Tag: Canada
CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”
About the lecture On 7 October 1825, the Miramichi region of New Brunswick experienced one of the largest forest fires in recorded history while, next door, Maine suffered the most […]
Read moreHistory Symposium Series: Tina Loo (Prof., History, Univ. of British Columbia, co-editor, Canadian Hist. Review) “Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada”
Zoom link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/95684820994 Password: 391122
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CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”
LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. […]
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CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands”
LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, […]
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Register now for the Ottawa Field Trip Oct. 25-27
UMaine students, faculty, and the broader community are invited to register for our yearly field-trip to Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. This trip is an exciting opportunity for UMaine students to travel to a foreign country and experience Canadian geography, history, culture, politics, and social identity first-hand! This year’s trip will take place October 25-27, 2019. […]
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Watch Professor Mark McLaughlin’s Talk “It’s Not Easy Being Green: Environmental Engagement in the Past and Present”
On October 29th, 2018, Professor Mark McLaughlin spoke at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions about how to affect long-term environmental change through government policy. You can view his talk here. For many conservationists and environmentalists, the Holy Grail in terms of trying to make real and long-term change happen is effective engagement […]
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Prof. Micah Pawling wins Canadian Historical Association prize
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and History Micah Pawling for the selection of his article, “Wəlastəkwey (Maliseet) Homeland: Waterscapes and Continuity within the Lower St. John River Valley, 1784-1900,” for the 2018 Canadian Aboriginal History Article prize. You can access the article in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the […]
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CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada”
From 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 […]
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Announcing release of “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada” map
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Canadian-American Center is pleased to release a new map, Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada. The map honors Indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of Indigenous authority through place names. Commissioned by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, Director, Coming Home to […]
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