Canada Seminar

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Date and Time

October 13, 2026
12:00PM - 01:30PM EDT

Location

CGIS Knafel, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
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Sugar Farmers of Manitoba

“Sugar Farmers of Manitoba” is the title of a book published by the Manitoba Beet Growers Association in 1968. This detailed institutional history also provides inadvertent and disturbing insight into the history of racism and settler colonialism in Canada. A more comprehensive history of sugar in the province has yet to be written, and this talk is a step toward that task. 

Speaker

  • Janis Thiessen, Professor of History, University of Manitoba.

Chair

  • Mary Jane McCallum, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People, History and Archives, Department of History, University of Winnipeg.

Contact

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

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