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Conférence et Assemblée générale annuelle 2025

Navires, personnes, ports, canaux et commerce

Projet de programme

Port Hope Public Library

Wednesday 21 May
Evening (18:00-21:00)

Informal no-host Meet & Greet at the Ganaraska Brew Pub (33 Mill Street)

Thursday 22 May
Forenoon (09:00-11:30)

Introductory Round Table

Sam McLean, Canada and Context in ADM 8 Vols I & II [1673-92]

Walter Lewis, Rush-Bagot and Naval Re-armament on the Great Lakes, 1838-1847

Afternoon (13:30-15:00)

Catherine Brooks, “Fitting up a Green-House on the Quarter Deck:” Innovations in Shipboard Plant Transportation in the Late 17th Century

Brandon Lentz, Descent into Madness: “Diseases of the Mind” and the North America and West Indies Station, 1793-1818

15:00 – Walking Tour / Port Hope Waterfront
** If weather is inclement, the tour will be shifted to Friday afternoon, and the last two papers from then (Noakes & Coombs) instead presented here.

Friday, 23 May
Forenoon (09:00-12:00)

Bob Banks & Will Banks, Locating the Nine-Mile Portage

David Gray, Lost and Found: One Fishing Net (the Estai Story)

Margot Dixon, The Misadventures of the Loudon Hill [1907-09]

Michael Moir, Steel shipbuilding at Port Arthur, 1908-1926: the American response to government intervention

Afternoon (13:30-17:30)

Roger Sarty, The Borden Government’s ‘Permanent’ Naval Policy and its Sequel, 1911-1922

Malcolm Butler, A Community Born of War: Ajax, Ontario [1940-]

Wes Cross, Conspicuous Service: Convoy Rescue Ships [1941-45]

** Jeff Noakes, South Asian seafarer accommodation camps in Canada, 1945-1946

** Adam Coombs, Too Wet, Too Steep and Covered with Sand: The Role of Sable Island in Anti-Submarine Warfare during the 20th Century [1940-68]

Evening (17:30 . . . .)

Informal no-host dining (locale to be determined, weather dependent)

Saturday, 23 May (10:00-12:00)

Awards Presentation

Annual General Meeting

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