Above: “The King’s Helmet from Sutton Hoo” by The British Museum, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. © The Trustees of the British Museum One of the most popular exhibits in The British Museum is found in Room 41: Sutton Hoo and Europe AD 300–1100, featuring artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. …
So reads the text of the Ontario Historic Plaque at the Mnjikaning Fish Weirs (or Fish Fence), at the Atherley Narrows near Orillia, Ontario. Last week while traveling for work, my colleague (i.e. employer) very kindly indulged my historic-plaque-collecting mania by making an unplanned stop at the Weirs on our way out of town. This …
A visit last weekend to the former Anglican Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ontario, was a disturbing but educational experience. Three survivors from Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation generously shared their stories as they guided us through the property, which was operated by the Government of Canada from 1885 to 1970. The Toronto …
