Sara Nixon Perhaps you read Nathan Ince’s 2024 Active History article about John Norton. You may be interested to know that his cabin is preserved at The Brown Homestead in Niagara, alongside the family home of John Brown. The Brown Homestead stands on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples, land later granted to Brown for serving with the Butler’s Rangers ...

Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war&#…

3 days ago · Heritage gives texture to our shared sense of place, belonging, and local identity.

In 1889, three brothers Harry, Albert, and Sam Warner (these are their Anglicized names) emigrated to the United States from Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. In 1892, they welcomed another brother, Jack, who was born in London, Ontario. As the twentieth century dawned, the four brothers started to show films in Pennsylvania and Ohio before founding an entertainment company in ...

Jan 2, 2024 · By Thomas Peace As we welcome 2024, it is time for Canadian historians to turn over a new leaf. The end of 2023 brought echoes of 2003. As the year wound to a close, some of our colleagues – mostly working outside of the university – began to pile on as they celebrated 25 years since Jack Granatstein published Who Killed Canadian History, a divisive book that shaped the so-called History ...

ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s ...

Dec 6, 2019 · The “Canada’s First World War” series launched on ActiveHistory.ca with a Call for Blog Posts, published on 4 August 2014. It concluded in the Fall of 2019, with a total of 78 posts, including this post. The series editors during this five-year run were: Mary Chaktsiris, Sarah Glassford, Christopher Schulz, Nathan Smith, and Jonathan Weier. This final contribution is a thematic guide to ...

This section is dedicated to supporting Active History projects both online and in the material world. These projects can include web series (such as ‘The Home Archivist’) or theme weeks (such as ‘Indigenous Histories’) as well as broader partnerships and support. ActiveHistory.ca is flexible project and platform shaped by our broader community of …

In addition to the blog, members of the Active History project have been involved in developing open-access resources for educators and interested readers. Ebooks The Active History ebook series br…

By Mary Chaktsiris, Sarah Glassford, Chris Schultz, Nathan Smith, and Jonathan Weier Preamble During the first half of 2019, we the editors of www.ActiveHistory.ca’s long-running series “Canada’s First World War” stepped back and reflected on the editorial work we undertook over of the course of four and a half years of Great War centenary commemorations, 2014-2019. In …