Gilberto Fernandes

Gilberto Fernandes

  • City Builders now live

    On September 28, 2018, at York University, I launched the various outputs of my City Builders’ project, including a travelling multimedia exhibition with 80 QR code-activated digital labels; a website packed with digital content, including interactive maps, timelines, videos, audio recordings, photos, and biographies; an oral history series with 19 short videos about retired construction workers…

  • Roundtable at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, July 21

    On July 21, starting at 2 p.m., at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, I will be participating in a roundtable discussion about the history and contemporary lives of Portuguese working people in Canada, and how they intersect with contemporary art practices. Our conversation will be prompted by Teresa Ascenção‘s exhibition “Daily Bread,” currently on display…

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  • TV interview about the Carnations Revolution’s impact on Portuguese-Canadians

    The Toronto-based, Portuguese-language TV channel Correio da Manhã TV – Canadá interviewed me recently about the impact of the Carnations Revolution on the Portuguese in Canada. You can watch it below:

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  • My new research/ public history project: City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto

    Last September, I started a new research and public history project called City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, associated with York University’s Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the Laborers International Union of North America Local 183. This project will record, examine, and divulge the history of Toronto’s immigrant construction workers…

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  • Toronto the Bad: A Riots Map and Timeline

    There has been over eighty riots throughout the history of Toronto, some of them quite large. This seemingly high number contradicts the idea of a peaceful and even dull “Toronto the Good,” and of Canada as a land of peace, order, and good governance, where differences have been negotiated through compromise, unlike our southern neighbours.…

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  • HIST4530 course website

    Just finished updating the HIST4530 The Development of Toronto public website. Besides showcasing our students’ work, this website is meant to be a useful arriving or jumping point for anyone interested in Toronto’s history. Check it out: The Development of Toronto.

  • Our 1st Lusophone Youth Summer Program at York University: a success!

    I had the privilege of co-organizing the York University’s Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Program’s 1st Youth Summer Program, which took place throughout the week of July 10-14. This free week-long program for high students in the ages of 10-14 years old, provided students with a range of educational activities that mixed learning with recreation, as well…

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  • Entrevista para o Diário de Notícias sobre Trudeau e os “150 anos” do Canadá

    O artigo da jornalista Helena Tecedeiro, sobre Justin Trudeau e a celebração dos 150 anos do Canadá, para o qual fui entrevistado, foi publicado na edição de 1 de julho do Diário de Notícias. Pode lê-lo aqui.