2025 marked the 10th anniversary of the filing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report. To recognize this milestone, CHEA will be holding its biennial meeting in Winnipeg, focusing on the role of Education in both building and deconstructing colonial systems of power. The meeting will take place October 15-17, 2026. Deadline to submit […]

The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University is proud to, once again, award the Wilson Book Prize. This prize is open to all major publishers of Canadian history and will be awarded to the book that offers the best exploration of Canadian history that, in the view of the Wilson Institute, succeeds in

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to host the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026. The meeting will overlap with the final day of the Canadian Historical Association’s annual meeting (June 1-3). Deadline to submit proposals: December 19, 2025. Click

You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held Monday-Wednesday, June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. The event will be hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island. As you will recall, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences announced in early May

The World Congress of Business History is pleased to announce a call for papers. Visit worldcbh.org to learn more. Deadline for CFP: December 1, 2025.

The CHA is delighted to announce that one of the booklets in its Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada series has been recorded as an audiobook. The Acadians (by Caroline-Isabelle Caron, 2015) is narrated by J.R. Bourgeois, creator of the Lost World of Cape Breton Island podcast, and was produced in collaboration with the CHA. The audiobook

Canada’s History is currently seeking the best community projects – completed in the past 18 months – for the 2025 edition of the Governor General’s History Awards for Excellence in Community Programming. These awards recognize programs and projects developed for the community by organizations dedicated to history, heritage, culture, or community life. Eligible projects include

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.