"A Source of Perspective: The Great Acceleration and The Canada Land Survey System" by Andrew Burke is the seventh post in a series about the Great Acceleration, published in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social
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Daniyal Elahi and Harris Elahi reflect on the research process that led them to discover Private Hasan Amat, Canada’s first Muslim soldier killed in the First World War.
Their initial paper on Amat was posted on Active History in 2025 and can be found here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/12...
Amy Swiffen, Keith Charry, Hannah Wyile, and Kris Millett explore the history and specifics of Section 141 of the Indian Act, which was in effect from 1927 to 1951.
This is the 6th post in the Indian Act 150 series; make sure to check out the entire series!
Centering Canadian environmental history on the Great Acceleration and the Canada Lands Survey System reveals how administrative tools evolved during rapid change.
Daniyal Elahi and Harris Elahi In December 2025, ActiveHistory.ca published our first piece on Private Hasan Amat, a soldier of the 1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed at the Battle…
“As political scientist David B. MacDonald would later put it. Indeed, Indigenous peoples are the ones who have born the expense of the political compromise of “multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,” the ones who have been consistently excluded by it.”
For the third and final post of the Canada Post and Canadian Culture series, Christo Aivalis explores labour and bargaining rights and the increasing use of bureaucratic tools.
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/05...
For the fifth post of the Great Acceleration series, Alicia Carefoote rethinks environmental history, focusing on prisons and confinement.
This series is cross-posted with @nichecanada.bsky.social
Make sure to check out the entire series!
Erin Isaac and Cady Berardi revisit the Ross-Thomson House and the topic of Nova Scotia's rural museums facing budget cuts and closures.
Isaac and Berardi first explored this in March 2026; that post can be found here: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/03...
As part of the Canada Act 150 Series, Daniel Sims discusses the technicalities and nuances of the Indian Act.
Make sure to check out the entire series!
Shannon Stunden Bower explores the history of knowledge and science for the sixth post of the Great Acceleration series.
This series is about using the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history and is cross-posted with @nichecanada.bsky.social
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Daniel R. Meister looks at the foundations of Canada’s framework of official languages and cultures in light of the recent controversy regarding the Governor General being insufficiently “officially bilingual."
Alicia Carefoote This is the fifth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-p…
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By Erin Isaac and Cady Berardi In the weeks after a sudden February announcement that twelve provincial museums were slated to close in Nova Scotia, murmurs began to circulate that some of these si…
Daniel Sims This post is part of the Indian Act 150 series In May 2024, I attended a meeting of Parks Canada’s Indigenous Cultural Heritage Advisory Council in Sydney, British Columbia. O…
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Shannon Stunden Bower This is the sixth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-posted…
Daniel R. Meister looks at the foundations of Canada’s framework of official languages and cultures in light of the recent controversy regarding the Governor General being insufficiently “officially bilingual."
ActiveHistory.ca
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Bilingual & Bicultural Press Conference with A. Davidson Dunton and Jean Louis Gagnon. Library and Archives Canada item 5101609. Daniel R. Meister Recent stories in the CBC revisit the controve…
Bilingual & Bicultural Press Conference with A. Davidson Dunton and Jean Louis Gagnon. Library and Archives Canada item 5101609. Daniel R. Meister Recent stories in the CBC revisit the controve…
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Amy Swiffen, Keith Charry, Hannah Wyile and Kris Millett This post is part of the Indian Act 150 series There is a harmful provision of the Indian Act that, until recently, has never been…
