What a pleasure to talk about my book with members of the Canadian International Council, Waterloo branch, last night at St. Jerome's University. An engaged and thoughtful audience!

There are a lot of people to thank for making it happen. Special thanks to John English for the invitation, Shawky Fahel for smoothing the way, Ryan Touhey of the history department at St. Jerome’s for co-sponsoring my talk, and Krenare Recaj for dashing out and getting more books when it looked like we did not have enough!

#hedidnotconquer #canada #cdnhist #cdaus @dundurnpress

Photo credit: Frances Barclay

#ÉlénaChoquette discusses her book #LandAndTheLiberalProject: #Canada's Violent Expansion

Choquette 'investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: #Indigenous territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by so-called protection and enforced schooling.'

https://newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project

#CdnHist #CanadianHistory #FirstNations #Métis #settlerColonialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

"The news of the grim discovery in Kamloops hit close to home for me. All my adult life, I’d heard rumors that my father was born at or near one of those #residentialSchools and that he’d been found, just minutes after his birth, abandoned in a dumpster. Those few details were all he or I knew."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/opinion/oscar-sugarcane-nomination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.c_bD.OJKJW-2YzjJb&smid=url-share

#Sugarcane #cinéma #NativeResidentialSchools #Indigenous #Autochtones #pensionnatsAutochtones #documentaire #documentary #histCan #CdnHist #violencesColoniales @film @histodons