Commemoration, French Canada
Marcel Martel is a professor of history at York University and holds the Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History. He has researched, among other things, issues such as commemoration, drug regulation, French Canada and Francophone minority communities, Francophone immigration, the RCMP, and internal surveillance, and has often worked with media.
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Northern Ontario, resource development in Canada, forest industry
Mark Kuhlberg is a Professor of History at Laurentian University in Sudbury and his expertise is Canada’s forest history. He was a historical researcher on several successful First Nation timber claims and has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles and several books. Mark spent 20 seasons in the tree planting industry in northern Ontario and Alberta and continues to be actively involved in contemporary forestry issues.
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Politics, language policy, commemoration, education
Matthew Hayday is a political historian who studies bilingualism and language policies, Canada Day and Dominion Day celebrations, nationalism and identity politics, as well as federalism and intergovernmental relations. He has published extensively on the history of official languages and bilingualism in Canada, including the history of French immersion in Canada. He recently published the two-volume edited collection Celebrating Canada with Raymond Blake (University of Regina) on national holidays, commemorative events and celebrations, how they contribute to the shaping of national and regional identities, and the political context surrounding their creation and implementation. His current project is a biography of the Right Honorable Joe Clark.
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English
French
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Politics, language policy, commemoration, education
Matthew Hayday is a political historian who studies bilingualism and language policies, Canada Day and Dominion Day celebrations, nationalism and identity politics, as well as federalism and intergovernmental relations. He has published extensively on the history of official languages and bilingualism in Canada, including the history of French immersion in Canada. He recently published the two-volume edited collection Celebrating Canada with Raymond Blake (University of Regina) on national holidays, commemorative events and celebrations, how they contribute to the shaping of national and regional identities, and the political context surrounding their creation and implementation. His current project is a biography of the Right Honorable Joe Clark.
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English
French
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Politics, language policy, commemoration, education
Matthew Hayday is a political historian who studies bilingualism and language policies, Canada Day and Dominion Day celebrations, nationalism and identity politics, as well as federalism and intergovernmental relations. He has published extensively on the history of official languages and bilingualism in Canada, including the history of French immersion in Canada. He recently published the two-volume edited collection Celebrating Canada with Raymond Blake (University of Regina) on national holidays, commemorative events and celebrations, how they contribute to the shaping of national and regional identities, and the political context surrounding their creation and implementation. His current project is a biography of the Right Honorable Joe Clark.
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English
French
Politics and Federalism
Michael Behiels has written seminal works on Quebec and Canadian political and intellectual history. More recently, he has explored how Canadian federalism has functioned historically, and how it has changed under the current government to become a more asymmetrical form of federalism based on the concept of classical, watertight jurisdictional compartments for the provincial and federal governments.
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English
French
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Children’s varied experiences with social inequality, shaped by race, class, gender, size, and age
Mona Gleason is a Professor (and current Department Head) in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is an historian of education with a focus on the history of children and youth. Mona’s research has focused on children’s varied experiences with social inequality, shaped by race, class, gender, size, and age, and the role that educational and medical professionals have played both in deepening and mitigating inequality. She is the author of two monographs, co-editor of five collections, author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics foregrounding the history of children and education in multiple contexts. Her publications appear in publications such as the History of Education Quarterly, the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Family History, the Journal of Canadian Studies, and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
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Scandinavian language, literature, and culture
Natalie M. Van Deusen is the inaugural Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Alberta, where she teaches a variety of courses on Scandinavian language, literature, and culture. Her research interests include Old Norse-Icelandic paleography and philology, manuscript culture, hagiography and religious literature, and womenʼs and gender studies.
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English
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Library and Archives Canada
Nicole Neatby has published in the fields of women’s history and Quebec history. Her research interests also focus on public history, including the history of the Quebec government’s tourism promotion and North American travel writers’ expectations about and reactions to the province. She has recently helped lead the CHA’s advocacy efforts on the crucial issues surrounding libraries and archives.
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English
French
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Women’s history, rights and issues
Nicole Neatby has published in the fields of women’s history and Quebec history. Her research interests also focus on public history, including the history of the Quebec government’s tourism promotion and North American travel writers’ expectations about and reactions to the province. She has recently helped lead the CHA’s advocacy efforts on the crucial issues surrounding libraries and archives.
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English
French
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