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 : Miriam Taylor, Mohammed Ahmed, Michelle Douglas, Ashley Manuel, The Hon. Steven Guilbeault, Can Nguyen, Jean Teillet, Ilona Dougherty, The Right Hon. Michaëlle Jean, The Hon. Jean Augustine, Rosemary Sadlier, Deborah Morrison, Charles Taylor, Major Samson Young, Sen. Wanda Thomas Elaine Bernard, Abhay & Sukhmeet Singh Sachal.
Date: 9 March, 2021
Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Other, 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
