Mary Jane Logan McCallum[i] Winnipeg Manitoba Over the past two months, we’ve seen media coverage of federal museum and archives job losses because of the Canada Strong Budget 2025 and its required cutbacks. The loss of […]
Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg, July 2025 “STEM,” the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, is a field of targeted youth education that emphasizes hands-on applications of scientific skills and knowledge. It intentionally promotes […]
Mary Jane Logan McCallumPort Stanley, Ontario, June 2025 Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital, February 1962. Photo by Mr. Don Reynolds from the Sam Waller Museum, PP2014.2.20 On 24 June 2025, the Federal Court approved the Indian […]
Maegan EllisUniversity of Guelph I’m currently a graduate student – a Métis historian in-training – but this document has been familiar to me for some time. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately – […]
By Alan Ojiig Corbiere This document was written on July 4, 1796 by Crown Surveyor, Augustus Jones (ca. 1757 – November 16, 1836). Augustus Jones was born in the United States, but fled to Upper […]
Robert Alexander InnesMcMaster University The annual report of the Department of Indian Affairs for 1884 was submitted to parliament by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, John A. Macdonald. In the report Macdonald details the “Yellow […]
Susan M. Hill (Grand River Haudenosaunee/Mohawk Nation)University of Toronto Image: inside cover of the author’s personal Haudenosaunee passport In August of 1921 Deskaheh (Levi General), a Cayuga Nation Chief, travelled to London, England on behalf […]
Mary Jane Logan McCallumUniversity of Winnipeg At the Release of An Indigenous-Led Reparations Framework Gathering, October 29-30, 2024. On June 8, 2022, Kimberley R. Murray, member of the Kanehstà:ke Mohawk Nation, was appointed as Independent […]
Brenda Macdougall The HBCA E Private Records (E.1-E.227) contain myriad types of records created between 1811 and 1890, generated by individuals and families, organizational bodies, and significant events. They include everything from indexes for births, […]
Indian Affairs, Indian Pay Sheet Fisher River, 1878. Library and Archives Canada, Record Group 10 [Indian Affairs], volume 9353, reel C-7135 Library and Archives Canada, p. 132. Canadiana. https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c7135/673 Immediately following Treaty negotiations in present-day […]