Source Saturday: Canadian Cemetery History with Dr. Adam Montgomery

Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching?  Dr. Adam Montgomery (Canadian Cemetary History) shows how a gravestone can lead to a paper trail of research where we can learn more about life and death in the 19th century.  

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More about Adam: 

Dr. Adam Montgomery is a historian of medicine and cemetery history. His first two books, The Invisible Injured and After the War were about trauma in the Canadian military, exploring how gendered ideas of masculinity affected the way PTSD was treated by military authorities, the Canadian populace, and soldiers themselves. His first book, The Invisible Injured, was nominated for the Canada Prize by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in February 2018. In the past several years he has turned his attention to cemetery history and the many ways cemeteries can be used for telling stories of everyday people. He recently finished two videos for the Niagara Falls Museum on Drummond Hill Cemetery, a War of 1812 battle site and one of Canada's most historic cemeteries, and is working on a book about old cemeteries of Niagara, his home region. He also recently began curating an exhibit for the Lincoln Museum and Cultural Centre in Niagara on death and dying called Rest in Peace, scheduled for July 2021, pandemic permitting of course. He is active daily on Twitter on his account, Canadian Cemetery History, where he shows photos of gravestones from Ontario and other places he's traveled in Canada, and has a website - www.canadiancemeteryhistory.ca

Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/

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