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Spring 2014 ARGONAUTA ARGONAUTA The Newsletter of The Canadian Nautical Research Society / Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique Volume XXXI Number 2 Spring 2014 ARGONAUTA Founded 1984 by Kenneth MacKenzie ISSN No. 2291-5427 Editors Isabel Campbell and Colleen McKee Jean Martin ~ French Editor Winston (Kip) Scoville ~ Production/Distribution Manager Argonauta Editorial Office c/o Isabel Campbell 2067 Alta Vista Dr. Ottawa ON K1H 7L4 e-mail submissions to: [email protected] or [email protected] ARGONAUTA is published four times a year—Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn Executive Officers President: Maurice Smith, Kingston Past President: Paul Adamthwaite, Picton 1st Vice President: Chris Madsen, Toronto 2nd Vice President: Roger Sarty, Kitchener Treasurer: Errolyn Humphreys, Ottawa Secretary: Rob Davison, Waterloo Membership Secretary: Faye Kert, Ottawa Councillor: Chris Bell, Halifax Councillor: Isabel Campbell, Ottawa Councillor: Richard O. Mayne, Winnipeg Councillor: Barbara Winters, Ottawa Membership Business: 200 Fifth Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 2N2, Canada e-mail: [email protected] Annual Membership including four issues of ARGONAUTA and four issues of THE NORTHERN MARINER/LE MARIN DU NORD: Within Canada: Individuals, $70.00; Institutions, $95.00; Students, $25.00 International: Individuals, $80.00; Institutions, $105.00; Students, $35.00 Our Website: http://www.cnrs-scrn.org Copyright © CNRS/SCRN and all original copyright holders In this issue of the Argonauta Editorial 1 President’s Corner 3 NASOH, CNRS, NMHS 2014 Joint Conference, Erie Maritime Museum – Presentation Abstracts 5 Notes for a speech to the Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War at St Jean Collège militaire royal de St Jean, near Iberville, October 21st, 1977 42 Obituary—Robin Harvey Wyllie 51 Call for Papers Second Mediterranean Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Humanities 53 Announcements 54 Owen Sound and Marine Rail Museum The Edward S. Miller Research Fellowship in Naval History. RMS Empress of Ireland Exhibition Opens at Museum of Canadian History New Book Announcement Disparus en Mer 56 Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting of the CNRS/SCRN at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario, Saturday, 8 March 2014. 57 Financial Highlights 2013 63 Income Statement 64 Balance Sheet 65 Registration Form 66 Editorial by Isabel Campbell / Colleen McKee This May, many Canadian Nautical Research Society members met with their North American Society for Oceanic History counterparts at the joint conference at the Erie Maritime Museum from 14 to 17 May. Those who were unable to attend will enjoy reading the conference summaries which appear in these pages. The large number of outstanding papers on wide ranging topics was impressive and included papers from students as well as renowned scholars in the field. Congratulations to the conference organizers for a job well done. Please note the Executive minutes from 8 March 2014 along with financial high- lights for 2013. We are happy to announce that William Glover has kindly agreed to re- place Roger Sarty as the editor of The Northern Mariner some time in 2015. Our mem- bers will have noted the high quality of the articles and book reviews in the latest dou- ble issue of The Northern Mariner/Le Marine du Nord. We hope our members and other scholars will contribute original substantive articles of this calibre for future issues. If you are not a member of CNRS and you are reading this editorial, please consider join- ing our organization and supporting its broad mandate to promote Canadian nautical research. A membership form appears on the last page and is also available on our website. Donations are also welcome. Members are invited to the Annual General Meeting. If you did not get your invita- tion, please contact Winston ([email protected]) to ensure your e-mail address is accurate and up-to-date. The CNRS by-laws are available for downloading at the CNRS website. Anyone interested in by-law revision should contact one of the Executive members for further information. We hope that you will feel free to send us your views – on web-publishing, social media, future conference themes and locations, archives, museums, and access to information, or just let us know about the research you are currently undertaking. If you’ve recently published something, do let us know. Argonauta is your newsletter and we want your contributions. In this issue, Alec Douglas contributed an introduction to and a copy of a speech by Louis Audette. Douglas, who established the official history programme for the Royal Canadian Navy and other naval historians of his generation, saw Audette as a Canadian icon, at least in part because of his role in the Mainguy Commission. Our readers may recall Roger Sarty’s obituary of Audette from the April 1995 Argonauta which contains more details on Audette’s patrician lineage and his many contributions to Canada. Audette’s bilingual speech traces the importance of Canada’s French and English naval heritage and traditions and reminds us all of how much has changed in Canada and in the field of maritime history. 1 Argonauta Spring 2014 ~ www.cnrs-scrn.org We also are saddened by the passing of Robin Harvey Wyllie and grateful to C. Douglas Maginley who has kindly provided us with an obituary. Finally, we enclose Maurice Smith’s last report as President. We owe Maurice many thanks for his long days at the helm of CNRS and also for his support of Argonauta. Members will con- tinue to benefit from Maurice’s kindly words of wisdom. Safe travels to all and hoping to hear from you in our future issues, Isabel Campbell and Colleen McKee Be sure to stop by and Like the CNRS/SCRN facebook page 2 Argonauta Spring 2014 ~ www.cnrs-scrn.org President’s Corner by Maurice D. Smith After sailing for some fifteen years throughout the Great Lakes and at sea I finally got a shore job; initially as the project manager for the renovation and the restoration of shipyard buildings in what became the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes. For me it was a natural transition. In the maritime museum world, many of our best curators have moved from the professional mariner status into curatorship because we can combine practical sailing experience with the academic literature. I had to build a collection. For- tunately, after the 1978 conference of the International Congress of Maritime Museums at Mystic Seaport Connecticut, I found models; I hate the time-wasting business of re- inventing the wheel. The models were the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich and Mystic. They take a vertically integrated approach to collections development; arti- facts, library, pictorial and archives. From these four sources of knowledge, they create exhibitions, publish research and develop outreach programmes. I discovered very quickly that a museum of artifacts only, is brain dead. In our material culture, three di- mensional objects cannot stand alone. The world of academics has its own arcane rituals but so does that of the curator and I am about to confess one of our deepest, darkest secrets. When asked by a friend, “what are you reading these days” I responded, “endnotes”. All he said was, “weird”. In building a collection it is important to be familiar with the academic literature and that means reading the published work of cultural and maritime historians and museologists, including footnotes and bibliographies. Why? It is an attempt to stay ahead of the curve, to get a sense of where studies are leading, and from that to exploit the full potential of the museum holdings for researchers and for exhibit development. Naturally, it does not work as easily as that, especially when confronted by the massive work of a N.A.M. Roger or Roger Knight (I was defeated). Historians come in many flavours. Not to be forgotten is Fredrick William Wallace, (our first Canadian mari- time historian) Lubbock, Panting, Fischer, Boyce, Greenhill, Pritchard, Gough, Under- hill, Harland, Milner, McGregor and Douglas (he made things happen), the list is long (apologies to those I missed). Not to be forgotten is the work of dedicated historians who focus on regions and communities and those who write historical fiction. They help to bring readers on-side. Even the smallest and most parochial of provincial museum collections are influ- enced by international developments. When a copy of Maritime History as World His- tory fell into my hands it was simply confirmation of what those of us who concentrate 3 Argonauta Spring 2014 ~ www.cnrs-scrn.org on commercial shipping have always known and what is summed up by the blurb, “seafaring has been the primary catalyst of much of world history”. Too modest a state- ment but I will go with it. “Times they are a changing”. I believe there is a resurgence of interest in mari- time history, from many disciplines and from many backgrounds. This is my last President’s Report. It has been an honour and mostly fun. And to all who make the CNRS possible, I say thank you. 4 Argonauta Spring 2014 ~ www.cnrs-scrn.org NASOH, CNRS, NMHS 2014 Joint Conference Erie Maritime Museum – Presentation Abstracts C.C.1 and C.C.2 Centenary Celebrations: Acquiring Canada’s First Submarines from the United States on the Eve of the Great War. ABSTRACT: Delivered under the cover of darkness, two submarines hove to in the harbour of Esquimalt, British Columbia, quietly announcing the birth of the Canadian Submarine Service. Between 26 July 1914 and 4 August 1914, the agent of an Ameri- can shipyard and those working at the behest of Premier Sir Richard McBride of British Columbia negotiated and came to terms for the purchase of the two submarines that would be the first boats in the Canadian Submarine Service.
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