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OP Eds and Short Reports

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  • Lynn McDonald: Get the Facts Right before Condemning the Past
  • Ronald Stagg: The Ryerson Affair: An Update. Professor Ronald Stagg judges the judges and finds them wanting
  • Ira Basen: The past is present: What role should Canada’s historians play in reconciliation? The question has proved surprisingly controversial
  • Lynn McDonald Response to Toronto Star Article “Setting the Record Straight”

  • Mark Bonokoski: The obsession to replace Egerton Ryerson

  • Len Fortune: A Defence of Methodist minister and educator Egerton Ryerson Len Fortune

  • Len Fortune: Addendum to A Defence of Methodist minister and educator Egerton Ryerson

  • Quebec commission on academic freedom
    The following article in the Globe and Mail relates the results of a commission established by the Quebec government on academic freedom, sparked by the firing of a professor at the University of Ottawa. a bilingual university in Ontario, with a substantial number  of professors and students from Quebec. Some people at Ryerson University consider their situation even worse–they cannot speak freely, and work by established historians is dismissed as “fawning histories.”

  • Harry Malcomson: Ryerson and the Residential Schools Part Two

  • Harry Malcomson: Ryerson and the Residential Schools Part One – The Ryerson Plaque

  • Hope Maclean: Ojibwa Participation in Methodist Residential Schools in Upper Canada 1828-1860

  • Hope Maclean: A Positive Experiment in Aboriginal Education: The Methodist Ojibwa Day Schools in Upper Canada, 1824-1833

  • Lynn McDonald: The historical record vindicates Egerton Ryerson

  • Victor A. Shepherd: Egerton Ryerson: From Methodist Itinerant to Chief Superintendent of Education

  • Ron Stagg and Patrice Dutil: Opinion: Egerton Ryerson has been falsely accused of trying to erase Indigenous culture

  • Robert M. Timko and Alexandr I. Kubyshkin: Egerton Ryerson: Building a spiritual and intellectual foundation for a Canadian identity
  • The entire unserious Ryerson discussion is framed to set up a ‘colonialist’ straw man
  • Egerton Ryerson as a Methodist Leader
  • Lynn McDonald, “Historical record vindicates Egerton Ryerson: the University has failed utterly to acquaint students who Egerton Ryerson was and what he did that was so positive for Indigenous peoples” Financial Post 9 September 2021
  • Mark BONOKOSKI: The obsession to replace Egerton Ryerson

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jldundas Jennifer Dundas @jldundas ·
19 Apr

The Canadian Institute for Historical Education takes on Toronto's decision to rename Dundas Street - based on false allegations.
“The critics partly tell the truth, but they eliminate the complexities and rely on a general ignorance of history.”

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ontariohistory Ontario Historical Society @ontariohistory ·
7 Mar

Reverend Egerton Ryerson joined the Credit Mississauga in their fight to secure a title deed to their reserve at the mouth of the Credit River. Ryerson and his life-long friendship with Peter Jones feature in Episode 7 Part Two.

https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/podcast/in-hindsight-episode-07/

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jldundas Jennifer Dundas @jldundas ·
17 Jan

Historians have criticized the historical summary prepared by Toronto city staff. Last July, at a mtg of Exec Committee, Mayor Tory appeared to have lost confidence in the staff research, and the accusation that Henry Dundas delayed abolition. 2/2
https://hdcommittee.medium.com/toronto-mayor-john-tory-having-second-thoughts-about-renaming-dundas-street-54a1d72afd97

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jldundas Jennifer Dundas @jldundas ·
16 Jan

Toronto City Council is beginning to wake up to the folly of renaming Dundas Street.

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jldundas Jennifer Dundas @jldundas ·
29 Dec

The BBC's hatchet job on Henry Dundas was a prime example of BBC bias.

Very glad to see a new report exposing the broadcaster's blind spots:
“The report identifies a pattern of failure by the BBC that points unmistakably to conscious or unconscious bias"

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