The TimeLinks Image Archive: A Case Study in Using Photographic Images in Teaching about Ethnic Relations

ABSTRACT/RESUME The TimeLinks Image Archive (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/) contains more than two thousand visual representations of life in Manitoba in the second decade of the twentieth century. It provides an unparalleled opportunity for students to engage this decade through the interpretation of visual documents. These documents provide a lens through which students can explore several themes relating to life in the ear]y decades of the century, including the emergence on the prairies of a patchwork of culturally and linguistically different communities that were forced to interact with and accommodate one another. One of the perils inherent in the Image Archive also presents one of the greatest opportunities for historical document interpretation. The vast majority of the images are representations created by and for members of the Anglo-Canadian majority culture, a culture which was wrestling in the early decades of the century with the loss of its numerical dominance and cultural hegemony. By decoding the cultural messages in the images, students can gain insights not only into the details of everyday life, but also the values, perceptions, and constructs that governed the interactions, and sometimes conflict, between this majority culture and non-Anglo communities. L'Archive d'images TimeLinks (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca) contient plus de deux milles representations visuelles de la vie au Manitoba pendant la deuxieme decennie du vingtieme siecle. Il fournit une occasion sans precedent pour les etudiants de s'embarquer dans cette decennie au moyen de l'interpretation de documents visuels. Ces documents fournissent une lentille par laquelle les etudiants peuvent explorer plusieurs themes qui portent sur la vie des premieres decennies du siecle, y compris l'apparition sur les plaines d'une mosaique de communautes culturellement et linguistiquement differentes qui ont obligees d'interagir et de s'accommoder les unes aux autres. Un des dangers inherents dans l'Archive d'images presente aussi une des grandes occasions pour l'interpretation des documents historiques. La grande majorite des images sont des representations crees par les membres de la culture majoritaire anglo-canadienne et destinees pour eux. C'etait une culture qui se debattait dans les premieres decennies d u siecle avec la perte de sa predominance numerique et son hegemonie culturelle. En decodant les messages culturels trouves dans les images, les etudiants peuvent penetrer non seulement dans les details de la vie quotidienne, mais aussi dans des valeurs, perceptions et constructions qui gouvernaient les interactions, et quelquefois les conflits, entre cette culture majoritaire et les communautes non-anglophones. Introduction The TimeLinks Image Archive is part of a larger World Wide Web site called TimeLinks (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca). This site, a co-creation of River East School Division and the University of Manitoba, is an Internet-based project in prairie history designed primarily to fit the Manitoba Senior 1 and 3 (Grade IX and XI) curricula for History and Canadian Studies. Its primary goal is to enhance students' interest in a period of social history that is not well covered by existing classroom resources by exposing them to the rhythms of everyday life in Manitoba communities in the second decade of the twentieth century, thus encouraging them to explore the intersection of political, economic, and social changes in the lives of ordinary Manitobans. TimeLinks began as a project of RiverEast Collegiate in early 1996. In its original conception, it was loosely modelled on Village Prologue, an Internet site developed in Quebec which offers the opportunity to visit an imaginary village in Lower Canada in 1853. Through a variety of resources including a village newspaper, student visitors to Village Prologue become aware of the rhythms of life in a rural agricultural community. …

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