Thursday, June 2, 2016
DAY ONE- THE POWDERKEG- Fenianism, Confederation, and Neutrality
PAID ADMISSION FOR CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE- DAY ONE
8:00 AM-8:45: Check in, Late Registration, Coffee LOBBY, CLARION HOTEL
9:00 AM-9:45 WELCOME BANQUET HALL, CLARION HOTEL
Dignitaries and Speakers entrance Peter Cotton, Fort Erie Piper
ANTHEMS (all countries) LEGION BAND
Chairman's remarks and introduction to Dignitaries
Lieutenant Governor's Welcome: Her Excellency Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Mayor's Remarks: Wayne Redekop
Irish Ambassador's remarks: Dr. Ray Bassett
Senator's remarks: Senator Tim Kennedy, New York
9:45 AM-10:15 Living Tableau by Ridgeway-Crystal Beach H.S. Actors in Period Dress: One Day in History
10:15 AM-10:30 Introduction by the Master of Ceremony- Eleanor McGrath
10:30 AM- 11:15 THE MARK DEFRIES KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. David Doolin (Ireland)- Transnational Revolutionaries: The Fenian Invasion
of Canada 1866
11:15 AM- 12:15 PM FENIANISM, CIVIL WAR AND CONFEDERATION
William Jenkins (Canada)- The Fenian Views of Confederation
John Boyko (Canada) - Canadians in the Civil War and after; The period of 1860-1866; The
threats to Canada
James Laxer (Canada)- Staking Claims to a Continent- 3 North American Leaders and their
High Stakes Political Game prior to Confederation
12:15 PM- 1:00 Luncheon Buffet
1:00 PM- 1:45 KEYNOTE- The Hugh Matheson Address
Bryan McGovern & Patrick Steward
The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World
1:45 PM- 2:30 THE CHRISTOPHER ALDERSON KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Prof. David A. Wilson, author of the two volume "Thomas D'Arcy McGee"
Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence, and The Fenian Invasion
2:30 PM- 2:45 Coffee Break
2:45 PM- 4:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS & SPECIALIST PRESENTATIONS MEETING ROOMS, CLARION
1. Tim Bohen- Buffalo's First Ward- a Hotbed of Fenianism
2. Dr. Michael Quigley- Fenianism in Canada West- truth or dare- SW Ontario defends
3. Dr. Tim Madigan- The Fenian Raids in Popular Culture
4. Dr. James Tyler Robertson- Protestants and the Fenian Raids
5. Dr. Patrick McDevitt- Neutrality/The Irish Vote
6. Dr. John McLean- The Transatlantic Nature of Fenianism
7. Peter Vronsky- Conspiracy Theory: The Fenian Invasion of Canada 1866 and the
Hidden History of Anglo-American Rapprochement
4:00 PM- 5:00 OPEN FORUM WITH PRESENTERS. BOOK SALES & SIGNING
MUSICAL EVENING AT THE CLARION
FROM IRELAND
DEREK WARFIELD AND THE YOUNG WOLFE TONES
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