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Working in the classroom alongside teaching faculty is an ideal way to bridge the gap between undergraduate education and archival research and to reach students who might never venture into the archives of their own accord. This article offers a sustained reflection on one way that historical archives can be placed at the centre of undergraduate education. It also considers how this engagement can open up spaces for public remembrance, particularly for marginalized "source" communities. The ongoing relationship between communities and the archives that they produce is vitally important. The focus here is on the intermediate history course Telling Stories, held in 2017, and developed around the Negro Community Centre/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre Fonds housed in Concordia University Library's Special Collections. The Negro Community Centre was the hub of Montreal's English-speaking Black community from 1927 until it closed in 1992. The course was timed to coincide with the public launch of this major new archival fonds, giving the students the honour of being the first researchers to ever go through these boxes. The idea of the course was thus simple: what can we learn from the history contained in these boxes and how can we return this history to the community? Allowing younger generations to make meaning from the archives and leave their marks there is a way to open spaces for new Montreal (hi)stories to be written. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the crisis facing forest-dependent communities in Canada. He points out that the discussion of the crisis in forestry is often limited to the abstract and the aggregate. He emphasizes the social impact of mill closure announcements on mill workers, their families and forestry-dependent communities. He offers an overview of the story behind the closure of Sturgeon Falls paper mill in Ontario.