Canadian Historical Association
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The Canadian Historical Association (French Société historique du Canada) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. Marius Barbeau
, the anthropologist, was its founding Secretary. It publishes the Journal of the CHA and a well-respected series of booklets featuring concise treatments of particular aspects of Canadian history. Other activities include lobbying government agencies, libraries, and archives on matters related to document preservation and availability. The current president of the CHA is Mary Lynn Stewart of Simon Fraser University
.
A subcommittee of the CHA, the Canadian Committee on Labour History, publishes the journal Labour/Le Travail
. It holds an annual conference together with other scholarly groups as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(the "Learneds").
Other subcommittees include:
Marius Barbeau
Charles Marius Barbeau, , also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology...
, the anthropologist, was its founding Secretary. It publishes the Journal of the CHA and a well-respected series of booklets featuring concise treatments of particular aspects of Canadian history. Other activities include lobbying government agencies, libraries, and archives on matters related to document preservation and availability. The current president of the CHA is Mary Lynn Stewart of Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
.
A subcommittee of the CHA, the Canadian Committee on Labour History, publishes the journal Labour/Le Travail
Labour/Le Travail
Labour/Le Travail is an academic journal which publishes articles on the labour movement in the Canada, sociology, labour economics, and employment relations. Although its focus is Canadian, the journal carries articles about the United States and other nations as well.Labour/Le Travail is...
. It holds an annual conference together with other scholarly groups as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences , known as the Federation, is a member based organization and the voice for the humanities and social science researchers in Canada...
(the "Learneds").
Other subcommittees include:
- Committee on Women's History
- Canadian Committee on History and Computing
- Graduate Students' Committee
- Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality
- History of Children and Youth Group
- Committee on the Second World War
- Economic Historians in Canada
- Canadian Urban History Association
- Business History Group
- Native History Study Group
- Oral History Group/Oral History Forum
- Public History Group
- Environmental History Group
- Political History Group