A couple of weeks ago, The Simpsons aired their episode about the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Although they didn’t mention it by name, Bart and Lisa visited Stanley Park! You can clearly see the Lord Stanley statue which stands near the Coal Harbour entrance and some of the totem poles […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
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“Vancouver has been profoundly changed,” according to local talk radio host and former BC cabinet minister Christy Clark. We’re just over halfway through the 2010 Winter Olympic Games here in Vancouver, British Columbia and Clark’s comments will not be the only ones proclaiming a new era for the city. In […]
As a follow up to my previous post about the Public Domain Manifesto, I wanted to direct readers to the controversy over the release of Canada’s intelligence file on Tommy Douglas. Douglas, as many Canadians will remember, was a prominent social democratic politician, former premier of Saskatchewan, long-time Member of […]
Historians know that our work is entirely dependent on access to and availability of sources, especially archival primary sources. Anyone who has spent months (and sometimes years) awaiting approval of a Freedom of Information Act request in Canada knows how frustrating limited access can be. It is a barrier to […]
This week, my course on the history of the Canadian West since 1885 is looking at the 1919 general strike in Winnipeg. We spent a lot of time going into the various factors that led to such discontent among Winnipeg’s working class, especially those related to wartime conditions between 1914 […]