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Canadian Nautical Research Society Annual Conference and General Meeting

Thursday, 18 August – Saturday, 20 August 2016

New Westminster, British Columbia

Location: Lecture Theatre 2203, Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster

Registration: $100 CNRS members, $125 non-CNRS members, $50 registered students

Conference includes a public event, waterfront walking tour, museum visits, and following presenters:

Kevin Caslor, "Tugs Caught in Corporate Restructuring: Mergers and Acquisitions in British Columbia's Tug and Barge Industry since 1950"

Timothy Choi, "Gateways of the North: Canadian Arctic Ports in Post-Mahanian Maritime Strategy"

William Glover, "The Hudson's Bay Company and the Use of Longitude in Hudson Bay"

Michael Hadley, "Places Where Rivers Meet Oceans: Experiences, Memoirs, and Legacies"

Colin Levings, "Going aground and floating off - ships, boats and hovercrafts as scientific platforms for ecological sampling on the lower Fraser River and estuary"

Mark MacKenzie, "Tales from the Logbooks of the Early Samsons"

Chris Madsen, "Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (CIO) Organizing among Sugar and Grain Workers on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1946-1949"

Frank Millerd, "The long road to the first Fraser River salmon treaty"

Michael Moir, "Be Careful What You Wish For: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Toronto's Aspirations to be an Ocean Port"

Roger Sarty, "G.F.G. Stanley's 'The Army Origin of the Royal Canadian Navy' Revisited"

Maurice Smith, "The Barque Garden Island: An excursion into Ocean Shipping"

Trevor Williams and Merlin Bunt, "The Last Steamboat Whistle: The Rise and Demise of Chilliwack Landing at Skwah First Nation, 1863-1928"

Abstracts for the papers will appear in the July issue of Argonauta

A program with a schedule and further details on registration will soon be found here.

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