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2007 Buffalo Province History Conference
Welcome to the 2007
Buffalo Province History Conference
“Connections”
May 11-13 2007
Manitou Springs Resort and Mineral Spa
Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan
Program of Events
About The Buffalo History Conference
In 1904, Sir Frederick Haultain, the Northwest Territories’ first and only premier, had a dream: to unite the prairie region into a single province called Buffalo. Saskatchewan's "forgotten father of Confederation," Haultain promoted the creation of a single united prairie province as an effective non-partisan means for the region to enter Canadian federalism.¹ "One big Province," he argued, "would be able to do things no other province could."²
Building on that dream a century later, the Buffalo Province History Conference seeks to bring together graduate students and faculty from Canada’s prairie universities. This conference offers a collegial and cordial environment for students in all programs of study to share their work, meet potential future advisors and colleagues, and engage a wide range of historical topics. The event is organized, funded, and hosted by the University of Saskatchewan Department of History.
¹ Bill Waiser, Saskatchewan: A New History (Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 2005), 4-6, 96.
² Quoted in D. Owram, ed., The Formation of Alberta: A Documentary History (Calgary: Alberta Records Publication Board, 1979), 115.
Message from the Organizers
We are pleased to welcome you to the 2007 Buffalo Province History Conference! This event is the first in what we hope becomes a long-standing annual tradition on the prairies. Over fifty participants representing all parts of Buffalo Province are partaking in our inaugural event. We encourage you to take in as much of the proceedings as you can, including our two plenary addresses. Dr. Erika Dyck will be delivering a film and keynote address on Friday evening. You can also look forward to Dr. Keith Carlson’s post-banquet talk on Saturday night. Thank you to all of our participants, attendees, and volunteers. We hope you enjoy your stay!
The Buffalo Province History Conference organizers,
Dr. Keith Carlson
Byron Plant
Friday May 11
5:30-7:00pm Registration and Reception. Cash Bar.
7:00pm
Welcome and Opening CommentsManitou Room
Dr. Jim Handy, Graduate Director Chair (USask Dept of History)
Plenary Keynote Address:
Dr. Erika Dyck (University of Alberta Dept of History)
Film: “Psychedelic Pioneers”
Presentation: “Acid Flashbacks: Keeping a Tab on the History of LSD”
- Introduced by Valerie Korinek (USask Dept of History).
Saturday May 12
8:00-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:30
Session 1A Manitou Room
Reappraisal and Representation in Aboriginal History
Chair: Dr. Keith Carlson
Byron Plant(USask PhD candidate), “The Art of Administration: Governmentality and the Construction of Indian Administrative Space in Twentieth Century British Columbia”
Liam Haggarty (USask PhD student), “Myth-Busting or Myth-Making?: Historical Revision in the Twenty-First Century”
Meagan Gough (USask PhD student), “The Visibility of First Nations Peoples in Historical and Anthropological Research”
Session 1B Renown Room
Women and Gender
Chair: Dr. Valerie Korinek
Nicole Freiheit (UofC MA student), “Our unfortunate sister and her little children”: the Calgary Local Council of Women’s advocacy for poor women, 1938-1948”
Melanie Racette-Campbell (USask MA student), “Propertius 3.20 and 4.8: The Amator as Husband, Wife, Lover, and Meretrix”
Selena Crosson (USask PhD candidate), “Saving the World from Down on the Farm: Violet McNaughton, Interwar Feminism and Women’s Anti-War Activism in the Canadian Prairies”
10:30-10:45 Refreshments
10:45-12:15
Session 2A Manitou Room
Looking for Aboriginal Voices
Chair: Byron Plant
Jonathan Clapperton (USask PhD student), “Can We Listen?: Recovering the Subaltern Voice from the Historic Record”
Alan Long (USask Interdisciplinary MA student), “Rationalizing the Past: The Influence of Life and Death ‘Dramatic’ History on Early Canadian History and Identity”
Cinnamon Pandur (USask MA student), "A Journey into Time Immemorial: The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Presenting Indigenous Culture through Contemporary Media"
Session 2B Renown Room
Military Matters
Chair: Merle Massie
Christopher Paige (USask MA student), “Canada and Chemical Warfare 1939-1945”
Douglas Benneweis (UofC PhD candidate), “Combat Preparation in the Canadian Army in WWII”
Scott Mackenzie (UofC MA student), “Only a Handful Sided with the Confederacy”
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45
Session 3A Manitou Room
Re-Casting Prairie History
Chair: Erin Millions
Shannon Murray (UofC MA student), “R.B. Bennett and the Calgary Labour Movement, 1902”
Nathan Elliot (UofC PhD candidate), “’I Would Rather be a Member of this Conference than of the Imperial Conference:’ The Formation of the CCF”
Merle Massie (USask PhD student), “’Has Saskatchewan any History?’: Writing Provincial History in Saskatchewan”
Session 3B Renown Room
Episodes in European History
Chair: Dr. Natalia Shostak
Orysia Ehrmantraut (USask MA Student), “The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine after the Bolshevik Revolution”
Robert Jacobs (UofM MA student), “Changes in the Franciscan Order in Its Early Years as Revealed by TheChronicle Of Salimbene”
John Greenshields (USask MA student), “The Romanticism of Jules Michelet”
Session 3CVenn Room
Prescription and Censorship in Literature
Chair: Dr. John Porter
Kimberly Coma (USask MA student), “’[I] promis[ed] never to gloume nor gloume on hir before folks’: Examining the Influence of Advice Literature on the Intimacy of Seventeenth Century Scottish Marriages”
Lindsay Manz (USask MA student), “A Soviet Tale: The Appropriation of Folklore and the Reappearance of the “Hero” in Children’s Literature”
2:45-3:00 Refreshments
3:00-4:30
Session 4A Manitou Room
Perspectives on Environmental History
Chair: Jonathan Clapperton
Rachel Herbert (UofC MA candidate), “Cattle Ranching with a Conservationist Consciousness, 1880-1940”
Sean Ryan (UofA PhD candidate), “The Nature of Natural Nature: An Historical Analysis of Ecology, 1913-2000”
Mathew Todd (USask MA student), “An Environmental Perspective on Equine Culture in the American Southwest”
Session 4B Renown Room
Art and Architecture in History
Chair: Meagan Gough
Natasha Halayda (UMan BA student), “Examining the Canon as per the Winnipeg Art Gallery: An Investigation into Women’s Visibility from 1908-1939”
Chelsey Jersak (USask MA student), “Misreading the Metro: Socialist Realist Art and Sverdlov Square Station, 1938”
Kristie Dube (UofR MA student), “Religious Architecture of Saskatchewan: The Gothic Revival Style”
Session 4CVenn Room
Spirituality Among the Northwest Saskatchewan Métis
Chair: Dr. Kristina Fagan
Mandy Fehr (USask MA student), “Apparitions of the ‘Blessed Virgin Mary’ in a Northwest Saskatchewan Métis Community”
MacKinley Darlington (USask MA student), “Blessed Virgin Mary Shrines: Roadside Stops of Spirituality”
Kristina Duffee (USask MA student), “Father Moraud and his Interaction with the Dene People of the Northern Community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan, 1916-1965”
5:30 Cocktails. Cash Bar
6:00 Banquet Dinner
7:15 After Dinner Speaker:
Dr. Keith Thor Carlson (USask Dept of History), “Autobiography of Sasquatch”
Sunday May 13
8:00-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:30am
Session 5A Manitou Room
First NationsTreaty Historiography
Chair: Dr. J.R. Miller
Leslie Wiebe (USask MA student), “Mi’kmaq Treaties”
Rebecca Major (USask MA student), “A Comparative View of the Ontario and Quebec James Bay Treaties”
Sarah Nickel (USask MA student), “Sayeen! Sayeen! Get Off My Land!”: The Historiography Of The Nisga’a Final Agreement, 1999”
Session 5B Renown Room
Foreign, Strange, and Performative: Narratives from the Periphery
Chair: Dr. Jim Handy
Coleen Krushelinski (USask PhD student), “Through Foreign Eyes: Representations of Race, Class, and Gender in Guatemalan Travel Narratives”
Scott Wright (USask MA student), “Performing Self and Other: René Caillié’s Travels Through Central Africa To Timbuctoo”
John Gow (USask PhD candidate), “Strange Exchange: James Kirker, Frontier MBA?”
10:30-10:45 Refreshments
10:45-11:45pm
Session 6A Manitou Room
Implications of War for the Canadian Prairies
Chair:Douglas Benneweis
Erin Millions (UofC PhD candidate), “Rebels or Heroes?: Intersections of Masculinity, Race And Ethnicity During The 1885 Northwest Rebellion”
David Zylberberg (UofC MA student), “Why did they Care? Impressions of the Russo-Japanese War in Southern Alberta”
Session 6BRenown Room
Spatial Studies of the Métis of NW Saskatchewan
Chair: Christine Charmbury
Kevin Gambell (USask BA Honours student), “Spatial Studies of the Métis Of NW Saskatchewan”
Katya Macdonald (USask BA Honours student), “From Snob Hill To Bouvierville: Naming Places In Île-À-La-Crosse, Saskatchewan”
11:45pm
Adjournment and check out
Thank you to our Sponsors
USask Office of the President
USask Office of the Vice President
USask Associate Dean of Arts & Science
USask Dept of History
USask History Graduate Students Committee
USask History Department Facultyand student donors
Joe Dog’s Sports Bar and Grill
USask Bookstore
Western Development Museum
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations