SPRING 2004 CANADIANCANADIAN STUDIESSTUDIES CENTERCENTER

CANADIAN STUDIES CENTER, HENRY M. JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER OF CANADIAN STUDIES

VISITING QUÉBEC SCHOLAR GRANT AWARDED TO UW AND WWU The Visiting Québec Scholar position, established in 2004, represents a partnership between Western Washington University (WWU), the University of Washington (UW), and the Québec Ministry of International Affairs Delegation in Los Angeles. The purpose of this position is to expand the study of Québec in key areas of environmental policy, energy issues, and native affairs. The scholar will be a part of the UW/WWU academic community and will teach specialized courses and develop a professional relationship with faculty and students engaged in research in the field of Canadian/Québec Studies. The holder of this position will participate in activities such as symposia and colloquia and be available to give public lectures in the Dr. Jean Rousseau (seated), a political scientist currently researching energy and environmental Bellingham and Seattle areas. The scholar issues in Québec’s north, will be the first Québec Visiting Scholar for the 2004-05 academic year. will also help to broaden the scope of the During a recent trip to the UW Rousseau met with Canadian Studies affiliated faculty and students. From left: Maria Fannin, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Geography; Natalie Debray, Canadian studies outreach programs at our doctoral candidate, Communications; Dr. Louisa Mackenzie, French Department; and Thomas Grillot, two universities and open a new dialogue TA and graduate student, French Department. with the academic community in Québec. The Québec Scholar position will Québec Studies in the environnement, développement et substantially enrich and expand the work of through collaborative teaching, research, société, Université Laval in Québec City. the UW/WWU joint Canadian studies and public outreach to the region. In In May 2004 Rousseau visited UW, WWU consortium in the Pacific Northwest. addition to these benefits, the position will and Seattle University where he gave Québec is a society that occupies a unique serve as a catalyst to build student and lectures on “Contemporary Social place in and North America and is a faculty exchange programs between the Movements in Québec” and the politics center of international expertise in several Pacific Northwest and Québec. Finally, the of hydro-electric development in the strategic areas. Among the most important Visiting Québec Scholar will play a key role James Bay region of Québec and met of these areas are environmental and in assisting with the further development with graduate students, faculty and energy issues where Québec public policy of our library resources in the areas of administrators. In the 2004/05 academic experts, academics, and citizen groups are environment, energy, and native affairs. year, Rousseau will teach two engaged in high profile research and policy The first Québec Scholar for the 2004- undergraduate courses – Environmental work. The Visiting Québec Scholar Grant 05 academic year is a political scientist, Dr. Issues and Aboriginal Peoples in Québec presents an important opportunity to enrich Jean Rousseau. Rousseau is a researcher and Canada’s North, and Globalization and with the Institut Hydro-Québec en the Environment.

Letter from Director/ Library Notes...... 6 inside: Assistant Director...... 2 Academic Program ...... 7 Douglas Jackson Scholarship ...... 3 Academic Conferences ...... 8 News from WWU ...... 3 FLAS Awardees & Student News ..... 10 Welcome New & Visiting Faculty ... 4 Business & Community News from Faculty/Staff ...... 5 Programming ...... 11 LETTER FROM LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR THE ASSISTANT BY KIM ENGLAND, DIRECTOR CANADIAN STUDIES CENTER DIRECTOR BY NADINE FABBI, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Dear Friends, CANADIAN STUDIES CENTER It has been a very exciting (and Dear Canadian Studies Community, incredibly busy) year for the Canadian I often travel to Canada to visit family Studies Center. Since I last wrote to you (this is “Ben-Ben” – 11th in a long line of “harm reduction” approach that is being so many great things have happened. In great-nieces and nephews) and each time I used to work with heroin addicts, which is October we co-sponsored a visit from am reminded of the importance of physically very different from the “war on drugs” being Naomi Klein, who spoke as part of our spending time in Canada in order to truly waged in the US.” Canada-US Relations in a New Security understand the differences between our two Comments like these further confirm the Environment lecture series, and attracted countries. Canada may not be an “exotic” commitment Kim and I have to increasing a huge audience. We have been hard at work creating foreign nation for Americans. However, in opportunities for international educational opportunities for language acquisition. We have order to gain a better understanding of our experiences to Canada. It is essential that been working with Professor Sue-Ellen Jacobs (Women’s Studies) own political structures, environmental Americans have an understanding of and the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe to sponsor a management policies, urban planning Canadian social structures and values in summer workshop on Ancient Voices/Modern Tools: Language and models, trade and business practices, etc. – order to respond in an informed manner to Tech-Knowledge. And we have become part of an emerging and in an international context – there is no issues that impact all of us as North network of Native Studies across Canada. Professor Stan DeMello better point of comparison than our neighbor Americans. We are very proud of the (Social Work) will represent the Center at an upcoming meeting to the North. increased Canada-US research, course of this network at a First Nations conference in Winnipeg. Over the last couple of quarters content, and publications that are coming In our last newsletter we announced a generous grant from Canadian Studies faculty have taken out of the UW. the Québec Government and last November Nadine, Don Alper advantage of our close proximity to Canada Kim and I also just launched the and I had the opportunity to meet Deputy Premier Monique to increase first-hand learning experiences Douglas Jackson Canadian Studies Gagnon-Tremblay in Portland and share with her our ideas about for our students. Dan Abramson (Urban Scholarship (see the opposite page) to the grant. And recently Dr. Jean Rousseau, the first Visiting Design), took 15 students to the University acknowledge Dr. Jackson’s role in Québec Scholar under the grant, visited UW and WWU. In April, of (UBC) in fall quarter to establishing Canadian Studies at the UW. along with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we hosted compare urban development practices in The scholarship will be used to encourage Ambassador Cresencio Arcos, Director, International Relations, ethnic communities between the two cities. undergraduates, from across all UW US Department of Homeland Security. Ambassador Arcos spoke During winter quarter 16 students in the disciplines, to write papers that are on Canadian-US security issues as part of the Jackson School’s Puget Sound/Georgia Basin tri-institutional comparative in content. International Updates Dinner/Lecture series. We have also been program with UBC and WWU benefited from Finally, as a governing board member of putting a lot of energy into developing stronger links with cross-border exchanges and research. the American Association for Canadian universities in . We are very excited about “Trans-boundary ecosystem management Studies in the US (ACSUS) and co-chair of developments with the University of , and we have also was by far one of the most valuable, this fall’s ACSUS-in-Canada colloquium – been extending and deepening our ongoing relationship with UBC. practically based classes of my college appropriately titled, “Converging and Last, but certainly not least, it has also been an exciting few experience,” said one participant. Diverging Canada-US Values” – I want to months because of the exceptional academic achievements And, Stan DeMello (Social Work) just encourage you to join our 1,000-plus among our affiliated faculty and graduate students. Professor created two new community-learning member ACSUS community and to attend Dorothy Paun (Forest Resources) received both a Faculty Research seminars in Canada. “It was great to see the the conference on 29-30 October in Grant from the Canadian Embassy, and was selected as the many social services that are offered in Vancouver, BC. Fulbright-Pacific Northwest Chair in Canada-US Trade. Professor Vancouver as compared to the States,” Shelly Lundberg (Economics) was appointed as the Cecil D. and wrote one of the students, “It was Have a wonderful summer, Jane C. Castor Professor in Economics. Ann Lesperance (Senior especially amazing to see the use of the Nadine Fabbi Research Scientist for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) was nominated into the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program. Maria Fannin (doctoral candidate, Geography) won an International Council for Canadian Studies Graduate Students Scholarship to pursue fieldwork in Québec. And Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse (doctoral candidate, Art History) was awarded a Canadian Embassy Graduate Student Fellowship. As always we thank our many supporters in the university, in Seattle and beyond.

Warmest wishes, Kim England

At the November 2003 Association for Canadian Studies in the US Conference in Portland, Director Kim England (far left); Don Alper, Director, Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University; and Assistant Director, Nadine Fabbi (far right) met with Québec's Deputy Premier, Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, to discuss the implementation of the 2 Visiting Québec Scholar Grant. DOUGLAS JACKSON CANADIAN STUDIES SCHOLARSHIP

This past fall, on the occasion of American values and policies. Three Professor Douglas Jackson’s 80th awards will be offered – in business and 2003-04 DONORS birthday, the Center launched a trade, in the arts and humanities, and in We want to thank the following donors scholarship in his name and to honor his urban planning, fisheries management, for helping to make a difference in the founding of the Canadian Studies Center architecture, health sciences, etc. lives of students by encouraging and years of service to both the Center Kim and Nadine thought this international exploration and study: and University. Originally from Toronto, scholarship was an appropriate way to both and a graduate of Victoria College, acknowledge and continue Doug’s long Jere Bacharach University of Toronto – from where other time commitment to encouraging students Herbert & Karen Berry well-known such as Margaret across the UW campus to conduct their Michael & Julie Bittner Atwood and Robert Bateman hailed – studies through an international Doug came to the UW in 1955 where he perspective, and particularly through Kathleen Braden had a joint appointment in the comparisons with Canada. If you would Linda Di Biase, in memory of Winifred Jones Popp Department of Geography and the Far like to join us in this venture and become Kim England Eastern and Russian Institute. part of our growing community of donors Nadine Fabbi The Douglas Jackson Canadian to the Douglas Jackson Canadian Studies Douglas K. Fleming Studies Scholarship will be implemented Scholarship, please write a check payable Beth Janis in the 2004-05 academic year to to the “University of Washington” and Richard Johnson recognize undergraduate students for send it to the Canadian Studies Center excellence in writing and for research on (see return address on back cover). In the Richard & Teresa Jones Canadian topics. Students will be memo line please write ‘Doug Jackson George & Kayoko Kakiuchi encouraged to pursue research that Scholarship.’ Absolutely no donation is too Irene Landry Kelso compares and contrasts Canadian and small – every dollar helps. Lynn Klausenburger George & Joanne MacDonald Professor Douglas Jackson has intro- Cynthia & Mitch McGowan duced hundreds of Robert & Marilyn Monahan students to Canadian history, politics and Peter Haynes Meserve values during his many Dvorah Oppenheimer years of tenure at the University of Washing- Karl & Geri Potter ton. Here Dr. Jackson Mary Pullen accompanies UW students to an Carol Rush international Mitchell Stern conference on the Canada-US border Michael & Linda Talbott where topics such as Elsie M. Taylor immigration, trade and security were Joan M. Whiley addressed.

NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR CANADIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

BY DON ALPER, DIRECTOR In the cultural area, Western’s Visiting CENTER FOR CANADIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WWU Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture, Lee Given recent Canada-US events, one could Maracle, directed “Stepping into the Future,” a easily assume that Americans’ interest in Canada festival of First Nations and Native American Paul Storer, Associate can be boiled down to border security, mad cows improvisational theater, and dance in Professor of Economics, has and sick chickens, and Canadians’ preachiness November. The program, which drew performers been honored with an about the US war in Iraq. Of course this would be Excellence in Teaching from Toronto to Honolulu, staged a celebration of Award at WWU. A Canadian missing the mark. Just a snapshot of recent the transition of First Peoples’ culture from specialist, Dr. Storer activities at the Center for Canadian-American traditional settings to the genres and media of teaches the Canadian Studies at Western Washington University reveals Economy and Introduction to modern life. The 2-day program included a Canadian Studies courses. the complexity and richness of a growing symposium on cultural interaction between Native academic field. continues on page 9 3 WELCOME NEW & VISITING FACULTY The Center would like to welcome three new faculty to its growing list of affiliates – Branden Born, recently hired in Urban Planning and Design and who is working on the GreenHeart Project (a project dealing with the heart of the emerging Seattle–Vancouver, BC metropolis); John Delaney, internationally-known for his research and directorship of the joint Canada-US multimillion-dollar NEPTUNE project; and Greg Shelton, Assistant Director, Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies. The Center is also fortunate to host two Visiting Scholars - Lisa Philips Valentine, a linguistic anthropologist and Allan McDougall, a political scientist, both from the University of Western . Welcome New Affiliates and Visiting Faculty!

Branden Born is an scientist on 20 oceanographic research how the imposition of the Canada/United Assistant Professor cruises, many of which have used the States border impacted local in the department Deep Submergence Vehicle ALVIN. In the communities in two contested regions, of Urban Design summer of 1998, Delaney led a joint the southern Great Lakes and the Oregon and Planning. expedition with the American Museum of Territory. UW and the Center is their base He completed his Natural History to successfully recover while they are working on the western doctoral studies at four volcanic sulfide structures from the aspect of their project. The research team the University of Ridge. This US/Canadian effort was the also includes an historian, Douglas Wisconsin, where he studied the ability subject of a NOVA/PBS documentary. Leighton, from Huron University and of collaborative planning models to effect Other activities and honors include Daniel Boxberger, chair of the socially just planning projects. His current being named a Fellow of the American Department of Anthropology, at Western research interests include planning Geophysical Union in 1995; co- Washington University. Together they are process and social justice, particularly development and launch of REVEL, a tracing the minutiae of community with regard to the inclusion of program that provides middle- and high- transformations when the border was marginalized populations in societal school teachers with opportunities to imposed and as it was subsequently decision-making; land use planning and participate in sea-going research; and constructed for political and identity regionalism; and urban food systems. serving on the NASA committee planning reasons by those in power on the other He is working with faculty from Western a mission to the icy moons of Jupiter. side of the line. Washington University and the University Delaney was profiled recently in the of British Columbia on a regional planning February 6, 2004 issue of Science initiative, called GreenHeart after a similar magazine. region in the Netherlands, that focuses on smart land use, quality of life, and Greg Shelton is a efficient governance. lecturer and assistant director of the Global John Delaney Trade, Transportation is a Professor of and Logistics Studies Oceanography at (GTTL) Graduate the UW and serves Certificate program. as Director of the He has more than 20 NEPTUNE ocean years of instructional, observatory research, analytical and technical program. This joint experience, gained through experience in US/Canadian project large and small organizations in both is developing a 3,000-km cabled public and private sectors, domestically observatory that will be installed off and internationally. His interests in the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and Canadian studies lie in cross-border trade British Columbia. Delaney earned his and security issues. PhD in geology at the University of Lisa Valentine and Allan McDougall (seated), Arizona and joined the University of Lisa Philips Valentine, a linguistic presented a paper entitled, “Fussing about the Washington School of Oceanography anthropologist and Allan McDougall, a Border: Forging National Identities,” at the faculty in 1977. He won the School’s political scientist, are the Center’s Visiting annual Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) meeting in Vancouver, Teaching Award in 1980 and the Faculty from the University of Western BC in February 2004. Reverend Michael Distinguished Research Award in 1991. Ontario in the 2003-04 academic year. Treleaven, SJ (standing), political scientist at He was a visiting scientist at the Lunar Lisa is an expert on the Ojibwe and First Gonzaga University, is Executive Director of the PNWCSC. and Planetary Institute and Johnson Nation/State relations while Allan teaches Space Center from 1977 to 1980. regionalism and comparative provincial As a marine geologist, his research politics in Canada. They are in Washington focuses on the deep-sea vulcanism of the historical research on a three- Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeast year grant from the Social Sciences and Pacific Ocean. He has served as chief Humanities Research Council to compare

4 NEWS FROM OUR FACULTY & CENTER STAFF The Center has over 70 affiliated faculty that serve many of the University’s 17 schools and colleges. Over the past two quarters, two Canadian Studies affiliates – Dorothy Paun (School of Forest Resources) and Ann Lesperance (Adjunct Faculty, Program on the Environment) – received Fulbright awards. In addition, Center director, Kim England, received a Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant. Congratulations all!

In January 2004, students in Assistant books in March 2004. It was Professor Dan Abramson’s course, also on Barnes & Noble best “Interpreting the Urban Environment: sellers list for biographies in Methods of Design and Socio-Spatial November 2003. Inquiry,” (Department of Urban Design and Planning), and students in the Kim England, Director, Dorothy Paun (front, center) and her graduate students in “Finance and Accounting from a Forest Products Perspective” course where students University of British Columbia’s urban Canadian Studies Center, conduct and publish a comparative performance review of the paper design studio led by Assistant Professor received a Faculty industry in Canada and the US. Michael Larice, undertook an exchange, Enrichment Grant from the “The Preservation and Revitalization of Canadian Embassy to create Chinatown (International District) in a new geography course FULBRIGHT Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA.” The entitled, “Geographies of highlight of the exchange was a two-day Difference: Social Identities DISTINGUISHED workshop in Vancouver’s Chinatown and Space in Continental hosted by City of Vancouver planner Ms. and Global Perspective.” CHAIR AWARDED TO Jessica Chen-Adams and Chinatown The new course will be a Revitalization Committee member Mr. comparison of Canada and DOROTHY PAUN Fred Mah, and attended also by the United States around Dr. Dorothy Paun has been a visiting professor at community members from both issues of the geographies of Bocconi University in Italy and the Helsinki School Vancouver’s and Seattle’s Chinatowns. social identities (e.g. ‘race’/ of Economics and Business Administration in Participants compared the physical, ethnicity, gender, class, Finland. She has won the Academy of Marketing social, historical and policy contexts for sexuality, disabilities, Science’s Alpha Kappa PSI Research Award for planning in the two neighborhoods, and national identities, and age). negotiated pricing strategies in international brainstormed strategies for improvement. Also, two of England's countertrade. She has been an acting associate articles were published on dean, consultant for Seattle businesses, and, prior Former workplace equity in Canada. to her academic career, was a stockbroker and vice Director One paper focuses on president at Shearson/American Express where she of the women, the other on received the President’s Club Award. Canadian disabilities. Studies College of Forest Resources’ Associate Center and Nadine Fabbi, Assistant Professor Dorothy Paun has received a 2004-2005 Chair of the Director of the Center, was Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award, given to senior Canadian elected Vice-President of scholars that have a significant publication and Studies the Canada-America teaching record. This award is one of the most BA program, Society, Seattle this winter. prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Dr. Anthony In fall and winter quarters Program. She’ll be conducting collaborative research B. Chan Nadine served as an with Canadian professors on a study entitled: recently educational consultant for “Working Together: An Empirical Investigation of lectured at the Vancouver Public Library the first Canadian Business-to-Business Relationships in the Canadian for the inaugural of Asian Heritage Month educational videos produced and U.S. Forest Products Industry.” She will examine in Vancouver. His lecture was on the life by the Schlessinger Video how trust, dependency, contracting, and uncertainty and times of Anna May Wong, the first Company. These videos are influences relationship satisfaction and business Chinese American film star. Chan now available to American performance. Last autumn Dr. Paun was also published the first biography of Anna May educators across the awarded a Canadian Studies Research Grant from Wong in October 2003. Perpetually Cool: country. To obtain a the Canadian Embassy. The funding will be used for The Many Lives of Anna May Wong copy of these videos, research on marketing channels in Canada and the (1905-1961), published by Rowman & call Schlessinger at U.S. In addition to her marketing-focused research, Littlefield’s Scarecrow Press. It made the 1-800-843-3620. each year Paun and her graduate students conduct Seattle Times best seller’s list for Cinema and publish a financial performance analysis of the continues on page 6 North American paper industry. 5 News from our Faculty & Center Staff, continued from page 5 LIBRARY NOTES The UW Canadian Studies collection is the Debra Glassman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Finance and largest in the Western U.S., comprising tens of Business Economics, Business School/Assistant Faculty Director, thousands of titles in print, microform, and digital Global Business Center, spent part of Winter Quarter 2004 teaching a formats. Linda Di Biase, Canadian Studies Librarian, class at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, BC. Glassman shares some historical treasures from this collection. taught “International Investing and Portfolio Management” in SFU’s Global Asset and Wealth Management MBA program. What do Jack London, Donald Trump, and the city of Edmonton have in common? They were all Sharon Hargus, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, profoundly affected by the Klondike Gold Rush of the just had a book on First Nations languages in Canada accepted for late 1890s. Jack London made his reputation writing publication by the University of British Columbia Press. The book, of his experiences in the . Donald Trump’s entitled Witsuwit’en Grammar: Phonology and Morphology, is a grandfather earned his fortune running a restaurant description of Witsuwit’en, an endangered language. There are less and hotel in British Columbia along the Chilkoot trail. than 200 native speakers remaining of the Witsuwit’en dialect, And the city of Edmonton saw its population triple none of them younger than approximately age 50. owing to its location on the “back door” route to the Witsuwit’en is a language of the Athabaskan language family, which gold fields. has been a major focus of Professor Hargus’s research for the last 22 The Special Collections Division of the UW years. A publishing subvention has recently been approved by the Libraries has one of the world’s outstanding public Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. collections of rare materials on the Klondike Gold Rush. Besides books and other texts, the Division Richard Johnson, Professor, Department of History, continues to holds hundreds of photographs documenting the teach courses on colonial American history. He is currently giving an Klondike experience. An image from Special undergraduate seminar on “Comparative Empires in Early Modern Collections was chosen by the Canadian government North America” that includes study and comparison of Amerindian for its commemorative stamp issued for the Gold and French Canadian societies at the time of contact and first Rush centennial. colonization. The course makes use of the superb microform The images themselves can be viewed by collection of Canadiana in Suzzallo Library. students, teachers, and researchers and used for educational purposes. A good introduction to the Ann Lesperance is the faculty member Klondike images appears on the UW Libraries Digital that designed and teaches the course on Collections site at http://content.lib.washington.edu/ “Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Managing an GoldRush/index.html. The images themselves can be International Ecosystem.” Ann is a found by clicking researcher at the Pacific Northwest National on “Explore Laboratory (PNNL) where she is a senior Collections” at research scientist working in areas related the top of the to environment, health and security. Ann page and then was just elected to the Fulbright Senior selecting the Specialist program to further technical collaboration with Canadian “Alaska & the researchers. The Senior Specialists Program is supported by the J. Yukon” category William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, the Bureau of Education and on the left of the Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for screen. International Exchange of Scholars. Collections rich in Klondike material include Eric A. Hegg, Frank La Roche, William Meed, Linda Di Biase, UW Canadian and Henry M. Studies Librarian. Sarvant. It’s possible to do a keyword search across all collections to find images on the Klondike or on specific places, such as Dawson or the Chilkoot Trail. By clicking on a given image you can get descriptive information and links to a site for ordering reproductions.

Linda Di Biase Canadian Studies Librarian

6 ACADEMIC PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Each year the Center directs a portion of its US Department of Education Title VI funding toward faculty grants for the development of Canadian content courses. This allows the Center to build a strong academic program setting Canada in an international and interdisciplinary context. Below are two articles by Canadian Studies affiliated faculty – Charlotte Coté (American Indian Studies) and JW Harrington (Geography) – on the courses they developed this past year. FIRST NATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS – A NEW COURSE IN AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES Dr. Charlotte Coté is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Washington. In Winter Quarter 2004, Cote taught a new course, "First Nations Government and Politics." Here she discusses how she developed the course and its impact. BY CHARLOTTE COTÉ

I was very excited when I found out I hoped to accomplish two tasks. First I This course contributed to the UW received the funding through the Canadian wanted to provide students with a course offerings by providing a course that Studies Center to develop, “First Nations comprehensive understanding of First has never been taught at this university Government and Politics in Nations governments in before, making it unique and important. Canada” as I have wanted to Canada and the politics that Because I also teach courses on American teach a course such as this surround the decision-making Indian law, politics and government, I am for some time. My interest is of these tribal communities. able to provide students with a personal. I am First Nations Second, I wanted students to comprehensive understanding of tribal from Canada. I grew up in a be able to take this governments in both the US and in Canada. very politically-minded family knowledge and relate it to Most students were amazed at how and was aware at a very Native American governments different First Nations history is in Canada young age of the policies, here in the United States. from the history of Native Indians here in politics and laws that Most students, Indian and the US. Most students had the perception, impacted my Native non-Indian have a very limited as do most people in the US, that First community. My academic understanding of Canadian Nations were/are much better off than the education was fueled by this history, with even less Native Americans here in the US. The passion to learn and Charlotte Coté (top left) knowledge of First Nations students were quite surprised that First featured on the cover of the understand the complexities magazine Indigenous. history. This course provided Nations faced very similar federal policies around First Nations students with an and laws as Native Americans, and that governments and how they are positioned understanding of Canadian history as it they have had to continually challenge these within the Canadian State. relates to First Nations peoples and the policies and laws that undermined their In developing and teaching this course I development of First Nations governments. cultures, traditions and governments. CANADA-US TRADE – A REVISED COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY Professor Harrington, Chair of the Geography Department, currently teaches “Geography of International Trade: Focus on North America” (Geography 349) to 40 undergraduates in Geography and the Jackson School. BY JW HARRINGTON The Canada-US trade and investment from trade and the problems that develop their understanding of basic trade theory, relationship, especially over a historical from any particular set of institutional the complications we’ve discussed in class, perspective, provides fantastic empirical arrangements for trade. short-run versus long-run effects, and the material with which to illustrate trade In the course I asked my students to interconnections between one action and theories, trade policy, and the imagine a country that is geographically its various consequences? relationships between trade and large, resource rich (relative to its potential Some of the characterizations in this development at the national and trading partners), labor scarce, capital question should seem very familiar to any provincial/state scales. It’s also a vitally scarce, with low population density and students of Canada’s economic history. important relationship, and one with moderate GDP per capital. Their goal, as a This was the last essay question in this which UW students can readily identify. government legislator or executive, is to quarter’s mid-term exam in my course. What I have always loved about teaching maximize the country’s GDP per capita. After a series of straightforward this material is the very different And, their tool chest includes tariff and non- explications and definitions, I wanted the objectives that draw students to the tariff barriers, tax policies, immigration students to have fun with a question for course. Some are very concerned about policies, government investment, and which there is no ‘right’ answer. During international development, some have a monetary policy to influence currency the previous class meeting, students core interest in economic flows, and exchange rates. Policy alternatives include spent 25 minutes in small groups, others would like to make a living involved free trade, import substitution, export discussing a similar question, so I thought in international business. This basic promotion, encouragement of inward or they’d be primed for it. How did the course deals explicitly with all these outward foreign direct investment, and students react? Well, I’ve not yet graded issues, and I deliberately establish an sector-specific promotion. I then ask them the essays, but they were certainly atmosphere in which we see the benefits what measures they would propose, given engrossed in their writing! 7 ACADEMIC CONFERENCES The Center works with departments and schools across campus as well as local and national organizations to offer conferences dealing with a wide-range of topics that set Canada in an international and interdisciplinary context. Over the last two quarters the Center has been building linkages with the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences working closely with the School on international research initiatives. NET CAGE FISH FARMING: ABOUT MORE THAN FISH In Fall 2003 the Center sponsored a symposium on international fish farming that was aired on TVW, a Washington State public programming station, reaching millions of viewers. The symposium featured Eric Wickman, Executive Director of the Canadian Sablefish Association and author of Dead Fish and Fat Cats: A No-Nonsense Journey through Our Dysfunctional Fish Industry and Lynn Hunter from the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform in BC. Lynn Hunter has been working on the fish farming issue for over 12 years – since she was a Member of Canada’s Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Environment Committee. Hunter now works for the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) a British Columbia based group of concerned First Nation communities, science based environmental organizations, and fishermen. BY LYNN HUNTER, BC COORDINATOR, COASTAL ALLIANCE FOR AQUACULTURE REFORM

The following article is from Hunter's consequences for our oceans, for our presentation at the symposium co- economic self-sufficiency and our dream sponsored by the School of Aquatic and of reducing the disparity between the rich Fishery Sciences entitled, “Farming and poor. When big business offers Halibut and Sablefish: An Industry in solutions to small coastal communities the Wings or a Threat to Wild Stocks?” crippled by the collapse of wild fish and held at the UW campus in the stocks you can bet they are not motivated Fall of 2003. by altruism. Canadian federal support for the fish In fact, salmon farming has farming industry began in the mid-1980s contributed to the collapse of wild fish when industry representatives from the stocks. Net cage fish farming brings with major multinational corporations, that it habitat destruction, pollution, the Lynn Hunter, BC Coordinator, Coastal control the industry, met with staff from introduction of disease and parasites and Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, presented the Prime Minister’s Office. Five the depletion of global fish stocks. at the symposium on fish farming sponsored corporations control 80% of the farms on The groups within the Coastal Alliance by the Center and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. the BC coast – three companies from for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) have tried Norway, one company from the for many years to bring that message to efforts on the US marketplace as a means Netherlands, and one from Canada. our governments and to the fish farming of leveraging change within the fish farm While the fish farm industry in the US industry. Our concerns have been ignored industry and their government is relatively small, it is a major industry in and the industry is now poised to expand supporters. Canada. up the entire British Columbia coast. Fish farming is about more than fish. It Net cage fish farming of carnivorous For that reason, in October 2002, is about the transfer of public resources fish like salmon and sablefish is CAAR launched a campaign to educate to private corporations that create a net unsustainable – environmentally, consumers about the effects of fish loss for our environment, our economy, economically and socio-politically. The farming. The majority (over 80%) of BC’s for human health and social justice. We industry’s promise to feed a hungry world farmed salmon is exported to markets in believe that decisions by consumers can is a false promise which has devastating the US. We are focusing many of our change this trend.

UW FACULTY & CANADIAN SCIENTIST INCREASE Gordon McFarlane, Research Scientist with Fisheries and CROSS-BORDER RESEARCH EFFORTS ON SHARKS Oceans Canada Continuing the focus on the fishery industry in the Pacific Northwest, the Center also (DFO), on the served as a sponsor of the panel on dogfish sharks at the American Association for Canadian DFO research vessel the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Seattle this winter. The panel was tagging big skates entitled, "Dogfish Sharks, the Fish in Fish and Chips and Ecosystem Function." The near the Canada/ following article presents some of the findings and outcomes of the panel. Alaska border.

The spiny dogfish (small, bottom- their livers. The demand ended when dwelling shark) has been a valuable marine Vitamin A was chemically synthesized. In people realize,” says Vincent Gallucci, product off the West Coast of Canada and the last decade new demand for dogfish Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery the US for about 50 years. The dogfish developed as a substitute for traditional fish Sciences and Canadian Studies Affiliated fishery peaked in the 1940s when the fish in fish and chips in England and for smoked Faculty, “that the lowly dogfish is the were being harvested for Vitamin A from and pickled dogfish in Germany. “Few second most valuable marine export in 8 Washington State.” However, the to be over 100 years old, the females is in Quantitative Ecology and Resource combination of an incredibly long don’t produce until 30, and therefore they Manage-ment and Aquatic and Fishery maturation period (30 years) and over- are not able to recover quickly from Sciences. Taylor will work with fishing in Washington State have driven excessive stock levels to recent lows and are exploitation.” threatening the industry. Jacquelynn King, Interestingly, while the Washington also from Fisheries State fishery is depressed, the BC and Oceans, dogfish fishery is considered healthy. Canada and Greg Significant differences in stock levels and Bargemann from a shared body of water have created a the Washington need for researchers to develop cross- Department of border cooperative assessment plans and Fisheries and corresponding demographic modeling. Wildlife were co- The dogfish has therefore served to raise authors on the scientific questions about trans-boundary paper. fishing management. McFarlane and Last February Gallucci organized a Gallucci, along symposium as part of the American with other Vincent Gallucci (far right), UW Professor, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, works with graduate students (pictured here) and Canadian scientists to Association for the Advancement of scientists in conduct collaborative cross-border research concerning dogfish and other sharks Science annual meeting (held in Seattle) Canada and the in the shared Canada-US coastal waters. to address these specific issues. The US, will continue symposium featured Gordon McFarlane, to collaborate on Research Scientist, Stock Assessment assessment research concerning dogfish McFarlane and Gallucci to expand cross- Division, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada stocks, reproduction, environmental border research. who presented a paper on trans-boundary impacts, and over-fishing. And, in the To date, fisheries management differences in dogfish management 2004-05 academic year, they along with regarding the dogfish shark has not strategies in Washington State and BC. Bargemann, will co-chair a major been adequately coordinated between McFarlane argued that it is imperative international conference on dogfish sharks Washington State and BC. However, that US and Canadian scientists and to be held at the UW and in conjunction thanks to the issues raised at this managers work together to ensure proper with the Canadian Studies Center. symposium, further trans-boundary management of this vital resource. McFarlane is now on the doctoral management strategies for the dogfish According to McFarlane “These fish live com-mittee of UW student Ian Taylor who will be established.

News from the Center for Canadian- who spoke about current issues in In partnership with the Canadian American Studies at Western Washington, Québec politics to a Canadian Politics Studies Center and Educational Outreach continued from page 3 course offered by the Political Science at the University of Washington and the Department. Canadian Studies Program at Seattle and non-Native peoples and issues of Dr. Jean Rousseau (see cover) visited University, Canadian-American Studies at cultural production and appropriation. In Western this spring and will return in the WWU sponsored : April, Professor Maracle was the headliner fall to teach two courses. Memory and Identity in Québec, a K-16 for the Western Libraries Reading Series The Center greatly expanded its Workshop for French Teachers— where she read from her recent novels and educational outreach to teachers with the conducted in French. The program, poems published during her three-year publication of a newspaper supplement directed by Seattle University professors appointment at WWU. titled ! The True North Strong Robert Balas and Anne George, was In April, WWU hosted Tsimshian artist and Free! in The Washington Times. The attended by 17 educators from across David Boxley, a noted carver, performer 16-page page insert, written by Tina Washington state. and teacher. Boxley has been deeply Storer, the Center’s K-12 Outreach Finally, congratulations to Professor involved in the rebirth of Tsimshian Coordinator, was distributed as part of the Paul Storer, Professor of Economics and culture for many years. He presented his Newspapers in Education program— instructor of the Introduction to Canadian work to an audience of students and impacting over 1.4 million students in the Studies core course, for winning the 2004 faculty as well as people from the national capital region. Forthcoming Excellence in Teaching Award! Bellingham community. We also hosted publication by other newspapers across The UW Canadian Studies Center and Professor Dean Louder, Professor of the US raises the profile of Canadian the Center for Canadian-American Studies Geography at Laval University who gave a Studies in an unprecedented way and at Western Washington University (WWU) presentation titled, “A History and helps assure Canada’s inclusion in social form one of only two National Resource Geography of the Francophone Presence studies curricula nationwide. The project Centers for the Study of Canada (NRC) in in North America.” He was accompanied was funded by the Government of the US. The NRC was founded in 1986 by Eric Marquis, public affairs officer at Canada with support from Western’s receiving its first US Department of the Québec Delegation in Los Angeles, Center for Canadian-American Studies. Education Title VI grant in 1987. 9 FOREIGN LANGUAGE & AREA STUDIES FELLOWS Each year the Center awards over $100,000 in Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) to graduate students conducting research on Canadian topics while acquiring French language skills. Below three of the Center awardees discuss their research.

Jennifer Sarah Clifford Tatum, Benner, Starkweather, Communications History Geography As a FLAS Fellow I am My primary This summer I actively pursuing area of plan to use the increased French research is FLAS funding to language skills to Modern study French at supplement my past European McGill MBA studies in France. Intellectual and German History; my University in This approach has secondary fields are Modern Jewish Montréal. I will then continue my French tremendous value to me in my research into History and Comparative Colonialisms. In studies as a FLAS Fellow during the 2004- Québecois culture. My research interests are my Comparative Colonialisms field I am 2005 academic year. My central research focused on multiculturalism and socio- interested in relationships and exchanges focus is on how citizenship is understood cultural resistance in the context of the between colonies and the metropole. Not and practiced by expatriates. More network society – a term often used to only does contribute to specifically, I am interested in examining describe the late stages of globalization as this discourse – its official recognition of the ways that American expatriates living in influenced by electronic communication two primary colonial inheritances, French the province of Québec understand, technologies. My current research examines and English, makes it unique among other negotiate, and act out their citizen- Chinese diasporic communities, in both former colonies in the Americas. identities. Although the term “citizenship” French and Anglo Canadian contexts Furthermore, the continuing national has many meanings, I am particularly answering questions about the increasing conversation about the relationship interested in the concept as it pertains to dis-aggregation of national culture and the between French and English, as language the reciprocal relationship between an impact of electronic communication and heritage, makes Canada a crucial site individual and both the “home” nation and technologies as they influence the social for the study of the legacies of colonialism. the “host” nation. Improved conversational construction of real or imagined boundaries. After taking intensive French this summer I and translation skills in French will facilitate In addition, I am currently assisting Philip will be able to read French Canadian my fieldwork and allow analysis of Howard, Canadian Studeis Center Affiliate, literature in its original, and to have access representations of American expatriates by with a book concerning contemporary to un-translated sources. Québec bureaucrats and politicians. Canadian politics. NEWS FROM OUR STUDENTS The Canadian Studies Center impacts hundreds of students quarterly through Canadian Studies courses and content courses. “News from Our Students" highlights outstanding student achievements and involvements.

DEVEN LÉGER INTRODUCES information about Canadian as CANADIAN MUSIC TO UNDERGRADS possible and particularly its influence on BY DEVON LÉGER . For example, in this course I have taught about the music of the Devon Léger is a doctoral student in Métis on both sides of the border, of the and a professional fiddler (both the Canadian Inupiat group and the who is pursuing his studies in Acadian Devon Léger, Canadian Studies affiliated Alaskan Yupik group), of the Athapaskans in graduate student, is a professional fiddler. music. In Winter Quarter 2004, Devon had Alaska and the , and the the opportunity to introduce Canadian folk music of Cape Breton, including its impact on Native Americans, both in Washington State music to a course he taught with the School music in and the Northeastern and throughout the province of British of Music. Here he talks about the impact of United States. Columbia. We were able to teach about the course on the students. I focused especially on the music of French- virtually every major type of Canadian folk One of my colleagues, Lou Winant, and I Canadians and French Americans, from the folk music to a class of 190 students, truly a taught a class on American Folk Music music of Québec and the great fiddler Jean dream come true for me. Winter Quarter for the School of Music. Lou Carignan, to the music of the Acadian diaspora, Student response to the class was very and I both decided that we would loosely resulting finally in the music of the Cajuns. positive and it feels good to know that we define American Folk Music and work to I also taught about contradance music, a were able to open up so many new musical include as many groups as possible. popular American genre that has been heavily genres to them. One student emailed me to My area of interest is in Canadian Folk influenced by French-Canadians living in the let me know that she had become com- Music and my heritage is Acadian – my Northern US. We also brought in a guest pletely “addicted” to French-Canadian music father comes from – so I lecturer, Dr. Laurel Sercombe, who is an and wanted to know where she could find knew that I wanted to include as much expert in the music of the Northwest Coast CDs and be introduced to more artists. 10 PROGRAMMING FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY & GENERAL PUBLIC The Center seeks to increase international understanding about Canadian culture and the arts; to address current and topical issues facing Canada; and to understand Canada-US relations in a global context. Over the last two quarters the Center has served hundreds of people from the business and legal community, media, and members of the general public with diverse programming that has included a host of Canadian authors, Ambassadors, and political activists. Following are highlights from these events.

NAOMI KLEIN DRAWS A HUGE CROWD AT THE UW

Naomi Klein was the second lecturer war,” Klein insisted, “Iraq is not being inspired her to speak out against the in the Canada-US Relations in a New rebuilt, it is being “erased.” influence of brands and consumerism on Security Environment Lecture Series During the question period Klein young people. “Capitalism is like a drug,” addressing an enthusiastic audience of instructed those new to activism to not she argued, “and the drug is growth.” over 500 at Kane Hall on the UW attempt to “fix the problems of the world Klein’s lecture inspired a lively campus in the Fall of 2003. Klein, an overnight” but to focus on one area of question and answer period with a award-winning journalist and author of activism and to build from there. “I think diversity of opinions expressed about the the international best-seller, No Logo: people in Seattle are very lucky,” she said, impact of globalization and its role on Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (now “there are already thriving political other countries including on the translated into 27 languages) gave a movements here.” rebuilding efforts in Iraq. lecture entitled, “Economic Terror, Deep While No Logo has been call the “Das The event was organized by Canadian Democracy.” Kapital” of the anti-corporate movement, Studies Affiliated Faculty, Philip Howard Klein argued against globalization, the Klein has not always been an anti- (Department of Communications) and co- privatization of government, and what capitalist. In fact, as a teenager, Klein sponsored with the UW student she described as “economic warfare.” admitted to stitching fake alligators on her organization, Ursus Forum on Social She focused on the war in Iraq and the shirts so they would resemble Lacoste Change and Sustainability, the rebuilding efforts. “The US must polos. She says that it was precisely this International Studies Center and the UW compensate the Iraqi people for this fixation as a young woman that later Simpson Center for the Humanities.

AMBASSADOR ARCOS FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY VISITS UW

This spring the Center, in Henry M. Jackson School of conjunction with the Pacific International Studies Northwest National Laboratory International Updates: Trends (PNNL) and the Canada- and Transitions in Your World America Society, brought Dinner/Lecture Series. His Ambassador Cresencio Arcos lecture, “Canada-US Border to the Pacific Northwest. The Security Cooperation – Phase visit provided an excellent II” was attended by 65 opportunity for members of members of the community PNNL and Canadian Studies including government faculty to discuss Canada-US representatives and staff security issues. Specifically the from the Port of Seattle. group is looking for ways to Arcos addressed the rapidly include Canadian comparative increasing cross-border trade policies regarding security in between Canada and the the new UW master's US and the need to increase program, “Strategic Planning border efficiency without for Critical Infrastructures.” The visit by Amabassador Arcos, Director of International Affairs, US compromising security. Department of Homeland Security, assisted in establishing closer linkages Hilda Blanco, Canadian between the Canadian Studies Center and the Pacific Northwest National Arcos pointed out that “Phase Studies affiliated faculty and Laboratory (PNNL). Front row from left: Nadine Fabbi, Assistant Director; II” in the Canada-US security Chair of Urban Design and Kim England, Director; Ann Lesperance, Senior Research Scientist, PNNL; plan is about to begin as and Kristi Branch, Senior Research Scientist, PNNL. Back row from left: Planning founded and is Stephen Gajewski, Manager, Environmental Technology Integration; Carol Canada, Mexico and the US directing the new program. Kessler, Director, Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security; Gretchen work to rationalize trade and Ambassador Arcos was this Hund, Senior Research Scientist, PNNL; Ambassador Arcos; and Ned security measures on a Wogman, Director Homeland Security, PNNL. year’s featured speaker for the continental basis.

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11 GLOBAL BUSINESS to maintain and strengthen the largest trading relationship in the world. He BREAKFAST SERIES discussed how the Partnership is focused The Canadian Studies Center and World on raising awareness of the severe strain Affairs Council co-sponsored the 2003 Global and significant economic risks that face our Business Breakfast Series, “Global Security two countries as a result of the US’s 27% Trends” in December of 2003. Sixty-five tax on softwood lumber imported from members of the business community Canada. Blanchard argued that while attended a panel breakfast entitled, “Security Canada and the US are partners, friends, and Business with Canada.” and allies, it is a relationship in need of Recent tensions between Canada and repair. “We urgently need to find a long- the US continues to be headlined in the James Blanchard (far right), former Ambassa- term solution to the lumber issue in order to dor to Canada, discusses security and trade media. Yet, last year alone more than 11 issues with Canada. Ian Moncaster, Executive keep this great relationship going,” billion dollars of American and Canadian Director, World Affairs Council and Kirsten Blanchard urged. goods crossed the Washington-BC border. Aoyama, Director, UW Global Business Center He also pointed out that most people are were hosts of the event. Moncaster holds a These tensions, including differing copy of Blanchard’s book, Behind the Embassy surprised to learn that Canada is the single approaches to security policy, were Door, about his experience as an Ambassador largest supplier of oil and natural gas to the addressed at a Breakfast Series panel to Canada. US and that Canada buys more US good featuring James Blanchard, Former and services than any other nation. Brian Governor of Michigan and Former US Currently, Blanchard is the co-chair of Parrott supported Blanchard’s claims and Ambassador to Canada and Brian Parrott, the US-Canada Partnership for Growth – discussed the major trade relationship Senior Trade Commissioner, Canadian an alliance of individuals and between Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Consulate, Pacific Northwest. organizations that share a common desire Idaho, and Canada.

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