“How cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce is charting a new way to see the world” Creator of the Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada map and the new Cold at Inuit Nunangat map set was recently featured as part of the National Geographic 33, a celebration of visionary changemakers. The article, in print and […]
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On March 27-29, 2026, several UMaine History graduate students travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the 24th annual University of Maine-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference. Dr. Mark McLaughlin, cross-appointed between the Canadian-American Center and the History Department (also the History Graduate Coordinator), drove up a van full of the graduate students. Dr. […]
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University of Maine graduate students, Anna Shantz and Leif Walker, attended the 2026 Comparative Borders Conference at Brock University in Toronto, Ontario, from March 27 to March 28. Their attendance was made possible with funding from the Canadian-American Center. At the conference, they presented their research, “Tariff Impacts in a Borderland Economy: Evidence from Maine’s […]
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The Fogler Library at the University of Maine, in partnership with the Canadian-American Center, regularly acquires Canadian publications and resources. View the selections below for lists of recently acquired items. Click on the link below to download or view the acquisitions spreadsheet.
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Co-sponsored by the Versant Power Astronomy Center, the Canadian-American and the Wade Center for Student Leadership, we announce an exhibit from photographer Jeannie Hutchins. Event Details Location and date: Two exhibits starting on April 3 at the Wade Center for Student Leadership (Memorial Union) and at the Versant Power Astronomy Center. An opening reception and […]
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The Canadian-American Center announces a new publication, The Cold at Inuit Nunangat. In this talk, author Margaret Pearce will speak about why the maps were made, the creative process, and the data and design decisions that shaped the final composition. Dr. Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and Citizen Potawatomi tribal member. She is a 2023 […]
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Four University of Maine students have received Killam Fellowships to help fund their studies atvarious Canadian institutions of higher learning during the 25-26 academic year. The Killam Fellowships Program provides undergraduate students in Canada and the U.S. withopportunities to spend a semester or full academic year in the other country as exchange students.Recipients receive a […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center and the UMaine History Department in welcoming its graduate students to present their research. Event Details Lunch will be provided History Across the Border: History department graduate students present their research and archival experience in Canada features the following students and their research: Joseph Wrobleski: “Wabanaki Legalities and Property Law of […]
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In early November (November 7-9, 2025), Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Dr. Hollie Adams co-led a group of fifteen participants on a Canadian Studies field trip across the border to the city of Fredericton, the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Offered through UMaine’s Canadian-American Center, the trip is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Marie-Andrée Gill to give a virtual presentation at the University of Maine. The author will join us via Zoom and the presentation will be in French. Event Details Marie-Andrée Gill is an artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Nation. Her work explores intimacy, love, humor, and the relationship with living things […]
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