Dad / husband / thoroughly inadequate cat servant. Historian of Canadian immigration; public & oral history too. Museum worker, public servant, bike commuter. (he/him)
Chair of CHA's Public History working group.
Author, with Jan Raska, of Pier 21: A History (University of Ottawa Press, 2020).
PhD student (History) @ Carleton
Header: Johnston and Ripmeester, "A Monument's Work Is Never Done," Intl J. of Heritage Studies 13:2 (2007), 125
As a public historian, it's tempting to view these as monuments...with, like all monuments, the possibility of fundamental repurposing in collective and public memory!
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My favourite line in recent science fiction is in Translation State: a juvenile Presger translator saying, "I'm a princex in disguise!"