Recent news
Recent news
Know History welcomes Senior Advisor Lyle Dick
Know History is pleased to welcome Lyle Dick to our team. Lyle joins us as a Senior Advisor to provide expert advice, mentor young professionals on our staff, and represent Know History at conferences and other events.
Dark Tourism: Canadian Residential Schools through the European Model
This piece was written by our KH Associate Paige Foley, based in our Calgary Office. February 28th, 2019, the Military Museums of Calgary hosted a lecture on dark tourism.
“The number of the dead was so great”: Métis accounts of the 1870 smallpox epidemic on the prairies
This piece is the result of a collaborative effort from our team! Thanks go to Sara Wilmshurst, who wrote the main body of the article, with feedback from Alice Glaze, Nicole Marion-Patola, and Anna Kuntz.
Royal Alberta Museum Excursion – Family Style!
During the holiday break KH Senior Associate Anna Kuntz along with her family visited the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta. Below is a short post about her impressions.
Grandma’s Fruitcake
KH Senior Associate Elina Hill is a big fan of our podcast, Notice History. For our upcoming episode, she penned some of her thoughts on fruitcake, and what the special holiday treat means to her family!
Know History Scholarship, Western University
In 2018, Know History’s Associate Director Connie Wren-Gunn was interviewed by the Globe & Mail about our role in a Parks Canada project to gather the Inuit oral histories of the Franklin Expedition, and knowledge of the land, sea and ice around the sites where HMS Erebus and HMS Terror lie.