As you will recall, following last week’s announcement about the cancellation of Congress 2026, the CHA distributed a survey to ask how the CHA should proceed for 2026. We would like to thank each and every one of the more than 200 people who took the time to respond to the survey. The Executive has […]

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize. (In alphabetical order). Jacob Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press, 2024. Stephen Brooke, London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City. Oxford University Press, 2024. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Frances Oldham Kelsey, the

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Best (French-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize. (In alphabetical order). Marie-Aimée Cliche, La vie familiale dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024. Aimée Dion, Affiches de guerre, guerre d’affiches : Canada français et Irlande pendant la Grande Guerre.

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize. (In alphabetical order). Crystal Gail Fraser, By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. University of Manitoba Press, 2024. Gregory M.W. Kennedy, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian

On Thursday, May 8th, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences announced that Congress 2026 (in its typical format) has been cancelled. FHSS’s full announcement can be accessed here. Congress 2025, including the CHA’s 2025 conference, will continue as planned and is not affected by this news. Since the CHA’s annual conference is held as part of

The following email from Karine Morin was received by the CHA on Thursday, May 8, 2025: I am writing to inform you that after over a year of discussions with a potential institutional host for Congress 2026, our negotiations have unfortunately come to a halt. Across Canada, institutions are facing mounting economic pressures. Additionally, rising

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society Conference will take place on Saturday, May 3rd. It can be attended virtually or in person. The conference program and Teams links may be accessed here.

This workshop will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, on July 25, 2025. Abstracts are due May 2, 2025. More information can be found here.

This meeting will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, from July 22-24, 2025. Abstracts are due May 30, 2025. More information can be found here.

The Italian Association for Canadian Studies has put out a call for papers for its 2025 conference, Bridges and Barriers: Rethinking Connections and Disconnections in Contemporary Canada. The conference will take place from November 26-28, 2025, at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. The official languages of the conference are English, French, and Italian. Deadline for

The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., is conducting its annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. Deadline for submissions: June 20, 2025. Full details can be found here.

The NACBS and its affiliate, the Northeast Conference on British Studies, have put out a call for papers for their November 2025 conference in Montréal. The deadline to submit proposals is April 27, 2025. All information can be found here.

Dear Members of the Canadian Historical Association, To honour our historic ties to the CHA, we’d like you to come celebrate with us! The Association of Canadian Archivists is extending membership rates for our 50th anniversary conference to all CHA members! The conference, running from 10-12 June at Carleton University in Ottawa, will be a celebration of

On 27 March 2025, United States president Donald Trump signed the executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” a broadside attack on rigorous historical interpretation at the Smithsonian museums and other federally managed historical sites. It takes particular aim at histories that consider racism, gender, or hierarchy as important categories of analysis and

The Fédération Histoire Québec is pleased to announce its symposium, “Femmes d’histoire & Histoire des femmes,” which will take place in Montreal on November 7 and 8, 2025. Organized in collaboration with the Mémoire des femmes committee, the symposium will focus on women’s history in Quebec. Deadline for submissions: June 6, 2025. For further information,

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to a roundtable discussion of Rowan Dorin’s Ferguson-Prize-winning book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023). No Return is the most recent winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes

Do you have ideas about how to improve Canadiana? If so, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) would like to hear from you! CRKN invites you to participate in a virtual group interview to help it understand how you use Canadiana and other digital collections websites, and how to better serve your needs as it plans

The Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, offered by The Vimy Foundation, gives young people aged 15 to 17 from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of those who shaped history. When: August 1-11, 2025 Deadline: March 12, 2025 To apply or learn more, visit https://vimyfoundation.ca/programs/beaverbrook-vimy-prize.

The Graduate History Students’ Association in the Department of History at Queen’s University is pleased to invite submissions for its 22nd Annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference, which will be held on March 29th and 30th at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is Histories Unbound: Pathways of the Past. For more information, see the

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society is accepting proposals from undergraduate and graduate students in all academic disciplines for its 2025 student conference, to be held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, May 3. Further details on the location and timing of the event will be announced to accepted applicants. This conference will

The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law offers support for a research project on private enterprise, law and history through the CBHA/ACHA. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively in developing proposals that will result in a scholarly article that takes an historical perspective on a Canadian family controlled or other private

The Governor General’s History Awards are Canada’s top honours in the field of history and heritage. The awards are administered by Canada’s National History Society, with the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Power Corporation of Canada. For a list of available awards for 2025, please consult Canada’s National

Date and Time: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) Description: Free online presentation/discussion by QUESCREN Lunch & Learn Sir Guy Carleton, an Irish Protestant who served as Governor of Quebec, has been celebrated for enacting the Quebec Act in 1774, the first Canadian constitution to enshrine values underlying pluralism, tolerance, and multiculturalism. In this

The Tom and Christine Symons Archival Fellowship at Trent University assists both graduate students and established researchers who need to travel to and establish temporary residence in Peterborough. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and full details may be accessed here.

Do you use digitized photos, manuscripts, or audio/visual archives in your research? If so, you are eligible to fill out the survey described below. Researchers of all types who use library-digitized collections may answer this short anonymous survey about how they find and use collections of library materials that have been digitized and put online. Results