1 July 2012, Trafalgar Square, London
10:30-20:00
Come and visit us in the Universities Pavilion on Canada Day.
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About BACS
The British Association for Canadian Studies acts as a forum for Canadianists in the UK and holds an annual conference at Easter each year.  
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Books for Review!
The current list of books available for review in the BJCS is available on the BACS website
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BACS E-News
The next deadline for copy for BACS E-News is
28 August 2012
There will be no E-News over the summer months |
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Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges
Institute for the Study of the Americas,
Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, University of London, Friday 29 June 2012
Attendance is free of charge. To register please email Tony McCulloch by 25 June 2012.
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The War of 1812: Myth and Memory, History and Historiography
12-14 July 2012
Senate House, London
Programme
This conference is the result of a partnership between the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London, the London Canadian Studies Association and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
For more information, please contact either Phillip Buckner or Tony McCulloch.
To register for the conference, please go to the website of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
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Applications are invited for the Eccles British Library
Writer in Residence Award 2013
The award of £20,000, sponsored by the David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, is open to writers resident in the United Kingdom. Writers should be working on a non-fiction or fiction full-length book, written in the English language, the research for which requires that they make substantial use of the British Library's collections relating to North America (the USA and/or Canada). The award holder will be the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence for a period of one year from 1st January 2013. The award will help the Writer in Residence to spend part of that time on site at the British Library, making direct use of the collections relating to North America (the USA and/or Canada).
Closing date: 31st August 2012.
For full details see the Eccles Centre webpages.
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Congratulations...
...to Ged Martin, winner of the Ontario Historical Society's J. J. Talman Award, recognizing the best book on Ontario's social, economic, political or cultural history published in the past three years, for his book Favourite Son? John A. Macdonald and the Voters of Kingston, 1841-1891, published by the Kingston Historical Society.
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The Dear Little Mother, Queen of Our Heart
Mon 16 July 2012, 18.45 - 20.15
Conference Centre, British Library, London
£4 / £3 concessions
Inspired by the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year, this talk by Professor Cecilia Morgan (University of Toronto) author of 'A Happy Holiday': English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930, looks at Canada's relationship with Britain and the Royal Family.
More information and booking through the Eccles Centre webpage.
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