Spring Talks 2023 Are Coming!

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The Spring Talks 2023 begin every Wednesday from April 12th until May 10th with a great line up of speakers. Talks are held this year at Innis College in the Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue. We encourage Academy Members to bring a friend and introduce them to the Academy. The charge for non-members is $10…

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Professor Ann Shteir – Women and Plants: A Fruitful Topic on Wednesday, March 15 at 2:30 pm (Winter Forum #5)

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Professor Ann Shteir, professor emerita, York University recently edited and published “Flora’s Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in 19th Century Canada” ( 2021) (McGill/Queens Press).  She and her team uncovered about ten neglected women who contributed to botany in Canada during this era. Some collected seeds; some developed gardens; some wrote guides to plants; some made quilts depicting Canadian and British plants. This book is the outgrowth of an earlier conference she organized to focus on women and botany in the 19th century.

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Dr. Harold Troper – “None is Too Many”: Thoughts 40 Years Later (Fall Forum #5 on Nov. 23, 2022 at 2:30 pm at Tartu)

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On the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Harold Troper’s and Irving Abella’s book, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948, the story of the Canadian government’s refusal to allow Jewish immigration from Europe during the Holocaust, Professor Troper will discuss the unusual backstory to the writing and publication of the book, how it was received, and the impact it has had on Canadian immigration and refugee policy.

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