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Coast High Country Inn Whitehorse, Yukon 9-12 May 2016 Welcome Visitors and Locals As We Embark on an Exciting Week of Discovery Coast High Country Inn Whitehorse, Yukon 9-12 May 2016 Welcome visitors and locals as we embark on an exciting week of discovery. Together, we will explore a relatively unknown chapter of Yukon and Canadian history—the First World War. Over the next week our Conference Committee hopes that you will leave feeling inspired and enlightened by the stories revealed through discussions led by our diverse speaker series, uniquely designed events, and good old Northern hospitality! CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE NORTHERNVISION D EVELOP MENT LP Monday, May 9th Full day workshop: Proud Sponsor of the North Cultural Organizations and Traumatic Events & First World War Conference 10:00–16:00 Yukon Transportation Museum 30 Electra Crescent, Whitehorse Monday, May 9th Welcome Reception 19:00–21:00 MacBride Museum 1124 1st Ave, Whitehorse View of Northern Vision’s Waterfront Place Properties Tuesday, May 10th The Yukon and the First World War Reception by Friends of the Archives 17:30–18:45 Roundhouse 1127 Front St, Whitehorse Ceremony of Remembrance: Yukon Fallen of WW1 19:00 Cenotaph, City Hall Thursday, May 12th Dawson to Berlin: A Romanian Love Story 19:00–22:00 Prime Commercial/Retail • Office Space • Hotels & Hospitality Coast High Country Inn Industrial Area Lands • Buy, Lease or Build to Suit Convention Centre For more information contact: Adam Gerle, VP Marketing & Sales [email protected] | www.nvdlp.com | (867) 333-9886 Featuring: Grant Hartwick, Dale Cooper, Shauna Jones, Grant Simpson, Steve Slade, the Frantic Follies Dancers and the Roma The Gold Standard in Hospitality Swing Ensemble! Produced by JaS Varieties Friday–Sunday Dawson City Study Tour May 13th–15th Welcome dinner on 13th May 2 nights’ accommodation yukonhotels.com Tours to local sites including Jack London and Robert Service cabins, Dredge No. 4, Bear Creek and Dawson City Museum. EDGEWATER HOTEL Roundtrip from Whitehorse: Depart 09:00, 13th May Return 19:00, 15th May W ELCOME Conference Partners On behalf of the Yukon Historical & Museums Association, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the North and First World War Conference. We are pleased to be able to share and present this wonderful and thought-provoking collection of presentations from local experts, historians and academics Sally Robinson from across Canada, the U.S. and Trailblazer sponsor: overseas. We welcome visitors to the territory and hope you enjoy our warm northern hospitality and everything the Yukon has to offer! Connector sponsors: Sally Robinson, President Yukon Historical & Museums Association A warm welcome to our visitors, special thanks to our media partner: speakers and local guests! It seems like not long ago this conference was simply a vision and now we are gathered in Whitehorse with an incredible opportunity to discover a new chapter in Northern history. We hope that this week will Dr. Brent Slobodin encourage future dialogue, opportunity, growth, education and continued friendships from around Messenger sponsors: the globe. Thank you for your Yukon Chamber of Mines participation and we hope you enjoy White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad the journey! Piers McDonald Community partners: Dr. Brent Slobodin and Klondike Visitors Centre Dr. Kenneth Coates Parks Canada Conference co-chairs Dr. Kenneth Coates Royal Canadian Legion Yukon Public Archives Miles Canyon Historical Railway Society 2 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS Maureen Atkinson is a Canadian Ross Coen is a PhD candidate historian and researcher who has in history at the University of been teaching and working in Washington where he researches Northwest BC for the past 25 years. the social, political, and Atkinson graduated from environmental history of the Arctic UNBC (2002) and Athabasca and the North American West. University MA(IS) (2008) and has taught at NWCC and UNBC Maureen Atkinson, MA as a sessional instructor. Ross Coen PhD candidate, University of Waterloo PhD candidate, University of Washington Atkinson’s research is based on audio Northern voices of the Great war: Personal Fish is a Fighting Food: North American Canned perspectives and narratives from Northern historical sources and the voices of Salmon and the First World War British Columbians northern Canadians from diverse Thursday, 12th May, 9:45–10:30 Wendesday, 11th May, 9:00–9:45 backgrounds in the post war period. In her three books and more Dr. Terrence M. Cole directs the than ninety scholarly studies and University of Alaska Fairbanks articles, Crina Bud addresses Office of Public History and is themes such as literature and Professor of History and Arctic totalitarianism, politics of translation, and Northern Studies. the relationship between the Cole has written many articles literary history and the cultural and five books about Alaskan history, and critical perspectives history, and is a frequent guest of Romanian culture abroad. Dr. Crina Bud Dr. Terrence M. Cole lecturer at public conferences and Lector of Romanian Language and Culture, Professor of History, University of Alaska Fairbanks schools ranging from kindergarten York University Wings of Sikta Spruce: Alaskan Airplane Lumber classes to an Elder Hostel and Negotating Romania’s Destiny During WWI: An in the Great War Analysis of Joe Boyle’s Diplomatic Strategy Tuesday, 10th May, 14:15–15:00 everything in between. Thursday, 12th May, 11:30–12:15 Raised in the Yukon, Ken Coates Sarah Cook is an archivist at has made a life-long commitment Library and Archives Canada. She to northern and Yukon studies. has worked in various aspects Coates has written extensively on of the archival profession at northern history, including Best Left Library and Archives Canada as Indians: Indian-White Relations since 1999, from acquisition and in the Yukon, Canada’s Colonies: A selection to how we make this History of the Yukon and Northwest content available to researchers Dr. Ken Coates Territories, and North to Alaska. through descriptive standards, Sarah Cook Yukon historian, University of Saskatchewan. Ken research tools, reference inquiries, Archivist, Libraries and Archives Canada is currently the Canada Research Chair in Regional With his long-term writing partner, digitization and web products. Filming the “Northern Front” during the First Innovation and Director of the International Centre Bill Morrison, he published The World War: The Use of Government Film to for Northern Governance and Development at the Cook has published and given Document the Canadian Arctic Expedition University of Saskatchewan. Alaska Highway in World War II, Wendesday, 11th May, 9:45–10:30 The Sinking of the Princess Sophia, scholarly papers in the fields of The Yukon and the Social Revolution of government film and archival World War I and many other works. Bill and Tuesday, 10th May, 11:30–12:15 Ken are currently working on a description as well as curated web book on the Klondike discovery. exhibitions related to Canadian film. 4 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS Tim Cook is an Adjunct Research A former director of the Dawson City Professor at Carleton University Museum, Kathy was a correspondent and a former director for Canada’s for CBC Radio, the Whitehorse History Society. He was the curator Star, and the Yukon News, before for the First World War permanent co-founding and co-editing two gallery at the CWM, and has curated newspapers. She continues to temporary, traveling, and digital provide editing and research service, exhibitions. most recently for the book on Yukon sports, and is currently developing Dr. Tim Cook Cook is the author of eight critically Kathy Gates Historian, Canadian War Museum acclaimed books. He received the a biography of George Black. Yukon Historical Researcher Canada and the First World War: A Perspective Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal Martha Black and the War Tuesday, 10th May, 9:00–9:45 Wendesday, 11th May, 15:15–16:00 for his contributions to Canadian history and is a member of the Order of Canada. Prof. Ted Cowan was the Director Michael Gates has worked in the of Glasgow's Crichton Campus, cultural resource field for more Dumfries (2004-2009) and has held than forty years. He was Curator positions in Scottish History and of Collections for Parks Canada in Literature (University of Glasgow), Dawson City for twenty of them. History and Scottish Studies Gates has published numerous (University of Guelph) and Scottish technical papers on museology History (Edinburgh University). and cultural resource management, Research interest: Vikings, Scottish Prof. Ted Cowan Michael Gates, MA hundreds of articles, and four books Wars of Independence, Covenanting Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Consultant and author on Yukon History. Literature, University of Glasgow History and Political Thought, From Yukon to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I Wendesday, 11th May, 13:30–14:15 Research interests: Yukon history, Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish From the Yukon to Hell: Robert Service’s Poetry of World War 1 material culture history, oral history. Emigration (especially to Canada). Thursday, 12th May, 10:45–11:30 The story of Klondike Joe Boyle Nicholas Gillen was born and captured Max Fraser’s imagination raised in Whitehorse, Yukon and more than five years ago. This Yukon is a recent graduate from Saint film producer is currently working Francis Xavier University with a towards a documentary series about Bachelor of Arts with Honours. Nick Joe’s WW1 exploits, and a feature specializes in Modern European film about Joe's romance with Marie. History with particular focus on the First World War. He recently completed his senior honours thesis Max Fraser Nick Gillen Film Maker on trench culture in Britain and St. Francis-Xavier University Celebrating Yukon Heroes of the Germany and is looking to attend Militarism, Masculinity, and Memorialization: First World War graduate school in the fall of 2016 Trench Culture in Great Britain and Germany Wendesday, 11th May, 16:00–16:45 to expand his research on German Thursday, 12th May, 13:30–14:15 Memorialization of the Great War.
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