The Free Press: From humility back to hubris?
June 13, 2025 —
Like early editions of The Beaver, the museum was not only an absorbing record of colonial history, but served as a PR tool, portraying the company as a heroic and civilizing force on the Canadian frontiers.
“These two positions always go together: the power to rule and control lands, peoples and waters (and) the power to document and control history,” says Adele Perry, University of Manitoba history professor and director of the Centre for Human Rights Research.
“And that’s one of the really powerful things about colonial archives and records, and that’s why the struggles with them exist.”
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