While few colleges have the resources to effectively handle the large-scale shift to remote learning forced by Covid-19, rural, small, and cash-strapped institutions are getting by on a shoestring.

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode, and what were its long-term effects?