CNEH 2019: Canadian Economic History Meetings In Thunder Bay for the First Time

The Canadian Network for Economic History - originally the Conference on the Application of Quantitative Methods to Canadian Economic History - has been meeting since 1965.  I gave my first paper at the 1990 meetings on research based on my thesis and have made most of the meetings since.  There have been 34 meetings since 1965 and the 35th meeting is being sponsored by Lakehead University and the sessions are being held at the scenic and historic Prince Arthur Hotel in Thunder Bay, Ontario this coming week from Friday September 27th to Sunday September 29th.  The meetings over the years have been held from coast to coast and this will be the first time the meetings are being held in Thunder Bay.

The conference theme is the economic history of Indigenous communities, and interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous economies in Canada. The CNEH is pleased to announce that Ann Carlos (University of Colorado at Boulder) will give the keynote address and Donna Feir (University of Victoria and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) will give the Mary MacKinnon Memorial Lecture.



The  conference is receiving generous financial support from  the Alan G. Green Memorial Fund, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies(FSES), the Department of Economics and the Department of History at Lakehead University.  As well, the Anthropology Department and the FSES is also sponsoring the visit of Ann Carlos who along with delivering the Keynote Address will also be providing a public lecture on the fur trade as part of the Science and Environmental Studies Faculty Speaker Series on Thursday September 26th.

We are looking forward to a great conference.  The program is below.  If anyone would like to join use, registration is still open at this link.