https://www.nipissingguides.com/blog daily 0.75 2023-05-15 https://www.nipissingguides.com/blog/paul monthly 0.5 2023-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/0754af43-1718-42b6-af49-b5f7e96e8ff9/Fig+1+canoe.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 8: Jako Couchi, Olaus J. Murie, W.E. Clyde Todd, and Paul Commanda (left to right) in a Peterborough freight canoe at the Bell River Crossing (now Senneterre) in Western Quebec, May 28, 1914. Courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/e825adf8-29ff-4a88-8c74-60c600223eb9/Fig+10+Nbisiing+sunset.JPG Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 10: Nbisiing sunset seen from Shabogesic Beach. Photograph by Katie Hemsworth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/4e4766c7-ec00-4e79-813b-d61ef632af03/Fig+2+Paul+Commanda.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 2: Paul Commanda in a canoe on Lake Temagami. Photograph courtesy of George Howards and Nipissing First Nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/747aa239-a7a7-4f95-8cd2-83ef4501fbc2/Fig+1+canoe.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 1: Jako Couchi, Olaus J. Murie, W.E. Clyde Todd, and Paul Commanda (left to right) in a Peterborough freight canoe at the Bell River Crossing (now Senneterre) in Western Quebec, May 28, 1914. Courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/2dfef87c-fdc9-441d-babb-cc4b514b813b/Fig+5+Kirsten+and+Steve.JPG Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 5: Kirsten Greer and Stephen Rogers (CMNH) looking for Carnegie naturalists’ historical field notebooks related to Nbisiing Nishnaabeg territory. Photograph by Katie Hemsworth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/82c948c0-afe0-412f-9f16-3ecd8fd82454/Fig+3+Smithsonian+NMAI.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 3: Locating Nbisiing and Illilo cultural heritage at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Kiethen Sutherland braves the ladder while Katie Hemsworth, Megan Paulin, and Terry Snowball (NMAI Repatriation Coordinator) watch from below. Photograph by Kirsten Greer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/aab3fcd9-423d-4afe-a3cf-8ef1740d3d91/Fig+9+Keithen+and+beaded+snow+goose.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 9: Kiethen Sutherland and the life-sized snow goose beaded by Carrie Allison. Photograph by Kirsten Greer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/fd7bb296-afa9-40e1-a1a1-710540f56100/Fig+6+Blue+Goose.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 6: Blue Goose Diorama (1925) at Carnegie Museum, part of "The Art of the Diorama" Exhibition. Photograph by Kirsten Greer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/c44bd968-0e81-4852-8042-26c291b55b0b/Fig+4+Dippy.JPG Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 4: Sculpture of “Dippy” (Diplodocus carnegii), supporting the Pittsburgh Penguins in their NHL playoff run in April 2019. Photograph by Katie Hemsworth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/f22e314e-9b2b-4fd8-9620-505e39190e7d/Fig+7+Blue+Goose+writeup.jpg Research Blog - Museum guides: Paul Commanda at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Make it stand out Figure 7: Curatorial description accompanying the Blue Goose diorama. Photograph by Kirsten Greer. https://www.nipissingguides.com/team daily 0.75 2022-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634224831517-RVC1JOZ3YSR2XIKWUSGV/Carrie+Allison.jpg Team - Carrie Allison Carrie Allison is the facilitator and creator of the Lake Nipissing Beading Project. She created, organized and facilitated a similar project, The Shubenacadie River Beading Project. The Shubenacadie River Beading Project is an activist/community project, beaded in the company and guidance of the water protectors of the Stop Alton Gas group, their allies, and other members of the community who wish to be involved. This community-based project stands in solidarity with water protectors and the Stop Alton Gas group; who are actively occupying space along the Shubenacadie River to protest the destruction of the rivers’ ecosystem by the environmental threat Alton Gas poses. Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw/cree, Métis, and European descent visual artist based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Allison’s maternal roots are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Allison holds a Master in Fine Art, a Bachelor in Art History, and a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick. She has had solo exhibitions at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, the Owens Art Gallery, The Museum of Natural History, and The New Gallery. Allison has received grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Arts Nova Scotia and Canada Council for the Arts and is the 2020 recipient of the Melissa Levin Award from the Textile Museum of Canada. Allison’s work has been shown in Canadian Art, Esse and Visual Arts News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634225077441-TB2LKR203OIAHPHJ2RDU/naomi.jpg Team - Naomi Hehn Naomi Hehn is the Director/Curator at the North Bay Museum. She moved to North Bay, within the traditional territory of the Nbisiing Nishnaabeg and the lands protected by the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850, in 2012 after graduating from the University of Toronto with a Master’s degree in Museum Studies. Over the past few years, Naomi has been working with representatives from Nipissing First Nation, Dokis First Nation, and Nipissing University to preserve and share local history through the Near North Archives (CUSP) network and database. Naomi looks forward to working with the team to develop a travelling exhibit which will help bring the stories of the Nbisiing and Illilo (Cree) guides to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1635452258867-1Q97DB8THYQ7CQFU5QM9/IMG_5527.jpg Team - Ysabel Castle Ysabel Castle is an MESc student at Nipissing University, and also has a BA in Environmental Geography from Nipissing University and an Environmental Technician diploma from Canadore College. She works as a lab instructor and a research assistant for the geography department at Nipissing, with a focus on GIS and Remote Sensing techniques, and a wide range of interests encompassing the history and natural environment of North Bay and surrounding areas. Her role in this project is to find and map natural history specimens from the Carnegie Expeditions using data from iDigBio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1635451970291-0EZU2J8HYT01EQPMJ5HX/kirsten.png Team - Kirsten Greer Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1c54cfd2-3c5c-4fbe-b4c5-a426d83f985b/Bio+photo.jpeg Team - Grace Armstrong Grace is the Exhibition and Digitization Assistant at the North Bay Museum, within the traditional territory of the Nbisiing Nishnaabeg. She is a recent graduate of the Fleming Museum Management and Curatorship program. Prior to this she studied at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she obtained a combined Honours degree in Contemporary Studies and Philosophy. Her role in this project is to assist with editing and research. She has enjoyed learning more about taxidermy, ornithology and Nbisiing craftsmanship throughout the course of this project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1635452359526-ZAJYADIHCTOGOQXZ1W84/glenna.jpg Team - Glenna Beaucage Aanin. Boozhoo. Glenna Beaucage Ndoon Zhinkaaz. I am blessed to have spent my lifetime living on the north shore of Lake Nipissing as have all of my generations of family before me. From my very humble beginnings in a log cabin on an island in the West Arm of Lake Nipissing, to a family of fishers, tourist guides and camp workers, hunters, trappers and harvesters to my still humble living at Nbisiing Shkongan. I am the manager of our Culture and Heritage Sector and before that, was librarian for many years. My full interest has been in working with my community in reclaiming our culture, heritage and language, placing our imprint back on Lake Nipissing, despite the many attempts of surrounding communities to displace us from our territory. I learned to bead as a teenager, from watching my mom and grandmother. My grandmother tanned hides and I have a piece of her handmade equipment pieces. I bead and do leatherwork for personal uses for family needs. When I retire I plan to spend more time with cultural arts, hopefully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634226183678-M4JBVTP42FMU12A5UVU9/Picture1.png Team - Joan McLeod Joan McLeod Shabogesic is a proud NBisiing Nishnabekwe. Ms. McLeod Shabogesic is of the heron/crane doodem. She was employed as the Nipissing Land Manager for 37 years until her retirement in April of 2019. Joan was involved with and settled three land claims that increased the Nipissings’ land holdings but also established lucrative settlement trusts. Land repatriation, management and land claim research provided her with opportunities to delve into the historical documentation of the NBisiing People. Retirement has provided her with opportunity to continue her research of the Nbisiing People. Her post-secondary education was with the Nipissing College attaining a Bachelor of Arts in History from Laurentian University. In June of 2020, she was conferred by Nipissing University an Honourary Doctorate Letters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1636398999999-6NK7VMRKMTDQZN2159A3/Hemsworth.png Team - Katie Hemsworth Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634225261610-V1O547V1S4MCER93QONV/Megan+Jee.jpg Team - Megan Jee Megan Jee is a GIS Technician supporting the interdisciplinary research of Nipissing University’s Centre for Understanding Semi-Peripheries (CUSP). She is excited to be contributing to a digital output of the Nbisiing Guides Project, which will include an interactive recreation of the Carnegie Museum expedition routes from North Bay to James Bay. This output will immerse viewers in the expeditions from the perspectives of the expedition teams, geographically and chronologically, using a geotagged series of archival photographs and recorded details, including stories from individual guides and their families. Megan is a graduate of Nipissing University’s Masters of Environmental Science Program, with an undergraduate background in environmental geography and geomatics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634229211870-JR7CSOH0NAPGN76KMCLO/William+Knight__1584300210143__w400.png Team - William Knight Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634225799621-X6RUD5F4TL7KCQNBG3FP/randy.png Team - Randy Restoule Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/ec750f80-1251-4c7f-bbcd-b2a34039e11c/ROM2016_15329_2.jpg Team - Mark Peck Mark Peck is the Manager of the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Director of the Environmental Visual Communications Program (EVC), a joint graduate certificate program with the ROM and Fleming College. Mark is involved with exhibit and gallery development, public programing and is a contributing author/photographer to; Niagara Birds, The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Design, Pattern and Details, and The Birds of Nunavut. In addition to his duties at the ROM, Mark is a Regional Coordinator for the 3rd Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas, the Program Councillor for the Toronto Ornithological Club, an enthusiastic contributor to several citizen science programs and the proud father of two wonderful daughters,. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/fc4a014c-d1a3-4c88-bf52-fcb636b6076f/Headshot.jpeg Team - Casey Monkelbaan Casey Monkelbaan received her Honours Specialization in History as well as a Major in Gender Equality and Social Justice at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario in 2020. She also completed a Master of Arts in History degree at the same institution in 2021. Casey has an interest in working in a museum setting after volunteering and working at the North Bay Museum in the past and assisting with customer service, transcription, and research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/f03f68df-f1b7-421d-a8b7-8b0ae5d0092b/Cindy_Peltier.jpg Team - Cindy Peltier I am Nishinaabe-kwe with connections to Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and Nipissing First Nation. I am an Associate Professor and inaugural Chair in Indigenous Education in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University. My research is community-based and focuses on the intersections between Indigenous peoples’ health and education. Grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, my work seeks to employ appropriate methodologies to ensure cultural safety. With successful funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, my priority continues to be sharing research findings in ways that will be meaningful for Indigenous peoples and communities. My role on this project involves working with educators and pre-service teachers to transform the knowledges shared into curriculum for K-12 students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634226139881-PW9TQPBOO38MGQQZXUXN/Screen+Shot+2021-10-14+at+11.32.32+AM.png Team - Stephen P. Rogers Stephen Rogers is the Collection Manager for the Section of Birds at CMNH. The collection is ranked approximately ninth or 10th largest in the United States. Rogers received his MS in zoology from Michigan State University in 1981. He also has practiced taxidermy for more than 40 years. Rogers’ interests focus on the history of scientific preparation and taxidermy, as well care and preservation of natural history collections. For this project Rogers is using the book published by Mr. Todd on the Birds of the Labrador Peninsula and Adjabcent areas to retro-georeference localities in which birds were collected on the many expeditions the Carnegie Museum took to Canada, which was greatly aided by the guides Mr. Todd and his collaborators worked with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/f6d050b3-7aaa-4886-bdc1-0eac6714a022/20210910_091227.jpg Team - Paige Wong Wachay miseway! My name is Paige Linklater-Wong and I am from Moosonee, Ontario. My grandfather is the late Joseph Linklater, from Attawapiskat First Nation and my grandmother is the late Marion Hester from Waskaganish, Quebec. I graduated from Nipissing University with a major in Indigenous Studies in 2018 and I will also be graduating in April of 2022 from the Masters of Environmental Studies program. I am currently completing an arts internship at Aanmitaagzi studio. I am a mother to my wonderful 12-year-old son named Joe and we take care of one small dog named Wabusk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/c0bd26eb-e321-498d-aec6-8a4b44dc23a8/47190339_2248056338552458_4085644948068630528_n.jpg Team - Kiethen Sutherland Kiethen Sutherland is an Illilo/Cree from the Mushkegowuk Territory (James Bay). He grew up in Kashechewan First Nation, a small Cree fly-in community located on the shores of the Albany River. Kiethen than move out from the community to get an education. He moved to North Bay in 2013 to begin his post-secondary education journey. He Graduated with a BA in history in 2017 and Graduated with a Master of Environmental Studies degree in 2020. Kiethen is currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Program as Nipissing University. He has interest in learning and sharing history of the Mushkegowuk people and is heavily involved in preserving the Cree language and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/1634226102987-OYN69JASRK6UQWPQZKV4/Katrina_Srigley.jpg Team - Katrina Srigley Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.nipissingguides.com/project daily 0.75 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/93d6f1b7-2433-4e2a-a82c-56632694a778/thumbnail_1912-53.jpg The Project - Make it stand out Jako Couchi, Olaus J. Murie, W.E. Clyde Todd, and Paul Commanda (left to right) in a Peterborough freight canoe, May 28, 1914. This photo was taken at the Bell River Crossing (now Senneterre) in Western Quebec. https://www.nipissingguides.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-14 https://www.nipissingguides.com/home daily 1.0 2022-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/b00e1216-8939-4459-b75a-c2789ff95f7d/Paul+2.jpg Home EXHIBITION SUMMARY Between 1901 and 1958, guides from the Nbisiing (Nipissing), Omuskego, and Eeyou (James Bay Cree in present-day Ontario and Quebec) Nations led naturalists from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum on 25 expeditions through northern Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador. Guides such as Paul Commanda (Nbisiing) and George Carey (Omuskego) led the expeditions along rivers, through rapids, and over portages. They cooked meals and kept everyone safe while sharing their extensive land-based knowledge. This work enabled the naturalists to collect northern birds, plants, and animals for the museum’s collections, which are still used by scientists today. For the guides, the expeditions earned them money that had been lost as settlers, lumbermen, and fish-and-game inspectors encroached on their traditional ways of life. They also earned the respect of scientists. This exhibit will tell the guides’ stories, honouring their work and their contributions to science. Image: Paul Commanda on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, 1928 Photograph Courtesy of Nipissing First Nation https://www.nipissingguides.com/artcreation daily 0.75 2022-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f6b82fb610e87bbb161a67/90c18d23-7a69-4109-9604-c494a5fd498c/1914-2+Scan+of+negative.jpg Art-Creation https://www.nipissingguides.com/story-maps daily 0.75 2022-08-08 https://www.nipissingguides.com/speaking-events daily 0.75 2022-08-06