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Now Playing - The Nipissing Warriors documentary
History DepartmentNipissing University is proud to present this exclusive release of the documentary movie Warriors. Emerging from the Nipissing First Nation Culture and Heritage history preservation project, the movie was jointly produced by Dr. Katrina Srigley, associate professor of History; and Glenna Beaucage, Nipissing First Nation culture and heritage manager, in association with Regan Pictures. -
Dr. Greer leads team to conference
ResearchHistory DepartmentGeography DepartmentDr. Kirsten Greer, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies and assistant professor of Geography and History, recently led a research team to the American Society of Environmental Historians Conference (ASEH) in Chicago and to the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Boston. -
Sturgeon Falls Mill focus of lecture
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Seminar series discussing slavery
Seminar SeriesHistory DepartmentEnvironmental Sciences/StudiesNipissing University welcomes Dr. Margot Maddison-MacFadyen to campus for a special lecture, titled Critical Histories and Geographies of Colonial Enslavement: Mary Prince and Her Enslavement Story, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself, on Friday March 24 at 2:30 p.m. in room A252. Dr. Maddison-MacFadyen is a Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellow at Nipissing University. -
Dr. Gendron talks mining in History seminar series
History DepartmentSeminar SeriesNipissing University’s department of History seminar series features Dr. Robin Gendron, associate professor of History, speaking on the topic of Canada's International Mining Industry: the Evolution of an ‘Imperialist' Industry, 1950-2000. -
Dr. Hilary Earl to deliver CICAS keynote
CICASHistory DepartmentSeminar SeriesThe Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences (CICAS) is pleased to present the keynote presentation for Winter 2017, “From Perpetrators of Genocide to Ordinary Germans: The Reintegration of Nazi Perpetrators to German Society,” by our very own Dr. Hilary Earl. -
History seminar discusses Graves’ poetry
History DepartmentSeminar SeriesMy NipissingThe History department seminar series welcomes two well-known academics for it’s first lecture of 2017. Dr. Gyllian Phillips and Dr. Sarah Winters, from Nipissing’s English department, will speak on Writing for Children in the Aftermath of WWI: The Poetry of Robert Graves. -
Upcoming talk on reclaiming Indigenous histories
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A discussion on the morality of war
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History student helps lay WWII veteran, military brother, to rest
My NipissingHistory DepartmentOn September 14, 1944, Kenneth Donald Duncanson was killed during intense fighting in Belgium during WWII. The Algonquin Regiment, to which he belonged was forced to retreat and in the chaos, Duncanson’s body was left in the Belgian field where he fell. Duncanson’s body remained lost until November 2014, when a hobbyist discovered his remains using a metal detector.
