Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan Univeristy  I recently gave a talk on Niagara Falls at McMaster’s Wilson Institute for Canadian History where I focused on the period following the Canadian-American 1950 Niagara River Diversion Treaty. Titled “Faking Niagara Falls: The Transborder Remaking of an Iconic Waterscape” my presentation drew on the book I’m close to completing … Continue reading Seeing Niagara Falls

Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge   This past spring, my book Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press, 2017) received the Wilson Book Prize. This positive experience – being recognized by my peers for my contribution to scholarship on Canadian and transnational history – also prompted me to … Continue reading Disciplines and Disciplining: Canadian History and/as Transnational History

Samantha Clarke, McMaster University  As new cases of Ebola cropped up in West Africa this spring, the international media ran a new series of headlines: “Why Does Ebola Keep Showing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?” “Why Veterinarians are the Key to Defeating Ebola” and “Where does Ebola Hide Between Epidemics?” These recent articles … Continue reading Perennial Problems: Histories of Health and Environment across Borders

Kassandra Luciuk, University of Toronto It will surprise no one that my dissertation explores the history of Ukrainians in Canada. Enthusiastically raised in the organized Ukrainian Canadian community, my fate was sealed long before I was ever even interested in history. In fact, without knowing it at the time, the seeds of my doctoral research were … Continue reading Making Ukrainian Canadians: A Reflection on Identity and Power

Maxime Dagenais Yesterday, for the first time, the Wilson Institute for Canadian History revealed the winners of the Wilson Book and Viv Nelles Essay Prizes at the CHA Prize Ceremony. Once again, we would like to thank every publisher, student and/or supervisor for nominating their books and papers. If you want more information about this year's … Continue reading 2017 Wilson Award Winners

Samantha Clarke  “The medical profession is the world’s greatest fraternity: wherever a doctor may go in civilized society, he is welcomed by his fellow doctors… As disease itself is no respecter of national or racial differences, so the doctors in their humane service do not respect them… Though methods of treating injury and disease may … Continue reading The American Review of Soviet Medicine: A Failed Fraternity