Canadian Nautical Research Society

1996 Conference at Kingston, Ontario

Commerce and War

Preliminary Program

Thursday, 23 May

1500 - 1600: CNRS Council meeting
1600 - 1700: Editorial board meeting
1800 - open: Reception at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Registration

Friday, 24 May

0900 - 0910

Opening Remarks

0910 - 1010

Session One - Pirates and Privateering
Chair: Dr. Olaf Janzen, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dan Conlin, (St. Mary's University): Nova Scotian Privateers in the Caribbean, 1793 - 1805
Dr. Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, (University of Virginia, School of Law): Northern Fisheries as a Target of Piratical and Privateering Attack

1010 - 1030

Coffee

1030 - 1200

Session Two - Ships in The St. Lawrence
Chair: Faye Kert, President, CNRS

3. Prof. Barry Gough, (Sir Wilfrid Laurier University): The Royal Navy in the Canadian River War, 1837 - 38

4. Evelyn Bishop, (Civil War Round Table, Kingston): The Maple Leaf: Kingston's Connection to the American Civil War

5. Capt. Vernon Howland, RCN (ret.): Dangerous Waters: The Grounding of HM Ships at Point Amour

1200 - 1330

Lunch

1330 - 1500

Session Three - Aspects of Naval Policy
Chair: LCdr William Glover, Directorate of History, NDHQ

6. Greg Kennedy, (Royal Military College of Canada): The Worth of the Navy in the Age of Peel, 1840 - 1850

7. G. Edward Reed, Bank of Canada: Confederate Naval Straegy, 1861 - 65; Guerre de course, Blockade, and Ironclads

8. Orest Babij, (Royal Military College of Canada): The CID Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War, 1920 - 1934

1500 - 1530

Coffee

1530 - 1630

Session Four - The Great Lakes c.1850 -1900
Chair: Ann Martin, National Archives of Canada

9. Walter Lewis, "Without danger from imperfection of form, material or workmanship": Steamboat Inspection on the Great Lakes to 1860

10. Maurice Smith, (Marine Museum of the Great Lakes): Seafaring Labour on the Lakes in the 1880s

1630 - 1645

Leg Stretch break

1645 - 1745

Presidential Address

The Fortunes of War: Commercial Warfare and Maritime Risk in the War of 1812

Chair: Stephen Salmon, National Archives of Canada

Evening

Banquet at Old Fort Henry

1815

Cash bar opens

1900

Dinner is served

Saturday, 25 May

0900 - 1000: Session Five - The Merchant Navy in World War II Chair: G. Edward Reed, Treasurer CNRS
11. Morgiana P. Halley, (University of Sheffield, Centre for English Culture, Tradition and Language): "Death Was Their Escort and Glory Passed Them By": What Life was Like in the Merchant Convoys of World War Two
12. Prof. Foster Griezic, (Carleton University): The Canadian Merchant Navy's Unending War - World War II and After
1000 - 1020: Coffee
1020 - 1120: Session Six - The RCN in World War II Chair: LCdr Richard Gimblett, National Defence Headquarters; 13. Dr. Roger Sarty, (Directorate of History, NDHQ): New Light on the Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence - 1942; 14. Robert Fisher, (National Archives of Canada): The Impact of German Technological Advances on Canadian Escorts 1942 - 43
1120 - 1130: Closing Remarks
1130 - 1230: CNRS Annual General Meeting

The Council will meet on conclusion of the AGM, or after lunch as convenient.

For more information, please contact Ann Martin at amartin@archives.ca.

Updated 1996-04-04 by Lars Bruzelius

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