential schools is misleading at best, write Nina Green, Brian Giesbrecht, and Tom Flanagan. For example, enforcement of compulsory attendance was often lax to non-existent.
"Our Dear Children": Sisters' Chronicles of Indian Residential School
1619 Project Canada Cancel Culture Catholic Church Colonial Era Corrective History First Nations Indian Residential Schools Indigenous Nina Green
