Archives: local history

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

HIST 4302 – Brings History to Life on Film

It used to be said that nobody lived in Gananoque who hadn’t had their photograph taken by Lorne Prosser. For 62 years, beginning in the 1920s, Prosser worked as the town photographer, making a life for himself while inadvertently recording the daily life of small town Ontario.   At the recent Gananoque premier screening of... More

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Performing History, Performing Heritage: Photos of the E.B. Eddy Complex

In July 2014 a group of volunteer photographers from the Workers’ History Museum (WHM) began creating a visual archive to capture and preserve the histories and memories of spaces where thousands once worked at the E.B. Eddy pulp and paper plant. When the project finished they had taken 73,000 images and 36 hours of... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Finding Big Meaning in Small Histories

Since April 2014, Sara Spike’s Small History NS Twitter feed and Tumblr blog have reached hundreds of followers with daily news from rural and small-town Nova Scotia, c.1880-1910. Drawn from her dissertation research, these tweets chart seasonal rhythms of labour, leisure, land, and sea with updates such as: The first wild strawberries... A... More

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

History, Smartphones, and Giving Back to Your Hometown: Sara Nixon Discusses Grimsby Timescapes on CBC

How can historians give back to their communities? Public History MA student Sara Nixon was on CBC Ottawa Morning on Monday January 19 to talk about just that. It's a topic she has explored in detail through the development of her smartphone application, Grimsby Timescapes. Through her blog, as well as her research, Sara... More

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Exhibition on view: The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic in Ottawa

Exhibition on view in Department of History, 4th floor, Paterson Hall, October 2014-April 2015 In the late 1850s the prospect of a design competition for Ottawa’s Parliament Buildings drew English architects to the new city. Like Parliament and Ottawa’s Gothic churches, which this exhibit also explores, their Gothic residential commissions... More

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Department Hosts Colloquium on Ottawa Gothic, September 26-27, 2014

Mark your calendars for September 26-27, 2014, when Carleton's History Department, with the assistance of the Dean of FASS, Heritage Ottawa, and the Pinhey's Point Foundation, will co-sponsor a landmark colloquium on Ottawa’s domestic Gothic architecture, including tours, lectures, an exhibit, and a keynote address by Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin... More

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