awards and honours
- 2021 to present, honorary colonel (hcol), lake superior scottish regiment
- 2023 certificate of appreciation for volunteer service, thunder bay historical museum society
- 2022 elected fellow of the royal historical society (frhists)
- 2018 to 2021, honorary lieutenant-colonel (hlcol), lake superior scottish regiment
- 2018 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 distinguished researcher award
- 2016 northwestern ontario visionary award 20 under 40
- 2015 canadian forces liaison council's award of excellence for best practices in employer support: educational institution, manitoba (awarded to the department of history for support while chair)
- 2011 city of thunder bay heritage award
- 2011 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 contribution to research award
- 2010 alumni association of 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 outstanding young alumni award
- 2003 canadian federation of film societies buritt-thompson award (co-winner)
- 1996 volunteer service award, peel heritage complex/region of peel
- 1995 certificate of appreciation, the friends of the peel museum/region of peel museum
publications
- 2019 m. elizabeth arthur award for the best scholarly book on the history of northwestern ontario (thunder bay historical museum society) for thunder bay and the first world war, 1914-1919.
- 2017 m. elizabeth arthur award for the best scholarly book on the history of northwestern ontario (thunder bay historical museum society) for the little third reich on lake superior a history of canadian internment camp r.
- 2016 honorable mention, floyd s. chalmers award for best book in ontario history for the little third reich on lake superior a history of canadian internment camp r.
- 2015 gertrude h. dyke award for the best popular book on the history of northwestern ontario (thunder bay historical museum society) for celluloid dreams: an illustrated history of early film at the lakehead, 1900-1931.
- 2015 m. elizabeth arthur award for the best scholarly book on the history of northwestern ontario (thunder bay historical museum society) for labour at the lakehead: ethnicity, socialism, and politics, 1900-35.
- 2009 j.p. bertrand award for the best scholarly article on the history of northwestern ontario (thunder bay historical museum society) for “‘we did it just for fun’: amateur filmmaking at the lakehead, 1929-1930" ontario history 99, no. 2 (fall 2007).
internal 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 merit awards
- 2014 merit for excellence in research and service
- 2011 merit for excellence in research
- 2009 merit for excellence in research and service