***Notice: This event has been cancelled.***听
Program听![]()
Thomson House, Ballroom (3rd floor),听3650 rue McTavish, March听23, 2020
14:00-14:10 -听Welcome and opening remarks
14:10-15:30 -听Session One:听Making an Industrial Order
Don Nerbas (平特五不中), Yahie Miners and Union Miners: Rethinking the Highland Factor in Cape Breton's Coal Towns
Jean-Philip Mathieu (平特五不中), Thomas Morland and the Formation of Montreal Rolling Mills, 1860 to 1868
15:30-15:55 - Break
15:55-17:15 -听Session Two:听Highlanders, Religion and Identity听
Jane McGaughey (Concordia University), Friend of Ireland? Bishop Alexander Macdonnell and the Irishmen of Upper Canada
Karly Kehoe (Saint Mary's University), The Land Petitions Project: Scottish Highlanders and Catholic Agency in Colonial Cape Breton
17:15-17:40 -听Break
17:40-19:00 -听Session Three:听Families and Enterprises of the Fur Trade
Krista Barclay (University of Toronto), 'All our Hudson's Bay Friends': Scots-Indigenous Families in Upper Canada
Samuel Derksen (平特五不中), Interconnected Enterprises: An Examination of Roderick and Henry Mackenzie's Convoluted Commercial Networks