What can we learn from the past?!
If you recently attended our Pandemic! Walking Tour in Kitchener you know that history sheds a lot of light on the pandemic we experienced in our modern time.
Our guide, Todd Bowman, who researched and designed this pandemic walking tour, assembled these resources. They shed even more light on the 1918 pandemic in Kitchener, Ontario and Canada.
Local Perspective
- Many deaths, little panic when ‘last plague’ ravaged Kitchener – a concise introduction from The Record, March 2020
- “Pandemic Influenza: An analysis of the spread of influenza in Kitchener, October 1918 (Ontario)” – MA Thesis by Niall Johnson (1993)
- “Kitchener’s Forgotten Struggle” – an abbreviated version of Johnson’s MA these published by the Waterloo Historical Society, Annual Volume 85 (1997). The Waterloo Historical Society volumes are available in the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History at Kitchener Public Library.
Provincial Perspective
- When the Spanish Flu Came to Ontario – Jamie Bradburn, TVO, 2018.
National Perspective
- The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada. Marc Humphries, 2012. The book is available at Kitchener Public Library, Waterloo Public Library and by ordering from your local bookstore!
Do you have historical pandemic learning resources or connections we should know about?
Add them in the comments below!
