In early September, Study Canada K-12 hosted an event called “The Indigenous land you live on: going beyond land acknowledgements”. Christine McRae, executive director of Native Land Digital held a conversation centered around Native-Land.ca, a website and app that allow users to enter their location and reveal the Indigenous territories upon which they stand. The

International Journal of Canadian Studies (IJCS) just released Vol. 57 co-edited by the Center’s Managing Director Nadine Fabbi, and Claude Denis, University of Ottawa. Nadine Fabbi served as co-editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies from 2018 to 2020. Volume 57 of IJCS includes articles on North American history, representation of immigrants and minorities

The Canadian Studies Center recently supported its first virtual study abroad student through the new program with l’Université Laval in Québec City. This summer the program had its first student, Terry Price, ​a post-baccalaureate French major (who is also a UW staff member), take advantage of the Center’s new direct exchange agreement with l’Université Laval. In

“Bob always thought Canada had something important to teach the United States and for that matter the world”—Don Alper Bob Monahan was a splendid man and a giant in the field of Canadian Studies. Bob, one of the early Canadian Studies pioneers, dedicated much of his career to building Canadian Studies in the United States.

We are proud to welcome the first Banting scholar, Dr. Patricia Johnston, to the School. Her research project is titled, “Inuit child and family welfare.” Dr. Johnston’s research program concerns social services in the Canadian Arctic. She has worked in social services for the governments of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut and

Madison Welsh, a political science major, was awarded a virtual internship to work with the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle this fall quarter. Madison is majoring in political science and is deeply curious about how Canadian politics fits into the larger Canada-U.S. relationship. Working for the Canadian government has been a life-long dream for

Our featured course for fall quarter 2020 is ARCTIC 200: Indigenous Diplomacies and International Relations in the Arctic, offered Tuesdays from 2:30-5:20pm. Taught by Jason Young (a former Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Inuktitut through the Canadian Studies Center), this course introduces students to international relations in the Arctic, with an emphasis on understanding

Each year, the Center welcomes newly awarded Corbett Exchange Scholars and sends off our departing students with a reception that brings them together with our patrons, Gary and Consuelo Corbett, representatives from the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle, and staff and administrators from the Canadian Studies Center and the Henry M. Jackson School of

Thanks to a new partnership between our Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada, which includes Western Washington University, students at both institutions are eligible for internships with the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle. The Consulate General of Canada, Seattle and University of Washington and Western Washington University are opening the Virtual Canada-U.S. Relations International

At the end of May, Kathy Snow, UW’s 2019-20 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies, and colleagues from Nunatsiavut, discussed Inuit education in Canada. Across the Arctic, innovative teachers, principals, school boards, and community members have been moving forward the National Committee on Inuit Education’s goal of supporting Inuit youth to stay in school and achieve