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Map of downtown Winnipeg with points of interest. Hotel and the Manitoba Museum are marked with stickies.
Wednesday Oct. 11
Registration will open at 5:00pm on Wednesday Oct. 11. A small Welcome Reception will be held 6:00 - 8:00pm in the East Ballroom of the Fairmont hotel
University of Regina Press Book Launch, Hudson Bay Company Archives
For those coming in on Wednesday, The University of Regina Press asked us to share that a book launch for Barbara Mitchell's new book Mapmaker: Philip Turner in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment will take place at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives on Wednesday October 11th at 5pm. As the first inland surveyor for the HBC, Philip Turner traveled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot in the late 1700s to produce ten maps culminating in his magnum opus, a map that was the foundation of all northern geographic knowledge at the time. In her search for Turnor's story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who are descendants of Turnor and his Cree wife. This event will also include a showcasing of Philip Turner's map of 1794. This is the first public viewing of the map since its extensive conservation treatment over the past two years to prepare it for digitization, enhanced access, and long term preservation.
More information about the book can be found at https://uofrpress.ca/Books/M/Mapmaker
As this is not a formal conference event, shuttles will not be provided
Registration will open at 5:00pm on Wednesday Oct. 11. A small Welcome Reception will be held 6:00 - 8:00pm in the East Ballroom of the Fairmont hotel
University of Regina Press Book Launch, Hudson Bay Company Archives
For those coming in on Wednesday, The University of Regina Press asked us to share that a book launch for Barbara Mitchell's new book Mapmaker: Philip Turner in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment will take place at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives on Wednesday October 11th at 5pm. As the first inland surveyor for the HBC, Philip Turner traveled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot in the late 1700s to produce ten maps culminating in his magnum opus, a map that was the foundation of all northern geographic knowledge at the time. In her search for Turnor's story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who are descendants of Turnor and his Cree wife. This event will also include a showcasing of Philip Turner's map of 1794. This is the first public viewing of the map since its extensive conservation treatment over the past two years to prepare it for digitization, enhanced access, and long term preservation.
More information about the book can be found at https://uofrpress.ca/Books/M/Mapmaker
As this is not a formal conference event, shuttles will not be provided
Thursday Reception: The Manitoba Museum
Thursday evening's reception will be held in the Nonsuch and HBC galleries of the Manitoba Museum, which is about a seven to ten minute walk from the Fairmont hotel. Museum staff will be on hand to share more about the exhibits, and wine and food stations will be placed along your route through the galleries. This reception will be free for all conference attendees. For more information on the Manitoba Museum, please see the link below:
https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/visit/museum-galleries/nonsuch-gallery/
Graduate Student Lunch Saturday Oct. 14 Lombard Room
Graduate Students! We appreciate you and your dedication - come and meet one another at this year's graduate student luncheon sponsored by the University of Manitoba's Office of Indigenous Achievement. Guest Speaker will be Lawrie Barkwell of the Louis Riel Institute discussing The Forgotten History of Rooster Town: Kinship and the last Métis Road Allowance Community.
Book Launch
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
We are pleased to announce an optional excursion to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Established in 2015, this very young center contains a vast collection of documents, oral histories, and other records that detail the systematic and intentional attempt to assimilate the Indigenous peoples of Canada. The University of Manitoba is honored to sponsor this Centre as a part of its commitment to building respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and seeks to ensure that this resource is widely used by scholars, teachers, survivors, and community members. To this end, The University of Manitoba will host tours of the center on Friday October 13 and Saturday October 14. Space limitations will require us to cap each tour at 25 persons, so we will be asking for registrations. Please RSVP below so that we can schedule an appropriate number of tours. Related fees will cover the cost of transportation to and from the Fairmont Hotel. For more information on the holdings of this Centre, please see their website:
http://umanitoba.ca/centres/nctr/index.html
Hudson's Bay
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We are proud to announce that there will be optional excursions to the Hudson's Bay Company Archive on Friday October 13. Space is limited, so each 90 minute tour will accommodate only 15 people. As the HBCA is providing these tours free of charge, registration fees will cover charter transportation to and from the HBCA. Originally chartered in 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest chartered trading company in the world. Its meticulously kept records were donated to the Province of Manitoba in 1994 which now manages a collection that includes related private papers and the papers of subsidiary companies such as the North West Company. Because space is limited, we are asking for attendees to RSVP below so that we can work to schedule an appropriate number of tours. For more information on the holdings of this archive, please see their website: http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/index.html
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