THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS: AT HOME AND ABROAD
All papers will be given in MacNaughton Bldg, Room 105
Saturday Sept. 23
9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:30 Welcome and opening remarks
10:00 Andrew Nicholls (Guelph) "For More than King and Country: The
Persistence of the Mercenary Tradition in Seventeenth century
Scottish Military History"
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Andrew McKillop (St Andrews) "More Fruitful than the Soil:
Political and Econoomic Aspects of Recruitment in the HIghlands,
1750-1800"
12:15 Lunch (University Club) Guest Speakers Alan McKenzie and Niel Fraser
"Highland Regiments in Canada"
(Pre-registration required)
2:00 Ron Sunter (Guelph) "The Problems f Recruitment for Line Regiments
During the Napoleonic War"
3:00 Coffee
3:15 Gavin WAtt (Museum of Applied Military History) "The King's Royal
Yorkers"
- to be followed by military demonstration outside (weather permitting)
4:00 Break for supper (own arrangements)
7:00 Ceilidh (University Club) Entertainment TBA
light refreshments
(pre-registration required)
Sunday Sept. 24
9:30 Coffee and registration
10:00 Christopeher Moore (Toronto) "Raising and Settling the Royal
Highland Emigrants"
11:00 Scott McLean (Guelph) "The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders in Canada,
1838-48"
12:00 Lunch (own arrangements)
1:30 Cameron Pulsifer (Canadian War Museum) "The 78th in Halifax, 1869-71"
2:30 Paul Maroney (Queen's) "The Gordons at Dargai: A Defining Moment in
the Imperial Consciousness of late-Victorian Canada"
3:30 Closing Remarks
Conference Costs
Sat Lectures $20
Sun Lectures $20
Both days $35
Lunch $15
Ceilidh $15
Total for whole weekend $65
Limited space available so please register by phone (519) 824-4120 x3888,
email eewan@uoguelph.ca, or mail at address below by 1 September.
Please make cheques or money orders in Canadian funds payable to Scottish
Studies, University of Guelph, and send to Ms. B. Merritt, Scottish
Studies, Dept. of History, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont N1G 2W1.
Further information available from Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca