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Canadian Nautical Research Society - Conferences

Conference & Annual General Meeting

Ottawa, Canada – 11-13 June 2015

Ships, people, ports and trade

Ottawa, the nation's capital, is strategically placed for this conference, located at the confluence of the Gatineau & Rideau with the Ottawa Rivers, and at the northern mouth of the UNESCO Heritage Site Rideau Canal. Conference sessions will transpire in the historic quarters of HMCS Bytown, since 1943 the Wardroom (officers' mess) for naval officers serving in the national defence headquarters.

The conference registration form is available here. The fee of $50 (or $25 single day) includes Friday & Saturday morning and afternoon breaks and soup-salad-sandwich lunch (cash bar only on Thursday). Dress throughout is summer casual (open neck shirt, no T-shirts or jeans). No block booking of hotel rooms has been made, as a variety of accommodation options at reasonable rates are available in the immediate area (the mess is located at is located at 73 Lisgar St, in the general vicinity of Elgin St - Laurier Ave).

Brief biographies of those presenting papers, together with an abstract of their presentations can be found here.

Programme

Day 1: Thursday, 11 June

12:00-13:00: Lunch (self-purchase from the bar)

13:00-16:00: Strategic Planning Session / Chair: President Chris Madsen

16:00-17:30: Executive Council Meeting

17:30-21:00: Informal Meet & Greet: Deacon Brodie's Pub (247 Elgin Street)

Day 2: Friday, 12 June

08:30-12:00: Session 1

• Francesc Albardaner, "A Silk Trail to Columbus"
• Sam McLean, "A Westminster Model Navy: The Royal Navy as a Constitutional Space 1660-1749"
• Norman Jolin, "Observations on the RCN Flag Officer List, 1910-2015"

09:45-10:15: Coffee in-progress

• Walter Lewis, "Down to the Sea in Boats: Great Lakes Vessels that went to Sea in the First World War"
• Michael Moir, "Global war, local conflict: the requisition of Canadian shipping during the Great War"
• Roger Litwiller, "Herb Ditchman Goes to War: Shipbuilding in Trenton, Ontario during the Second World War"

12:00-13:00: Lunch

13:00-16:00: Session 2

• Paul Adamthwaite, "Wrecks: random reflections on reporting and research"
• Roger Sarty, "McNabs Island and the Defence of the North Atlantic in the First World War"
• Jim Carruthers, "Combat Control Systems in the Canadian Navy, 1950-90"

14:15-14:45: Coffee in-progress

• Alan Ruffman, "Rescuing, Resurrecting and Restoring the December, 1882 Simon Douglas MacDonald Manuscript Map of the Known Wrecks on Sable Island Compiled from Official Reports"
• Donald R. MacNeil, "Auxiliary Support Vessels of the Arctic Patrol Vessel HMCS Labrador"

16:00-17:30: Presentation Tour of "Pogo"

(Rideau Canal / Laurier Street Bridge Landing)

18:30 for 19:00: Banquet

(Johnny Farina's Restaurant / 216 Elgin St)

Day 3: Saturday, 13 June

09:00-10:15: Session 3

• Maurice Smith, "A brilliant Cook, a shipping giant and a Certified Seamen's Union - at Last"
• Chris Madsen, "The Shipping Federation of British Columbia, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and Employment on the Fraser River Waterfront 1947-1958"

10:15- 10:30: Coffee in progress

• Hugues Canuel, "Laying the Course for a Stormy Peacetime Friendship: Reluctant American Support to French Wartime Naval Rearmament, 1943-45"

11:00-13:30: Annual General Meeting (Working Lunch)

Administrative enquiries should be directed to:

CNRS 2015 Conference Coordinator
Dr Richard Gimblett
49 South Park Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1B 3B8
Telephone: 613-971-7696
email: richard.gimblett@forces.gc.ca

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