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71-477: McMaster University Library consists of three locations with distinct subject specialities: Mills Memorial Library (Humanities and Social Sciences), Innis Library (Business), and the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering. The University Library also provides library services at McMaster's Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington , Ontario , Canada. The library was established as part of McMaster University in 1887 and

142-855: A World War II Canadian sailor in Spencer Smith Park. The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington is the largest botanical garden in Canada. Ontario's botanical garden and National Historic Site of Canada features over 11 km (2,700 acres) of gardens and nature sanctuaries, including four outdoor display gardens, the Mediterranean Garden under glass, three on-site restaurants, the Gardens' Gift Shop, and festivals. Located at The Village Square in Burlington's downtown are historic landmarks, businesses, shopping, and dining area. Mount Nemo Conservation Area

213-459: A city. The extremely high rate of growth continued, and between 2001 and 2006, the population of Burlington grew by 9%, compared to Canada's overall growth rate of 5.4%. By 2006, the population topped 160,000. Burlington is at the southwestern end of Lake Ontario , just to the north east of Hamilton and the Niagara Peninsula , roughly in the geographic centre of the urban corridor known as

284-580: A digital collections management technology used by clients to preserve their ageing media. Among them are the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Warner Bros. Pictures . Also under the Access umbrella is the institute's collections unit, which works to expand the Visual History Archive by conducting additional interviews, integrating testimony taken by other institutions, and providing training on

355-435: A geospatial map and data sets and provides workstations with specialized cartographic and statistical software. The McMaster University Library's collection supports research in more than 50 doctoral and professional programs. Specialized collections include archives and rare books, data and statistics, government publications, audio and video materials, maps, atlases and aerial photos, music and theses. In 2011, McMaster became

426-465: A lot of projects that are literally butting up against each other, the idea is to bleed between them" explains Dale Askey, the centre's Administrative Director, in regards to the potential for interdisciplinary research. The centre includes a makerspace and a 3D printing laboratory. The facility was made possible by a $ 2.5 million gift from the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation. The Lyons New Media Centre

497-419: A population of 186,948 living in 73,180 of its 74,891 total private dwellings, a change of 2% from its 2016 population of 183,314 . With a land area of 186.12 km (71.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 1,004.4/km (2,601.5/sq mi) in 2021. According to the 2016 census, Burlington's population was 183,314 where 48% of residents were male and 52% female. Minors (individuals up to

568-427: A visible minority of 16%. The top 11 ethnic origins from the 2016 census are listed in the accompanying table. Percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents can report more than one ethnicity. Burlington's economic strength is the diversity of its economic base, mainly achieved because of its geography, proximity to large industries in southern Ontario (Canada's largest consumer market), its location within

639-413: A wide variety of musical styles and repertoire. The band's main goal is to raise money for local charities and organizations. The BCB maintains an open membership policy, allowing anyone who feels they can handle the music competently to join without an audition. The BCB is led by an elected volunteer board. The current musical director is Joanne Romanow. The Burlington Symphony Orchestra, formed in 1973,

710-535: A yearly series of academic events that brings scholars to USC to present lectures, film screenings and panel discussions. The Visual History Archive is fully viewable at 51 subscribing institutions in 13 countries around the world, mainly universities and museums. The institute also offers a subscription for partial access to the Archive. About 211 institutions in 34 countries have contracted for these smaller collections. About 1,200 testimonies are available to any member of

781-891: Is 763 mm (30.0 in) of rain and 99 cm (39 in) of snow. Although it shares the continental climate found in Southern Ontario, its proximity to the lake moderates winter temperatures and it also benefits from a sheltering effect of the Niagara Escarpment , allowing the most northerly tracts of Carolinian forest to thrive on the Escarpment that runs through western sections of city. Several species of flora and fauna usually found only in more southern climes are present in Burlington, including paw-paw ( Asimina triloba ), green dragon ( Arisaema dracontium ), tuckahoe ( Peltandra virginica ), American columbo ( Frasera caroliniensis ), wall-rue ( Asplenium ruta-muraria ), plus

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852-402: Is a 4-pad arena, used year-round for skating and ice hockey. The Burlington Performing Arts Centre is a 940-seat facility opened in 2011. Burlington Centre is a two-storey mall opened in 1968, and Mapleview Centre is a two-storey mall opened in 1990. Burlington doesn't host any professional teams, though several minor league teams are based in the city. Burlington, Ontario, founded

923-511: Is a community orchestra under the direction of Denis Mastromonaco. There are 115 parks and 580 hectares (1,400 acres) of parkland in the city. On the shore of Lake Ontario, Spencer Smith Park features a shoreline walking path, an observatory, water jet play area and restaurant. The park includes the Burlington Rotary Centennial Pond, used for model sail boating and ice-skating. Festivals in Spencer Smith Park include Ribfest,

994-476: Is also located within the Mills Memorial Library. A specialized multimedia space, the centre facilitates the creation and use of new and traditional media within the academic community while teaching learning and researching. The centre offers video and audio editing workstations, a Gaming and Media Theatre and consultation services. The Maps, Data & GIS Centre, supplies researchers with access to

1065-487: Is available at 49 institutions around the world, while smaller collections are available at 199 sites in 33 countries. The institute will continue to develop digital technologies to preserve and enhance the Visual History Archive, while building access pathways for students, educators, scholars and the general public. Approximately 1.6 million people view the testimonies every year. The Visual History Archive features more than 1,200 testimonies accessible worldwide. In 2015,

1136-582: Is bounded on its western shore by a large sandbar, now called the Beach strip, that was deposited during the last ice age . A canal bisecting the sandbar allows ships access to the harbour. The Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway (part of the Queen Elizabeth Way ), and the Canal Lift Bridge allow access over the canal. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Burlington had

1207-625: Is indexed by a native speaker and each minute of video is timecoded in English. They average a little over two hours each in length and were conducted in 65 countries and 44 languages. Since its inception, the archive has expanded its collection to include testimony from survivors and witnesses of other genocides, including the Rwandan genocide , the Nanjing Massacre , Armenian genocide , Guatemalan genocide , Cambodian genocide , Rohingya genocide and

1278-502: Is led by Rob Bennett, managing director. In 2024, the band performed on Juno Beach on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Junior Redcoats are the younger version of the Teen Tour Band. The band includes children between the ages of 9 and 12. They are directed by Caroline Singh. The Burlington Concert Band (BCB) is the oldest band in Burlington and has been in operation since 1908. It is composed of local volunteer musicians, and plays

1349-638: Is no longer a port; sailing vessels in the area are used for recreational purposes and moor at a 215 slip marina in LaSalle Park. Burlington's climate is humid continental ( Köppen climate classification Dfa ) with hot, humid summers and cold and snowy winters. The climate is moderated somewhat by its proximity to Lake Ontario . Monthly mean temperatures range from 22.5 °C (72.5 °F) in July to −4.4 °C (24.1 °F) in January. The average annual precipitation

1420-546: Is operated by Conservation Halton . Bronte Creek Provincial Park features a campground and recreational activities. The local sections of the Bruce Trail and the Niagara Escarpment , which is a UNESCO designated World Biosphere Reserve, provide hiking trails. Kerncliff Park, in a decommissioned quarry on the boundary with Waterdown , is a naturalized area on the lip of the Niagara Escarpment. The Bruce Trail runs through

1491-595: The American Library Association 's ACRL ( Association of College and Research Libraries ) division. Innovations in services included "open[ing] a help desk in Second Life , implement[ing] the creation of a learning commons," and joining "the Centre for Research Libraries, giving students access to over 800,000 international doctoral dissertations." This is the only time that a Canadian academic library has been given

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1562-559: The Bosnian genocide , as well as a collection of contemporary Antisemitism. In December 2023, the foundation launched a collection of testimonies from the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel in cooperation with Tablet Studios . Its collections include: The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation were founded by director Steven Spielberg in 1994 after the release of his critically-acclaimed film Schindler's List

1633-585: The Burlington International Games (B.I.G.). The games were first held in 1969 "to offer an athletic and cultural exchange experience for the youth of Burlington". Until recently, the games took place between Burlington, Ontario, and Burlington, Vermont , United States. But, other cities from places such as Quebec , Japan, the Netherlands, and the U.S. have all had athletes compete since 1998. The games celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2009 and

1704-531: The Canadian Expeditionary Force —38 did not return. In 1914, Burlington was incorporated into a town. As more settlers arrived and cleared the land, cash crops replaced subsistence farming. Gradually, mixed farming and market gardens became the dominant form of agriculture, and in the early 20th century the area was declared the Garden of Canada . The first peaches grown in Canada were cultivated in

1775-624: The DeGroote School of Business . The library's most important collection, the Bertrand Russell archives, came to McMaster in 1968. In 1976, McMaster University Library became a member of the Association of Research Libraries , one of only five Canadian libraries at the time. In 2008, McMaster University Libraries was honoured as one of the three best academic libraries in North America by

1846-536: The Golden Horseshoe . Burlington has a land area of 187 km (72 sq mi). The main urban area is south of the Parkway Belt and Highway 407 . The land north of this, and north Aldershot is used primarily for agriculture, rural residential and conservation purposes. The Niagara Escarpment , Lake Ontario and the sloping plain between the escarpment and the lake make up the land area of Burlington. The city

1917-1152: The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and proximity to Hamilton, and its transportation infrastructure including the Port of Hamilton on Burlington Bay . This diversity has allowed for sustained growth with regards to the economy. The city has a robust economy with potential for growth—it is at the hub of the Golden Horseshoe, is largely driven by both the automotive and manufacturing sectors. No single employer or job sector dominates Burlington's economy. The leading industrial sectors, in terms of employment, are food processing, packaging, electronics, motor vehicle/transportation, business services, chemical/pharmaceutical and environmental. The top five private sector employers in Burlington are Fearmans Pork Inc, Cogeco Cable , Evertz Microsystems , Boehringer Ingelheim and EMC2. Other notable business include The EBF Group, ARGO Land Development, The Sunshine Doughnut Company and TipTapPay Micropayments Ltd. The largest public sector employers in

1988-713: The Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah ) a compelling voice for education and action. It was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List . In January 2006, the foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California (USC) and was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. In March 2019,

2059-461: The Louisiana waterthrush , hooded warbler , southern flying squirrel and rare eastern pipistrelle bat . Near the visible promontory of Mount Nemo that rises some 200 m (650 ft) above the lake level, a "vertical forest" of white cedar clinging to the Escarpment face includes many small trees that are more than one thousand years old. Hamilton Harbour , the western end of Lake Ontario,

2130-728: The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Canadian government over payment for the Brant Tract and the Toronto Purchase were settled in 2010 for the sum of $ 145 million ( CAD ). By the turn of the 19th century, the name "Burlington" was already in common use. With the completion of the local survey after the War of 1812, the land was opened for settlement. Early farmers prospered in

2201-475: The National Library of Israel about how to create a collection of records. The foundation claims to aspire to be the world's academic authority on the study of genocide and personal testimony. It continues to incorporate new collections of genocide eyewitness testimonies while also fostering scholarly activities that confront real-world problems the testimonies address. Scholars in many fields have utilized

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2272-679: The Ontario Council of University Libraries . Burlington, Ontario Burlington is a city and lower-tier municipality in Halton Region at the west end of Lake Ontario in Ontario , Canada. Located approximately halfway between Toronto and Niagara Falls, it is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the Hamilton census metropolitan area . Before the 19th century, the area between

2343-427: The Rwandan genocide , Armenian genocide , and Cambodian genocide . By 2016, the foundation's archive included nearly 52,000 recordings and was the largest collection of audiovisual testimonies of any kind. In the 2020s, the foundation expanded its mission from the Holocaust to focus on antisemitism since 1945, as there were fewer Holocaust survivors to interview. The foundation planned to gather testimonies on

2414-517: The Sound of Music Festival , Canada Day, Children's Festival and Lakeside Festival of Lights. The Brant Street Pier opened in Spencer Smith Park during the Sound of Music Festival in 2013. The Art Gallery of Burlington contains permanent and temporary exhibits. "Royal Canadian Naval Association Naval Memorial" (1995), by André Gauthier , is a 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) high cast bronze statue of

2485-557: The expulsion of Jews from Arab countries after 1948 and Ethiopian Jews . Eight days after the October 7 attacks on Israel , researchers from the Shoah Foundation were in southern Israel to gather survivor testimonies after recognizing the attack as a "mass act of violence against Jews." Within a year, the foundation had recorded 400 testimonies of survivors, first responders, and eyewitnesses, with 370 online. The foundation also advised

2556-671: The 1978 television miniseries Holocaust . In 2006, the foundation, moved from its home in a set of trailers at Universal Studios to the libraries of the University of Southern California . It was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education in order to emphasize its place in a legitimate academic environment. In 2014, the Shoah Foundation established the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research to expand its documentation efforts to other genocides, such as

2627-477: The 19th century, increased wheat production from Western Canada convinced local farmers to switch to fruit and vegetable production. In 1873, the villages of Wellington Square and Port Nelson merged to become the Village of Burlington which then became the Town of Burlington in 1914. The arrival of large steamships on the Great Lakes made the small docks of the local ports obsolete, and

2698-451: The 20th Century. The Lloyd Reeds Map Collection holds more than 130,000 paper maps, 18,000 air photos, and 3,000 atlases. Many of the collection's historical maps have been digitized and are freely available online. A digitized copy of a 1943 wartime map of Hanover, Germany, held in the collection was used in the 2014 motion picture Fury . Included in the collection are 1,400 World War I trench maps and aerial photographs. Used by members of

2769-468: The Allied forces the maps were produced in various scales, highlighting terrain, equipment and settlements relevant to specific logistical needs. Several of the maps include annotations and personal information that to convey the real-time experiences of the soldiers who used them. McMaster University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries , Canadian Association of Research Libraries , and

2840-414: The Burlington area because the area had fertile soil and moderate temperatures. Produce from the farms was shipped out via the bustling docks of the lakeside villages of Port Nelson and Wellington Square, as well as Brown's Wharf in the nearby village of Port Flamborough (which was to become Aldershot ). Lumber taken from the surrounding forests also competed for space on the busy docks. In the latter half of

2911-740: The Grindstone Creek watershed in the city's south-west part. The farming tradition has passed down through the generations. Today over 40 per cent of the Grindstone Creek watershed is still devoted to farms, orchards and nurseries . Following the Second World War , cheap electricity from nearby Niagara Falls and better transportation access due to the new (1939) Queen Elizabeth Way encouraged both light industry and families to move to Burlington. The population skyrocketed as new homes were built, encouraging developers to build even more new homes. On 1 January 1958, Burlington officially annexed most of

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2982-546: The H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering opened. Thode Library was named in honour of scientist Henry George Thode (1910-1997), who was the university's president from 1961 to 1972. The Innis Library first opened in 1974 and is named after economist and McMaster alumnus Harold Adams Innis (1894–1952). Located in Kenneth Taylor Hall and adjacent to the Michael DeGroote School of Business, it supports

3053-576: The Township of Nelson, as well as Aldershot, formerly a part of East Flamborough Township. By 1967, the last cash crop farm within the city had been replaced by the Burlington Centre . Burlington was the site of the Brant Inn built by the lake in 1917, which became famous during the ’40s and ’50s for showing big-band performers. By 1974, with a population exceeding 100,000, Burlington was incorporated as

3124-426: The age of 19) made up 22.6% of the population (almost identical to the national average of 22.4%), and seniors (age 65+) were 19.2% (higher than the national average of 16.9%). This older population was also reflected in Burlington's median age of 43.3, which was higher than the Canadian median of 41.2. According to the 2011 census, 70% of Burlington residents identify as Christian , with Catholics (31.5%) making up

3195-410: The award. The McMaster University Library system is home to the Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, which opened in 2012 and facilitates open and collaborative approaches to research. Located in the Mills Memorial Library the centre supports students and faculty who employ digital scholarship and digital humanities tools and methodologies in their study and research. "When you have

3266-704: The city are the City of Burlington, Burlington Economic Development, the Halton District School Board , the Halton Catholic District School Board and Joseph Brant Hospital . Burlington Centre and Mapleview Centre are popular malls within the city. The city's summer festivals include Canada's Largest Ribfest , and the Burlington Sound of Music Festival which also attract many visitors. The Burlington Teen Tour Band has operated in

3337-455: The city include: The Queen Elizabeth Way and Ontario Highway 403 run concurrently throughout most of Burlington. Source: Source: USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of

3408-409: The city since 1947, including members between the ages of 13 and 21. The marching band are regular participants in major international parades. They are also referred to as "Canada's Musical Ambassadors" and have represented Canada all over the world. One such occasion was during the 2018 Tournament of Roses Parade , where the band represented Canada for the fifth time in the band's history. The band

3479-491: The competition ceased in 2010 due to limited participation in later years. The city is divided into six wards, each represented by a city councillor. The mayor, who chairs the city council, is Marianne Meed Ward . Source: Federally, the city is represented by three MPs whose ridings cover parts of the city: Provincially, the city is represented by three MPPs, whose ridings are geographically contiguous with their federal counterparts: Major transportation corridors through

3550-706: The cycle that leads to mass violence. It holds international conferences and workshops and hosts fellows and scholars in residence to conduct research using the resources available at the University of Southern California. Institute fellows, staff and student interns participate in more than a dozen academic events on the USC campus annually. it focusses on interdisciplinary study organized around three themes: "Resistance to Genocide and Mass Violence" focuses on acts of resistance and elements of defiance that slow down or stop genocidal processes. "Violence, Emotion and Behavioral Change" studies

3621-438: The entire Archive took five years to complete, from 2008 to 2012. During the digitization project, it was discovered that about 5 percent of the 235,005 tapes had audio or visual problems, some to the point of being unwatchable. Finding there were few existing options for restoring tape-based material, the institute's ITS team created new software programs to help them recover both audio and visual problems. The institute has created

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3692-613: The first Canadian university to provide access to the Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute , consisting of nearly more than 52,000 testimonials of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Named after William Ready (university librarian from 1966 until his retirement in 1979 that was instrumental in acquiring the Bertrand Russell Collection and Canadian Authors and 18th Century Collection),

3763-574: The foundation added Global Outreach as its fourth organizational pillar. In one year — between 2013–2014 and 2014–15 – the number of people reached by its testimony nearly doubled, from 3.6 million to 6.5 million. The number increases to 15 million when including media exposure, TV broadcasts, museum exhibits, presentations at conferences and workshops, and social media. Global outreach is conducted through websites, documentaries, and exhibits, as well as national and international press coverage about its programs; and shared media on social platforms. Since 1999

3834-589: The holdings of the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections reflect a range of topics including Canadian literature, politics, popular culture and business history, in addition to war and peace in the 20th century with an emphasis on the Holocaust and Resistance . The Division of Archives and Research Collections is also home to the Bertrand Russell Archives , established after

3905-525: The increased use of railway to ship goods marked the end of the commercial wharves. Farming still thrived though, and the resultant growth resulted in continued prosperity. By 1906, the town boasted its own newspaper—the Burlington Gazette —as well as a town library and a local rail line that connected Burlington to nearby Hamilton . During the First World War , 300 local men volunteered for duty in

3976-456: The institute opened their new global headquarters on USC's campus. The foundation's testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive. The archive is digitized, fully searchable via indexed keywords, and hyperlinked. With more than 112,000 hours of testimony, indexing allows students, teachers, professors, researchers and others around the world to retrieve entire testimonies or search for specific sections within testimonies. Each testimony

4047-503: The institute's preferred methodology for gathering testimony. Using testimony from the Archive, the foundation develops teaching tools for educators across the disciplinary spectrum, such as social studies, English Language Arts, government, foreign language, world history, American history, and character education. The institute also provides professional development to prepare educators worldwide to use testimony in relevant and engaging ways—providing an experience that takes students beyond

4118-515: The international conference "Singing in the Lion's Mouth: Music as Resistance to Violence", including two days of programming that highlighted the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness. Digital Genocide Studies examines how big data and large datasets, including the 53,000 testimonies in the foundation's Visual History Archive, can be used to find patterns in the field of mass violence and its resistance. The institute also organizes

4189-589: The largest denomination, followed by Anglican (10%), United Church (9.2%), and other denominations. Others identify as Muslim (2%), Hindu (1.1%), Sikh (1%), Buddhist (0.4%), Jewish (0.4%), and with other religions. A total of 25% of the population report no religious affiliation. According to the 2016 census, the most common mother tongue in Burlington is English (78.7%), followed by French (1.6%), Spanish (1.5%), Polish (1.3%), and Arabic (1.2). The three most commonly known languages are English (99.1%), French (9%), and Spanish (2.5%). The 2016 census records

4260-611: The nature of genocide and mass violence and how they impact emotional, social, psychological, historical and physical behavior. The foundation, in conjunction with its Center for Advanced Genocide Research, held an international conference in November 2014 at USC "Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler's List". In 2015, in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music and USC Visions and Voices, it hosted

4331-830: The park, at many points running along the edge of the cliffs, providing an overlook. The Joseph Brant Museum has exhibits on the history of Burlington, the Eileen Collard Costume Collection, Captain Joseph Brant and the visible storage gallery. Ireland House at Oakridge Farm is a museum depicting family life from the 1850s to the 1920s. Freeman Railway Station (1906) of the Grand Trunk Railway , reopened as an interpretive centre in 2017. Burlington offers four indoor and two outdoor pools, one splash park, nine splash pads, seven arenas and ice centres, six community centres and nine golf courses. The Appleby Ice Centre

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4402-404: The previous year. Spielberg's goal was to collect 50,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors while meeting the standards of rigorous scholarship. The foundation consulted with Holocaust scholars and oral histories in order to ground its work in legitimate historical scholarship. The Shoah Foundation followed the pioneering work of the Fortunoff Archive , founded in 1979 partly in response to

4473-495: The provincial capital of York and the township of West Flamborough was home to the Mississauga nation. In 1792, John Graves Simcoe , the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada , named the western end of Lake Ontario " Burlington Bay " after the town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England. The British purchased the land on which Burlington now stands from the Mississaugas in Upper Canada Treaties 3 (1792), 8 (1797), 14 (1806), and 19 (1818). Treaty 8 concerned

4544-417: The public with an Internet connection who registers to access the Visual History Archive Online. The institute dedicates attention to maintaining each testimony's audio-visual quality, to protect it from degrading over time. With contributions from technology companies, the institute devised a preservation system where the original videos were digitized into a variety of commonly used formats. The digitization of

4615-460: The purchase of Russell's papers in 1968. The Digital Archive contains special digitized collections, including maps, selected archival materials from Research Collections, and digital copies from the rare books collection. Digital Collections contains collections of digitized materials such as Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing; World War, 1939–1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection; Digital Russell; and Peace & War in

4686-454: The purchase of the Brant Tract, 14.0 km (3,450 acres) on Burlington Bay which the British granted to Mohawk chief Joseph Brant for his service in the American Revolutionary War . Joseph Brant and his household settled on this tract of land around 1802. Brant is accordingly often referred to as the founder of Burlington, and the city of Burlington still celebrates an annual Joseph Brant Day in early August. Subsequent disputes between

4757-402: The resources of the Visual History Archive to teach more than 400 university courses across four continents, including 112 courses at USC. The Center for Advanced Genocide Research is the research and scholarship unit of the foundation. Founded in 2014, the center engages in interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and genocide, more specifically the origins of genocide and how to intervene in

4828-434: The textbook. IWitness, the institute's flagship educational website, provides students access to 1,600 testimonies for guided exploration. They can engage with the testimonies and bring them into their own multimedia projects via a built-in video editor. Approximately 17,000 high school students and over 5,000 educators in 57 countries and all 50 U.S. states have used the site. It has trained more than 39,000 educators around

4899-477: The world to incorporate testimony into classroom lessons. More than 200 educators have participated in advanced training and the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century programs in the U.S., Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The foundation's other education programs include: In addition to the foundation's Visual History Archive and IWitness, the institute's has a YouTube channel , and Web portals in 12 languages. The complete Visual History Archive

4970-444: Was extended to the east in stages during the 1960s and 1970s, and underwent a major renovation from 1990 to 1994.The renovation won the Ontario Library Association 1996 Building Award for Best Academic Library Project. The original Mills Memorial Library building now houses the McMaster Museum of Art . The university's first Science Library opened as a separate room in Burke Science Building in 1954 and remained there until 1978, when

5041-412: Was originally located in McMaster Hall in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. When the university and library moved to Hamilton in 1930, the library resided in University Hall, one of the university's five original buildings. In May 1951, the library moved to the newly constructed Mills Memorial Library, named after David Bloss Mills, whose foundation, the Davella Mills Foundation, funded the construction. Mills

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