Past Lectures

2010

    Dr. Evan Jones
16 June "Bristol, Cabot and the New Found Land: 1496-1500."  University of Bristol
Apr 29 Tracing our Linguistic Roots: Mapping Regional Diversity in Newfoundland and Labrador English [George Story Lecture] Sandra Clarke
Mar 25 The Grandchildren of Fogo: The Ripples of the Fogo Island Films of 1968 Susan Newhook
Feb 25 The Response of the FPU to the Sealing Disasters of 1914 – an Illustrated presentation Jessie Chisholm
Jan 28 The MacDermotts of Fortune Bay: Their Three Missions, 1904-1934 Garfield Fizzard

2009

Nov 26 A.P. Low’s 1893-94 Expedition Through Labrador: A Tale of Iron and Irony [Gilbert Higgins Lecture] Derek Wilton
Oct 29 Lee Wulff, Stanley Truman Brooks and the Newfoundland Tourist Development Board, 1925 to 1946 Allan Byrne
Sep 24 Pre-Confederation Women Writers and Mythologies of Empir Heather O’Brien
Apr 30 AGM and Story Lecture: Concise History Panel Several Speakers
Mar 26 "Smallwood, Pearson, and the Power Corridor Through Quebec." James Feehan
Feb 26 The First Gilbert Higgins Lecture: British Imperial Identity and the Newfoundland Irish Threat, 1740 - 1800 Allan Dwyer

2008

     
Nov 27 The Voice of Newfoundland - a history of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (book launch) Jeff Webb
Oct 30 An Environment of Cooperation and Conflict: The Military Presence in Newfoundland and Labrador from the Cold War to the War on Terror Whitney Lackenbauer
Sept 25 Oscar Lieber’s trips to Labrador and observations of the 1860 eclipse Derek Wilton
     

2007

Sept 27 "Nutakuanan – the parable of Herman J. Koehler and his 1931 disappearance". Peter Armitage
 

2004

Feb 26 "Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and the Naval Government, 1699-1832" Dr. Jerry Bannister
Jan 29 "Hesketh Prichard in Labrador" Larry Cody

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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