The Past Speaks

HIST 1406: Canadian History Survey

My lecture on Tuesday was called Rival Empires. It examined the Seven Years’ War.

The lecture on Friday was on the impact of the American Revolution on the territories that later became Canada. I also asked the students to look at this map related to my lecture on the American Revolution. See here.

HIST 3266: History of Western North America class

My lecture on Monday used the life story of Sir Sam Steele to explore the histories of the Canadian West and the Mounted Police.

Sam Steele

My lecture on Wednesday was on the life and times of Horace Tabor, Colorado’s Silver King. In this lecture I spoke about such themes in mining history as technological change, labour relations, and ethnicity.

HIST 4135: British North America: the Road to Confederation

The theme of this week’s seminar was religion in the Province of Canada.

We discussed the following readings:

Roberto Perin, “Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Quebec” in Religion and Public Life in Canada : Historical and Comparative Perspectives edited by Marguerite Van Die (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001), 87-105

Suzanne Zeller, “Environment, Culture, and the Reception of Darwin in Canada, 1859-1909” in Disseminating Darwin: Place, Race, Class, and Gender, ed. Ron Numbers and John Stenhouse (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 91-122
William Westfall, “Constructing Public Religions at Private Sites: The Anglican Church in the Shadow of Disestablishment” in Religion and Public Life in Canada, 23-49

Doug Leighton, “The Manitoulin Island Incident of 1863: An Indian-White Confrontation in the Province of Canada” Ontario History 69(1977):113-124.

We also listened to student presentations on the lives and times of Ignace Bourget,  John Strachan,  Sir John William Dawson,   Rev. Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby), Rev. Robert Burns.