The deadline for design submissions has passed and it is now time to choose the logo for the 50th Anniversary of the ACA.  Ballots are here, and the deadline for submitting your choice is the 15th of November 2024. The webpage has full sized versions of the candidates.

The University of Winnipeg Archives invites you to attend an opening reception for the launch of our latest exhibition titled To Go Forward with a Man Like Lovatt: Remembering a Student's Sacrifice.  The exhibit is centred on Private Charles Wesley Lovatt, a student at Wesley College who interrupted his studies to enlist in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served in the First World War as a stretcher-bearer with the 12th Canadian Field Ambulance.  Lovatt's story of service and sacrifice is told through a diary he started the day he enlisted and ceased entries two days before he died in the Battle of Passchendaele on October 29, 1917.  The diary and other records documenting his life were lovingly retained by family members over the years and have recently been donated to the University of Winnipeg Archives as the Lovatt Family fonds<https://main.lib.umanitoba.ca/lovatt-family-fonds> in an act of enduring remembrance.

The diary and other records illustrating the life of Private Lovatt, as well as those documenting the wartime experience at Wesley College (one of the founding colleges of the University of Winnipeg), will be on display in the Archives reading room from November 7 to December 20, 2024.  The opening reception will be held November 7 at 12:30 PM also in the Archives reading room where a short film about Private Lovatt, produced by his family, will be shown.  Information about the location of the Archives and where to park can be found on our website.<https://archives.uwinnipeg.ca/using-the-archives/index.html>  We hope to see you there.

The Special Interest Section on Indigenous Archives meeting today has been moved from 1pm to 1:30 pm ET.

To register link here: https://archivists.ca/event-5892576

The University and College Special Interest Group will be meeting October 30, 2024 at 11 am.  Please register now for your zoom link here: https://archivists.ca/event-5921428

All are welcome!

U.C.A.S.I.S will hold meetings every month (except December). The schedule and registration links are below:

Wednesday, November 27 at 11am
https://archivists.ca/event-5921499

Wednesday, January 29 at 11am
https://archivists.ca/event-5921507  

Wednesday, February 26 at 11am
https://archivists.ca/event-5921519

Wednesday, March 26, at 11am
https://archivists.ca/event-5921527

Wednesday, April 30, at 11am
https://archivists.ca/event-5921533 

You are cordially invited to a free online lecture (7 November 2024 at 12 p.m. EST): “Shot Down and Hiding Out with the Resistance: The Keith Patrick Archive at McMaster University Library.”

Join McMaster archivist Bridget Whittle and librarian Saman Goudarzi for an exploration of the Second World War-era service of Keith Patrick, a Canadian wireless operator/air gunner whose Halifax Bomber was shot down in France in June 1944. Seriously injured, Keith Patrick and his pilot, Don Fulton, were sheltered by members of the French resistance before being liberated by allied forces in September 1944.

Keith Patrick’s archive, housed in McMaster University Library’s department of Archives and Research Collections, reveals how Royal Canadian Air Force crews prepared for adverse outcomes through escape kits and evasion maps. The archive also provides insight into the tremendous efforts of the French resistance to shelter and care for allied troops, including the assignment of false French identity cards and the housing of soldiers with French families.

This lecture is hosted by McMaster University Library’s Archives Alive program in partnership with McMaster University Alumni.

Register using this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5817195943387/WN_lI-qbqy6SR2ulYLQ64Hpeg#/registration

Please feel free to share this invitation with other interested parties.

The Indigenous Matters Working Group Assessment and Recommendations Final Report, and the Caretaking Memory: A Resource Guide for Archival Practitioners Working in Indigenous-centred Archives has been released!

You can find both documents here.

Thanks to all of the members of the Indigenous Matters Working Group for their hard work!

Cet automne le CRIalt vous invite à participer au cycle de projections – débats intitulé « Du politique dans l’usage des archives filmiques. Lectures et pratiques décoloniales ». Cette série d’événements, organisé par Marion Froger et Claudia Polledri, en collaboration avec Karine Bertrand, Monika Diaz, André Habib et Zaira Zarza, se déroulera du 24 septembre au 10 décembre 2024. Elle constitue le dernier volet du cycle de projections « Politiques du film d’archives. Face à la violence de l’histoire » débuté l’année dernière (2023-2024) à l’initiative de Rémy Besson et Philippe Despoix et pensé comme un espace de discussion sur la dimension politique des gestes posés par les documentaristes travaillant à partir d’archives. Les quatre séances de l’automne visent à aborder cette réflexion d’un point de vue décolonial. Chacune explore un contexte géographique et historique différent pour situer les pratiques des cinéastes dans des cadres politiques divers et proposer des lectures qui tiennent compte des effets escomptés du (re)montage d’archives de sources variées.

https://crialt-intermedialite.org/le-futur-de-larchive-dans-le-cinema-autochtone/ 

I am pleased to announce that Andrew Sandock has been awarded the 2024 Dodds Prize for his paper "In Search of a Liberatory Appraisal for Palestinian Archives.”

Andrew graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information this past spring. He also holds a Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, focusing on World Islamic and Middle East Studies & International Development. While completing his degree, Andrew worked at OISE Library where he provides reference services and research consultations for students and researchers using historical and special collections. His paper was submitted by Fiorella Foscarini.

Instituted in 2011, the Dodds Prize recognizes superior research and writing on an archival topic by a student enrolled in a Master's level archival studies program at a Canadian university. The award honours Gordon Dodds (1941–2010), first President of the ACA, and Archivaria's longest-serving general editor. Submissions received for the 2023-24 academic year were reviewed by adjudication committee members Amy Marshall Furness, Shyla Seller, Anna Gibson Hollow, and Heather Home. I thank the committee for their service.

Andrew’s paper will be published in the Spring 2025 issue of Archivaria. The citation reads:

In the examination of past (and present) colonial actions, decolonization efforts and liberatory futures, the author brings the complexities of the archival endeavour to the fore through the lens and application of contemporary theoretical propositions. Weaving together contemporary news, official reports, classic and contemporary archival theory, and heavyweight cultural theory this paper pulls the reader headlong into the abyss of genocide and epistemicide and guides us towards a way of thinking about how to constitute archives in apocalyptic times.

Congratulations, Andrew, on your excellent work.

Rebecka Taves Sheffield

Managing Editor

Archivaria

The Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship

Queen’s University Archives is issuing a final call to invite interested individuals to submit applications for the Geraldine Grace and Maurice Alvin McWatters Visiting Fellowship for 2024-2025. The Fellowship allows the successful candidate to spend a month on-site in Kingston, Ontario, Canada undertaking research using the rich and varied holdings of Queen’s University Archives. The Fellowship Honorarium ($5000 CDN) will assist in defraying costs such as accommodation, travel, and research expenses. The deadline for submission of this year’s application is 27 September 2024. For further information  visit our website. 

The NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
invites you to

A RETURN TO MEMORY

Directed by Donald McWilliams

Special launch event
at the NFB Space

Thursday, October 17
Alanis Obomsawin Theatre
1500 Balmoral Street, Montreal
(Place-des-Arts Metro)

The screening will be in English and will be followed by a reception.

Film screening
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Reception
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are free but must be claimed in advance.
Limit of two tickets per person.

claim tickets