Ships, People, Ports and Trade
Canadian Nautical Research Society Annual Conference & General Meeting
11-13 June 2015
The Crowsnest / HMCS Bytown (Naval Officers’ Mess)
73 Lisgar Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Day 1: Thursday, 11 June
12:00-13:00: Lunch (self-purchase from the bar)
13:00-16:00: Strategic Planning Session / Chair: President Chris Madsen
16:00-17:30: Executive Council Meeting
17:30-21:00: Informal Meet & Greet: Deacon Brodie’s Pub (247 Elgin Street)
Day 2: Friday, 12 June
08:30-12:00: Session 1
Francesc Albardaner, “A Silk Trail to Columbus”
Sam McLean, “A Westminster Model Navy: The Royal Navy as a Constitutional Space 1660-1749”
Norman Jolin, “Observations on the RCN Flag Officer List, 1910-2015”
09:45-10:15: Coffee in-progress
Walter Lewis, “Down to the Sea in Boats: Great Lakes Vessels that went to Sea in the First World War”
Michael Moir, “Global war, local conflict: the requisition of Canadian shipping during the Great War”
Roger Litwiller, “Herb Ditchman Goes to War: Shipbuilding in Trenton, Ontario during the Second World War”
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-16:00: Session 2
Paul Adamthwaite, “Wrecks: random reflections on reporting and research”
Roger Sarty, “McNabs Island and the Defence of the North Atlantic in the First World War”
Jim Carruthers, “Combat Control Systems in the Canadian Navy, 1950-90”
14:15-14:45: Coffee in-progress
Alan Ruffman, “Rescuing, Resurrecting and Restoring the December, 1882 Simon Douglas MacDonald Manuscript Map of the Known Wrecks on Sable Island Compiled from Official Reports”
Donald R. MacNeil, “Auxiliary Support Vessels of the Arctic Patrol Vessel HMCS Labrador”
16:00-17:30: Presentation Tour of “Pogo”
(Rideau Canal / Laurier Street Bridge Landing)
18:30 for 19:00: Banquet
(Johnny Farina’s Restaurant / 216 Elgin St)
Day 3: Saturday, 13 June
09:00-10:15: Session 3
Maurice Smith, “A brilliant Cook, a shipping giant and a Certified Seamen’s Union – at Last”
Chris Madsen, “The Shipping Federation of British Columbia, the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, and Employment on the Fraser River Waterfront 1947-1958”
10:15- 10:30: Coffee in progress
Hugues Canuel, “Laying the Course for a Stormy Peacetime Friendship: Reluctant American Support to French Wartime Naval Rearmament, 1943-45”
11:00-13:30: Annual General Meeting (Working Lunch)
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