Last weekend, several of our members participated in the conferences of the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française and the Comité canadien sur l’histoire du travail/Canadian Committee on Labor History.

During the IHAF congress, Isabelle Bouchard, Brian Gettler and Jean-Philippe Bernard presented in the panel Colonialisme, capitalisme et crédit aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Shawn McCutcheon and Paul-Etienne Rainville participated in the panel Race, racisation et (anti)racisme au Québec (XIXe-XXe siècles).

At the CCHT/CCLH conference, Elizabeth Kirkland presented a paper entitled “Bonus Allowed”: Immigration Agents and the position of Female Domestics in the Settler-Colonial Project, 1880-1914. Camille Robert chaired the Organizing Efforts/Effects panel.