Tag: history
The unquiet quiet of moments of silence
9 Apr 2015
What do moments of silence mean? Are they too short? Does the length of time rank loss? Are we learning lessons for the future? Listen, read, hush.
What are we wearing – Part 2
13 Sep 2014
“What are we wearing”, a Tomorrow investigation of the potential to weave a new economy with New Brunswick textiles. Part 2: Fields of blue, and ‘scratchy as hell’.
Berlin museum collections: Moving into the future?
15 Jun 2014
What do museum objects mean to visitors, curators and original communities from which they come? A Berlin museum is working to move its past into the future.
Six Nations hunt for lost World War I history
11 Nov 2013
An appeal is going out to rediscover information about the Six Nations soldiers and the carved flagpole stopper of the 114th Battalion from World War I.
The independence battalion
11 Nov 2013
How the Six Nation men of the 114th Battalion in World War I shaped indigenous relations in Canada for decades to come as they asserted their independence.
The time the kosher butcher was put on trial
22 Mar 2013
It was called “one of the greatest misfortunes which ever befell Canadian Jewry” when the kosher butcher in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was found guilty of using inhumane practices to animals. What did the trial mean and how did the community turn the conviction on its head?
The man who had a C-section
30 Jun 2012
Robert Baldwin was one of Canada’s most important leaders and an architect of “responsible government”. But this “man of courage” also battled severe depression.
