Menu

Fuckwhittery in Power

The Stories that We Didn’t Learn

Got some historical fuckwhittery we should know about?

A forgotten story, a spectacularly bad decision, or a piece of history that somehow never made it into the textbooks?

Tell us about it.

stories@fuckwhittery.com

Browse the Fuckwhittery:Fuckwhittery Against WomenFuckwhittery in PowerFuckwhittery in the Name of ProgressFuckwhittery Meets Mother NatureImperial FuckwhitteryMunicipal Fuckwhittery
Canada ordered 100,000 children from England

The Children Canada Ordered From Britain

In June 1913, a ten-year-old girl from Sunderland, England, boarded the SS Corinthian bound for Canada. She was travelling with her older sister, 12, and a large group of other children, but she was not an immigrant in the usual sense. Her mother was not standing beside her, preparing to […]
Buckle Up...
LIberty Village Toronto

The Liberties Taken in Liberty Village

,
There is a story about the name Liberty Village in Toronto. The neighbourhood takes its name from Liberty Street. According to local tradition, that was the street people walked when they left the prisons that once stood nearby. Beyond the walls lay liberty. It is an appealing image. Someone finishes […]
Buckle Up...
The Lost Villages of Ontario 1958

The Villages We Put Underwater

,
On a train to Belleville, a woman told me she was from the Lost Villages. I imagined a place that had slipped out of use: a railway stop without trains, perhaps, or a town whose name had vanished from the map. Then she told me her grandparents were still there. […]
Buckle Up...