By Sean Graham This week, I’m joined by Dan Black, author of Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia. We talk about the ship’s earliest voyage following ...
By educating the public about heritage designation, incorporating heritage into urban planning, and connecting with our wider communities, we can cultivate a brighter future for Ontario’s heritage ...
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events.
By Sean Graham This week I’m joined by Eugenia Kisin, author of Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation. We discuss what qualifies as ‘art’, how the ...
Alan MacEachern Last year, an email informed me of a death. Two, actually. Top Hat would no longer publish Origins: Canadian ...
Heritage gives texture to our shared sense of place, belonging, and local identity.
Heritage gives texture to our shared sense of place, belonging, and local identity.
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 ...
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events.