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Annual Conference, Victoria, BC - August 12-15, 2009

LIST OF PAPERS: VICTORIA (at February 9, 2009)

EVENT PAPERS/TALKS (3)

OPENING LECTURE (Maritime Museum of BC, August 12th)

Dr. Barry Gough, Emeritus Professor of History, Wilfred Laurier University
Juan de Fuca: the Man and the Legend

LUNCHEON TALK (Malahat, August 14th)

Michael Layland, Historian of Cartography, Victoria
The history and destruction of Ripple Rock

AFTER DINNER TALK (Union Club, August 14th)

Dr. Michael Hadley, University of Victoria
Dinner with Jack [Musings on the novels of Patrick O'Brien]

SESSION PAPERS (16)

Commander Peter Chance, RCN (Rtd), Victoria
A Navigator's Experience in the Atlantic and Pacific, 1939 - 1970

Dr. Andrew Cook, British Library
George Henry Richards: Nineteenth Century British hydrography in British Columbia

Dr. James Dean, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Singeing the Spaniard's Beard: Drake, Oxenham, and Richard Hawkyns on the Pacific Coast of America, English and Spanish Accounts

Jan Drent, RCN (Rtd), Marine Historian, Victoria
The Trans-Pacific Shuttle in World War II

Ed Geisecke, Maritime Historian, Olympia, Washington
The Tragedy of the Settlement Ship Tonquin of 1811:  Where, Who and Why?

Robert King, Marine Historian, Canberra, Australia
Heinrich Zimmermann and the proposed voyage of the Imperila and Royal Sloop Cobenzell to the Northwest Coast in 1782-1783

Dr. Chris Madsen, Canadian Forces College
Industrial New Westminster's Contribution to the Naval War in World War II

Dr. Don MacGillivray, University of Cape Breton
Cape Bretoners in the Victoria sealing fleet, 1883-1910

Dr. Ken Mackenzie, Maritime and Transportation Historian, Saltspring Island , BC
If you build it, they will come: Inter-port rivalry on the Pacific Coast, 1913-2009

Dr Richard Mayne, Naval Historian, Department of National Defence, Ottawa
"For God's sake Help" HMCS Galiano and life in Canada's First World War Pacific Navy

Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle.
Young America on the Pacific: John Drinkhouse and the USS Decatur, 1855-1856

Thomas McCulloch, former Senior Hydrographer, CHS, Victoria, BC
Hydrographic surveying and charting and its impact on the history of the coast of British Columbia: a Very Personal Account in a Proper Historical Perspective

Jonathon Parkinson, Naval Historian, Johannesburg, South Africa
Vice Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper: as a Captain on the Northwest Coast of America and flying his flag in China/Japan

Dr. James Pritchard, Queens University
The Russian Connection, A Transpacific Enterprise; Canadian Aid, Ship Repairing and the Soviet Far Eastern Merchant Fleet, 1941-1945

Rob Rondeau, Underwater Diver and Marine Archaeologist, Calgary, AB
The Mysterious Tragedy of HMS Condor, December 1901

Edward von der Porten, Naval Historian and Marine Archaeologist, California
Francis Drake in California 1579