14 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 working-class migration through place, 1910-1930

15:00-15:30: Break

15:30-16:30: Kevin James (University of Guelph), “What’s to be done with Duff House?”: The Fluctuating Fortunes of a Scottish Country House, 1906-1939

16:30-17:00: Break

17:00-18:00: Leith Davis (SFU), Jacobites, Cultural Memory and “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes

Location: 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: cs.ce [at] mcgill.ca