Colour of War: Works on Paper from the Canadian War Musuem, 1914 to 1945

Eighty percent of the Canadian War Museum’s 13,000 works of art are on paper, in the form of drawings, prints and watercolours. They date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, recording 250 years of Canadian military history. The paintings presented in the exhibition Colours of War demonstrate the quality of work completed in watercolour during the First and Second World Wars, as well as the variety of subjects. Artists from Canada, Britain, and Belgium approached war in many different ways, often finding a tragic beauty in the human and material destruction they witnessed. Many were officially commissioned war artists or painted with specific military units as service artists. Others sketched in their spare time because they had been painters in civilian life

Reflections on the Holocaust: The Holocaust Art of Aba Bayefsky

In July 1997 it was announced that work had begun on the design and construction of a new 16,000 square foot addition to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, a section of which will be devoted to a memorial Holocaust gallery. The curator of the exhibit, Fred Gaffen, has already been actively searching for photographs, artifacts, documents, memories and recollections which will tell the story of this dark period in human history to all Canadians

Righteousness, Reservation, Remembrance: Freedom-Loving Whites, Freedom-Seeking Blacks, and the Societies They Formed in Adams County

On the border between slave society and free society a collection of ideologies mixed. The residents of Adams County, even before its inception on January 22, 1800, lived in a state of division that swirled and crashed against the omnipresent slavery conundrum. The New World Renaissance swept through Adams County in the 1830s bringing schools, public works, businesses, and most culturally significant, new ideas. These ideas would prove to be the fount from which flowed the waters of reform. As the first settlers had made good use of the physical creeks and streams that dotted their pastoral landscape, so too would they put to good use the waters of reform welling up all around them. From temperance to anti-masonry, these reform movements would lend a helping hand in the creation of the most socially progressive institution the county could harbor: an abolition society. However, the Adams County Anti-Slavery Society would be stunted along the way, allowing external pressures to beat back its radicalism. Because of this, the Adams County Anti-Slavery Society never fully realized its potential as a reform movement and degenerated into a Saturday Club, where radical statements might be made but never acted upon. It was here that a split occurred. There were two common paths that the membership took as they came to realize the fate of their anti-slavery organization. The first of these paths was acceptance. Many of the members had been in reform societies of some type before the Anti-Slavery Society. A large group of these individuals decided that a moderated reformism was better than no reformism and they perpetuated a version of the original society, keeping it well stocked and gentlemanly. The other path, taken by those touched with a deep fervor for reform culminates in the use of extra-legal means. The Underground Railroad. This path also bred a strong tradition of communal memory spun from its participant\u27s perceived failure at abolition. This paper will discuss the machinations, myths, and memory of not only the Anti-Slavery Society, but also of the Underground Railroad, Yellow Hill community, and the people who made these organizations work

Micro-Anthropic Principle for Quantum theory

Probabilistic models (developped by workers such as Boltzmann, on foundations due to pioneers such as Bayes) were commonly regarded merely as approximations to a deterministic reality before the roles were reversed by the quantum revolution (under the leadership of Heisenberg and Dirac) whereby it was the deterministic description that was reduced to the status of an approximation, while the role of the observer became particularly prominent. The concomitant problem of lack of objectivity in the original Copenhagen interpretation has not been satisfactorily resolved in newer approaches of the kind pioneered by Everett. The deficiency of such interpretations is attributable to failure to allow for the anthropic aspect of the problem, meaning {\it a priori} uncertainty about the identity of the observer. The required reconciliation of subjectivity with objectivity is achieved here by distinguishing the concept of an observer from that of a perceptor, whose chances of identification with a particular observer need to be prescribed by a suitable anthropic principle. It is proposed that this should be done by an entropy ansatz according to which the relevant micro-anthropic weighting is taken to be proportional to the logarithm of the relevant number of Everett type branch-channels.Comment: 29 pages Latex, 1 figure. Contribution to `Universe or Multiverse?' ed. B.J. Carr, for Cambridge U.