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Treasuring Algonquin : Sharing Scenes From 100 Years of Leaseholding
A welcome addition to Algonquin Park human history lore, ‘Treasuring Algonquin’ provides a glimpse into the lives of a small community of leaseholders who have treasured their experiences in Algonquin Park through the past century.(order/details)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Clemson acknowledged as an important contributor to York University’s Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website.

Officially launched in April 2008, with over 100 people attending, of “DEATH ON A PAINTED LAKE: The Thom Thomson Tragedy at the University of Toronto’s Hart House. Not only was the event featured on the CBC Television’s national news, CTV’s Canada AM, CBC Radio One’s “Metro Morning” and ‘Ontario Morning” but print media representatives from Toronto’s Globe and Mail and Toronto Star newspapers were there as well.

As an important ‘Research Partner’ Clemson, provided access to her wide collection of research documents, profiles and stories from key Canoe Lake personages in the early days of the project as well as copies of her group party game The Tom Thomson Murder Mystery Party Game – Who Killed Him? When? How?

For those not familiar, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project and its educational website that provides engaging, high-quality materials to schools and universities for the teaching of historical methods and Canadian History. Based on new "document-centred inquiry" and "active learning" pedagogical thinking approaches students can use the developed ‘virtual archives’ to invigorate their research strategy and critical-thinking skills as they try to defend their theories and ‘solve’ old historical crimes. Beginning in 1997 with “Who killed William Robinson, who died in 1868 on Salt Spring Island, BC, the website has grown over the years to include historical information about another 10 “Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History” as well as over 30 mini “Mystery Quests’. The project has won a number of honours and has been reviewed and recommended by numerous organizations, journals, and teachers' organizations.

 


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