Events

Toronto premiere of “Return of the Far Fur Country”

Treasures from the Far Fur Country is an archival film event presenting excerpts from the 1920 silent film The Romance of the Far Fur Country. This special screening includes rarely seen footage documenting the Hudson Bay Company’s activities and First Nations communities in the Canadian north in the early 20th century. The screening includes excerpts […]

Transforming Canada: Histories of Environmental Change

This lecture series reconsiders the transformation of the northern half of the continent through time as a foundation for sensible engagement with the environmental challenges facing Canadian society in the twenty-first century. We have two  talks: Tina Loo, History, University of British Columbia “High modernism and the nature of Canada” Monday March 5, 2012, 1-3 […]