Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World, ca. 1000-1800AD

Avant le Canada:le Nord du continent dans un monde interconnecté, ca. 1000-1800

McGill University, Montréal, 25-27 October 2019

Friday, 7:00- 8:30 PM Opening Reception/ Réception d’ouverture

Colgate Room, Special Collections, 4th floor, McLennan Library, 3459 McTavish St.

All Saturday and Sunday sessions at Birks Building, 3520 University Avenue

Saturday, 8:30- 9:00 Birks Foyer

Registration and coffee / Inscription et café

Saturday, 9:00- 10:30 Birks 203

Migrations and Networks• Adrian L. Burke (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal), “After the

Bering Strait: The Archaeology of Continental-Scale Aboriginal Social Networks”

• Jack Ives (Anthropology, University of Alberta), “Ways of Becoming: The Apachean Departure from the Canadian Subarctic”

• Jean-François Lozier (History, University of Ottawa), “Worlds Away: The People of the St. Lawrence Valley Mission Villages as Long-Distance Travellers”

• Chair: Brad Loewen (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal)

Saturday, 9:00- 10:30 Birks 205

Fur Traders on Indigenous Terrain• Morgan Vanek and Chris Brown (English, University of Calgary),

“Theories of Environment in Anthony Henday’s Inland Journals, 1754-1755”

• Scott Berthelette (History, Queen’s University), “French-Indigenous Métissage and Rethinking the Chronology of Métis Peoplehood in the

Hudson Bay Watershed, 1731-1774”• Kathryn Labelle (History, University of Saskatchewan), “‘All My

Relations’: Étienne Brûlé, the Power of Kinship, and Methodological Innovation in New France”

• chair: Chris Lyons (Head Librarian), McGill Rare Books and Special Collections

Saturday, 11:00- 12:30 Birks 203

Space and Power in New France – Espace et pouvoir en Nouvelle-France• Helen Dewar (Histoire, Université de Montréal), “Corridors of

Sovereignty: Waterways, Mobility and Territorial Control in the St. Lawrence Valley, 1600s-1620s”• Catherine Desbarats (History, McGill), “Spaces of Money in New France”• Allan Greer (History, McGill), “Claiming the West for France”• chair: Jean-François Palomino (Bibliothèque et archives nationales du

Québec)

Saturday, 11:00- 12:30 Birks 205

Early Canada in Memory and Popular Culture

• Sandra-Lynn Leclaire (History, McGill), “Mamatrabet: Changes in the Beothuk Nation’s Public Historical Memory”

• Annika McPherson (English/Cultural Studies, University of Augsburg), “Re-Imagining Canada avant la lettre: Colonial Nostalgia in Frontier”

• Aitzpea Leizaola (Anthropology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), “Basques, Mi’kmaq and Inuit: Transoceanic First Nations Encounters in Comic and Graphic Novels”

• chair: Elsbeth Heaman (History, McGill)

Lunch – 12:30-2:00

Saturday 2:00- 3:30 Birks 203

The North Atlantic• Jack Bouchard (Folger Shakespeare Library), “The Newfoundland

Fisheries in an early Atlantic World, 1450-1550”• Samuel Derksen (History, McGill), “Beyond the Northwest: An

Exploration of the North West Company’s Transnational and Atlantic Trade Connections”

• Sara Spike (History, University of New Brunswick), “Eskikewa’kik / La Baye de toutes isles / Eastern Shore: Writing a Historical Coast”

• chair: Mike LaMonica (History, McGill)

Saturday 2:00- 3:30 Birks 205

Texte, paratexte et écriture – Text, Paratext and Writing• Mary C. Fuller (English, MIT), “Canada in the English Geographical

Imaginary, circa 1600”• Vincent Masse (French, Dalhousie), “From Gauls Fishing in the

Maritimes (1st c. BCE) to the first Norman Colony in Newfoundland (1508): Uses and Abuses of Textual Traces of Contacts across the North Atlantic (1512-1906)”

• Fannie Dionne (History, McGill), “‘Ce dont on se sert pour écrire, soit papier, soit encre, ahiatonk8a’t’: étudier le contact entre Wendats et jésuites par les dictionnaires”

• chair/président: Maxime Dagenais (Wilson Institute, McMaster University)

Saturday, 3:45- 5:15 Birks 203

Arctic Connections• Patrick C. Jolicoeur (Archaeology, University of Glasgow), “Connecting

their World: Wide-Spread Metal Exchange in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland at the Start of the Second Millennium AD”

• James Ring Adams (National Museum of the American Indian), “Fetched from Greenland”

• Lisa Rankin (Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Meeting in the Straits: Inuit at the Crossroads of Cultural Interaction”

• chair: Toby Morantz (Anthropology, McGill)

Saturday, 3:45- 5:15 Birks 205

Religion: Global, Local, Personal – Religion: perspectives mondiales, locales et personnelles• Emma Anderson (Religion, University of Ottawa), “The Sinews of

Belonging: Conversion, Adoption, and Personal Transformation ‘before Canada’”

• Mairi Cowan (History, University of Toronto), “Global Connections and Local Concessions for Seventeenth-Century Catholic Missions”

• Shawn McCutcheon (History, McGill), “Émigrés royalistes et éducation au Bas-Canada”

• chair/présidente: Dominique Deslandres (Histoire, Université de Montréal)

Saturday, 6:30 – 10:00PM

Banquet Hôtel de l’ITHQ, 3535 rue St-Denis

Limited seating. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Sunday, 9:00- 10:30 Birks 203

Borders, Borderlands and Borderless Lands• Timothy Garritty (Mount Desert Island Historical Society), “The Role of

Deception at Saint Sauveur”• Mike Borsk (History, Queen’s University), “Crossing Borders, Creating

Boundaries: Ebenezer Allen and the Politics of Property Rights in Early North America”

• Robert Engelbert (History, University of Saskatchewan), “Borderless Lands: Rethinking Mobility and Interconnectivity in French North America and the Atlantic World during the Eighteenth Century”

• chair: Jason Opal (History, McGill)

Sunday, 9:00- 10:30 Birks 205

Plants and Animals – Plantes et Animaux• Christopher M. Parsons (History, Northeastern), “Canada from the

Ground Up: Plants, Animals, and the Geography of Human Settlement in Northern North America”

• Audrey Adamczak (Institut catholique de Paris), “Présence de la flore et de la faune de Nouvelle-France dans la collection des vélins du roi (ca. 1630-1793)”

• Moira McCaffrey (Independent Researcher), “‘The Time has come, the Walrus said, to Talk of many Things’: Maritimes Walrus and their Hunters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence”

• chair/président: Thomas Wien (Histoire, Université de Montréal)

Sunday, 11:00- 12:30 Birks 203

Deep Time: Archaeologists’ and Historians’ Perspectives – Perspectives d’archéologues et d’historien/nes sur un passé lointain• Christian Gates St-Pierre (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal),

“L’archéologie de l’interconnexion autochtone dans le sud du Canada central, entre 1000 et 1600 DNE”

• Carolyn Podruchny and Victoria Jackson (History, York University), “How Ancient Indigenous History Changes the Story of ‘Canada’”

• William Fox (Anthropology, Trent University), “Early Seventeenth-Century Exchange Amongst Great Lakes Region Indigenous Groups”

• chair: James Rice (History, Tufts University)

Sunday, 11:00- 12:30 Birks 205

Looking South• Michael J. Davis (History, McGill), “The ‘Canadianization’ of the Lower

Mississippi Valley, 1699-1743”

• Jeffers Lennox (History, Wesleyan University), “Canada in the American Mind, 1774-1787”

• Nathan Ince (History, McGill), “‘As Englishmen and Brethren’: Empires, Alliances, and Sovereignties around the Drummond Island Council Fire, 1815-1828”

• chair: Joshua Piker (William and Mary Quarterly)

Lunch, 12:30-2:00

Sunday, 2:00- 3:30 Birks 203

Contact culturel entre Autochtones et Européens• Renée Girard (Histoire, McGill), “Épices et tabac en Nouvelle-France:

une question d’humeurs”• Brad Loewen (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal), “Basques et

autochtones, du golfe du Saint-Laurent au Pays Basque, 1580-1700”• Miren Egaña Goya (Société de Sciences Aranzadi, San Sebastián),

“Basques et Autochtones dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent” • présidente: Catherine Desbarats (Histoire, McGill)

Sunday, 2:00- 3:30 Birks 205

Captivity and Slavery• Joanne Jahnke Wegner, (History, University of Minnesota), “‘Two Monies

for Me’: Networks of Captivity in the Atlantic World during the Seven Years’ War”

• Charmaine A. Nelson (Art History, McGill), “‘[A] tone of voice peculiar to New-England’: Fugitive Slave Advertisements and the Heterogeneity of Enslaved Blacks in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Quebec”

• Adele Perry and Anne Lindsay (History, University of Manitoba), “Connected Histories: Slavery, the Fur-Trade, and thinking about the Nineteenth-Century World”

• chair: Elizabeth Elbourne (History, McGill)

Conference Organizing Committee: Mike Davis, Sam Derksen, Fannie Dionne, Renée Girard, Allan Greer, Nathan Ince, Mike LaMonica, Sandra-Lynn Leclaire

Programme Committee: Maxime Dagenais, Helen Dewar, Allan Greer, Brad Loewen, Carolyn Podruchny

With deep gratitude, we acknowledge the generous assistance of the following:

Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster UniversityDepartment of History, McGill UniversityCanada Research Chair in Colonial North America, McGillChair in Scottish-Canadian History, McGillMcGill Institute for the Study of CanadaMcGill-Queen’s University PressDean of Arts Development Fund, McGillDaniel Boudin

Sunday, 3:45- 5:00 Birks Chapel

Concluding Panel – Débat de Conclusion• Dominique Deslandres (Histoire, Université de Montréal)• Allan Greer (History, McGill)• Brad Loewen (Anthropologie, Université de Montréal)• Joshua Piker (William and Mary Quarterly)