Bending the Arc

With all the hoopla this year over Canada 150, and amid the energies and dollars directed at celebrating our national story, I have been thinking about local history and why it matters.

Our readers are deeply engaged in research about their families. You are community experts, knowledgeable about the diverse histories of whole fields of human endeavour. You love listening to old stories, are happy digging in real or virtual archives, and relish the process of organizing and interpreting your findings. But you balk at sharing your findings because of the sense that they are perhaps too private to matter