New Work by Alumni and Current Students in the 2023 Papers & Records

The 2023 issue of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society's journal Papers & Records features articles by alumni and students exploring aspects of Northwestern Ontario's history.

Alumnus Greg Johnsen's contribution utilizes a scrapbook compiled over a century ago in 1914 by Fred Stephenson, the first supervisor of playgrounds in Fort William. "An Armageddon of Peace: Revisiting the Lakehead's Playground Movement" explores the Lakehead’s experience with the Playground Movement into a continent-wide, wartime context.

Alumna and current graduate student Taylor Laughton's contribution explores an aspect of the wartime leadership of Sir Robert Borden. "Conscription at the Lakehead: Fort William and Port Arthur During the First World War," stands out among other studies of the subject in Ontario in that it reveals an unusual degree of local opposition to the conscription policies of the federal government of the time.

Also in the issue is an article by historian Brent Scollie who has put his vast knowledge of our city’s legal and biographical history to good use in his study of the magistrates and judges of Thunder Bay between 1858 and 1968.

Papers & Records is a peer-reviewed journal co-edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and Thorold J. Tronrud. Submissions on any aspect of the history and heritage of Northwestern Ontario are welcome (email michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca)