Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History Sub-Series 4: The International Canadian Scientific Congresses Project First Posted on Friday, October 16, 2020 / Yom Shishi, 28 Tishrei, 5780 By: David Orenstein Concatenation: A Promotional Blog Post I’ll be debating Michael Barany, from the University of Edinburgh, on Friday, October 23, at 2:00 … Continue reading Concatenation: A Promotional Blog Post
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Summer Students at the CSTHA
Summer Students at the CSTHA September has come and gone, which is surprising; during this pandemic, days seem not to pass so much as repeat, Groundhog-Day style. Thankfully our summer students, Denisa Popa and Raphaël Pelletier, remind us that indeed time does pass and that projects, work, and hope continue on. Denisa and Raphaël were … Continue reading Summer Students at the CSTHA
Receiving Darwin in 19th century Nova Scotia
Receiving Darwin in 19th century Nova Scotia By Andrew Reynolds, Christie MacNeil and Mitchell Jabalee The publication in 1859 of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection created a storm of controversy touching on issues of religion and philosophy regarding the origins of human beings, our relationship to other species, and … Continue reading Receiving Darwin in 19th century Nova Scotia
Phenology and Me
Phenology and Me Sara Spike, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton I first encountered A. H. MacKay’s remarkable crowd-sourced phenology project in 2007, while doing archival research for my master’s thesis on an early itinerant school photographer. Among the papers of rural schools collected by the Nova Scotia Archives and historical societies across central Nova Scotia, … Continue reading Phenology and Me
The Annotations in Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of his Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
The Annotations in Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of his Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo Sub-Series II: Off My Quarantined Bookshelf, Post 2 First posted Friday, September 18, 2020 / Yom shishi, 29 Elul, 5780, Erev Rosh Ha-Shonah In my previous blog post I introduced, from off my quarantined bookshelf, Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries … Continue reading The Annotations in Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of his Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo
Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History Sub-Series 2: Off My Quarantined Bookshelf First Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2020 / Shabbat, 23 Elul, 5780 Last updated on Monday, September 14, 2020 ===================================================================== Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo By: David Orenstein Part 1, Introduction As my … Continue reading Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo
Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948)
Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: How Cross-Border Movements of People and Ideas Shaped a Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948) By: Denisa Popa, University of Toronto This is the second entry in a two-part series on the history of Women’s College Hospital (WCH). Cross-border movement and its important role in shaping Canadian women’s medical history is … Continue reading Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948)
Who Was Miss Ashall?
Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History Sub-Series 1: Exploring Archival Resources at the University of Toronto Blog 2 Who Was Miss Ashall? By: David Orenstein First Posted on Friday, August 28, 2020 / Yom Shishi, 8 Elul, 5780 Last updated on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 ** (Continued from CSTHA Blog Post … Continue reading Who Was Miss Ashall?
Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History, Pt. 1
Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History Sub-Series 1: Exploring Archival Resources at the University of Toronto First Posted on Friday, August 21, 2020 / Yom Shishi, 1 Elul, 5780 Last updated Friday, August 21, 2020 By: David Orenstein Once upon a time long, long ago in a country far, far away you could … Continue reading Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History, Pt. 1
Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967)
Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967) By Denisa Popa, University of Toronto This is the first entry in a two-part series on the history of Women’s College Hospital. One of the most documented figures in the history of Canadian medicine is Sir Frederick Banting, credited for his … Continue reading Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967)