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Canadian Studies outreach coordinator presented day-long workshop to Massacusetts teachers

Primary Source, a K-12 professional development center for Massachusetts teachers invited Canadian Studies specialist Betsy Arntzen to present the one day workshop “Canada and its Diversity”, October 20, 2011. Primary Source promotes history and humanities education by connecting educators with people and cultures throughout the world. Betsy’s program was especially for educators in grades K-7, […]

Alice R. Stewart Canadian Lecture Series

Canadian-American Center Presents: Jocelyn Letourneau

Canadian-American Center Associate Director Pelletier conducts French in the Woods

Professor of French Raymond Pelletier collaborated with the Penobscot School to offer a French in the Woods French immersion language weekend, September 16-18, 2011, titled Français au bord de la Mer. The 52 participants included members of the general public and UMaine undergraduate students. The Penobscot School is a non-profit center for language learning and […]

Canadian Studies History student Gee receives prestigious Fulbright Award

University of Maine Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled “Tangled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.” As a Fulbright student, Gee will study the marine resource areas […]

Faculty French Immersion in Acadia NS and NB

Canadian-American Center Associate Director, Professor Raymond Pelletier, leads another successful Faculty French Immersion. This year’s summer institute was held in Acadia.

Honors student Sarah Denslow awarded prestigious Killam Fellowship Award

Ms. Sarah Denslow, a third-year student at the University of Maine, has been granted a Killam Fellowships-Maple Leaf Foundation Award to study at the University of Ottawa for the 2011-2012 academic year. An Honors College Sophomore, Sarah is majoring in International Affairs and French. She was awarded one of fifteen Killam Fellowships awarded to undergraduates […]

Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune

Director Stephen Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas. […]

TD Bank Financial Group provides sponsorship to the Canadian-American Center

TD Bank Financial Group has provided most generous sponsorship to the Canadian-American Center for an international conference on “Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast: Current Status, Future Prospects.” The conference is scheduled tentatively for fall 2011. The Center is most grateful to TD Bank for its support.

“An Evening with Sheila Watt-Cloutier” highlights

On March 29th, The University of Maine welcomed Sheila Watt-Cloutier. Two events were on the schedule for Sheila, to which each event was a huge success. Over 80 students and faculty attended the Student Seminar at Wells Conference Center. The Q&A style session was attended by both graduate and undergraduate students. In the evening, over […]

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