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Saturday July 10, 2021

July 17, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday July 10, 2021

The legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister, is under intense review due to his connection to the creation of Canada’s residential school system for indigenous children. The discovery of bodies in unmarked graves at former institutional sites has ignited sorrow, anger, and pain from a horrible legacy largely ignored and glossed over by settler historical accounts and narratives. The existence of the residential school system spanned more than 100 years from the 1870s to the 1990s and John A. Macdonald, and Egerton Ryerson, are current flash points of anger in their roles as architects of a structure with aims to erase identity, or cultural genocide, against indigenous peoples. Symbols of their legacies including statues in public squares, buildings, streets and other things named in their honour are being removed in adherence to calls for action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Under consideration is the removal of a Macdonald statue that has stood in downtown Hamilton for more than 100 years, a fact that is as much a part of Macdonald’s legacy, as is the debate about its removal. The question really isn’t if it will come down, it’s how it will come down, and where will it end up – in storage, in Hamilton harbour, or, something that isn’t even in consideration, a city of Hamilton history museum, which doesn’t even exist. Among the TRC call to actions is a section on education bringing forth historical truths of colonial racism in Canada and the statue of Macdonald is a stark bronze reminder of that which shouldn’t be hidden from view in storage. Surveys show Canadians are increasingly ignorant of its own history. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. Hamilton needs a museum.

Finding a home for Hamilton’s history

Hamilton has a long and colourful history but it doesn’t have a dedicated place to display it.

For 172 years, the city has been a roller-coaster of amazing firsts, fascinating characters, bizarre crimes, industrial might and labour strife.

But where do you go to reflect on that history and see memorabilia from bygone days?

There’s a big city of Hamilton warehouse on Burlington St., with more than 8,000 local artifacts. But it’s nearly full and not open to the public.

June 1, 2013

There are local museums devoted to celebrating more narrow subjects such as Sir Allan MacNab; the Battle of Stoney Creek; infrastructure engineering; Black history; coffee; and vintage flying machines, among others.

You’ll find bits of Hamilton in almost all the museums. But there is no central location devoted exclusively to the city’s history. There is no place to take a visiting relative, or a class of schoolchildren to learn about the story of Hamilton.

In recent months, an effort to correct a similar situation in Toronto has been gaining steam.

In early February, Toronto city council voted 35 to three to turn Old City Hall on Queen St. W., into a museum of Toronto, along with a large public library, wedding chapel, museum gift shop, restaurant and rental space.

A staff report recommended that 25,000 square feet be used for exhibit space and predicted the museum would attract 225,000 visitors a year.

The building currently houses courtrooms and holding cells for the provincial courts. But in 2021, a new court building will open, making Old City Hall available.

A feasibility study found the building would be appropriate for a museum, but retrofitting the inside and heritage restoration work on the building that opened in 1899 could cost a whopping $190 million.

It’s so far unclear where the funding would come from. But Toronto councillor Josh Matlow, who brought forward the idea, believes a combination of government support, private donations and fundraising could pull the money together. City staff are studying funding options.

Matlow said he got the idea while visiting Chicago’s museum some years ago as a tourist.

“I got to know its story, I got to know its quirks, and idiosyncrasies. There were so many crazy stories … and horrible disasters like the Chicago fire. I learned about Chicago’s architecture and the people who designed the city. It was wonderful,” he said.

“When you get to know a city’s story, the good things and the bad, you can fall in love with it. Just like you do with people.”

“You Might Be From Hamilton If…”

Hamilton used to have a kind of civic museum at Dundurn Castle until the mid 1960s.

It was called Hamilton’s Attic, and featured a hodgepodge of items such as the city’s first fire engine, numerous paintings and photographs as well as a two-headed calf and a stuffed bird collection donated by a prominent local ornithologist.

A centennial project transformed the museum into a celebration of Sir Alan MacNab, the former premier of the province of Canada who built the sprawling mansion and died penniless.

Years later, Special Collections at the Hamilton Public Library — now called Local History and Archives — emerged to partly fill the void by collecting historical items and to a small extent displaying them.

Margaret Houghton, who retired as archivist at the library section in July 2016, made a special effort to bring in local nostalgia items, everything from old bottles from defunct lines of beer — such as Hamilton Mountain beer — to postcards portraying snapshots from the city, old maps, war medals and posters as well as photographic collections from prominent photographers.

She worked with “pickers,” who would keep an eye on flea markets, antique shows and auctions for interesting Hamilton items.

“A Hamilton Civic Museum should have happened decades ago,” Houghton said. “But the problem has been money and finding a location.”

The lack of a civic museum has meant significant items have either ended up in private hands or found their way to landfill, she said.

One of the most enthusiastic local collectors is Glen Faulman, who works as a Stelco steelworker and is part-owner of This Ain’t Hollywood bar on James St. N.

His Hamilton nostalgia collection of more than 200 items includes a hand-operated 1862 Wanzer Sewing Machine that was made at a factory at James and Vine Sts., and a 19th-century brass cash register made at Hamilton Brass Manufacturing, also on James North.

“You Might Be From Hamilton If…”

He’s managed to collect a nearly complete set of trading cards of the 1924-25 Hamilton Tigers hockey team.

“I collect it to try to preserve Hamilton history,” he said. “We totally should have a civic museum. We are the industrial powerhouse of Canada and we should definitely be tooting our own horn.”

Hamilton and Toronto are unique in Ontario by not having civic museums. Virtually every sizable community in the province has one, including Ottawa, Guelph, St. Catharines, Brockville, Oakville and Woodstock.

Dundas has a local history museum that runs as a privately funded non-profit corporation. It recently went through a major upgrade.

Fieldcote in Ancaster — owned by the city of Hamilton — is generally focused on local history from Ancaster.

Hamilton mayor Fred Eisenberger said a Hamilton civic museum “is a worthy idea — absolutely. But it has just been overtaken by other priorities.”

He noted a lot of heritage resources in recent years have been spent on repairs and maintenance to Auchmar on Hamilton Mountain as well as to the Battle of Stoney Creek Lion Monument parkette.

“There are other things that are on the priority list ahead of that but it is certainly something to start talking about for sure.”

Hamilton councillor Chad Collins says he is putting together a motion to have staff study the feasibility of a Hamilton museum as part of an ongoing strategic plan to “guide the development, sustainability, relevance, value, and ongoing operations of the Hamilton Civic Museums.”

The motion, that he plans to bring forward in a week or so, will also ask staff to cost out the potential capital and operating costs and provide input on the suggestion.

Unlike Toronto, Hamilton doesn’t have an Old City Hall for a civic museum. The historic stone building built on James North in 1888 was demolished in 1961.

However Auchmar, on the Mountain, is vacant. The city-owned building that has been undergoing costly maintenance and restoration work needs a purpose for its future.

The estate was built in 1854 by prominent Hamiltonian Isaac Buchanan, who among other things founded the 13th Battalion (now known as the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry) in 1862 and the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce in 1854.

September 15, 2012

“The Honourable Isaac Buchanan played a vital role in the development of Hamilton therefore it would seem to be appropriate to have a civic museum for Hamilton at Auchmar,” Friends of Auchmar president Diane Dent said.

She said a Hamilton museum could be blended with a previously-put-forward vision by a trust offshoot of the RHLI to turn Auchmar into a regimental museum, among other things.

Hamilton has had a tough history with museums in recent decades.

The federal Marine Discovery Centre on the Bayfront was a flop and the now-closed Canadian Football Hall of Fame had been plagued by poor attendance over the years. The Hall of Fame is transitioning to Tim Hortons Field.

Others will recall the failed attempt to bring the Canadian Music Hall of Fame to Hamilton more than a decade ago also left bad memories.

But attendance at the city’s six civic museums is strong. Last year was a record year with more than 208,000 people visiting the six main museums run by the city.

Graham Crawford — whose HIStory and HERitage multimedia, private mini-museum on James St. N., operated for several years before morphing into the Hamilton Store — said a full-fledged civic museum for Hamilton is a no-brainer.

July 30, 2013

“I think we absolutely should have one. We’re the 10th largest city in Canada and apparently we’re unstoppable (referring to the city’s marketing slogan). It’s not as though we are some backwater place with nothing to show or interesting history to share. We do.”

He believes the solution is right before our eyes — the former Marine Discovery Centre.

“It’s a big building. Why not use part of it as a Hamilton museum? It doesn’t even have to be a museum in the usual sense. It could be about the past, present and future of Hamilton.”

However, city council recently decided to sell the facility — that Hamilton was given by the federal government in 2015 — and it’s doubtful an entrepreneur would put a business strategy together around a museum.

It’s a building with no signs or windows, the kind of place you could drive by every day and never notice.

And that’s the way they like it in this climate controlled warehouse bunker in the industrial north end of Hamilton. Workers in Nitrile blue gloves — who spend their days, preserving and organizing pieces of city history — aren’t really able to entertain visitors.

In fact, the address is a secret. They’ll say Burlington St., but that’s it. Those few who are given precise co-ordinates and the privilege of a tour are told to keep the specific address to themselves. They don’t want any break-ins.

Recently, the Spectator was given a chance to walk through the 6,200 square foot off-site museum storage facility that houses more than 8,000 pieces of local heritage.

November 9, 2018

It’s where overflow items for the city’s museums are kept along with many items held for posterity but don’t really fit in with displayed collections.

Most notable when you walk in are the nearly 50 “high density mobile shelving units” that mechanically move back and forth to allow access to specific objects. The units were put in place in 2014 at a cost $385,000 from the city’s future fund.

Right off the main entrance is a quarantine room with a sign that say “Isolation Room For Artifacts Only. Proceed with caution.” All incoming donations are placed in plastic bags and contained to the room for a period of time to make sure they aren’t carrying bugs, mould or something else.

In the middle of the quarantine room is a big bag with a deer head from Dundurn Castle. The problem there is the way they did taxidermy in the old days. They used arsenic. Modern preservers are left with the task of figuring out whether it is safe to have around people.

“We don’t actively collect or ask people for Hamilton things. We’re not mandated to do that now,” says Sonia Mrva, Senior Curator, Heritage Strategies.

When the city is approached about a donation, it goes through a scrutiny process to determine the shape it is in and whether it would add to the collection the city already has, she says.

One of the big problems is the off-site storage facility is nearly full and the $25,000 annual budget doesn’t leave a lot of funds for major restorative work.

As for exhibits, there is everything from the mayor’s former ornate throne from the old City Hall, to boxes of tiny pieces of pottery pulled from archeological digs at Dundurn Castle. There’s a War of 1812 uniform and many, many other military uniforms from the last century.

June 14, 2013

Most of the stuff is overflow from the city’s museums such as Dundurn Castle and Whitehern. You’ll find tattered furniture and windows from Whitehern. The city is obliged to keep them under the terms of the agreement with the McQuesten family that handed over Whitehern and its contents to the city in 1968.

There are pillars from Auchmar, the city-owned mansion built by Isaac Buchanan that has been undergoing costly restorative work for years. On another shelf you’ll find bronze poles from around the Gore Park Cenotaph that have been replaced.

There’s a huge collection of paintings including one by Group of Seven painter A.J. Cassons of the majestic house owned by the city’s first mayor, Colin Campbell Ferrie.

Gifts to the city such as pieces of art or “keys to the city” find their way to the facility as well.

Chains of office from the suburban municipalities that were amalgamated with Hamilton have ended up there, as have an old pair of skates from former Mayor Vic Copps.

Copps is also represented across town the Local History and Archives section of the Hamilton Public Library. They have a silver hard hat with his name and a lunch bucket.

The section has massive archives of historical photos from the Hamilton Spectator 1955-99, along with collections from portrait photographers such a Hubert Beckett, along with this massive camera that is on display in the hallway. News footage from CHCH is also kept.

August 15, 2015

There are menus from long-gone Hamilton restaurants like Chicken Roost and the Aero Tavern, matchbooks for local businesses and all kinds of posters and wall hangings from historical events such as Hamilton Centennial in 1946.

The library has been actively digitizing photos and other historical items that can be seen at the library’s website at www.hpl.ca. The city hopes to finish digitizing all of its collection within a few years. (By Mark McNeil, The Hamilton Spectator from March 5, 2018) 

 

Posted in: Canada, Hamilton Tagged: 2021-24, education, Hamilton, history, John A. Macdonald, Museum, statue, storage

Friday July 9, 2021

July 16, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday July 9, 2021

Trudeau denies it, but signs point to early election in Canada

Covid-19 cases are down in Canada and some are interpreting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cross-country travel this week as a surefire sign of an imminent election.

September 10, 2019

Trudeau’s whistle stop in Calgary on Wednesday started with a blunt question from RED FM host Rishi Nagar, who noted the prime minister’s back-to-back pit stops in Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan and in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to make a C$420-million funding announcement to help Algoma Steel phase out coal and create jobs.

“All this shows that you are in an election campaign mode,” Nagar said. Trudeau rejected the characterization.

“Actually, it doesn’t. It shows that we are getting things done,” Trudeau said in this first in-studio interview in 16 months. “I’ve been taking advantage of the fact that our case loads are now lower that people are getting vaccinated, to be able to travel a little bit more and make the announcements on things that we’ve been working on for many, many months.”

Nearly 78 percent of eligible Canadians have so far received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Forty-four percent are fully vaccinated. Growing in parallel to Canada’s vaccination rates is speculation about the timing of a federal election — and anxiety over how it could be as early as late summer.

June 2, 2021

Political watchers have been viewing everything through an election lens: the return of Trudeau’s clean-shaven look, inflation climbing to its highest rate in a decade, the anticipated timing of the Canada-U.S. border reopening, a free one-time check for seniors timed for the week of Aug. 16, an increased number of in-person funding announcements, and, according to former Liberal strategist David Herle, the fact Liberal MPs have been nudged to take their vacations in July.

The country’s attention is split. Many in Canada are focused on securing second doses and family reunions, grief over the discovery of more than 1,000 remains in unmarked graves on the grounds of former Indian residential schools, and the extreme heat that saw hundreds of “sudden and unexpected deaths” in the western province of British Columbia, triggering renewed focus to climate change.

On Thursday, the prime minister’s plane landed in British Columbia where he announced a new C$3.2-billion agreement with the province to cut child care fees in half by the end of 2022.

“We’re making your life easier and more affordable,” Trudeau said in the campaign-style announcement. He said the agreement would see the creation of 30,000 high-quality spaces over the next five years. “This is what it means to be a feminist government.”

April 22, 2021

Trudeau is teasing news about the promise of a national child care and early learning system. It’s an anticipated update to a marquee proposal from this year’s federal budget that will have the attention of parents across the country, especially in vote-rich southern Ontario where there are 45 seats to be won. Annual child care costs in Toronto are the country’s highest, topping C$21,000, according to the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives.

“I’m very much looking forward to making big announcements on child care in the coming weeks,” Trudeau said Wednesday.

Trudeau wields power in a minority government, which means he needs the support of opposition parties to pass legislation. As prime minister, it also means he has the power to call an election.

Recent polls have placed the Liberals in single to double-digit leads, throwing open a window for Trudeau to dissolve Parliament in an attempt to turn his minority government — which has been functioning throughout the pandemic — into a majority.

The next fixed election date is Oct. 16, 2023. But under Canada’s constitutional monarchy system, the prime minister can request to dissolve Parliament at any time to trigger an election. For an incumbent government, that ability to choose a date and prepare is an advantage.

May 30, 2017

“For the Liberals, it’s the question of whether the current trends will hold into the fall,” veteran polls analyst Éric Grenier told POLITICO. Grenier, who recently launched The Writ, said Liberals will have to take stock of the political environment as the pandemic subsides.

The longer the Liberals wait, the more they risk squandering the opportunity to take advantage of the Conservatives’ polling numbers, which Grenier said are lower than those pulled by former leader Andrew Scheer in the lead up to the 2019 federal election.

“There are also some municipal elections in fall, that could complicate things,” Grenier said. “I don’t think that would be enough necessarily to prevent them from calling an election.” (Politico)


2019 Federal Election

Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2021-24, Annamie Paul, Canada, election, election2021, Erin O’Toole, hold, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Yves-François Blanchet

Thursday July 8, 2021

July 15, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday July 8, 2021

First-dose COVID-19 vaccinations plateau across Canada, threatening path to variant resilience

The number of people getting their first COVID-19 vaccine doses is plateauing across the country, heightening the need to target harder-to-reach groups if Canada is going to achieve the vaccination levels needed to control the spread of infection.

May 22, 2021

As of Monday, 78 per cent of those eligible to be vaccinated in Canada have received at least one dose, and 41 per cent were fully vaccinated, making the country one of the most immunized in the world. Among the Group of Seven nations, Canada ranks second next to Britain with the highest number of doses administered per 100 people.

However, within provinces and territories, there are pockets with low vaccination rates across the country.

In the High Level health unit in northern Alberta, for example, 21 per cent of the eligible population had received at least one dose, and in Manitoba, 19 per cent of the eligible population in the municipality of Stanley had received at least one dose.

While the number of people receiving second doses continues to climb, those receiving their first doses have stalled at fewer than 100,000 a day since June 20.

January 30, 2021

With the rise of more transmissible variants, some epidemiologists estimate at least 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the eligible population will need to be fully vaccinated to keep COVID-19 rates under control.

Reaching those levels will be critical as we head into the fall, when people start spending more time indoors again at the same time the highly infectious Delta variant is expected to become the dominant variant of the virus in most of the country, said Cordell Neudorf, professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan.

“That’s when we expect the next wave to hit, unless we get high enough immunization coverage,” Dr. Neudorf said.

December 11, 2020

Now that those most willing and able to get immunized have received at least one vaccine, health authorities must ramp up their efforts to vaccinate groups that are more difficult to reach, said Nazeem Muhajarine, an epidemiologist and professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan.

And that will require different targeted approaches, he said, since those who remain unvaccinated are a heterogenous group. They include people who are willing to be vaccinated but have difficulty accessing clinics, individuals who have lingering questions about the safety of vaccines and those who refuse to be vaccinated altogether.

May 8, 2021

The latter, whose refusal is generally ideologically driven, are a minority, making up an estimated 10 per cent of the population, Dr. Muhajarine said. Another 12 per cent to 14 per cent of Saskatchewan adults he has been tracking say they are hesitant about getting vaccinated.

“It’s the hesitant group that we need to be able to convert get a vaccine,” he said. “They’re not saying they would not get one, but they’re also saying they will not readily line up, be the first in line.” (Globe & Mail) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2021-24, antivax, antivaxx, Canada, hesitant, igloo, immunization, isolation, lighthouse, pandemic, Pandemic Times, Science, vaccination, Vaccine

Wednesday July 7, 2021

July 14, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday July 7, 2021

‘Historic’ step as Trudeau appoints Canada’s first Indigenous governor general

Canada will have its first ever Indigenous governor general after prime minister Justin Trudeau appointed Inuk leader Mary Simon as the Queen’s representative in Canada.

January 15, 2019

Describing the move as a “historic” step, Trudeau announced Simon’s appointment on Tuesday after coming under mounting pressure to choose a new viceregal. His previous selection resigned after allegations of bullying in January.

“Canada is a place defined by people. People who serve those around them, who tackle big challenges with hope and determination, and above all, who never stop working to build a brighter tomorrow,” said Trudeau. “In other words, people like Mary Simon.”

Originally from Kangiqsualujjuaq, in the Nunavik region of Quebec, Simon is a longtime advocate of Inuit rights. She previously served as the former president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the country’s national advocacy organization for Inuit. She also served as Canada’s first Inuk ambassador in Denmark and for circumpolar affairs.

June 1, 2021

“I am honoured, humbled and ready to be Canada’s first indigenous Governor General,” she said, also giving remarks in Inuktitut, her first language. “I can confidently say that my appointment is a historic and inspirational moment for Canada and an important step forward on the long path towards reconciliation.”

Simon’s appointment comes at a time when Canada’s rocky relationship with Indigenous nations has worsened, following the discovery of more than one thousand unmarked graves across the country.

In her remarks, Simon spoke of the need for the country to “fully recognize, memorialize and come to terms with the atrocities of our collective past” as more is learned about the legacy of residential schools.

January 29, 2021

Trudeau’s previous pick for governor general, Julie Payette, resigned in January after a number of anonymous staff told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation they were berated by Payette to the point of tears. Others said that she would call their work “shit” and order them out of her office.

The position is largely symbolic but once formally installed, Simon will outrank Trudeau as holder of highest federal office in Canada, second only to the Queen.

Ahead of a looming election, Trudeau had faced pressure to appoint a governor general. One of Simon’s tasks will be to dissolve parliament upon the prime minister’s request.

Simon’s landmark appointment also comes amid growing skepticism over the role the monarchy plays in Canada.

According to recent polling 55% of respondents believe the royal family is no longer relevant. Given the chance, 43% of respondents said they would eliminate the position of governor general. Only 22% would opt to keep the role as is. (The Guardian) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2021-24, Canada, GG, Governor-General, Julie Payette, Justin Trudeau, Mary Simon, Rideau Hall, toxic, truck, workplace harassment

Saturday July 3, 2021

July 10, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday July 3, 2021

‘The virus will infect them’: Vaccine hesitant Americans think variant risk exaggerated, poll shows

There are few things more normal than the sight of a crowded beach on the 4th of July weekend. However, even as Americans celebrate Independence Day with renewed verve this year, freedom from the virus may still be far off with a highly transmissible delta variant infecting unvaccinated communities.

April 27, 2021

“They are going to be fodder for the virus,” said Dr. Richard Novak, head of infectious diseases at UI Health. “The virus will infect them, it will mutate in them and the new variants will come from them and we’ll all be at risk.”

According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post Poll, three in 10 adults said they have not gotten a coronavirus vaccine, and definitely or probably will not get one.

Of this group, 73% believe U.S. officials are exaggerating the risk of the delta variant and 79% think they have little or no risk of getting sick.

“It’s almost heartbreaking that now the two populations that need this, the most are urban minority patients and rural white patients, are the ones that are saying no in the loudest numbers,” said Dr. Mark Loafman, with the Cook County Health Department. “That group of patients that were able to hear facts and be reassured, we got to them. It’s this group that the facts aren’t going to fix it for them.”

March 17, 2021

“It’s been long enough,” said Christina Brown, who got her first shot Monday. :I started seeing results. Everybody was doing it. I wasn’t hearing nobody having that bad of side effects. I said alright I’ll go get it, and see what happens.”

However, there are still others who feel their freedom to choose was taken away.

“I felt like I was forced into it. I had to have surgery and my doctor basically told me that in order for me to get the surgery I literally had to get the shot. So this is my only reason to get the shot,” said 23-year-old Tamarianna Tate. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t. I’m was a strong believer in not getting the shot. ”

The Delta variant now accounts for 25% of all cases in the United States. It’s estimated by the end of August that number will surpass 90%. (ABC) 

 

Posted in: Canada, International, USA Tagged: 2021-24, anti-science, anti-vax, anti-vaxx, cheerleader, covid-19, pandemic, skeptic, variant
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