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Learning from Past Pandemics: Resources on the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic...
By Sean Carleton, Andrea Eidinger, Carolyn Podruchny. This is an Active History/Unwritten Histories Collaboration. We are living in unprecedented times, or so we are being told by many commentators,...
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Epidemics and Racism: Honolulu’s Bubonic Plague and the Big Fire, 1899-1900
Smoke from a “controlled fire” in Honolulu, 1900, Hawai’i State Archives. Yukari Takai More than a century before the global outbreak of Covid-19, another deadly disease struck Honolulu, one that...
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“Symbol of the IGA”: The International Grenfell Association hospital ship...
The Strathcona III in Labrador. Source: Among the Deep Sea Fishers 68, no. 4 (January 1971): 105. Photo courtesy of Memorial University Digital Archives Initiative. John R.H. Matchim Since the Canadian...
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In the Wake of Columbus: Amerindian Antecedents to COVID-19
“What causes the Indians to die and to diminish in number are secret judgments of God beyond the reach of man. But what this witness has observed during the time he has spent in these parts is that...
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Building a white Canada: gender, sexuality, race, and medicine
Source: The Way to Her House, George Metcalf Archival Collection , Canadian War Museum, 19760148-058. This booklet, produced by the YMCA, advised soldiers on issues of sex and morality. By Allison Lynn...
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COVID-19 and Canada’s Untapped Immigrant Labour Resources
Visiting Filipino nurses in Winnipeg. Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 13, 1960. Jon G. Malek The COVID-19 pandemic has not only created health and economic crises across the world, but has exposed systemic...
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Public Health, Rights, and Protest in the Age of COVID-19
“Freedom March” in Aylmer, Ontario, 7 November 2020, Global News. Jennifer Tunnicliffe COVID-19 and the steps taken to inhibit its spread have inspired significant opposition across Canada over the...
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Visiting and Recognizing the Past: Toronto’s 1919-1920 Smallpox Outbreak
Sara Wilmshurst A few years ago, on this very site, I published an article about combatting vaccine resistance with historical education. Surely, I thought, if people understood how devastating...
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Epidemic at 30,000 feet: Historical Detachment during a Pandemic
Oral History Participant Stephanie Stirling recovers from her post-polio syndrome related foot surgery in 1956. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Stirling. Tyler Britz For the past 2 years, I have been...
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“Absurd Quackery”: The Canadian Women’s Health Movement, Vaccine Attitudes,...
Kathryn Hughes Image extract of Healthsharing Spring, 1989 article “Shots in the Dark” by Anna Kohn, Rise Up Feminist Archive In 1989, the popular Canadian women’s health magazine Healthsharing...
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