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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

News & Events for the Bay Area Canadian Community 🇨🇦

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National Legion Week (September 17–23, 2023)

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While some provincial commands and their branches have celebrated some form of Legion Week since the 1980s, earlier this year Dominion Command established an annual National Legion Week observance from coast-to-coast-to-coast.

National Legion Week is designed to educate visitors on the good work their local branch does in their community. It reinforces the important role branches play in our shared mission to serve and support our veterans, as well as contribute to the well-being of so many communities. It serves as a vehicle to drive new traffic to branches, attract new members and sign up new volunteers. This year, it can also include a salute to Royal Canadian Mounted Police veterans who celebrated the 150th anniversary (May 23).

National Legion Week will be held each September, with start and end dates that vary slightly from year to year. It kicks off on the third Sunday of the month in honour of Battle of Britain Day and wraps up on the following Saturday.  This year’s first annual national observance runs from Sunday, Sept. 17 to Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023.

As a US-based branch, we do not have a physical location like most Canadian branches.  However, we do undertake almost all of the other activities that would be traditionally associated with a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.  Throughout National Legion Week we will be posting items to this space to:

Jess Larochelle: A Canadian soldier

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An item from the Legion Magazine that may be of interest to members.
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Family/Valour in the Presence of the Enemy 

 

Jess Larochelle: A Canadian soldier

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Wounded warrior Jess Larochelle, whose magnificent defence of a strongpoint in Afghanistan earned him Canada’s second-highest award for valour and spawned a campaign to upgrade it to a Victoria Cross, has died. He was 40.

“He was found in his shop and there wasn’t anything that could be done for him,” his brother Andrew wrote in a social media post from their home in Commanda Lake, Ont. “As per Jess’s wishes, there won’t be a funeral and services.

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Korea: The war without end

Explore the Unforgettable: Canada’s Role in the Korean War 🇨🇦🇰🇷 In this video narrated by Chris Jericho, we delve into the remarkable story of how Canada answered the call for peace and played a pivotal role in the Korean War. Discover the courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment of Canadian soldiers as they joined the international effort to defend democracy and uphold global stability. Join us as we honor the valiant contributions of Canadian forces and commemorate their legacy that continues to inspire generations.
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The bulldog bearer

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

“The life of a stretcher-bearer during The Great War was a series of carries­—mostly of the living, often of the dying,” staff sergeant John Heeg wrote to the Kansas University Medical Center. “[They] experienced life and death on static battlefields unlike any others in history.” And on Sept. 2, 1918, life and death was undoubtedly on Private John Francis Young’s mind.

The 25-year-old stretcher-bearer persevered amid the fury of German shelling and machine-gun fire, risking life and limb to save his comrades on the battlefield and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions. And 105 years later, Young is still remembered as the Canadian bearer with a bulldog spirit.

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📣 Student social tomorrow! Plus: New grad fellow studies multicultural democracy

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Canadian Studies Announcements

In This Issue:

Event Tomorrow

  • Canadian Studies Student Meet-and-Greet

Program News

  • New Hildebrand Fellow Britt Leake seeks keys to successful multicultural democracy

Upcoming Events

  • ACB-FGC: A Culturally Responsive Program to Support Black Families Involved with the Ontario Child Welfare System

Academic Opportunities

  • The Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award
  • Call for Papers: Liminal Spaces: Two Days of Rural Canada

EVENT TOMORROW

Canadian Studies Student Meet-and-Greet

Wed., Sept. 6 | 12:00-2:00 pm | Class of 1925 Courtyard | RSVP

The Canadian Studies Program invites you to kick off the fall semester with a back-to-school meet-and-greet for students! Get to know more about our program and meet fellow students while enjoying a complimentary lunch on us.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

PROGRAM NEWS

New Hildebrand Fellow Britt Leake Seeks Keys to Successful Multicultural Democracy

Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that Britt Leake has been awarded an Edward E. Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2023.

Britt is a PhD candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science. His research focuses on understanding the conditions under which democracy succeeds or fails in societies with extensive ethnolinguistic or religious diversity. His dissertation project uses John Rawls’s theory of public reason as a frame through which to examine historical cases from four countries (Canada, India, Lebanon, and Spain) in which different cultural groups tried to make compromises on the terms of a social contract that would be legitimate in the eyes of each group.

Britt’s research on Canada will focus on the late twentieth century, when the Canadian state tried with mixed success to renegotiate its relationships with Francophone and Indigenous minorities. His Hildebrand Fellowship will support his travel to Canada, where he will conduct archival research in Ottawa, Quebec City, and Montreal.

Britt holds a BA and MA in international studies and BAs in Arabic and French from the University of Oklahoma.

UPCOMING EVENTS

ACB-FGC: A Culturally Responsive Program to Support Black Families Involved with the Ontario Child Welfare System

Tues., Sept. 26 | 12:30 pm | 223 Philosophy Hall | RSVP

The disparate treatment of African American families in the American child welfare system is well documented, but researchers are only just beginning to examine the experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Canadian families in Canada. In the province of Ontario, recent studies find that Black families are represented in the child welfare system at disproportionate rates. Experiences of Black youth, caregivers, and workers also highlight differential and punitive treatment within the system. These findings have given rise to the development of the African, Caribbean, Black Family Group Conferencing Project (ACB-FGC), a restorative, culturally responsive innovation to support Black families at risk of, or already engaged in, the child welfare system in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In this presentation, Dr. Lance T. McCready, co-director of ACB-FGC, describes the community-based research that led to the development of the program and implications of ACB-FGC for provincial policies to address anti-Black racism in the child welfare system and among partner institutions.

Dr. Lance McCready is the lead researcher for the Making Spaces Lab, and an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. and Ph.D. in education, all from UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize from the University of Toronto, and the 2018 Distinguished Research Scholar Award from the Ontario Education Research Symposium. Dr. McCready held a Sproul Fellowship with Canadian Studies at Berkeley in Spring 2023, where he worked on several projects related to the health and welfare of Black families, youth, and GBT/MSM individuals in Canada.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

The Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award

Deadline: September 15, 2023

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) is seeking nominations for its Thomas O. Enders Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award recognizes original work that makes a significant contribution to the nominee’s discipline and to the study of Canada.

The award consists of an honorarium of $5,000, a certificate of citation, and complimentary two-year membership in ACSUS. The awardee will be expected to attend the ACSUS Biennial Conference in November 2023, where the award will be conferred, and may be asked to give a 20-minute presentation on their work at the conference.

For details on how to apply, please click here.

Call for Papers: Liminal Spaces: Two Days of Rural Canada

Deadline: September 15, 2023

The Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University (St. Catharine’s, ON) invites paper submissions or panel proposals on the theme “Rural Canada.” When considering Canada, most people think of Canadian cities or the wonder of its vast wilderness. We often overlook, sometimes literally, rural Canada, those spaces in‐between. We fly over them and drive through them, but don’t often stop to consider what the people and the places contribute to Canada as a nation.

This conference will consider the world between the cities and the wilderness, those liminal spaces, and the people, culture, politics, and issues of concern within them. Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to submit both individual papers and panel proposals; learn more here.

Canadian Studies Program

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