www.HistoryOfRights.com

Few ideas have transformed our community as fundamentally as those unleashed during the rights revolution of the twentieth century.  To encourage critical inquiry into the study of human rights in Canada, particularly the history of human rights activism, Canada’s Rights Movement: A History examines various themes in the history of the human rights paradigm.  The site is also designed to act as a portal for researchers to access digitized primary documents and to network among historians interested in studying human rights issues.

The site is organized around four primary objectives:

1. Introduce visitors to the history of human rights activism in Canada.
2. Provide access to primary materials.
3. Create an interactive teaching resource for secondary and post-secondary instructors.
4. Facilitate links among individuals interested in the study of human rights in Canada and promote the work of historians.

Among the most recent additions to the site include dozens of briefs to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution (1980-1); documents relating to the October Crisis of 1970; materials relating to the espionage commission of 1946; and links to valuable resources on the internet for doing historical research.

Note: The web site was formerly www.rcespionage.com – the current site includes the previous material on the Gouzenko affair and the espionage commission of 1946.

                                                                        Dominique Clément,
                                                                        Department of History,
                                                                        University of Victoria.