Taylor Jackson, third year undergraduate in History, will be presenting a paper titled “The Really Forgotten Pandemic: Canada and the Spanish Flu in 1920” at an undergraduate student conference in Kentucky in April. Almost all current publications about the so-called Spanish flu discuss the second deadly wave in autumn 1918 and ignore the flu with less deadly but nonetheless severe impact in early 1920. Jackson’s paper will start to fill that gap.
Jackson has been selected by Carleton to attend the conference which usually attracts about 2,000 undergraduate researchers, all of whom present new research. Carleton will sponsor her and pay her expenses.
Photograph above: Men wearing masks during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. Jackson’s paper draws attention to the second wave of view in early 1920. Credit: Library and Archives Canada / PA-025025