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Multicultural Historian: Early White Canadians Were Lazy Colonizers, Not Hardy Farmers
by Prof. Ricardo Duchesne
On the website Council of European Canadians
With the captain: Lazy Euro-Canadian boy pretending he is working the land; this is a myth, he is a colonizer.
Ricardo Duchesne, who writes at the Council of European Canadians and who is a professor at the University of New Brunswick, has this to say about Daniel Panneton, a "Historian & Outreach Officer at Multicultural History Society of Ontario," who reviewed his best-sellng book Canada in Decay (of which I have a copy):
Daniel Panneton, a "Historian & Outreach Officer at Multicultural History Society of Ontario," calls extremist my view that Canada was created by pioneers and settler farmers. He says it is "racist" and a "myth" to say that Canada was created by Euro-Canadians. The only historically accurate view of Canada's past is that it was a "culture of white supremacy, a culture that is continually replicated and reshaped by our political and cultural institutions."
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He condemns my best selling book Canada in Decay for allegedly arguing "that multiculturalism is a covert plot to wipe out the white race by the globalist left." It is obvious Penneton did not read this book, and I would be surprised if he has carefully read and fairly evaluated any book that portrays Euro-Canadians as hard workers who created the very comforts Penneton enjoys without being grateful to his ancestors.
I repeat, not a single source, book or article, is referenced by Penneton the "historian" of the "Multicultural History Society of Ontario". This is what passes for "historian" nowadays. When graduate students are celebrating diversity and condemning "white supremacy" they are not required to cite sources and employ facts. It is a self-evident truth instilled upon children the moment they enter primary school that "diversity is our greatest strength" and that "white supremacists" control Canada. Penneton imagines himself a true "hardy" Canadian challenging the dominant "white supremacist" establishment while expressing these self-evident truths.
Museums
Having completed an MA in History, Penneton is currently doing "Museum Studies" at the University of Toronto. I wonder if he knows that museums were invented by Europeans. With origins dating back to Hellenistic Greece, museums really took off during the 1600s when Europeans went about displaying all sorts of natural objects, plants, animals, artifacts, brought back from their amazing voyages of discovery. During the post-WWII years, museums were built in city after city across the West as amazing storehouses of natural and human history, and as centers of education.
Who would have known that as Western nations are being forced to populate themselves with millions of diverse immigrants, museums are becoming places dedicated to the celebration of the far lesser achievements of non-Europeans, officially committed to diversity in the West, coupled with exhibitions of Europe's achievements as if they were the "achievements of humanity", and the transformation of all museums into ideological weapons to encourage Europeans to view their nations as the "common home" of humanity?
The program Museum Studies rang a resounding bell. Where had I heard of it before?
Oh yes!
Right here, posted at the following LinkedIn page:
Kendra AinsworthThe curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Mississauga about whose (the gallery's) activities I have posted recently here, here, here, here, here here, and here among other posts and references, holds a Masters degree from the program whose graduate Duchesne describes as: "This is what passes for "historian" nowadays."
Experience
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Curator of Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Mar 2016 – Present
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
The Art Gallery of Mississauga is a public non-profit gallery located in Mississauga's Civic Centre. We are committed to presenting work by regional, national and international contemporary artists in accessible, engaging exhibitions and public programs. In this position I manage all aspects of exhibition planning and curation, including grant writing, budget management, loans, shipping, insurance, partnerships and publications. I am proud to work at an institution that values accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, and working collaboratively with artists and communities.
Education
University of Toronto
Master's degree, Museum Studies
2013
University of Toronto - Victoria University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cultural Anthropology
2002 – 2006
Of course students come and go, but if the institution they hail from is now getting "outed" for providing this type of "educated" graduate, even one, then we have to consider the merits of ALL the others.