2025 Fort Garry Lectures
Information for Participants
Notes
If you will be using a PowerPoint presentation, please email it no later than Thursday, May 1st, to hgsconf@umanitoba.ca.
Please ensure that your presentation does not exceed 15 minutes. Panel chairs will stop you at 15 minutes, so we advise you to practice in advance to avoid being unable to finish your presentation.
Schedule
8:30 am | Arrival & Registration
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Panel 1: Welcome & Setting the Stage
Elder Norman Meade, Elder-in-Residence (University of Manitoba), Migizii Agamik – Bald Eagle Lodge, “Starting in a Good Way”
Dr. Roisin Cossar: Department Head, History, University of Manitoba, “A Brief History of the Identity of the Fort Garry Lectures”
Dr. Adele Perry, Distinguished Professor of History, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba, “Histories and Conferences”
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Panel 2: Local and Indigenous Histories
Jack Nestor, “The (Re)Invention of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Historiography of the Southern Numbered Treaties”
Cecilia McLandress, “From the Red River Settlement to the Road Allowance: A History of the Lagimodière and Lavallée Families, and Notes on the Red River Métis”
Blake Mueller, “Indigenous Presentation and Expansionist Perspectives in Accounts of The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857”
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | Panel 3: Histories of Movement and Settlement in Canada
Angela Bullee, “National Myths: The Underground Railroad Heritage Minute, Missing Perspectives, and Canadian Benevolence”
Michael Lacsado, “The Making of the Winnipeg Frontier”
Brooke Graham & Kaelyn Delaurier, “The Life of the Manitoba Ukrainian Settler: The Daily Lives of the Negrych Family of the Venlaw District”
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch (Room 111, St. John’s College)
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel 4: Economic Histories of 20th Century North America
Max Cantin, “A Change of Plans: The Economic Struggles and Shifting Attention of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice From 1904 to 1913”
Ashlin Daly, “‘Our best but not our only customer’: The Canadian Wheat Board and Wartime Loyalty to Britain”
Brie Willoughby, “Labour and Total Institutions: Free and Unfree Work within Canadian Mental Institutions During the 1940s-1950s”
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Panel 5: Women’s and Health Histories
Bryanna Soke-Bjornson, “Bodies, Power, and Protest: The Women’s Health Movement as Social Transformation”
Maggie A. Clark, “A Different Kettle of Fish: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Winnipeg, 1985–2000”
Cara Ginter, “Hatpins and Other Deadly Weapons: Perceptions of Danger and Self-Defense in the Progressive Era City, 1900-1915”