Public Lectures

Past Lecture Topics

Just a few of the topics covered in the past include:

• February 27, 2024 – Allan Campbell – Draught Horses in the Logging Industry of Northern Ontario
• January 23, 2024 – Lakehead University, History Graduate Students – Taylor Mae Laughton, Aja Mayer and Bronwyn Chesterfield
• November 28, 2023 – Kelly Saxberg – A Tale of Two Qallunaat
• October 24, 2023 – Bev Soloway – The Fur Traders’ Table: A ‘Bill of Fare’ from 18th Century Rupert’s Land
• September 26, 2023 – Stephanie Pesheau – Women in Technology
• May 9, 2023 – Dr. Peter Raffo – Naming the new city at The Lakehead
• March 28, 2023 – Nancy Angus – Places and Faces: Gathering Older Adults’ Stories of Connecting, Belonging, Placemaking in Thunder Bay
• February 28, 2023 – Lakehead University Graduate Students – Christine Green and Haileigh Riddell
• November 22, 2022 – Capt George Romick – POW Art Exhibit
• October 25, 2022 – Eladia Smoke – Indigenous Architecture
• September 27, 2022 – Elder Paul Ritchie – Residential Schools
• March 22, 2022: Nick Duplessis – Social Democratic Politics at the Lakehead 1943-1963
• February 22, 2022:  Presented by graduate students from Lakehead University
• January 25, 2022: Dr. Brian McLaren – Travelling West and East from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods
• November 23, 2021: Bill Reist – Bawlf and Stewart Grain Elevators Construction
• October 26, 2021: Beth Hanna – Ontario Heritage Trust
• September 2021: Book Launch – Becoming Canadian: Memories of an Italian Immigrant, John Potestio
• March 2021: Iain Angus: 100th Anniversary of Chippewa Park
• February 2021: The Caribbean African Multicultural Association of Thunder Bay (CAMAT) Presents Black Business: An Evening with Local Black Women that are leaders in Business.
• January 2021: Lakehead University Graduate Students
• November 2020: Cathy Woodbeck : Thunder Bay Multicultural Association
• October 2020: Ted Glenn: “Embedded: The incredible story of two journalists, a burlesque star and the expedition to oust Louis Riel.”
• Sept 2020: Peter Raffo: “Saul Laskin, Man and Politician”
• Feb 2020: John Mason: “Northwestern Ontario: A Mining Powerhouse”
• Jan 2020: Greg Wright: “Timbers, Textiles, Traditions: The Story of North House Folk School”
• Nov 2019: Students session: Mary Francis Maarup, Sarah Somerville, Jennifer Blenkarn
• Oct 2019: David Kemp: “No 2 Elementary Flying Training School – Fort William’s contribution to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan”
• Sept 2019: Krista McCracken: “Reclaiming Place: Community History at the Shingwauk Residential School Site”
• Special May 2019: Mark Kuhlberg: “Where Have All the Abitibis Gone – Comparing the History of Pulp and Paper in Canada and Finland”
• Mar 2019: Nathan Hatton, on injuries in sports.
• Feb 2019: John Stephenson, on the construction and architecture of grain elevators.
• Jan 2019: Student session: Nick Duplessis, Jasmine Hyslop, Holly Fleming, Hudson Kunicky
• Nov 2018: Sean Smith: “This treaty has been wrinkled for more than 100 years” (Treaty 9 at Archives of Ontario)
• Oct 2018: Douglas Hunter: Beardmore – The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History
• Sept 2018: Michael Moir: James Fraser Paige and the Rise of the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company