Woman, Life, Freedom: Canadian protests and the uprising in Iran On September 13, 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman was visiting Tehran with her family. She was stopped and detained by... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 173
Artifactuality Podcast: Elizabeth Manley is not apologizing: Body imag... Figure skater Elizabeth Manley was mercilessly criticized and fat-shamed in the lead-up to the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. She... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 556
Artifactuality Podcast: How Dale King, Montréal Aerobics Legend, Shook... In the 1980s and ’90s, Dale King was English Montréal’s most in-demand aerobics instructor. She achieved this status this by... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 896
Artifactuality Podcast: Stanley Hunt’s Residential School Monume... On May 27, 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation announced that the unmarked graves of Indigenous children had been... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1761
Artifactuality Podcast: Collecting COVID-19 History – Protest, Resista... When does a story become history? “That is the million-dollar question,” says James Trepanier, Curator, History of Childhood... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3081
Artifactuality podcast: Nav Bhatia, Toronto Raptors Superfan Nav Bhatia made history as the first basketball fan to be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame. He’s widely known as the Toronto... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 778
Olympic Torches: Sparking Conversations About Sport and Society Torches help signal the beginning of the Olympic Games. Months before competition, the flame is lit in Olympia, Greece.... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1487
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Joe Clark Joe Clark’s term as Canada’s 16th Prime Minister was brief, lasting 273 days in 1979–1980. But those nine months represent... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1705
The closure of Encounters with Canada: Collecting pandemic history Over the past few years, research staff at the Canadian Museum of History have been collecting and documenting various aspects of... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1361
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Jean Chrétien Jean Chrétien served as Canada’s Prime Minister for 10 years, from 1993 to 2003. That alone would have been enough to earn him... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2649
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Paul Martin Although Paul Martin was Canada’s Prime Minister for a relatively brief period, from December 2003 to February 2006, he had a... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2466
A Long-Awaited Synthesis: The Far Northeast The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is a long-awaited synthesis representing decades of research in the field of Archaeology... Publications Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1128
Bone Detective – A Box of Secrets On the last day of excavations in the lot behind 62 Sparks Street, while digging a hole to get a good stratigraphic profile of an... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1468
Bone Detective – The “Iron Man” of the Barrack Hill Cemetery: A Life i... There are so many stories that came out of researching those left behind in the Barrack Hill Cemetery, it was difficult to narrow... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1311
Bone Detective – The Maiden: Could She Have Been a “Mad Hatter”? This woman was found lying on her back, arms to her sides, hands on her thighs, feet to the east, and head facing south. Like... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1515
Bone Detective – “The Violated”: Not Buried Alone This is the first blog in the series Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa about the findings in the... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2440
Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa – Ser... The Barrack Hill Cemetery was the first settler cemetery in Ottawa, then known as Bytown. It was opened in late fall 1827 or... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 4302
Five Amazing Facts about Trivial Pursuit – The most successful Canadia... One afternoon in December 1979, Montréal journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott sketched out an idea for a board game. It... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 4298
Accessibility and Inclusiveness: Evolving Resources for People Impacte... The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation’s collection sheds light on the ongoing creativity of designers... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3681
Artifactuality Podcast: Prince of Plastic – How Karim Rashid advanced ... Why can’t the objects we use every day be beautiful, unique and useful? This is the question that drives Karim Rashid, an... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2900