In June graduate students from Urban Planning and Design visited Québec City, Montréal and Ottawa to study the similarities and differences between U.S. and Canadian cities as well as investigate current urban issues confronting communities in French speaking Québec and Ottawa. Students studied the physical layout of cities, urban design, urban growth, central neighborhood revitalization

On October 16th, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’s new International Policy Institute hosted an insightful discussion on the connection between geopolitical trends and indigenous groups in the Arctic, the U.S. and Asia’s differing approaches to space exploration and establishing international cybersecurity norms. Canadian Studies Center participants who spoke in the first panel,

Originally posted: June 2015 The following is a culmination of the student comments from the their travels to Québec as part of the URBDP 498 course. These comments illustrate the value of the field course to the understanding and future research and careers of the participating students. “Taking this class provided a wonderful opportunity to

he coat that Pasch is wearing was made by Benoit approximately 25 years ago, and is designed similarly to the coats that Manitoba police used to wear from before the turn of the 20th century through to the 1950s, approximately. Buffalo coats of this type are now extremely rare in the Prairies and Pasch described

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has, through its Shared Purchase Program, acquired 230 reels of the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. Founded by politician and journalist Henri Bourassa, Le Devoir enjoys a strong intellectual reputation documenting over a century of Quebecois history and culture. This purchase completes CRL’s holdings of the backfiles for the years

The Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium Faculty Field Course to Canada introduces faculty from regional institutions to Canadian colleagues and key Canada-U.S. issues. This year’s theme is the Columbia River and the Canada-U.S. Columbia River Treaty. Morna McEachern, Social Work and affiliated faculty in Canadian Studies, was the faculty lead for the field course. See Itinerary

The course was led by Dr. Fritz Wagner and Dr. Régent Cabana. The class visited three Canadian cities—Montreal, Québec City and Ottawa—where a number of professors, government officials and other urban experts will give lectures and tours. Students got to look at the European influence as well as the distinctive Canadian French culture of these

This year’s Ecosystem Studies of the Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Annual Science Meeting was hosted but the UW’s Future of Ice Initiative and various on-campus units and departments, including Canadian Studies, who contributed to the success of the meeting. With more than 90 attendees, including scientists and researchers from the U.S., Norway, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, and more,