Source Saturday: Dark Tourism with Kat MacDonald

Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching?  Kat MacDonald brings her interest and expertise in dark tourism to talk about bringing in spirits to our history education may humanize the past even more for students. We focus on Kingston Penitentiary but expand our discussion to talk about dark tourism more generally.   

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More about Kat: 

Kat MacDonald is currently finishing up my master’s in Public History at Western University. She focus on a variety of topics but some of her favourites include commemoration and remembrance, the world wars, social history and of course, dark tourism. She has worked as an Intern at Banting House National Historic Site, the birthplace of insulin and is currently working as a Communications Officer for the Museum of Ontario Archaeology and as a TA in the history department of Western. She plans on doing a PhD on dark tourism, and more specifically exploring dark tourism in her hometown of Kingston, Ontario! She had a chance to explore some of Kingston’s darker sites during her undergrad at Queen’s University while creating a documentary that explored the past, present, and future of Kingston Penitentiary.

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

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