The following successful applicants were awarded grants totalling $32,843.58 from the Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies, February 2012:

Proposal Applicant(s) Support for National Symposium at the Frost Centre Professor Julia Harrison and Dr. Susan for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies: Ashley Diverse Spaces: examining identity, community and Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and citizenship within Canadian public culture Indigenous Studies Traill College Trent University Postdoctoral Research Support: Dr. Susan Ashley Museum-making: ‘New’ Canadians re-imagine Postdoctoral Fellow heritage and citizenship Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Traill College Trent University Support for Research Phase of senior thesis: The Miss Cara Hernould Effects of Biochar in Crop Productivity in Ontario Soils: Ecological Restoration Joint (Trent-Fleming) Effects of quantity, source and form of application on a Degree-Diploma Student common cereal crop in Peterborough County Soils 136 Lock Street Peterborough, ON K9J 2Y4

Research Funding for 8th book, a monograph on Professor Robert Wright the Quebec referendum of 1995: The 1995 Quebec Dept. of History Referendum (Oshawa Campus) Trent University

Support Travel to conferences to disseminate Dr. Christine Cho research which examines an area of teacher School of Education and Professional education that is relatively unexamined, and also to Learning receive critical, peer review in preparation of articles Otonabee College 159 for submission in scholarly journals. Trent University Publication Support for a book entitled: Desiring Professor James Cosgrave Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Department of Sociology other Stately Pleasures Otonabee College Trent University Support for the 8th Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Ms. Julia Smith Student Conference in Canadian Studies entitled: Ph.D. Candidate Canada and the New World Order: The National Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Contexts of Global Change, March 9-10, 2012, Indigenous Studies Trent University Traill College Proposal Applicant(s) Trent University

Assistance with support for funding the contract of Professor Colin Coates, Director, Robarts an Administrative Assistant for the newly founded Centre for Canadian Studies, York University Canadian Studies Network – Réseau d’études and canadiennes (CSN-RÉC) Professor Juia Harrison, Director, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, Traill College, Trent University

Support for proposed book entitled Professor Shirley Williams and Dr. Rhonda People of Manitoulin Paulsen Indigenous Studies Program Gzowski College Trent University Assistance with the final production of an edited Professor Emeritus Alan Brunger and collection of illustrated essays centered on the (Geography) ecological region of Southern Ontario known as Professor Emeritus, John Wadland The Land Between (Canadian Studies) Department of Geography ESB Trent University Assistance with research travel and Dr. Laura McKinnon accommodation re postdoctoral research entitled: Department of Biology Optimizing breeding phenology in a changing Life and Health Sciences Bldg. arctic environment Block D 2140 East Bank Drive Trent University Operating costs for the Symons Seminar Series on Ms. Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman and Erin Koen Graduate Student Research, 2011-2012 Coordinators for the Thomas H. B. Symons Seminar Series Traill College, P.O. Box 326 Trent University

Support for the 2nd Annual Northern Studies 2nd Annual Northern Studies Student Student Colloquium Colloquium Organizing Committee C/O Ms. Meghan Buckham, Arts Chair and M.A. Candidate Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Proposal Applicant(s) Traill College

Support for analysis of faunal remains recovered Professor Helen Haines during the August 2011 excavation at Henry Department of Anthropology (Oshawa) House, Oshawa, Ontario Life & Health Sciences Bldg. Trent University

Support for research project: Biting insects I the Professor James Schaefer boreal forest of northern Ontario – implications for Department of Biology woodland caribou Life & Health Sciences Bldg. Trent University

Support for 2nd phase of a pilot project entitled: Professor Miriam Davidson Fair time, Festival Days: Digital Stories from the Coordinator of Integrated Arts Agricultural Fairs of Ontario School of Education and Professional Learning Otonabee College Trent University Support for a series of events that will encourage Ms. Aimee Blyth discourse surrounding and inquiry into Seasoned Spoon Coordinator contemporary food issues, community Champlain College development, and youth engagement Trent University