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Benjamin Isitt, PhD

Faculty of Law, University of Victoria

PO Box 2400, STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3H7

Email. [email protected] | Tel. 250.882.9302

Citizenship. Canada and United Kingdom

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy Law University of Victoria 2018

Bachelor of Laws Law University of London 2010

Doctor of Philosophy History University of New Brunswick 2008

Master of Arts History University of Victoria 2003

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History University of Victoria 2001

MAJOR FIELDS OF SCHOLARLY INTEREST

Law of Employment and Labour; Social Movements and States; Canadian History, Contact to

the Present; British Columbia and Canada in Global Context; Public Commemoration and

Digital Scholarship; Migration, War, and Empire; Environment and Natural Resources

EMPLOYMENT

City of Victoria City Councillor 2011-Present

Simon Fraser University, Labour Studies Sessional Lecturer 2015-2016

University of British Columbia, History Assistant Professor (Limited Term) 2010-2011

University of Victoria, History Assistant Professor (Limited Term) 2008-2010

BC Ministry of Advanced Education Research Officer 2007-2008

University of New Brunswick, History Sessional Lecturer 2007

University of New Brunswick, VP Research Research Assistant 2003-2005

University of New Brunswick, History Doctoral Candidate 2003-2008

University of Victoria, History Teaching Assistant 2002

Spring Ridge-Fernwood Heritage Group Research Assistant 2001-2003

Martlet Newspaper News Editor 2000-2001

Victoria Cool Aid Society Housing Support Worker 1998-2001

MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, Member 2014-Present

Canadian Committee on Labour History, Secretary 2011-Present

Canadian Committee on Labour History, Member 2002-Present

Pacific Northwest Labour History Association, Member 2002-Present

Canadian Law and Society Association, Member 2011-Present

Canadian Historical Association, Member 2003-Present

Canadian Committee on Public History, Member 2010-Present

Network in Canadian History and Environment, Member 2011-2013

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BC Studies Association, Member 2009-2011

Labor and Working Class History Association, Member 2004-2010

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONOURS, AND AWARDS

A. MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS

2016 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (Disabling Barriers, with Malhotra); $8,000

2011-2014 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (co-applicant with R. Malhotra); $69,800

2011-2014 University of Victoria Doctoral Fellowship; $63,500

2012 Canada Council grant (French edition, From Victoria to Vladivostok); $20,000

2011 University of Victoria Howard Petch Research Fellowship; $7,500

2011 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (Militant Minority); $8,000

2010 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant (From Victoria to Vladivostok); $8,000

2008-2010 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship; $81,000

2009 SSHRC Research Development Initiatives grant (recommended); $40,000

2004-2007 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Fellowship; $105,000

2003-2004 University of New Brunswick PhD Graduate Arts Assistantship; $20,000

2001-2003 University of Victoria Master of Arts Fellowship; $24,800

1996 McGill University President’s Scholarship (declined); $16,500

1996 Queen’s University Sesquicentennial Scholarship (declined); $16,500

B. WRITING AWARDS

2017 International Labor Communications Association, Best Labour History Award

2008 Labour History Dissertation Prize (UK) (Honourable Mention)

2006 Labor & Working-Class History Association, Best Graduate Research Prize; $750

C. OTHER GRANTS AND AWARDS

2017 University of Victoria Graduate Travel Grant; $600


2015 University of Victoria Faculty of Law Travel Grant; $300


2013 University of Victoria Faculty of Law Fieldwork Grant; $4,000

2012 Far Eastern Federal University Visiting Scholar Grant; $1,000

2011 University of British Columbia Faculty Travel Grant; $800

2010 SSHRC General Research Grant; $4,000

2010 Universität Heidelberg Travel Grant; $700

2010 University of Victoria Travel Grant; $750



2009 University of Victoria Office of Community-Based Research Travel Grant; $250

2008 SSHRC Postdoctoral Prize nominee (top 5% of applicants)

2008 Gregg Centre for the Study of War & Society Travel Grant; $3,000

2008 British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies Research Stipend; $4,000

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2007 West Coast Environmental Law Research Grant; $2,000

2007 University of New Brunswick H.H. Stuart Graduate Research Grant; $1,000

2007 Canadian Historical Association Travel Grant; $600


2006 Security and Defence Forum Travel Grant; $1300


2004 UNB Graduate Student Association Travel Grant; $300

2004 Security and Defence Forum Travel Grant; $800


2003 Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Travel Grant; $400



2001 Sam and June Macey Graduate Student Award; $1000

1999 Allan and Elizabeth McKinnon Scholarship; $1000

1996 Jack Wallace Memorial Award; $500

1996 Youth Community Action Award; $200

1996 Baha’i Victoria Scholarship; $250

1996 University of Victoria Entrance Scholarship; $2,000

1996 Province of British Columbia Scholarship; $2,000

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

A. BOOKS

Isitt, Benjamin, co-authored with Ravi Malhotra. Able to Lead: The Legal Politics of

Disablement and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley. Under contract with UBC Press.

Isitt, Benjamin, edited volume with Ravi Malhotra. Disabling Barriers: Social Movements,

Disability History, and the Law. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017.

Isitt, Benjamin. Duty with Dignity: The Professional Employees’ Association in British

Columbia, 1974-2014. Victoria: Professional Employees Association, 2014.

Isitt, Benjamin. Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-

1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Isitt, Benjamin. From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.

Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010. Translated by Les Presses de l’Université Laval (French)

and Dal’nauka (Russian).

B. BOOK CHAPTERS

Isitt, Benjamin. “‘No Unity of Policy or Command’: Canada and the Allied Occupation of

Vladivostok, 1918-1919.” Revolution and Civil War in the Russian Far East, edited by

Willard Sunderland and David Wolff. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2018. Forthcoming.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Court Martial at Vladivostok: Mutiny and Military Justice during the First

World War.” Canadian State Trials, Volume 4, edited by Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, and

Susan Binnie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015: 172-216.

Isitt, Benjamin. “The Siberian Intervention.” The Encyclopedia of War, edited by Gordon Martel.

Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2011.

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C. ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Isitt, Benjamin. “Early Socialism in Canada: The Ethnic and International Impulse.” American

Review of Canadian Studies, 43, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 512-528. With Nelson Wiseman.

Isitt, Benjamin. “On the Borders of Bolshevism: Class, Race, and the Social Relations of

Occupied Vladivostok, 1918-19.” Comparativ, 22 (October 2012): 71-85.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Confronting the Cold War: The 1950 Vancouver Convention of the CCF.”

Canadian Historical Review, 91, no. 3 (September 2010): 465-501.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Elusive Unity: The Canadian Labor Party in British Columbia, 1924-1928.” BC

Studies, 163 (Fall 2009): 33-64.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Social Democracy in Twentieth Century Canada: An Interpretive Framework.”

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 40, no. 3 (September 2007): 567-589. With

Nelson Wiseman.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Searching for Workers’ Solidarity: One Big Unionism and the Victoria General

Strike of 1919.” Labour/Le Travail, 60 (Fall 2007): 11-44.

Isitt, Benjamin. “The Hospital Employees Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in

British Columbia, Canada.” International Labor and Working-Class History, 71 (Spring

2007): 91-111. With Melissa Moroz.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” Canadian Historical

Review, 87, no. 2 (June 2006): 223-264.

D. RESEARCH NOTES

Isitt, Benjamin. “Fellow Traveller: A British Columbia Fisherman Writes Home from the Eastern

Bloc, 1952.” Labour/Le Travail, 63 (Spring 2009): 105-130.

E. PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Russian Revolution of 1917.” The Great Russian Revolution of

1917 in the Fate of Countries and Peoples of the World. Vladivostok: Institute of

History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch

of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Allied Occupation of Vladivostok, 1918-1919.” Civil War and

Military Intervention in the Russian Far East Conference, edited by Svetlana Dudarenok.

Vladivostok: Far Eastern Federal University, 2012.

Isitt, Benjamin. “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919.”

Sibir' v pyeriod grazhdanskoy voyni, edited by Sergei P. Zviagin. Kemerovo: Kemerovo

State University, 2010.

F. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Isitt, Benjamin. “Patterns of Protest: Property, Social Movements, and the Law in British

Columbia.” Ph.D. Dissertation in Law and Society, University of Victoria, 2018.

Supervisor: Rebecca Johnson.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Tug-of-War: The Working Class and Political Change in British Columbia,

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1948-1972.” Ph.D. Dissertation in History, University of New Brunswick, 2008.

Supervisor: Gregory S. Kealey.

Isitt, Benjamin. “The Search for Solidarity: The Industrial and Political Roots of the Co

operative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia, 1913-1928.” M.A. Thesis,

University of Victoria, 2003. Supervisor: Eric W. Sager.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok: The Canadian Siberian

Expeditionary Force and Class Warfare in Canada, 1918-1919.” B.A. Honours Thesis,

University of Victoria, 2001. Supervisor: Eric W. Sager.

G. MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Isitt, Benjamin. “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” CCPA Monitor, 24, no. 5 (January /

February 2018): 43-48.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Labour Pride: Unions and the Movement for LGBT Rights.” The Professional,

43, no. 2 (July 2017): 14-18.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Working with Diverse Abilities: Inclusiveness in the Labour Force and

Society.” The Professional, 43, no. 1 (April 2017): 14-17.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Raising the Floor: The Minimum Wage and What It Means to You.” The

Professional, 42, no. 2 (June 2016): 16-19.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Paid Parenting: Winning Maternity and Parental Leave Benefits.” The

Professional, 42, no. 1 (March 2016): 8-11.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Unlearned lessons of the First World War.” Times Colonist. 1 May 2010.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Ghosts of elections past still haunt BC.” Times Colonist. 5 April 2009.

Reprinted in BC Commentary, 12, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 11-12.

Isitt, Benjamin. “Make housing the priority for federal ‘shovel-ready’ dollars.” Vancouver Sun. 3

February 2009. Reprinted in Island Tides, 12 February 2009 and Columbia Journal 14,

no. 1 (May 2009): 8.

Isitt, Benjamin. “The Siberian Expedition.” Legion Magazine 83, no. 6 (November/ December

2008): 60-63.

H. RESEARCH REPORTS

Isitt, Benjamin, with Ray Travers. The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.

Victoria: Island Forest Futures, 2016. 53 pp.

Isitt, Benjamin. Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s

Capital Region. Victoria: Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships, 2008. 60 pp.

Isitt, Benjamin. Higher Learning in a Changing World: Environmental Scan for British

Columbia. Victoria: BC Ministry of Advanced Education, 2008. 246 pp.

Isitt, Benjamin. Urbanization on the Western Frontier: Langford’s Bear Mountain and the

Blurring of Public and Private Interests. Victoria: West Coast Environmental Law, 2007.

30 pp.

I. BOOK REVIEWS

Isitt, Benjamin, Review of Stefan Epp-Koop, We’re Going to Run this City: Winnipeg’s Political

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Left after the General Strike (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015), in

Canadian Historical Review, 98, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 813-815.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Gordon Hak. The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle

(Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2013), in Labour/Le Travail, 76 (Fall 2015): 215-217.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism,

and Politics, 1900-35 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011), in Histoire sociale / Social

History, 46, no. 92 (November 2013): 533-535.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell. When the State Trembled: How

A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2010), in Labour/Le Travail, 70 (Fall 2012): 273-275.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Joan Sangster. Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar

Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), in Left History, 16, no. 1 (Spring

2012): 146-148.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Andrew Parnaby. Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the

Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), in

British Columbia History, 42, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 21-22.

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Gordon Hak. Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest

Industry, 1934-74 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and

Social Sciences. (October 2008).

Isitt, Benjamin. Review of Roger Stonebanks. Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story

(St. John’s: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2004), in Labour/Le Travail, 55

(Spring 2005): 249-251.

J. ONLINE / WEB PROJECTS

Able to Lead: E.T. Kingsley Digital Archive < www.abletolead.ca > 2015.

This SSHRC-funded website complements the scholarly monograph I am co-authoring

with University of Ottawa professor Ravi Malhotra, providing a digital archive of rare

materials relating to the social history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest,

including the only complete online print run of the Western Clarion newspaper and other

primary documents relating to industrialization, labour relations, and social change in the

early twentieth century.

Canada’s Siberian Expedition < www.siberianexpedition.ca > 2010.

This Virtual Exhibition and Digital Archive engages non-scholarly audiences in the

history of Canada’s Siberian Expedition, a forgotten moment in the history of Canada,

Russia, and the world. Fully trilingual in English, French, and Russian, it combines an

engaging interpretive narrative with teaching resources and a Digital Archive that

preserves and shares 2,200 previously unpublished archival photographs and documents.

Project Partners: University of Victoria Humanities Computing & Media Centre,

University of Victoria Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria Special Collections,

Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations, Arseniev State Museum of

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Primorsky Region, Far Eastern Federal University Centre for Canadian-Americans

Studies (Vladivostok).

Canadian Social History Archive. In Progress.

This Digital Archive provides public access to rare archival documents from private

family collections and also preserves – and provides access to – digital copies of oral

history interviews relating to the social history of Canada. Teaching modules are being

developed for middle school, secondary school, and university/college educators and

students. Project Partners: Canadian Committee on Labour History.

Canada’s Geographic Heritage. In Progress.

An interactive tool that engages Historical GIS, linking a comprehensive database based

on Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada locations with multimedia on

Canada’s natural and human heritage.

K. RESEARCH CONTRACTS / CONSULTING

Professional Employees Association 2013-Present

British Columbia Labour Heritage Centre 2014-Present

Red Storm Productions 2010-2012

British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies 2008

West Coast Environmental Law 2007

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. COMPREHENSIVE DOCTORAL TEACHING FIELDS

Major Field Legal History of Employment and Labour Relations (Dr. Judy Fudge)

Major Field Canadian History: Contact to the Present (Dr. Margaret Conrad)

Minor Field Comparative Labour & Working-Class History (Dr. Gregory S. Kealey)

Minor Field Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Democracy (Dr. Karen Murray)

B. TEACHING DUTIES

2015-2016 Simon Fraser University, Labour Studies Program

Courses Taught:

LBST 330: Special Topics in Labour Studies: Studying Labour through Film

2010-2011 University of British Columbia, Department of History

Courses Taught:

History 303: The Canadian West

History 402: Problems in International Relations: History of the Peace Movement

History 490: Seminar for History Majors: Labour and the Left in BC

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2008-2010 University of Victoria, Department of History

Courses Taught:

History 132: Canada Since 1867

History 358: British Columbia Since 1945: Power and Protest

History 469: Social Movements in World History

2007 University of New Brunswick, Department of History

Course Taught:

History 3332: The Canadian Worker Since 1914

2002 University of Victoria, Department of History

Teaching Assistant:

History 131: Canada To 1867

C. GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

2014 University of Victoria School of Indigenous Government Supervisor (S. Eriksen)

2010 University of Victoria Department of History, Thesis Defence Chair (P. Craib)

D. OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2013-Present University of Victoria Continuing Studies, Lecturer

Course Taught:

From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition

2002-Present University of Victoria Speakers’ Bureau, Volunteer Public Lecturer

Topics Offered:

Social Movements and the Law

Social Democracy in Canada and Beyond

The Canadian Left: Then and Now

Housing for All: Ending Homelessness in BC’s Capital Region

Understanding Local Government

J.S. Woodsworth and the Social Gospel Tradition in Canada

A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada

From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition

Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad

The Colonization of Vancouver Island

2008-2011 University of Victoria, University 201 (Adult Education), Volunteer Lecturer

Topics Offered:

Labour History and Labour Movements

Social Movements in Canada and the World

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

2011-Present Victoria Colloquium in Political, Social and Legal Theory

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2013 Presentation Foundations Workshop, University of Victoria

2011 Network in Canadian History and Environment Summer School, St. Andrews, NB

2010 Effective Graduate Supervision Workshop, University of British Columbia

2010 Designing Evaluation Methods Workshop, University of British Columbia

2010 Oral History and Digital Storytelling Workshop, Concordia University

2009 Facilitating Tutorial Discussion Workshop, University of Victoria

2008-2009 Dean of Humanities Professional Development Workshop, University of Victoria

2009 Essentials For Career Success Seminar, University of Victoria

2007 Intensive Summer Teaching Institute, University of Victoria

SERVICE

A. ACADEMIC SERVICE

2011-Present Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, International Council of Experts

2012-Present Labour/Le Travail, Peer Reviewer

2008-Present BC Studies journal, Peer Reviewer

2010-Present Canadian Historical Review, Peer Reviewer

2002-Present University of Victoria Speakers’ Bureau, Volunteer Lecturer

2014-2016 Canadian Committee on Public History, Member, Public History Prize Committee

2010-2013 Canadian Committee on Public History, Chair, Public History Prize Committee

2011-2012 University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Doctoral Representative, Faculty Council

2012 Social History/Histoire Sociale, Peer Reviewer

2010-2011 University of British Columbia Department of History, Colloquium Committee

2011 Journal of Canadian Studies, Peer Reviewer

2008-2010 University of Victoria Housing & Homelessness Research Group, Member

2009 University of Victoria Peer Helping Program, Mentor

2009 University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Curriculum Development Workshop

2008 Canadian Journal of Political Science, Peer Reviewer

2008 Canadian Committee on Labour History, Eugene Forsey Prize Committee

2008 Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation, Scholarship Committee

2008 Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education, Compassionate Canada Mentor

2008 University of Victoria “University 201” Adult Education Course, Instructor

2004 University of New Brunswick Senate, Senator (Alternate)

2004 University of New Brunswick Student Conduct Review Committee, Graduate Rep

2003-2004 University of New Brunswick Graduate Student Council, History Department Rep

2001-2003 University of Victoria Students’ Society, Director-at-Large

B. PUBLIC SERVICE

2011-Present City of Victoria, Councillor

2011-Present Capital Regional District, Director

2011-Present Greater Victoria Regional Water Supply Commission, Commissioner

2014-Present Island Corridor Foundation, Director

2013-Present Social Environmental Alliance, Chair

2014-2016 Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, Director

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2014-2016 Victoria Parks and Recreation Foundation, Director

2013-2014 Capital Region Housing Corporation, Secretary-Treasurer

2011-2014 Provincial Capital Commission, Director

2009-2012 Victoria-Khabarovsk Association, Vice-President/Director

2007-2009 Spring Ridge Community Housing Trust, President

2006-2009 City of Victoria Environment and Shoreline Advisory Committee, Member

2005-2008 Fernwood Community Association, Director

2006-2007 Canadian Community Housing Foundation, Research Director

2003-2006 New Democratic Party of Canada, Federal Council Member

2003-2006 New Democratic Youth of Canada, Policy Director

1998-2001 Community Race Relations Association of Greater Victoria, Volunteer

OTHER RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

A. INVITED LECTURES

2018 “Whose History? The Politics of Renaming and De-Statueing.” Invited address on

IdeaFest panel. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. March.

2017 “The Hot Origins of Canadian-Russian Relations.” Invited address to the “1917 and

Today: Putin, Russia, and the Legacy of Revolution” Conference. University of Victoria

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Victoria, BC. October.

2017 “The Politics of Place Names.” Invited address to the City Talks Lecture Series.

University of Victoria Department of Geography. Victoria, BC. September.

2017 “Responses to the Russian Revolution in the Pacific Northwest.” Keynote address to the

Pacific Northwest Labor History Association annual conference. Vancouver, BC. May.

2017 “Sustainability in Local Government.” Invited Lecture to University of Victoria

Sustainability Field School. Victoria, BC. May.

2017 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe.”

Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. Victoria, BC. February.

2016 “The Bengal Lounge and Echoes of British Imperialism in Victoria.” Panel discussant at

The City Talks lecture series, Victoria, BC. September.

2015 “The Grace Islet Controversy and Decolonization of Land Development Practices in

British Columbia.” Invited lecture to the BC Archaeological Society. University of

Victoria. Victoria, BC. May.

2015 “Sustainability in Local Government.” Invited Lecture to University of Victoria

Sustainability Field School. Victoria, BC. May.

2015 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe.”

Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. Victoria, BC. March.

2014 “Political History of Canada Since 1867.” Invited lectures to the School of Humanities

and School of International Relations, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok,

Russia. February.

2014 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited lecture at the

Arseniev State Museum of Primorsky Region, Vladivostok, Russia. February.

2014 “British Columbia Labour History and the Professional Employees’ Association.” Invited

lecture to the 40th Anniversary Education Conference of the Professional Employees’

Association. Victoria, BC. January.

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2013 “Geographic Enigmas: Micro-States, Enclaves, and other Oddities of Modern Europe. ”

Invited Lecture to University of Victoria History 300A. November.

2012 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited Lecture to the

Russian Academy of Science, Institute of History, Ethnography and Archeology,

Vladivostok, Russia. October.

2012 “Social Movements and the Political Process in Canada.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern

Federal University, School of Humanities, Vladivostok, Russia. October.

2012 “Canada and the International Relations System.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern Federal

University, School of International Relations. Vladivostok, Russia. October.

2012 “Canada in the Asia-Pacific Region.” Invited Lecture at Far Eastern Federal University,

School of International Relations. Vladivostok, Russia. October.

2012 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Invited Lecture at Far

Eastern Federal University, School of Humanities, Vladivostok, Russia. October.

2011 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad: A Canadian Historians’ View.” Keynote

address to Victoria-Khabarovsk Association Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC. May.

2011 “Canada’s Workers and Political Change: A Historical Assessment.” Invited workshop

on The Politics of Labour in Canada. York University, Toronto, Ontario. 14 April.

2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Western Front

Association Pacific Coast District Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC. 5 March.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Department of

History Colloquium Series Lecture. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 18

November.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Department of

History Guest Lecture. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. 16 November.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Gregg Centre

for the Study of War and Society invited lecture, University of New Brunswick,

Fredericton, New Brunswick. 29 October.

2010 “Canadian Military History: The State of the Field.” Invited lecture sponsored by the

Canadian War Museum and UBC Press. Ottawa, Ontario. 28 October.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Invited lecture

sponsored by the Department of History. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. 28

October.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Historians’

Craft invited lecture sponsored by the Department of History. York University, Toronto,

Ontario. 27 October.

2010 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition Virtual Exhibition.” Invited lecture sponsored by the

Department of History and the William Ready Division of Archives and Research

Collections, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. 27 October.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Invited lecture

sponsored by the Department of History. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. 27

October.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Global Fridays

Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George,

BC. 5 February.

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2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad: A Canadian Historian’s View.” Co-

sponsored by History, Geography, Natural Resources programs. University of Northern

British Columbia, Prince George, BC. 4 February.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” History 180 War and

Society class. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC. 4 February.

2010 “Canada and the First World War.” Joseph Mairs Memorial. Ladysmith, BC. 23 January.

2009 “Canada and Russia in the World Today.” Institute of Foreign Relations, Far Eastern

National University, Vladivostok, Russia. 2 October.

2009 “The Canadians in Vladivostok, 1919.” Centre for Canadian-American Studies, Institute

of History, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia. 2 October.

2009 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1918-1919.” Far Eastern State Humanitarian University,

Khabarovsk, Russia. 30 September.

2009 “Canadian-Russian Relations Today.” Institute of History and International Relations,

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia. 29 September.

2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment, 1918-1919.” Keynote

address to Siberia During the Civil War Conference. Kemerovo State University,

Kemerovo, Russia. 28 September.

2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” Keynote address to

Victoria-Khabarovsk Association Annual General Meeting. Victoria, BC. 2 April.

2008 “Canadian Workers and the First World War: Lessons for Today.” Ninety Years After the

War to End All Wars Conference. Vancouver, BC. November.

2008 “Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in British Columbia’s Capital

Region.” British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies and Canadian Social

Economy Hub. University of Victoria. October.

2006 “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” North American Labor History

Conference. Detroit. October 2006. Invited lecture as recipient of Labor and Working-

Class History Association Best Graduate Research Prize.

B. CONFERENCE PAPERS

2017. “Property, Precarity, and Protest in Canadian History.” Canadian Association for Work

and Labour Studies annual meeting. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. May.

2016. “Bolivia of the North? Aligning Labour, Ecological, and Indigenous Interests on British

Columbia’s Resource Frontier.” Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies

annual meeting. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. June.

2016. “WSANEC Oral History Project.” Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC. January.

2015. “Property, Indigenous Protest, and the Law in British Columbia.” Canadian Law and

Society Association annual meeting. Ottawa. June.

2015. “The Historical Geography of Property, Protest, and the Law in British Columbia.”

Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC. January.

2014. “Miners, Managers, and Magistrates during the Vancouver Island War, 1912-1914.”

Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference. Cumberland, BC. June.

2014. “The Right to Sleep: The Charter, Poor Peoples’ Movements, and Tenting as Political

Protest.” Canadian Law and Society Association annual meeting. University of Manitoba,

Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.

2014. “Able to Lead: The Legal Politics of E.T. Kingsley.” Canadian Law and Society

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Association annual meeting. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.

2014. “Obeying a Higher Law: Workers and the Courts in British Columbia.” Canadian

Association of Work and Labour Studies annual meeting. Brock University, St.

Catharines, Ontario. May.

2014. “Eugene Kingsley and the History of People with Different Abilities in North American

Social Movements.” Canadian Historical Association annual meeting. Brock University,

St. Catharines, Ontario. May.

2014. “Occupied Space: Property, Indigenous Protest and the Changing Legal Technology

of Coercion in British Columbia.” Qualicum Conference. Parksville, BC. January.

2013. “Eugene Kingsley’s Political Path in the Pacific Northwest.” North American Labor

History Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. October.

2013. “Crises of Legitimacy: Social Movements and the Law.” Law on the Edge International

Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. July.

2013. “Law, Disability, and History: The Police Life of E.T. Kingsley.” Law on the Edge

International Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. July. With

Ravi Malhotra.

2013. “From Workplace Injury to Radicalism: Eugene Kingsley’s Political Path in the Pacific

Northwest.” Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference. Portland, Oregon.

May.

2013. “Piercing the Bubble Law: The Legal Politics of Reproductive Choice.” Qualicum

History Conference, Parksville, BC. February.

2012 “Canada and the Allied Occupation of Vladivostok.” Civil War and Military Intervention

in the Russian Far East conference. Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.

October.

2012 “The Changing Legal Technology of Coercion and Social Movement Protest in British

Columbia.” University of Victoria Graduate Law Conference. University of Victoria,

Victoria, BC. October.

2012 “Crises of Legitimacy: Judging Social Movements in British Columbia.” Canadian Law

and Society Association Annual Meeting. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

May.

2011 “Mystery Pickets and the Rank-and-File Challenge to Postwar Industrial Legality.”

Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of New Brunswick,

Fredericton, New Brunswick. May.

2011 “The NDP at Fifty: A Historical Assessment.” Society for Socialist Studies Annual

Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick. June.

2010 “On the Borders of Bolshevism: Race, Class, and the Social Relations of Occupied

Vladivostok, 1919.” Heidelberg Universität Workshop on Bordertowns in Northeast

Asia. Heidelberg, Germany. November.

2010 “‘Out of the Kitchen, Into the Fight’: The Women’s Auxiliary of the United Fishermen

and Allied Workers’ Union.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting.

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” 21st Annual Military

History Colloquium. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May.


Region.” Symposium on Challenges to Affordable and Sustainable Housing. University

of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. October.

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2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment, 1918-1919.” Siberia During

the Civil War Conference. Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia. September.

2009 “Contested Place: The Case of Langford’s Bear Mountain Development.” BC Studies

Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. May.

2009 “Tug-of-War: Rethinking Postwar Labour Relations.” New Voices in Labour Studies

Conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. March.

2009 “Canada and the Russian Revolution: The Siberian Moment.” World History and

Historical Materialism Conference. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. March.

2008 “Moscow on the Fraser: The Communist Party in Cold War British Columbia.” Canadian

Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

June.

2008 “Fellow Traveller: A British Columbia Communist Fisherman Travels Through the

Eastern Bloc, 1952.” Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Conference.

Vancouver, BC. June.

2008 “‘An Elementary and Progressive Break from Capitalist Politics’: The Cold War and the

1950 Vancouver Convention of the CCF.” Qualicum Conference. Parksville. January.

2007 “Tug-of-War: Working-Class Agency and Political Change in Cold War British

Columbia.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of

Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May.

2007 “The Hospital Employees Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British

Columbia.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Minneapolis. March.

2007 “British Columbia Workers Respond to the Cold War, 1948-1956.” Qualicum History

Conference. Parksville, BC. January.

2006 “Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918.” North American Labor History

Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit. October.

2005 “Working-Class Women and Political Action in British Columbia, 1948-1972.”

Labouring Feminism & Feminist Working-Class History in Canada & Beyond

Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. October.

2005 “The Growth of the General Strike Idea in British Columbia: Industrial Solidarity in

Historical Perspective.” Pacific Northwest Labour History Association. Vancouver. June.

2004 “A History of Higher Education in British Columbia.” CUPE British Columbia Education

Conference. Vancouver. November.

2004 “Socialism Postponed: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia,

1941-1952.” North American Labor History Conference. Wayne State University,

Detroit, Michigan. October.

2003 “British Columbia Labour and the Development of Social Democracy in Canada.”

Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Biennial Meeting.

Portland, Oregon. November.

2003 “Canada’s One Big Union and the First World War.” North American Labor History

Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. October.

2003 “Between Syndicalism and Social Democracy: The Political Organization of BC Labour,

1919-1932.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting. Dalhousie University,

Halifax. May.

2003 “Disciplinary Boundaries and the Fragmentation of Historical Knowledge: The Case of

BC Labour History.” Mapping Knowledge Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria.

February.

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2003 “From Syndicalism to Social Democracy.” Qualicum History Conference. Qualicum

Beach, BC. January.

2002 “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok.” Pacific Northwest Labour History

Association Conference. Vancouver. June.

2002 “Young Workers: What Were They Thinking?” Pacific Northwest Labour History

Association Conference. Vancouver. June.

2002 “Battling Bolshevism from Victoria to Vladivostok.” Qualicum History Conference.

Qualicum Beach, BC. January.

C. CONFERENCE DISCUSSANT/MODERATOR

2015 “Gregory Kealey’s Contribution to Labour and Working-Class History.” Panel discussant

at Canadian Historical Association annual meeting, Ottawa, Ontario. May.

2014 “Law, Disability, and the History of North American Social Movements.” Co-organizer

of the “Law, Disability and the History of North American Social Movements” mini-

conference at the Canadian Law and Society Association annual meeting. University of

Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June.

2013 “Social Democracy and British Columbia’s Working Class.” Organizer and Moderator

for Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual Workshop, co-sponsored by the

University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Program, and the Society for Socialist

Studies. Victoria. June.

2012 “Private Lives and Politics.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC.

January.

2011 “The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Postwar ‘Golden Age.’” Panel chair at Canadian

Historical Association Annual Meeting. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New

Brunswick. May.

2011 “The Canadian Federal Election.” Panel moderator at St. John’s College, University of

British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. April.

2011 “War, Disaster, and Peace in Europe.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference.

Parksville, BC. January.

2011 “Canada and the World.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference. Parksville, BC.

January.

2010 “Approaches to Housing Research.” Chair and moderator for Tele-Learning Session

involving 50 scholars, housing practitioners, and students. Canadian Social Economy

Research Partnerships. Various campuses across Canada. February.

2010 “Labour and Politics in British Columbia.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference,


2009 “The Student Movement in the 1960s.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference,


2009 “The Left in Western Canada.” Panel chair at Qualicum History Conference, Parksville,

BC. January.

D. PUBLIC LECTURES

2017 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau

lecture at Royal United Services Institute, Victoria, BC. April. Forthcoming.

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2018 “Housing for All: The Growth of Non-Market Housing in British Columbia’s Capital

Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Stelly’s Secondary School, Saanichton, BC.

February.


Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Kiwanis Club of Greater Victoria, Victoria,

BC. January.

2018 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at George

Jay Elementary School, Victoria, BC. January.

2017 “Youth and the Power of Social Change.” Public lecture at the Youth Political Commons

Conference, Esquimalt, BC. November.

2017 “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” Public lecture at the 100th Anniversary of the

Russian Revolution event, Vancouver, BC. November.

2017 “Canada and the Bolshevik Revolution.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the

Perspectives on the Russian Revolution event, Victoria, BC. November.

2017 “The Struggle for Social Justice in Victoria.” Interactive historical tour and bicycle ride

with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, Victoria, BC. September.


lecture at Victoria Golden Rods and Reels Society, Victoria, BC. April.

2017 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Margaret Jenkins

School, Victoria, BC. April.

2017 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at

RON Talks, Saanich, BC. March.


James Bay Community Project, Victoria, BC. November.

2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at James Bay

Community School, Victoria, BC. October.

2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Monterey Middle

School, Oak Bay, BC. October.

2016 “The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.” Public presentation,

Victoria, BC. September.

2016 “The Future of Forests and Communities on Vancouver Island.” Public presentation,

Sooke, BC. September.

2016 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Victoria High

School, Victoria, BC. February.


Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Glenlyon Norfolk School, Oak Bay, BC.

February.

2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Gordon Head

Elementary School, Saanich, BC. October.

2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Maria Montessori

Academy, Saanich, BC. October.

2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Arbutus Middle

School, Saanich, BC. June.

2015 “Understanding Local Government.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Reynolds

Secondary School, Saanich, BC. June.

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2015 “The Struggle for Social Justice in Victoria.” Interactive historical tour and bicycle ride

with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition, Victoria, BC. May.


Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Healthy Housing Forum, Esquimalt, BC.

April.


lecture at William Head Correctional Institute. Metchosin, BC. February.

2014 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Continuing Studies Lecture. Victoria, BC.

October.

2014 “Revolution and Military Intervention in the Middle East.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau

lecture at Vancouver Island Air Crew Association. Esquimalt, BC. September.


Monterey Middle School. Oak Bay, BC. April.


Campus View Elementary School. Saanich, BC. March.

2013 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” UVic Continuing Studies Lecture. Sidney, BC.

November.


lecture at Cadboro Bay Seniors’ Club. Victoria, BC. October.

2013 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Guest lecture to

Russian 161 (Culture of the Russian Revolution), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

October.

2013 “Mutiny from the Willows Camp.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Oak Bay Heritage

Group. Victoria, BC. October.

2013 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” UVic Speakers’

Bureau lecture at Vancouver Island Aircrew Association. Victoria, BC. February.

2013 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Jeksen

Aerie Assisted Living Housing. Langford, BC. January.


Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Cridge Club. Victoria, BC. May.

2012 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the

Victoria Stroke Recovery Association. Saanich, BC. May.

2012 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Willows

Elementary School. Oak Bay, BC. April.


lecture at William Head Correctional Institution. Metchosin, BC. March.


lecture at Jewish Community Centre. Victoria, BC. February.


Doncaster Elementary School. Victoria, BC. February.


Bureau lecture at Beechwood Village Seniors’ Group. Sidney, BC. January.


lecture at Garden City United Church Dinner Club, Saanich, BC. January.

2011 “A People’s History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Douglas

House Senior’s Group. Victoria, BC. November.

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Bureau lecture at James Bay Community Project. Victoria, BC. November.

2011 “British Columbia Workers and Political Change.” World Peace Forum Teach-In.

Vancouver, BC. November.


Bureau lecture at Berwick House Seniors’ Group. Saanich, BC. October.

2011 “J.S. Woodsworth and Canada’s Social Gospel Tradition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau

lecture at Cadboro United Church Breakfast Club. Victoria, BC. October.

2011 “Howard Zinn and the Practice of Peoples’ History.” Public discussion organized by the

People’s Co-op Bookstore, Rio Theatre, Vancouver, BC. July.

2011 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Public lecture

at Mondragon Bookstore and Café. Winnipeg, MB. June.

2011 “Militant Minority.” Public presentation at Moka House Café. Victoria, BC. June.

2011 “Revolution and Intervention in the Arab World and Middle East.” Public lecture at

World Federalists Association. Victoria, BC. April.

2010 “Canada’s Military: Past, Present, and Future.” Panel presentation at BC Government

Employees’ Union Hall. Victoria, BC. November.


to Island Solidarity Centre. Victoria, BC. November.


at Greater Victoria Seniors’ Association. Victoria, BC. November.

2010 “Canada’s Siberian Expedition: The Website and the Book.” Public presentation at

University of Victoria Department of History, Department of Germanic and Slavic

Studies, Humanities Computing Centre, and Special Collections. Victoria, BC.

November.

2010 “My Siberian Expedition.” Public presentation at UBC Press Book Launch. University of

British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. November.


at St. John’s College, UBC. Vancouver, BC. November.


sponsored by the Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Rivière-du-Loup. Rivière-du-

Loup, Quebec. October.

2010 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.” Guest lecture to

Russian 161 (Culture of the Russian Revolution), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

October.

2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Rods

and Reels Club. Victoria, BC. April.


lecture at Cadboro Bay United Church Group. Saanich, BC. April.

2010 “A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the

Cridge Club. Church of our Lord. Victoria, BC. April.


lecture at Time Out for Women Group, Cadboro Bay United Church. Saanich, BC.

March.


lecture at Oak Bay United Church Men’s Club. Victoria, BC. March.

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2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at

Glenwarren Lodge. Victoria, BC. January.

2010 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Time

Out for Women Group, Cadboro Bay United Church. Saanich, BC. January.


lecture at William Head Correctional Institute. Metchosin, BC. December.


lecture at Peninsula Stroke Recovery Club. Saanichton, BC. November.


lecture at Cridge Club. Church of our Lord. Victoria BC. November.

2009 “J.S. Woodsworth and Canada’s Social Gospel Tradition.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau

lecture at James Bay United Church Dinner Club. Victoria, BC. November.


lecture at Norgarden Seniors’ Home. Sidney, BC. November.


Region.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at G.R. Pearkes Community Centre. Saanich,

BC. October.

2009 “A Peoples’ History of Victoria and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at

Doncaster Elementary School. Saanich, BC. March.


lecture at James Bay United Church Group. Victoria, BC. February.

2009 “From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition.” The History

Undergraduate Society guest lecture. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. January.

2009 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” Historical Works in Progress Lecture,

University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. January.


lecture at Amica House. Sidney, BC. January.

2008 “A People’s History of Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Berwick House.

Saanich, BC. November.


lecture at the Kinsmen-40 Club. Saanich, BC. November.

2008 “Journey Along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.” University of Victoria Russian Club guest

lecture, Victoria, BC, November.


lecture at Priory Hospital. Langford, BC. October.

2008 “The Conquest of New France.” History 130: Canada to 1867, University of Victoria.

October.


lecture at Kiwanis Club of Victoria. Victoria, BC. September.

2008 “Labour and Politics in Canada.” University 201 continuing education lecture. University

of Victoria. March.

2008 “Canadian Labour History: An Introduction.” University 201 continuing education

lecture. University of Victoria. March.

2008 “May Day Then and Now.” lecture delivered at May Day Celebration. Victoria. May.

2007 “A History of Higher Education in British Columbia.” Lecture at CUPE British Columbia

Education Conference. Vancouver. November.

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2005 “The British Columbia Left.” Lecture at Power of Community Conference. James Bay

Community School, Victoria. November.

2003 “The Canadian Left: Then and Now.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Kiwanis

Club of Greater Victoria. Victoria. April.

2003 “A People’s History of British Columbia and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at

Amica Seniors’ Home. Victoria. March.

2003 “The Canadian Left: Then and Now.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at the Victoria

Humanists. Victoria. February.

2002 “The Colonization of Vancouver Island.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at Beacon Villa.

Sidney, BC. November.

2002 “A People’s History of British Columbia and Canada.” UVic Speakers’ Bureau lecture at

Glengarry Seniors. Victoria. October.

E. MEDIA AND FILM

2018 Director and Writer. Canada’s Siberian Expedition. Documentary film under production

in English and French. www.SiberianExpedition.ca/film

2018 On-Air Commentator. “Whose History? The Politics of Renaming and De-Statueing.”

CBC Radio All Points West. 7 March.

2018. Commentator. “Change urged to Victoria street named for ‘racist' figure.” CBC News

Online. 16 January.

2018 On-Air Commentator. “Debating Commemoration and Street Names.” CBC Radio On

the Island. 16 January.

2017 On-Air Commentator. “Coalition Government for BC?” CBC Radio On the Island. 12

May.

2017 “RON Talks.” Saanich News (Saanich, BC), 22 February.

2015 Commentator. “Walk This Way: New Books by Dan Rubinstein and Peter Kavanagh

Celebrate One of Life’s Great Pleasures.” Globe and Mail (Toronto). 24 April.

2014 On-Air Commentator. “From Victoria to Vladivostok.” CFAX 1070 Talk Radio. 11

March.

2014 Commentator. “V muzee Arsen’eva prezentovali knigu o žizni kanadskih soldat vo

Vladivostoke” [Arseniev Museum presents book about life of Canadian soldiers in

Vladivostok]. Vladivostok News. 19 February.

2014 Commentator. “Iz Viktorii vo Vladivostok. Neizvestnye stranit͡ sy istorii” [From Victoria

to Vladivostok: Unknown pages of history]. Utro Vostoka (Vladivostok), 19 February.

2014 Commentator. “Sredi interventov v Primor’e byli kanadskie soldaty.” [Among the

invaders in Primorye were Canadian soldiers]. APR Press (Vladivostok). 19 February.

2014 Commentator. “Knigu kanadskogo pisatelja o Vladivostoke 1917-19 godov predstavjat v

stolice Primor’ja.” [Book of Canadian author on Vladivostok to be presented in the

capital of Primorye]. Vladivostok News. 18 February.

2013 On-Air Commentator. “Jack Munro’s legacy.” CBC Radio All Points West. 15

November.

2012 Commentator. “Doktor filosofii iz Kanady obeshhaet cherez god predstavit' v DVFU

svoju knigu o grazhdanskoj vojne” [Canadian historian promises to present civil war

book at FEFU within a year]. Far Eastern Federal University News Service (Vladivostok,

Russia). 1 November.

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2012 On-Air Commentator. “Place-names and decolonization in Victoria.” CFAX 1070

Radio. 9 October.

2012 On-Air Commentator. “Labouring British Columbia.” TheCityFM Radio, Vancouver. 4

September.

2011 Review of Militant Minority. “Labour played key role in province’s development,”

Times Colonist (Victoria), 24 December 2011.

2011 Commentator. “Victoria mutiny of 1918 revived in call for justice.” Times Colonist

(Victoria). 22 December 1918.

2011 On-Air Commentator. “Mutinerie en Victoria.” Radio-Canada Television. 21 December.

2011 On-Air Commentator. “Mutiny Remembered.” CTV News Vancouver Island. 21

December.

2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. CBC Radio Victoria. 21 December.

2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. CFAX 1070 Radio. 21 December.

2011 Media interview on mutiny commemoration. Vancouver Co-op Radio. 21 December.

2011 Media coverage. “Memory of mutineers honoured at downtown gathering.” Victoria

News. 21 December 1918.

2011 Media interview on Jack Layton. CKNW News Radio Vancouver. 28 August.

2011 Media interview on Militant Minority. CFAX 1070 Morning Show, Victoria, BC. 28

June.

2011 On-Air Commentator on Canada Post labour dispute. CBC Radio One “All Points West”

Afternoon Show. 23 June.

2011 Historical Consultant. History of Working People in British Columbia. Documentary

film produced by Erik Paullson, Red Storm Productions for the BC Knowledge Network.

2011 Historical Consultant. “The Siberian Bullet.” History Detectives. Public Broadcasting

System (PBS). New York, New York. January-February.

2010 Media Coverage. “Siberian Expedition to Battle Bolsheviks Began in Victoria.” Times

Colonist (Victoria). 28 November.

2010 Media Coverage. “Mutiny Suppressed, a Siberian Expedition Goes Bust.” Globe and

Mail (Toronto). 10 November.

2010 Media interview on From Victoria to Vladivostok . CBC Radio One. “All Points West”

Afternoon Show. 8 November.

2010 Media Coverage. “Who’s Who British Columbia.” BC Bookworld (Vancouver). Spring.

2010 Commentator. “Workin’ in a Coal Mine.” Monday Magazine (Victoria). 30 April.

2010 Commentator. “Labour Martyr to be Remembered.” Cowichan Valley Citizen (Duncan).

22 January.

2010 Consultant. Ginger. Feature-length film under production by director Bryan Skinner.

Victoria. In Progress.

2009 On-Camera Commentator. Voice of BC television show. Shaw Television. 26 November.

2009 On-Camera Commentator. Voice of BC television show. Shaw Television. 22 October.

2009 Commentator. “Pro ‘Krasnyh,’ ‘Belyh,’ i ‘Lishnih’ Kanadcev” [About Reds, Whites, and

“Superfluous” Canadians]. Kuzbass newspaper (Kemerovo, Russia). 30 September.

2009 Consultant and Researcher. The Edge of the World: BC’s Early Years. Documentary film

produced by Erik Paullson, Red Storm Productions for the BC Knowledge Network.

2009 Commentator. “Janki v Ulan-Udje” [Yankees in Ulan-Ude]. Nomer Odin newspaper

(Irkutsk, Russia). 15 April.

2008 Commentator. “Academics Link Unions to Anti-War Failings.” Georgia Straight

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(Vancouver). 16 October.

2008 Commentator. “Sleazy Sprawl: New Report Alleges Conflicts of Interest, Backroom

Dealings at Bear Mountain.” Martlet (Victoria). 17 January.

2008 Consultant and On-Camera Commentator. Under the Garden City: The Search for

Victoria’s Secret Tunnels. Canada Council film directed by John McFetrick. Victoria.

2004 Consultant and On-Air Commentator. A Prayer for Oliver Mowat. CBC Radio

Documentary Feature. By Jacques Poitras. Fredericton, New Brunswick. July.

2002 On-Air Commentator. Through the Eyes of Fernwood. Village 900 Radio Feature.

Victoria. April.

2001 Commentator. “Labour Issues Loom Large for Incoming Liberal Cabinet.” Vancouver

Sun. 6 June.

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