History Events
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Mar 25 |
Public Lecture: Bryan Wyatt on Sports in Thunder Bay 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Feb 25 |
Public Lecture: Recent Work by Lakehead University Graduate Students 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Jan 28 |
Public Lecture: Sports in Thunder Bay 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Nov 26 |
Public Lecture: The Early French History of Thunder Bay 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Nov 4 |
Symposium on Recent Research on Finnish History 1:00 PM Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering and Sciences (CASES) FB 2023 and Online |
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Nov 4 |
Symposium on Recent Research on Finnish History 1:00 PM CASES 2023 and Zoom |
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Oct 22 |
Public Lecture: Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby on Two Spirit & Pride movement 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Sep 24 |
Public Lecture: Elder Shelia DeCorte on Water Walks 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Feb 27 |
Public Lecture: "Logging Industry and Career in Northwestern Ontario" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Feb 12 |
“All Alone in the World? What a Return of America First Would Mean for Canada” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Feb 9 |
Masterclass on Participatory and Ethnographic Filmmaking 1:00 PM Faculty of Education, 955 Oliver Rd. |
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Jan 23 |
Public Lecture: War Brides’ Journey to the Lakehead After the Second World War and Conscription at the Lakehead During the First World War 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) and Online |
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Dec 14 |
Studying Finnish-Canadian homesteads in the footsteps of archaeologist Sakari Palsi 3:00 PM Alumni House Board Room (1294 Balmoral Street) |
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Nov 29 |
Finnish-Canadian Homestead Research 7:00 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street E.) and Online |
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Aug 18 |
Book Launch 7:00 PM Entershine Bookshop, 196 Algoma St. South |
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May 30 |
Mining Country: A History of Canada’s Mines and Miners 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (25 Donald St. E.) |
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May 5 |
News from the Giant 7:00 PM Online |
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Apr 14 |
Cancelled - News From the Giant 7:00 PM PACI Auditorium (3rd Floor) |
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Feb 22 |
Lakehead University History Graduate Students' Museum Presentations 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Historical Museum |
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Jan 28 |
Spotlight on Academics Film Festival 12:00 PM Online at https://spotlightonacademics.ca |
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Jan 25 |
Free Event - Dr. Brian McLaren – Travelling West and East from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Historical Museum ONLINE |
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Jan 24 |
Spotlight on Academics Film Festival 12:00 PM Online at https://spotlightonacademics.ca |
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Jan 21 |
Spotlight on Academics Film Festival 12:00 PM Online at https://spotlightonacademics.ca |
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Nov 23 |
Free Public Lecture - Bill Reist – Bawlf and Stewart Grain Elevators Construction 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Historical Museum |
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Nov 11 |
Remembrance Day Thursday, November 11, 2021 Livestream 10:30 AM ONLINE with Research TV |
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Nov 11 |
Department of History marks the 100th Anniversary of the Poppy 10:30 AM Online |
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May 26 |
The Lakehead in Frame 7:00 PM Online |
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Mar 23 |
Free Public Lecture - 100th Anniversary of Chippewa Park 8:00 PM ONLINE with The Thunder Bay Historical Museum |
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Feb 24 |
Finland and Russia: Potential, Confrontation, Challenges 7:30 PM virtual (https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/91589527546) |
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Feb 23 |
Black Business: An Evening with Local Black Women that are leaders in Business 7:30 PM ONLINE with The Thunder Bay Historical Museum |
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Jan 26 |
TBHMS Special Events Lecture Series Sponsored by the Lakehead University Department of History 7:30 PM ONLINE with The Thunder Bay Museum |
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Nov 28 |
“Tommy Horricks & Friends: Adventures in Music Through the Years” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Nov 25 |
6th Annual Military Sympsium - Post-Combat and Recognition 8:30 AM O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Nov 14 |
The Power of the Prime Minister in Canada 8:00 PM O’Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Nov 7 |
Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words (film screening and discussion) 7:00 PM Trinity United Hall, 310 Park Avenue (across from the Armoury) |
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Oct 26 |
History for Lunch Presents - "Depicting the Dharma: Tibetan Buddhist performance of text" 1:30 PM Thunder Bay Ryan Building 1045 |
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Oct 26 |
LUHS Bake Sale 8:00 AM Outside of the Outpost |
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Oct 24 |
“Historical Stephen Leacock: What he did to History and What History did to him” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Oct 19 |
LUHS Social Gathering 6:00 PM The Study Coffee House (on campus) |
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Oct 5 |
"Being and Becoming: The British/Canada-U.S. Border and Legislated Identity" 7:00 PM Braun Building 2002 |
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Sep 28 |
LUHS: Archive Crawl 6:00 PM Begins at the Lakehead University Archives |
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Sep 26 |
“Discovery of Tug Boat Mary Ann, Lake Superior Shipwreck of Canada’s first registered vessel (1867)” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Sep 25 |
"Real and Imagined Security Threats in an Uncertain World" 8:00 PM International Student Lounge, Ground Floor, Chancellor Paterson Library |
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Sep 16 |
Film Master Class - “Data Mining the Deceased” 10:30 AM Waverley Resource Library, 285 Red River Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 1A9 |
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Sep 15 |
Film Master Class - "CANADA 150 – The Forgotten Past" 11:00 AM Waverley Resource Library, 285 Red River Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 1A9 |
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Sep 14 |
History Bonfire 7:30 PM Lake Tamblyn |
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May 13 |
Free Screening of The Incredible Journey 2:00 PM Trinity United Hall, 310 Park Ave |
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May 10 |
Lakehead Social History Institute 20th Anniversary Dinner and Speaker 5:30 PM Prince Arthur Hotel (17 Cumberland Street North) |
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May 1 |
Trump, Brexit, Le Pen: Could It Happen Here? 8:00 PM PACI, The John N. Paterson Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 401 Red River Road |
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Mar 28 |
Presentation: “Japanese-Canadian History in Northwestern Ontario” 8:00 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Mar 24 |
History for Lunch Presents: "U/Brexit: the bitter 60th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty" 12:00 PM Ryan Building 3024 |
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Mar 17 |
Vimy: Battle and Legend, 1917-2017 8:00 PM O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Mar 4 |
Connecting the Dots: Data, Statistics, and the History of the Lakehead 12:30 PM Mary JL Black Library (901 Edward Street South) |
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Mar 2 |
Solitary Confinement: A Matter of Social Justice (a documentary film screening and panel discussion). 7:00 PM Trinity Hall (310 Park Avenue) |
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Mar 2 |
A Voice for the Voiceless 1:00 PM Lakehead University, Thunder Bay - ATAC 5036 and Orillia - OA 2006 |
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Feb 28 |
Presentation: "“More on Lake Superior Lighthouses” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Feb 25 |
Heritage Symposium: Making Connections 10:00 AM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Feb 24 |
Ontario Historical Society Information Session 3:00 PM Lakehead University, Ryan Building 3023 |
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Feb 2 |
Film Screening of the Angry Inuk 7:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) |
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Feb 2 |
LUHS - Casino Royale 7:00 PM The Outpost |
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Feb 2 |
Inuit in Canada: the True North, Strong and Free? 1:00 PM Ryan Building 3046 |
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Feb 1 |
LUHS Movie Night: Casino Royale 8:00 PM Lakehead University, UC 1017 |
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Jan 24 |
Presentation: “Gunflint & Lake Superior: Ontario’s Private American Railroad” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Jan 18 |
Presentation: "The Right Road is Straight Ahead: Canadian Understandings of the Suez Crisis, 1956-1957" 7:00 PM O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Dec 11 |
Presentation and Discussion: "Celluloid Dreams: Early Film at the Lakehead, 1900-31" 2:00 PM Red Rock Public Library (42 Salls St, Red Rock, ON) |
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Nov 22 |
Presentation: "The World's First Museums" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Nov 19 |
5th Annual Military Symposium 8:30 AM O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Oct 29 |
Mapping History: Exploring the history of the Lakehead with Maps 12:30 PM Mary JL Black Library (901 Edward Street South) |
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Oct 26 |
LUHS Movie Night 7:30 PM UC 1017 |
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Oct 25 |
Presentation: "Enemy Aliens during the First World War" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Oct 19 |
Book Launch: Fodor Ferenc Önéletírásai [The Autobiographical Works of Ferenc Fodor] 12:00 PM The Study (Lakehead University) |
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Oct 5 |
History for Lunch Presents: Screening of "Enemy Aliens in Fort William" 12:00 PM Ryan Building 3049 |
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Sep 28 |
LUHS Bonfire 7:00 PM Lake Tamblyn firepit |
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Sep 27 |
Presentation: “When the Noronic Burned in Toronto” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Jun 7 |
Book Launch: Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling 6:00 PM 314 Bay Street (Above the Hoito) |
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May 28 |
Reception Celebrating Dr. Keijo Virtanen 6:00 PM Suomi Koti (527 County Blvd) |
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May 11 |
The Fighting Fanette: Women, Gender Roles, and Combat Sporting Spectacle in 20th Century Canada 7:00 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Apr 26 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Apr 24 |
Red Rock Library Series: The Modern North - Northwestern Ontario Since 1945 2:00 PM Red Rock Public Library (42 Salls Street), Red Rock |
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Apr 17 |
Red Rock Library Series: The Treasure Chest of Ontario, 1889-1945 2:00 PM Red Rock Public Library (42 Salls Street), Red Rock |
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Apr 10 |
Red Rock Library Series: From Original Peoples to the End of the Fur Trade 2:00 PM Red Rock Public Library (42 Salls Street), Red Rock |
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Apr 8 |
Graduate Conference: Inequality . Landscapes. Resources. 8:00 AM Lakehead University |
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Apr 2 |
LUHS Year End Formal Dinner and Awards 6:00 PM Prince Arthur Hotel (17 N. Cumberland Street) |
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Apr 1 |
Munk Debate - Be it resolved, give us your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free 7:00 PM ATAC 1001 |
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Mar 29 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Mar 22 |
Presentation: “The Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre" 8:00 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Mar 15 |
Film Screening - Pulp Friction: La economia mundial en tres actos 7:00 PM Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Martes 15 de marzo 2016, 19hs Salon L5 |
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Mar 12 |
LUHS Annual Archive Crawl 9:00 AM Starts at 219 May Street S. (Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame) |
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Mar 10 |
Presentation: History of Capitalism, Class Struggle & Geographical Uneveness 1:00 PM Ryan Building 1047 |
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Mar 9 |
Research Salon 4:00 PM the Study Coffeehouse |
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Mar 5 |
Photographs as Historical Evidence 12:30 PM Mary JL Black Library (901 S. Edward Street) |
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Feb 24 |
Cancelled: Remnants – Performance & Discussion 7:30 PM Simcoe Hall Room 1033. Shown via video with ATAC 1001. |
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Feb 23 |
Presentation: “The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Global and Historical Perspectives" 7:30 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Feb 23 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Feb 4 |
"To B* -- or Not to B* That is the Question: *Boycott-Divest-Sanction Israel" 8:00 PM Regional Centre 1002 |
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Feb 4 |
Film - The Well: Water Voices From Ethiopia 8:00 PM 314 Bay Street (Above the Hoito) |
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Feb 1 |
"Hungry for Change: World Hunger and the World Food System" 7:00 PM Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, John N. Paterson Auditorium, PACI |
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Jan 28 |
LUHS Speakeasy 8:30 PM The Outpost |
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Jan 26 |
Presentation: “A History of the HMCS Griffon” 7:30 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Jan 26 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Dec 17 |
Red Rock Book Signing: The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior 6:30 PM Red Rock Public Library (42 Salls Street), Red Rock |
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Dec 10 |
Film Premiere: Guardians of Eternity 7:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) |
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Dec 4 |
LUHS Social Gathering 4:00 PM The Outpost Campus Pub |
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Nov 25 |
Armed Conflict and the Voice of the Law 7:00 PM Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, John N. Paterson Auditorium, PACI |
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Nov 24 |
"The Unconventional Provenance of a William McGillivray Portrait" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald St. E) |
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Nov 24 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Nov 20 |
LUHS Social Gathering 4:00 PM The Outpost Campus Pub |
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Nov 14 |
4th Annual Military Symposium 8:30 AM O'Kelly VC Armoury (317 Park Avenue) |
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Nov 9 |
The Pity of War 7:30 PM St. Paul's United Church (349 Waverley Street) |
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Nov 6 |
LUHS Social Gathering 4:00 PM The Outpost Campus Pub |
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Oct 30 |
Boards and Bodies: Militarizing the Human Sciences in the Cold War North 2:30 PM Lakehead University, ATAC 2021 |
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Oct 28 |
History Graduate Funding Workshop Session I 2:30 PM Ryan Building 3024 |
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Oct 28 |
Geography and Politics in Twentieth Century Hungary 12:00 PM Ryan Building 3051 |
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Oct 27 |
Book Launch: The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior 7:30 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Oct 27 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Oct 23 |
LUHS Social Gathering 4:00 PM The Outpost Campus Pub |
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Oct 21 |
History Graduate Program Information Session 10:00 AM Ryan Building 3026 |
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Oct 17 |
Newspapers in History: A Community Workshop 12:30 PM Mary JL Black Library (901 S. Edward Street) |
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Oct 7 |
Book Launch: Colonialism, Development, and the Environment: Railways and Deforestation in British India, 1860-1884 6:00 PM The Embassy (314 Bay Street) |
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Oct 6 |
"Pins, Potlucks and Paid Holidays: Creating the Nazi Community of the People" 6:15 PM Orillia Public Library (36 Mississaga St W, Orillia, ON L3V 3A6) |
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Oct 4 |
Department of History Open House and Awards Reception 2:00 PM The Study Coffee House (above the Bookstore) |
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Sep 29 |
History Clinic 1:00 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street) |
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Sep 27 |
Tea, Conversation, and Film. Celebrating Women's History 1:00 PM Prince Arthur Hotel (17 Cumberland St N.) |
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Sep 26 |
Northwestern Ontario Historical Assembly 10:00 AM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Sep 22 |
Presentation: “Grain Dust Dreams” 7:30 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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Sep 21 |
The Refugee Crisis in Hungary and Europe 7:00 PM ATAC 2021 |
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Sep 20 |
Book Launch: The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior 1:00 PM Nipigon-Red Rock District High School |
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Sep 12 |
Movement in Film 12:30 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) - Multipurpose Room |
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Sep 12 |
Process in Filmmaking 11:00 AM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) - Multipurpose Room |
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Sep 11 |
Citizen Journalism 2:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) - Multipurpose Room |
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Sep 11 |
Cultural Sovereignty 2:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) - Multipurpose Room |
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Sep 10 |
The City as a Canvas: Creating Transient Public Art 2:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) - Multipurpose Room |
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Aug 7 |
History at the Live from the Rock Folk Festival 9:00 AM Red Rock, Ontario |
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Jul 19 |
History at the Nipigon River Brook Trout Festival 11:00 AM Legion (The Royal Canadian) Branch 32, 102 Fifth Street, Nipigon, Ontario |
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May 13 |
Lakehead Social History Institute Annual General Meeting 7:00 PM 425 East Donald Street (Thunder Bay Museum) |
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May 7 |
The Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany on “25 Years after Unification: Germany’s Role in a Changing World" 7:30 PM Faculty Lounge |
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Apr 21 |
"Orillia's Champlain Monument: Historical Insights" 6:15 PM Orillia Public Library (36 Mississaga Street West, Orillia, Ontario) |
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Apr 18 |
Celebrating 50 Years: The Development of Lakehead University 2:00 PM Mary J.L. Black Branch Library - 901 S. Edward Street |
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Mar 24 |
TBHMS Lecture: "Lake Superior Lighthouses - An Update" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Mar 20 |
LUHS Year End Semi-Formal 5:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) |
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Mar 11 |
History for Lunch Presents: “Fort William and the Internment of Ukrainians during WWI” 11:30 AM Ryan Building 3024 |
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Mar 4 |
History for Lunch Presents: “Indian soldiers/sepoys in the First World War” 11:30 AM Ryan Building 3024 |
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Feb 28 |
LUHS Annual Archive Crawl 9:00 AM Various |
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Feb 24 |
TBHMS Lecture: "Waterfalls and Landslides in Northwestern Ontario: A History” 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Feb 24 |
History for Lunch / Black History Month Presents: "Africa and the First World War" 11:30 AM Ryan Building 3049 |
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Feb 23 |
John A. Macdonald and the First Nations 11:30 AM Lakehead University Chancellor Paterson Library, Room 5002 |
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Feb 10 |
History for Lunch / Black History Month Presents: “Return of the Regiment: World War I and the Radicalization of West Indian Workers in Costa Rica” 11:30 AM Ryan Building 3049 |
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Feb 5 |
Newfoundland Screening of Pulp Friction 7:30 PM Memorial University, St. John's and Grenfell Campuses |
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Jan 29 |
Stephen Clarkson on "Should We Redesign Rules Protecting Foreign Investment?" 8:00 PM ATAC 1010 and OA 2006 |
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Jan 27 |
History for Lunch Presents: “Finland as German Satellite in 1918” 11:30 AM Ryan Building 3049 |
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Jan 20 |
TBHMS Lecture: "The Tugboat History of Thunder Bay" 7:30 PM Thunder Bay Museum (425 Donald Street East) |
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Jan 16 |
LUHS Social Gathering 4:00 PM The Study |
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Jan 15 |
Slam Poetry Performance 7:00 PM Finnish Labour Temple (314 Bay Street) |
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Jan 15 |
"Rethinking Marxism in an Age of Automation and Globalization" 10:00 AM Ryan Building 3024 |
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Jan 14 |
Spoken Word Workshop 6:30 PM Brodie Resource Library (216 S. Brodie Street) |