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The Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine is one of the leading institutes for the study of Canada in the United States. Designated as a National Resource Center on Canada by the United States Department of Education in 1979, the Center coordinates an extensive program of undergraduate and graduate Canadian Studies education;  helps support a major research library on Canada;  promotes cross-border research in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and professions;  and directs outreach programs to state, regional, and national audiences. The Canadian-American Center is a founding member of the Northeast National Resource Center on Canada.

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SHAWN FRANCIS – Wolastokuk and La Belle Rivière: Wolastoqey (Maliseet) Language Revitalization in a Trilingual Indigenous Community

Shawn Francis will discuss the landscape of Wolastoqey (Maliseet) language revitalization in his home community, the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Located in what is now Northern New Brunswick, his nation is now predominantlyFrench-speaking, unlike other Wolastoqey communities situated further down the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. He will illustrate the unique context and challenges of Indigenous […]
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Richard T omczak (SUNY-Stony Brook) – Workers of War & Empire from New France toBritish America, 1688-1783

Richard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard hasseveral peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corvée labor in the American Revolution,published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism by Johns Hopkins University Press. […]
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Thomas Peace (Huron University) – Conceptualizing Region and Schooling during the Slow Rush of Colonization

Bringing together two recently published books–The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, […]
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Cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

Margaret Wickens Pearce is a cartographer foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories. She has worked extensively with UMaine’s Canadian-American Center. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.  Pearce’s […]
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Dr. Stephen Hornsby Receives Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies

Stephen J. Hornsby, Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies and former director of the Canadian-American Center, received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies from the International Council for Canadian Studies at a ceremony at York University, Toronto, on 26 June 2025. The award is given biennially to an international scholar who has made […]
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In Remembrance of Ron Tallman

Today, we note the recent passing of former Canadian-American Center director Ronald Tallman. Tallman served as the director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine from 1975 to 1982, during which he significantly expanded the programs and resources that make up the university’s remarkably comprehensive Canadian Studies program. Under his leadership, the center […]
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