Collective Memory and Society

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  Every Child Matters

  People participating in Orange Shirt Day to support reconciliation events and activities.
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  Jack the What?

  One of these photos depicts the police and a distressed passerby discovering the murdered body of one of his victims. The other photo, taken over 120 years later, is an image of a barbershop belonging to a U.K. chain called “Jack the Clipper”.
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  Suffering Inflicted-Dangerous Memories of a Community

  Makeshift memorial of children's shoes on Parliament Hill signifying the young lives lost at former residential schools. The flag atop the Peace Tower was at half-mast in commemoration.
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  First Peoples' Map of B.C. Languages

  British Columbia is home to 204 First Nations communities and an amazing diversity of Indigenous languages; approximately 50% of the First Peoples’ languages of Canada are spoken in B.C. This image is a still from the First Peoples' Cultural Council's interactive community contributed map project: https://maps.fpcc.ca/languages. The First Peoples' Map of B.C. Languages can be used to view Indigenous language regions. All of the 34 languages Indigenous to what is now called British Columbia are represented.
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  Fun in the Rain

  A digital painting based on an image taken during a family trip to India in 2011. It shows 2 children playing in the rain during flood conditions.
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  Mandela Effect

  This collage incorporates three images which symbolize separate examples of the "Mandela Effect" phenomenon in which large groups of people share a specific inaccurate memory about a person, event, or thing. The mirror represents the false memory of the Disney movie, "Snow White", where the evil stepmother is remembered as saying, “Mirror, mirror on the wall...” when in fact she says, “Magic mirror on the wall…” The sunglasses represent the false memory of the movie, "Risky Business", in which people remember Tom Cruise singing in his socks, underwear, a dress shirt and sunglasses. In reality, he does not wear sunglasses. The Nelson Mandela image represents the false memory of Nelson Mandela’s death in prison in the 1980’s when in fact, he died in 2013.
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  A Photograph of a Mother and Her Children at Oliver Pool

  A mother and her children swimming at Oliver Pool, Edmonton, AB.
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  Storytelling

  Selena Mah's brother and late grandfather at a family gathering at her grandparent's place a few months before her grandfather passed away.
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  How'd You Know Them?

  Two friends at a gathering after a mutual friend's funeral ceremony.
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  Creating New from the Old

  The progression and development of a monstera plant being grown (left: the original plant; middle: propagation of the plant; right: the propagated plant transferred and flourishing in its new home)
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  Sociology of the Past: Nelson Mandela Statue

  Nelson Mandela statue, South African Embassy, Washington, DC.
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  Helping Them Remember

  Kathleen 'Kee' MacFarlane, an American social worker known for involvement in the high-profile McMartin preschool trial in the 1980s, using puppets to encourage children to “remember” things done to them by staff.
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  Buzz Aldrin and the U.S. flag on the Moon - GPN-2001-000012.jpg

  Astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon.
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  Monumental History: Peter the Great Statue in Moscow

  Peter The Great Monument in Moscow, Russia.
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  Antiquarian History: Elgin Marbles at British Museum

  Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Marbles) collection of ancient Greek sculptures at the British Museum.