CHA members have access to a Legal Fund in copyright infringement, libel or plagiarism cases.
The CHA tries to represent the interest of all historians in Canada regardless of their area of research with respect to a wide variety of matters including:
- Funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other agencies
- Copyright and royalties
- Access to archives and the preservation of historical records
- Publishing
- Privacy and access to information
- Preservation and commemoration of heritage
- Careers for historians
- Mistreatment by universities, governments or other agencies
25 October 2022 Dr. Mike DeGagné Chairperson Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences 200 – 141 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 5J3 Dear Dr. DeGagné, I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) »
- October 26, 2022
24 October 2022 Ted Hewitt President Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 350 Albert St, Box 1610 Ottawa, ON K1P 6G4 Dear Dr. Ted Hewitt, I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) to strongly »
- October 25, 2022
12 May 2022 Dear Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, he Canadian Historical Association is writing to express its opposition to the proposed amendments to Canada’s Copyright Act as outlined in the recent federal budget. Under the current legislation »
- May 12, 2022
Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, The Canadian Historical Association calls on the federal government to use its influence to convince the French authorities to stop the building of luxury seaside condominiums at Juno Beach, Canada’s D-Day landing site in »
- March 21, 2022
Ottawa, 15 December 2021 Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, The Canadian Historical Association (CHA) is greatly concerned by the recent news that certain records related to the operation of the Indian Residential School system in Canada have been moved »
- December 15, 2021
The CHA appreciates the challenges that Covid-19 have created: lockdowns and restrictions of various types have placed enormous burdens on all organizations, both public and private, regardless of their size. We have no doubt that the leaders of the »
- October 20, 2021
Compiled by Steven High, President of the Canadian Historical Association (17 September 2021) A number of our members have asked the Canadian Historical Association to compile the media coverage/public reaction to the Canadian Historical Association’s Canada Day Statement into »
- September 17, 2021
Canada Day Statement The Canadian Historical Association, which represents 650 professional historians from across the country, including the main experts on the long history of violence and dispossession Indigenous peoples experienced in what is today Canada, recognizes that this »
- July 1, 2021
Caroline MaynardInformation Commissioner of Canada 30 Victoria Street Gatineau, Quebec K1A 1Hgeneral@oic-ci.gc.ca Dear Commissioner Maynard, I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Historical Association to express our concern about ongoing problems accessing historical information generated by Canada’s security »
- June 23, 2021
In December 2020 the Government of India began what it called the Central Vista Redevelopment Project in New Delhi. This massive restructuring will see the demolition and relocation of the National Museum of India, the Indira Gandhi Centre for »
- May 20, 2021