Dawn Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability blogs about the screeing. Better than TIFF- YorkU screens Return of the Far Fur Country Friday 14th 7pm
Treasures from the Far Fur Country is an archival film event presenting excerpts from the 1920 silent film The Romance of the Far Fur Country. This special screening includes rarely seen footage documenting the Hudson Bay Company’s activities and First Nations communities in the Canadian north in the early 20th century. The screening includes excerpts […]
This lecture series reconsiders the transformation of the northern half of the continent through time as a foundation for sensible engagement with the environmental challenges facing Canadian society in the twenty-first century. We have two talks: Tina Loo, History, University of British Columbia “High modernism and the nature of Canada” Monday March 5, 2012, 1-3 […]