Monday, Oct. 9 is not a particularly exciting day for most of the Yale population. But for an albeit small, but fun-loving subset, Oct. 9 is a day of great merriment, a day to reflect upon “the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.” There are no pilgrims, there is no Macy’s Day Parade, but Canadians across the nation still eat turkey and give thanks. I could not tell you why we have a national holiday that seems to just copy the American holiday but with no actual purpose. But ripped-off turkey is still turkey, so I can’t complain.
On April 10, family, friends, former students, and colleagues gathered in Woolsey Hall to celebrate the legacy of Yale’s longtime chief investment officer.
The University of Toronto’s Funké Aladejebi hopes readers find Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History to be just as the title promises: unsettling.