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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum: The Active Participant
Over the weekend, my aunt and I took a trip to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, ON. This museum tells the history of...
Gabrielle Bossy
Nov 2, 20152 min read
What's in a Song: 8 Songs of Historic Significance
Every good song tells a story but once in a while, artists will tackle a truly significant historical event. Of course, that’s my...
Gabrielle Bossy
Oct 30, 20152 min read
Pet Sounds: Proof We Can't See Brilliance Right in Front of Us
Vincent Van Gogh painted over nine hundred works but wasn’t truly discovered until after his death. Bach was famous for his musical...
Gabrielle Bossy
Oct 22, 20152 min read
Flying a Confederate Flag: What it Means
In the wake of the Charleston shooting at The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church back in June, many were left feeling bitter and...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jul 29, 20154 min read
Ten Must-Hear Musicians and Bands for Canada Day
As Canada Day is upon us, many plan for festive bbqs, mapley breakfasts and fun party games to play. What you may have forgotten to plan...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jul 1, 20154 min read
#LoveWins Flashback: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
This week marked a major historical moment in the United States as gay marriage was legalized across the country (finally)! #lovewins...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jun 29, 20153 min read
The Torchbearer
Photo by the Toronto Star I was lucky enough, that by the time I reached grade twelve, I had already had two wonderful and inspiring...
Gabrielle Bossy
May 1, 20153 min read
Day 5: United Record Pressing
On Friday, we took a tour of the United Record Pressing plant- the premier record company in the world. The tour was fantastic, old...
Gabrielle Bossy
Apr 19, 20153 min read
Day 4 Part 1: #NCPH2015
This year’s Record Store Day serendipitously lined up with the 2015 National Conference on Public History. Yesterday, I attended three...
Gabrielle Bossy
Apr 18, 20153 min read
Day One: Cincinnati Skyline Chilli
The cool thing about about travelling all over for concerts and music events is that you begin to see familiar faces, meet loads of new...
Gabrielle Bossy
Apr 14, 20151 min read
Leaving School: Expectations vs. Reality
As of September, I was out of school for the first time in nineteen years. I packed up on my last day of placement at the RCR Museum,...
Gabrielle Bossy
Mar 30, 20154 min read
E.D. Tillson's Model Farm Continued: The Brick Barn
Here is a continuation of the post I put up last week from my Tillson Legacy project. Read on to understand the amazingness that is E.D....
Gabrielle Bossy
Mar 25, 20152 min read
E.D. Tillson's Model Farm
Map of the model farm courtesy of Annandale National Historic Site E.D. Tillson was the son of George Tillson, founder of Tillsonburg. He...
Gabrielle Bossy
Mar 15, 20153 min read
The New Economic Policy and the Role of NEP Men in the Soviet Union
From 1921-1928, Vladimir Lenin introduced a new financial plan for the Soviet Union that was meant as an answer to the USSR’s financial...
Gabrielle Bossy
Feb 6, 20152 min read
Music in the Camps: A look at music as a means of suppression and voice
This week marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In honour of that, I’ve decided to switch up my blog posts...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jan 31, 20154 min read
Rasputin: "There was a cat that really was gone"
Grigori Effimovich Rasputin was a dichotomy. On one hand, he was a revered holy man who made many pilgrimages in Russia and had religious...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jan 24, 20153 min read
The Nazi Propaganda Machine
“The perfect Aryan is blonde like Hitler, slim like Goerring and tall like Goebbels.”- German joke Nazi propaganda was not defined by the...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jan 16, 20152 min read
"Castles Made of Sand Fall in the Sea Eventually": A look at Haight-Ashbury
“More than any other state in the union, California projects indelible images of material wealth, beautiful bodies, exotic landscapes,...
Gabrielle Bossy
Jan 2, 20153 min read
The Christmas Truce
In the thick of the trenches of World War I, the Central Powers pitted themselves against the Triple Entente day after day, month after...
Gabrielle Bossy
Dec 23, 20142 min read
Hitler Youth: Duped into Indoctrination
“I believe the children are our future.” Okay, that was the one and only Whitney Houston but in this case, Hitler shared the same view...
Gabrielle Bossy
Dec 19, 20143 min read
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