It was in 1946 that Jackie Robinson played his extraordinary summer of baseball with the Triple A Montreal Royals affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the year prior to his 1947 breakthrough as America’s first ever Black player in Major League Baseball. Robinson’s achievement is a seminal event in the history of the sport that was described as America’s favourite pastime. But breaking baseball’s colour barrier was also a transformational event in the advancement of the civil rights movement in the United States. A decade before Rosa Parks went down in history for her heroic 1955 refusal to give up her seat and move to the back of a Montgomery city bus, Robinson refused to give up his seat and move to the back of a US Army bus when ordered to do so. Twentieth-century civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. described Jackie Robinson as an important contributor to his extraordinary achievements.
Date: 1 July, 2021
Key Topics: Canadian History, Racism, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Jan Kestle, Dylan Saunders, Raymond Théberge, Musah Khalid, Michael Haan, Martha Patterson, Katherine Wall, Robert Talbot, Doug Norris, Sen. Donna Dasko, Myriam Hazel, Gustave Goldmann, Jack Jedwab
Date: 25 June, 2019
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Official Languages, Social History
Date: 13 November, 2018
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Social History, Technology & Media
Contributors: Randy Boswell, William Watson, Christian Bourque, Anil Arora, Jack Jedwab, John Milloy, Irvin Studin, Monica Boyd, Don Kerr
Date: 13 April, 2018
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Governance, Heritage, Official Languages, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Dominique Clément, Jack Bumsted, Ken McGoogan, Veronica Strong-Boag, Victor Rabinovitch, Nelson Wiseman, Jean-Phillippe Warren, Jack Jedwab
Date: 12 November, 2017
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Heritage, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Monica MacDonald, Jack Jedwab, Morton Weinfeld, Madeline Ziniak, Linton Garner, Myer Siemiatycki, Avvy Go, Dora Nipp, Timothy J. Stanley, Steve Schwinghamer, Ratna Ghosh, Victor Armony, Farid Rohani
Date: 13 April, 2017
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Migration, Social History
Contributors: Celine Cooper, Veronica Strong-Boag, Yolande Cohen, Joan Sangster, Linda McDowell, Merna Forster, Cora J. Voyageur, Sharon Cook, Dr. Rose Fine-Meyer
Date: 13 November, 2016
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Civic Participation, Indigenous Peoples, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Jocelyn Maclure, Jean Teillet, Jack Jedwab, Sebastein Grammond, Kathleen Mahoney, Avigail Eisenberg, Tom Flanagan, Charmaine A. Nelson
Date: 13 July, 2016
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Heritage, Indigenous Peoples, Migration, Military History, Official Languages, Quebec, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Jeremy Diamond, Jonathan F. Vance, Jack Jedwab, John English, Laura Brandon, Serge Bernier, Terry Copp, Jamie Swift
Date: 13 November, 2015
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Education, Military History, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Thomas H.B. Symons, Desmond Morton, Donald Wright, Bob Rae, E.A. Heaman, Patrice Dutil, Barbara Messamore, James Daschuk
Date: 13 July, 2015
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Migration, Social History
