Canadian-Scottish Studies/Études canado-écossaises

The call for papers for the @IntlReviewScot special issue reflecting on the importance of the “blue world” to understanding Scotland and its global diaspora has been extended to 15th January 2025!

Congratulations to Louise Swaffer, McGill PhD student in History and Canadian-Scottish Studies Doctoral Fellow, who has been awarded the Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Prize for her article, “Women’s Protestant Foreign Mission Work and Settler State Formation in Canada”

Join us later this month for a talk on ‘Land and Highland clearances from the soil upwards’ from Euan Healey

Congratulations to Prof. Don Nerbas for winning the 2024 CHA Prize for Best Article! Prof. Nerbas' article “‘Lawless Coal Miners’ and the Lingan Strike of 1882–1883: Remaking Political Order on Cape Breton’s Sydney Coalfield” appeared in the 92nd issue of Labour/Le travail.

Agnes Macphail was born #OTD in 1954. Born in Ontario, her family had settled in Grey County from Argyll. She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons and a noted advocate for prison reform. Read more: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/agn…

Born #OTD in Edinburgh, Alexander Graham Bell is known worldwide as the inventor of the telephone. He spent much of his life in Nova Scotia, and conducted many experiments there at his Beinn Bhreagh estate. Read more: biographi.ca/en/bio/bell_al…