Canadian-American Center
Canadian-American Center
Stephen J. Hornsby
The Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps – Exhibit Opening
Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine 314 Forest Ave, Portland, ME, United StatesPlease join us for the opening of The Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps, curated by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Maine and author of a forthcoming book on American pictorial maps. This exhibit looks at the golden age of pictorial or illustrated maps from the 1920s to the 1960s. […]
Opening Reception & Dinner (Ocean Technology Conference)
The Canadian-American Center and Maine International Trade Center are proud to present Ocean Technology in New England and Atlantic Canada: Promoting a Network of Collaboration. We are grateful to the Canadian Consulate of Boston for their sponsorship of the opening reception. The reception is open to registered attendees of the conference. Click here for more information about the 2016 […]
Ocean Technology in New England and Atlantic Canada
Wells Conference Center University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada”
Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United StatesFrom Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history. I present three maps: the route of a North West Company clerk in 1797, the travels of Samuel de Champlain between 1603 and 1616, and a map […]
Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie”
Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled "The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie: A Legal Historical Approach to Land Tenure in Acadian Agricultural Settlements in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries" by Carol Blasi. Carol received her PhD in History from the University of Maine in August 2019. She currently teaches as an […]