Be…In This Place: Cornerstones of Atlantic Canadian Citizenship

Sarah King's presentation “Be…In This Place: Cornerstones of Atlantic Canadian Citizenship” from the Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories Twitter Conference held in August 2017. 

By Sarah King. Follow Sarah on Twitter @KingSeraSera 

 — Posted August 25, 2017
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The “Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories” Twitter Conference was presented by Active History, Unwritten Histories, Canada’s History Society, and the Wilson Institute.

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