I’m currently researching and writing the paper I’ll present on the Aboriginal Rights panel at next month’s NASSR conference in Winnipeg. My brief talk will sketch some of the Romantic-era contexts leading to the creation, in the later nineteenth century, of Canada’s oppressive residential school system. I will focus on the educational philosophy […]
This evening I took a stroll along the Sparks Street Mall to reminisce about my long-ago busking days here in Ottawa, when suddenly my reverie was interrupted by a rhythmic sound, like distant thunder, coming from the direction of Parliament Hill. Following the beat, I arrived at last on the lawn below the Peace […]
Just over a week ago I attended a formal dinner held by the John Buchan Society at the National Club in Toronto. It was a posh event whose activities included the reading of a letter of welcome from Governor General David Johnston and a visit, via Skype, from Buchan’s granddaughter, Lady Deborah Stewartby, who […]
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Kevin Hutchings
