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Resources For Scholars
Major museums such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum are, by definition, centres of learning. They have an obligation to undertake research and to stimulate research on their own collections and relevant to their purposes. The Canadian Museum of Civilization is heir to a tradition of research and collecting that extends back to the Geological Survey of Canada (1842), while the Canadian War Museum dates from an unofficial initiative in 1880 on the part of the militia officers of the Ottawa Garrison. Researchers who have been associated with the museums since those times have given the museums an international reputation and made enduring contributions to Canadian studies.
The Scholars section of Civilization.ca is intended to provide convenient access to selected information and knowledge resources that are the outcome of the institutions’ research activity or are tools designed to assist the research process (e.g. bibliographies).
Bibliographies
Essays
Archaeology
- STRANDS OF CULTURE CONTACT: DORSET-NORSE INTERACTIONS IN THE CANADIAN EASTERN ARCTIC
By Patricia D. Sutherland - THE POTENTIAL FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN ORGANIC TERRAIN IN CANADA
By Ken Swayze - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BLUEFISH CAVES IN BERINGIAN PREHISTORY
By Jacques Cinq-Mars - GLIMPSES OF ATLANTIC CANADA’S PAST
By David Keenlyside
Cultures
- FOUR ‘CONSTANTS’ IN CANADIAN CULTURAL POLICY
By Victor Rabinovitch - IDENTITY, A CARD WITH TWO FACES
By Mauro Peressini - FOLKTALES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF THE CHINESE IN MONTREAL
By Ban Seng Hoe
First Peoples
- ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN CANADIAN MILITARY SERVICE: HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS
By John Moses - “A FEW THINGS IN THE WAY OF CURIOS”, HISTORIC IVORIES AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION
By Maria Von Finckenstein
History
- THE MONTREAL AND VERDUN ZOOT-SUIT DISTURBANCES OF JUNE 1944: LANGUAGE CONFLICT, A PROBLEM OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS OR YOUTHFUL OVER-EXUBERANCE?
By Serge Marc Durflinger - FOLKTALES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF THE CHINESE IN MONTREAL
By Ban Seng Hoe
Military History
- CANADA AND SUBMARINE WARFARE, 1909-1950
By Roger Sarty - ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN CANADIAN MILITARY SERVICE: HISTORIC & CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS
By John Moses - THE MONTREAL AND VERDUN ZOOT-SUIT DISTURBANCES OF JUNE 1944: LANGUAGE CONFLICT, A PROBLEM OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS OR YOUTHFUL OVER-EXUBERANCE?
By Serge Marc Durflinger
Museology
- MUSEUMS FACING TRUDEAU’S CHALLENGE: THE INFORMAL TEACHING OF HISTORY
By Victor Rabinovitch - MUSEUMS AND THE INTERNET: EIGHT YEARS OF CANADIAN EXPERIENCE
By Victor Rabinovitch and Stephen Alsford - THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
By Lynn McMaster - MUSEUM-RELATED EDUCATION IN QUEBEC: AN HISTORICAL SURVEY
By Jean-Marc Blais - TOWARDS THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: CRISIS AND CHANGE FOR MILLENIUM 3
By George MacDonald and Stephen Alsford - THE DIGITAL MUSEUM
By George MacDonald and Stephen Alsford - COMMERCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PUTTING MUSEUMS ONLINE
By George MacDonald
Postal History
- POSTAL REFORM IN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
By John Willis
Monographs
SCHOLARS Page
- Archaeological Mysteries in the Ottawa Area: Edward Van Cortlandt’s ossuary
by Jean-Luc Pilon - Passions and Pastimes: Thomas Walter Edwin Sowter, the Ottawa Valley’s First Archaeologist
by Jean-Luc Pilon - Opus: The making of musical instruments in Canada
by Carmelle Bégin - Northern People, Northern Knowledge: The Story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918
by David Gray - The Search for Cod, a Delicacy for Meatless Days: A Fishing Expedition on the Saint-André (1754)
by Jean-Pierre Chrestien - Law of the Sea – The Exclusive Economic Zone
by B. Applebaum - Key issues in Atlantic fishery management
by Joseph Gough - The Labour Stamp: The Image of the Worker on Canadian Postage Stamps
by David Frank - Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999
by Nolan Reilly and Chris Kitzan - The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930
by Jean Bruce - Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher
by Robert McGhee et al. - Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada: Selections from the National Ceramic Collection
by Elizabeth Collard - Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau
by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper - The Haida: Children of Eagle and Raven
by George F. MacDonald - A History of the Native People of Canada
by J.V. Wright - Nadlok and the Origin of the Copper Inuit
by Bryan Gordon - Retracing an Archaeological Expedition to Canada’s Northwest Territories
by Jean-Luc Pilon