Source: National Archives of Canada
The Toronto Area Early Canada & Colonial North America Seminar Series is an interdisciplinary group that welcomes all forms of original research before 1900 in northern North America. The seminar is open to graduate students, educators, public history professionals, curators, archivists, and librarians. All seminars are held in the Greater Toronto Area.
Presenters give talks for 30-50 minutes, followed by an hour-long question period, or pre-circulate papers in preparation for a two-hour discussion of their work. Participants may share everything from conference papers to articles or book chapters, and from exploratory thought pieces to polished manuscripts.
Presenters from 2005-06 included Todd Webb (Doctoral Candidate, History Department, York University) on Methodists in Upper and Lower Canada, Allan Greer (History, University of Toronto) on Canada in Colonial American Historiography, Alan MacEachern (History Department, University of Western Ontario) on the 1825 Miramichi Fire, Jeff McNairn (Canada Research Chair, History, Queen's University) on Anglo-American Travellers writing on Nova Scotia, Nora Faires (History and Women's Studies, Western Michigan University) on Black Canadians and Detroit After the Underground Railroad, and James Moran (History, University of Prince Edward Island) on Civil Commitment for Insanity in the Nineteenth Century. Presenters from 2004-05 included Andrew Miller (PhD, John Hopkins) on Wabanaki – New England relations, Emma Anderson (doctoral candidate, Harvard) on an Innu child in 17th-century France, Colin Coates (CRC, York University) and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (History, Carleton) on a French-Canadian in New Mexico, Carolyn Podruchny (History, York) on rituals in the fur trade, Christophe Horguelin (doctoral candidate, University of Toronto) on political culture in Lower Canada, and Brett Rushford (Postdoctoral Fellow, OIEAHC, College of William and Mary) on Indian slavery.
Those interested in presenting at the seminar or being added to the mailing list should contact Carolyn Podruchny at carolynp@yorku.ca or (416)-736-5123, ext 66960.
Events of Related Interest in the
Greater Toronto Area
Legal History Discussion group, organized by Jim Phillips <j.phillips@utoronto.ca>.
Papers are pre-circulated. Sessions are at 6.30, in the Flavelle Room,
Flavelle House, Faculty of Law, U of T.
- Wednesday March 22 - Paul Craven, York University, ""High law, Low law, No law: The Trials of David Owen"
- Wednesday April 12 - Jim Phillips, University of Toronto, "The
Impeachment of the Judges of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, 1790"
Conference: Gabriel Dumont and Metis History and Identity
Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), September 21-23, 2006
To see the call for papers, deadline March 27, click
here
- Champlain - St. Lawrence Seminar in Early American Studies
- Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
- Champlain Society
- Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
