York University has been given $1-million to ensure future generations will be taught the story of the Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
to hire a new historian to teach students about an early chapter in the fight against fascism.
“It was just a footnote, what the Mac-Paps did. I remember I was in Grade 13 history and there was only a couple paragraphs on it. I said to my classmates, ‘My father fought in that war,’” Mr. Paivio said. Jules Paivio, a Finnish immigrant living in Northern Ontario when the conflict broke out, was among those who volunteered and travelled to Spain to fight on the side of the elected Republican government.The elder Mr. Paivio helped lead efforts to have a Mackenzie-Papineau battalion memorial erected in. He died a decade ago at the age of 93, his son said, the last member of the battalion to die.
Adrian Shubert, a professor emeritus at York, taught Spanish history and a course on the Civil War for decades. He retired last year expecting that he would not be replaced and that the Civil War course, popular among students and often filled to capacity, would not continue.
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