Thomas Peace (Huron University) – Conceptualizing Region and Schooling during the Slow Rush of Colonization
Bringing together two recently published books--The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, the talk will explore the history of treaty making, settler colonization, Dartmouth College, and the Sussex Vale Indian Academy.
Thomas Peace is an associate professor of history and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College. He is the coeditor of The Open History Seminar (with Sean Kheraj) and From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650–1900 and the editor of A Few Words that Changed the World. Since 2009 he has edited ActiveHistory.ca, one of Canada’s leading history blogs.
