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History on the Grand Local History Symposium

The second History on the Grand Local History Symposium will be held on Saturday October 17, 2009. Once again the symposium will be held at the University of Waterloo of Architecture, 7 Melville Street in Cambridge. .

History on the Grand is a one-day local history symposium held every two years in the City of Cambridge. The first symposium was held in October 2007 and featured numerous presentations on issues related to the study of local history. The theme of this year's symposium will be "Industry and the Environment". A call for papers has now been issued. Information can be found below.

We invite members of the academic community, historical and heritage groups and the general public who are interested in the history and heritage of the city and the surrounding area to explore some of the many issues arising from the interaction between various industrial processes,the lands they occupied and the environment.

Participants will have the opportunity to share their research and to discuss issues surrounding the practice of local history, public history and their relationship to wider heritage concerns.

Documents related to this Event are posted below.

Call For Papers

The theme of this year's symposium, "Industry and the Environment", speaks to a topic that is relevant and significant in both a historical perspective and to the current community. We hope to attract a wide variety of presenters and papers, to discuss the history of industry in southwestern Ontario, historical perspectives concerning the local environment, both built and natural, and especially the intersections, dynamics and conflicts between industry and the environment in this area.

We invite proposals for papers on a wide range of themes including but not limited to:

1)Histories of local industries and their impacts on communities
2)The effects of industry on the local environment
3)Histories of parks, green-spaces, and local environmental preservation/protection movements and organizations
4)The impact of the local natural environment on the development of communities
5)History of "brownfields" and the process of redevelopment/rehabilitation of industrial lands
6)Urban renewal projects of post-industrial sites
7)Impact of industrial decline on communities

Please submit a brief paper abstract, maximum 500 words, plus a brief (1-2 pages) curriculum vitae or biography.

Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2009 and presenters will be notified by June 15, 2009. For further information and the submittal of paper abstracts please contact:
Jim Quantrell, City of Cambridge Archives, P.O. Box 669 Cambridge ON. N1R 5W8 or by e-mail at: quantrellj@cambridge.ca.

Registration

Registrations are now being accepted for History on the Grand 2009. Register registration2009.pdf on or before October 2, 2009 and pay just $10.00 - a saving of $5.00 off the $15.00 fee to register at the door.

Symposium Program

The Program for the 2009 History on the Grand History on the Grand Program 2009 has now been set and is now available for consultation. Please click here.

Come to Cambridge in October and spend the day with us on the scenic and historic Grand River.

Following each symposium organizers plan to publish papers that have been presented at the symposium. Here are a number of the presentations from the October 2007 symposium.

Papers presented to the 2009 Symposium


Published Authors - 2007

Review the list of achievements of published authors featured at the 2007 History on the Grand Symposium.

The papers selected for publication were chosen by a review committee. However it should be noted that not all the papers presented at the symposium in October 2007 were submitted for publication. Consequently the absence of a symposium paper from this publication cannot in any way be taken as an indication that those papers were in any way lacking in the view of the review committee.

Derek J. Coleman, PhD., R.P.P. is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and has been an environmental and ecological consultant for the last 35 years. He is currently Chair of the Cambridge Environmental Advisory Committee.

A Natural History of Cambridge, Ontario


April Souwand, M.A., R.P.P. is a graduate of the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo and has been an environmental planner for the last 20 years. She is currently the Senior Environmental Planner for the City of Cambridge and staff liaison to the Cambridge Environmental Advisory Committee.



Elysia DeLaurentis has worked as the Archives Assistant at the Wellington County Museum and Archives since 2000. Her local history publications include "One of the People: The Avruskins of Salem" (Wellington County History, Vol.19, 2006), and "Delving Beyond the Date Stone: A Guide to Property Research in Wellington County"(Wellington County History, Vol.21, 2008). She was the co-ordinator and, with Debra Nash-Chambers, co-editor of Remembering Pilkington Township: Lives, Loves and Labour, published in 2006 by the Wellington County Historical Society. A member of several historical groups, Elysia currently serves as Past President of the Guelph Historical Society, and is on the planning committee for the Ontario Historical Society's June 2008 conference "From Nature to Ecology, Landscape to Ecosystems: An Historical View of Ontario Environments".

Remembering Pilkington: Pleasures and Perils of Public History

Debra Nash-Chambers received her Ph.D in Social History from the University of Guelph and is presently teaching in the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University and as a sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph. She has also taught as St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo and at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn in Illinois. She has a number of publications to her credit and is presently working on "Redefining Family in the Wake of Industrialization: Late Victorian Guelph, Ontario" to Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

The Grand River Naval Depot

John Docker is a priest of the Episcopal Church USA, and was a former Staff Officer for Ministry Development on the Primate's Staff at the national office of the Episcopal Church in New York City. Dr. Docker is a graduate of Lehigh University and the General Theological Seminary and received the degree of Doctor of Ministry from the Rochester Center for Theological Studies in 1987. He is author and editor of several resources for the Episcopal Church including Toward a Totally Ministering Church. In the year 2000 the Dunnville Heritage Association published his Grand River Naval Depot, for which it received the Scadding Award of Excellence from the Ontario Historical Society for an outstanding contribution to the field of history.

Airing Dirty Laundry: The Public Controversy surrounding Church Union in Knox's (Galt) Presbyterian Church

William Haughton is a graduate of Queen's University, Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina and the University of Toronto. An avid tennis player, he has called Cambridge his home since 1995.

Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Business History as Local History Through the use of Oral Interviews

Dr. Sharon Jaeger earned her Ph.D in 2000 and is presently an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also an associate faculty member in the Continuing Education Department at Conestoga College in Kitchener. She is a public historian with a number of publications to her credit including "Westmount: Shadows of the Past" published in 2006 and an updating and revision of Ken McLaughlan's 1990 publication on the history of Waterloo to be released this fall.

Bier to Bayerisch: Kitchener-Waterloo's Oktoberfest Inc.

Danielle Matheusik is a student in the Master of Arts program in the History Department at the University of Guelph. She received her undergraduate degree in History from Brock University and studied for a year at the Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Freiburg on an exchange program. She has been an instructor in "after-school"courses offered by the Upper Grand District School Board and is a teaching assistant with the History Department at the University of Guelph.
The Scottish-Canadian Community in Toronto: Class, Gender & Identity, 1871-1914

Shannon O'Connor earned her Honours B.A. in history at the University of Guelph in 2002. She came back to Guelph in 2006 for her M.A. in history and in April of 2008 successfully defended her major research paper, entitled "The St. Andrew's Society of Toronto: Scottish Associational Culture in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In the fall Shannon plans to begin her Masters of Information Studies degree at the University of Toronto, with the hopes of specializing in archives and records management.

The Kitchener Industrial Artifacts Project

Nicholas Rees is an artist who works in various media including printmaking, sculpture, photography and drawing. He has been the artist in residence at Homer Watson House and was the inaugural artist in residence, Kitchener City Hall. Nicholas was an instructor in sculpture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo from 2002 to 2007 and has provided workshops in printmaking and sculpture since 1992. He is also is the founder and director of the Kitchener Industrial Artifacts Project so you will getting first hand information on the origins and development of the project.

New Perspectives: Approaching Public History with Artistic Licence

Kristine Williamson is a student in the Masters Program in Public History at the University of Western Ontario. She has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship that is presented to students pursuing promising graduate research and has extensive experience in scholarly research and writing.

Disclaimer: The following papers are reproduced here with the permission of the authors who retain the copyright to their work. All rights are reserved. The use of any part of the papers published here including reproduction, except for review purposes, storage in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written consent of the copyright holder is a violation of the copyright law.


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