Canadian-Scottish Studies History Colloquium
2025 Colloquium of the St. Andrew’s Society/ McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies
Wednesday 14th May 2025
13:50-14:00: Welcome
14:00-15:00: Working-Class Scottish Migration to Montreal, c. 1900-1930
Elizabeth Kirkland (Dawson College) and Mary Anne Poutanen (McGill), From Scotland to Montreal: Agents, Migrants and the Movement of Female Domestic Labour at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Louise Swaffer (McGill), Leaving Scotland, Peopling Verdun: Local and global stories of workingclass migration through place, 1910-1930
15:30-16:30: Kevin James (University of Guelph), “What’s to be done with Duf House?”: The Fluctuating Fortunes of a Scottish Country House, 1906-1939
17:00-18:00: Leith Davis (SFU), Jacobites, Cultural Memory and “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes
Atwater Library - Adair Auditorium 1200 Atwater Ave.
South of Ste-Catherine St. (metro Atwater) Accessible entrance is on Tupper Street (Follow the level walkway painted with blue lines and ring the buzzer to the right of the door.)
RSVP at cs.ce [at] mcgill.ca
A Zoom link will be available for those wishing to attend remotely.