Bishop’s University

Lennoxville was an independent city until 2002 when it was incorporated into Sherbrooke, Quebec. During French occupation, Lennoxville was known as Les Petite Fourches, little forks, while Sherbrooke was known as Les Grands Fourches, big forks. It was incorporated long after the British took over Quebec and renamed after Charles Read more…

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology

The often overlooked history of indigenous peoples in North America and their exploitation by Europeans is still a contentious issue in Canada. As history museums are usually conservative, a safe way to explore indigenous cultures is by visiting UBC’s Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. They have a huge collection that Read more…

MIT

There’s no shortage of venerated academic institutions in Massachusetts. There’s Harvard, Northeastern, Berklee, and MIT. One of the first things I noticed when I arrived at the Boston MIT campus was the name of their bus stop: 1 Harvard Square. I wonder if Harvard has a building located on 1 Read more…

Grimm Zentrum

Or the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, named after the famous Grimm brothers who wrote fairy tales such as Rapunzel, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Red Cap (Little Red Riding Hood). This is a fitting name for a central library of the university that once managed the German State Library – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Read more…