Material prepared by Ruth Sandwell and Scott Pollock.

Ruth Sandwell, educational consultant for Lost Stories, is a historian and history educator at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Department of History at the University of Toronto. In addition to researching and publishing about the social history of energy and of rural Canada, she is the founding Co-director and Educational Director of the history education website: Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History (www.canadianmysteries.ca). She has edited two collections of essays about history teaching: Ruth Sandwell and Amy von Heyking, eds. (2014), Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press; and Ruth W. Sandwell, ed. (2006) To The Past: History Education, Public Memory and Citizenship Education in Canada, Toronto, University of Toronto Press: October: 2006.

Scott Pollock, educational consultant for Lost Stories, received his Ph.D from OISE/UT in 2017. His research focuses upon the history of curriculum in Ontario, with an emphasis on the development of "historical thinking" as a pedagogical concept. In addition, he has worked as a high school history teacher for 17 years and is currently a teacher and innovation lead at St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School in Oakville, Ontario. He has also served as an educational consultant for a range of organizations and publishers, helping to create materials dealing with Canadian and world history.