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                                                                           CONFERENCE- DAY TWO


Friday June 3rd, 2016          THE BORDER EXPLODES: THE BATTLE OF RIDGEWAY/FORT ERIE JUNE 2, 1866

8:00 AM- 8:45                          Check in, Late Registration, Coffee

9:00 AM- 9:15                           Welcome    Speakers Piped In   BANQUET HALL, CLARION HOTEL

9:15 AM- 10:00                         KEYNOTE- The Malcolm McEachern Address
                                                   
Prof. Peter Vronsky -The American Fenian Invasion and the
                                                                                            Battle That Made Canada
                                            
10:00 AM- 11:30                       THE CANADIAN MILITARY PRESENCE
                                                    
Brian Reid- Three Days in June: An Alternate History
                                                    Bob Dunk- The Queen's Own Rifles and the Ridgeway 9- The Trumpets Sound
                                                    Captain Tim Fletcher- The Riley's- Hamilton's 13th Militia and Colonel Booker

11:30 PM- 12:30                        PANEL PRESENTATION- THE FENIAN ARMY -The Benedict Maryniak Memorial
                                                     Dr. Tim Madigan- Moderator
                                                    
 Wilf Neidhardt- Fenians: Minor Nuisance or Real Threat
                                                     Derek Warfield- Colonel John O'Neill- The Man and the Warrior
                                                     William McKone- Fenian Symbols

12:30 PM- 1:30                                               Luncheon Buffet

1:30 PM- 2:00                            KEYNOTE- The William Smith Address
                                                     
Barry Kennerk (Ireland)
                                                     Medical Treatment Afforded to Casualties During The Battle of Ridgeway

2:00 PM- 2:15                                                   Coffee Break

2:15 PM- 4:00                  BREAKOUT-SPECIALIST PRESENTATIONS      MEETING ROOMS, CLARION
                                                      
                                                       1. Ed Wandall, After Ridgeway: A Second Invasion; the building of the Fenian 
                                                                                 Ram submarine
                                                       2. Peter Vronsky,- Guided Tour of The Ridgeway Battlefield
                                                       3. Jane Davies, Jude Scott and Anya Baker- Artifacts From The Fort Erie Historical
                                                                                      Museum
                                                                             Room:  Bridgeburg A
                                                       4. June Chipp: The Battle in Fort Erie
                                                       5. Lt. Col. Bernard Nehring- Ordinance Used in the Battle- Civil War Strategies and
                                                                                    Canadian Realities

4:00 PM- 5:00                           OPEN FORUM WITH PRESENTERS/ BOOK SIGNING



7:00-9:00 PM                             LITERARY EVENT with MUSICAL INTERLUDES
                                                 GUY VANDERHAEGHE in conversation with DOUGLAS GIBSON

                                "(Vanderhaeghe is) the best all-round novelist at work in Canada today "A Good Man" is the kind of impeccably crafted, Dickensian charmer we have come to expect from Vanderhaeghe...A towering achievement worthy of celebration as loud as our humble voices can declare." - "The Globe and Mail"
                                                 Douglas Gibson is 'Canada's Publisher' and author of  "Stories about Storytellers". A publisher and gifted editor for over 40 years he published Alice Munro, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, Robertson Davies and so many gifted authors including Guy Vanderhaeghe!
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