June 10, 1997
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)
Cabot and His World Symposium Under Way in St. John's Tomorrow
The Cabot and His World Symposium gets under way tomorrow morning in St. John's. Tomorrow night's opening session at the LSPU Hall features a presentation by eminent naval architect and designer of the Matthew, Colin Mudie. Mudie has been involved with the Matthew project since he was asked to design the vessel in 1992.
On Thursday morning, Daniel Ashini, Innu Nation, and Shayne McDonald, Miawpukek Band/Federation of Newfoundland Indians, present Newfoundland and Labrador before European Arrival.
In the afternoon, the symposium presents a discussion of European Knowledge of the North Atlantic before Cabot. Presenters Brigitta Wallace and Alan Williams will speak on The Norse Voyages and From St. Brendan to the Early Bristol Probes, respectively.
A highlight of the symposium will be Thursday night's session: The Cabot Landfall: A Debate. Moderator Leslie Harris will guide speakers Fabian O'Dea, Bonavista; Brian Cuthbertson, Cape Breton; and Alan Williams; Straits of Belle Isle, through what promises to be a lively, and at times heated debate, about the Cabot landfall site.
Other presentations throughout the three-day symposium include Culture and Contact, Alternative Landfalls: The Grates Cove and Flatrock Traditions and Cabot, Canadians and Newfoundlanders. Participants and speakers come from varied backgrounds and experiences.
The Cabot and His World Symposium is the essential introduction to a summer filled with celebrations marking one man's achievement. Speakers at the symposium will discuss and debate many aspects of the voyage and the long term significance of European settlement in North America. The symposium will help all who participate to put the voyage and the celebration in context.
Cabot and His World closes in St. John's on Friday evening, and moves on to Bonavista for June 14 and 15. Editors note: The Cabot and His World Symposium programme is attached.
- Contact:
Doug Burgess
Manager, Marketing and Communications
Cabot 500 Celebrations
(709) 729-1997Pat O'Brien
Coordinator
Cabot and His World Symposium
(709) 722-2781
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Programme
Cabot and His World
June 11 - 15
St. John's
June 11 - 13
Wednesday, June 11
OPENING SESSION AND RECEPTION $7
7:30 pm "The Naval Architecture of the Matthew" LSPU Hall
Presentation by Colin Mudie, RDI, Naval Architect
Chair: James Hiller
Presentation sponsored by Hibernia Management and Development
Company and the British Council
Reception hosted by Canada's National History Society
Thursday, June 12
MORNING SESSION
10:00 am "Newfoundland and Labrador before European Arrival"
Daniel Ashini - Innu Nation
Shayne McDonald - Miawpukek Band/ Federation of Newfoundland
Indians
Chair: Adrian Tanner
Lunch Invitation Only
12:00 pm Hosted by the City of St. John's City Hall
SPECIAL CONCURRENT LEARNED SOCIETIES SESSION N/C
2:00 pm "Discovery" Memorial, Arts &
Admin, Room A1043
A multi-disciplinary roundtable
Chair: Robert Paine
AFTERNOON SESSION $5
2:00 pm "European Knowledge of the North Atlantic before Cabot"
Brigitta Wallace (Parks Canada), The Norse Voyages
Alan Williams (Birmingham), From St. Brendan to the Early
Bristol Probes
Chair: Olaf Janzen
3:15 pm Break sponsored by Auntie Crae's Food Shops
3:45 pm "The English Context of the Cabot Voyages"
Tom Evans (Memorial University), Henry VII's England and "new
found lands"
Todd Gray (University of Exeter), Fishing and England's Need
for Exploration
Evan Jones (University of Leicester), Bristol and
Newfoundland, 1490-1600
Chair: Ches Sanger
RECEPTION Invitation Only
5:30 pm Government House
EVENING SESSION $5
8:00 pm "The Cabot Landfall: A Debate"
Fabian O'Dea (St. John's) - Bonavista
Brian Cuthbertson (Halifax) - Cape Breton
Alan Williams (Birmingham) - Straits of Belle Isle
Moderator: Leslie Harris
Presentation sponsored by the Newfoundland Historic Parks
Association
Friday, June 13
MORNING SESSION $5
9:00 am "Culture and Contact"
Ingeborg Marshall
Daniel Ashini - Innu Nation
Shayne McDonald - Miawpukek Band/Federation of Newfoundland
Indians
Chair: To Be Announced
10:30 am Break sponsored by Browning Harvey Ltd.
11:00 am "The European Presence, 1500-1650"
Olaf Janzen (Grenfell College), France, England and the
Newfoundland Fishery, 1500-1604
Darlene Abreu Ferreira (University of Winnipeg), Terra Nova
through the Iberian Looking-Glass: The Portuguese-Newfoundland
Fishery in the 16th Century
Chair: Daniel Vickers
11:00 am "Alternative Landfalls: The Grates Cove and Flatrock
Traditions" Court House
Speakers to be announced.
GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOPS $15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm Gower St. United Church Lecture
Hall
The Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society will run
genealogical workshops, concentrating on West Country
connections.
LUNCH Invitation Only
12:30 pm The Kirk
Hosted by the Department of Canadian Heritage
AFTERNOON SESSION $5
2:00 pm "Cabot, Canadians and Newfoundlanders"
Shane O'Dea (Memorial University), Cabot Tower and the
Construction of Nationalism
Peter Pope (Memorial University), The Many Landfalls of John
Cabot: The Construction of National Memories in 1897.
Roberto Perin (York University), What's in a Name? Giovanni
Caboto and the Sense of Belonging
Chair: Laird Rankin
2:00 pm "Ships and Navigation" Newfoundland Museum
Daniel Vickers (Memorial University), Navigating Without Maps:
The Explorer's Problem in the Age of Discovery
Brad Loewen (Universite Laval), New Research on Shipbuilding
in the Age of Discovery
Chair: Malcolm MacLeod
3:15 pm "Cabot and Popular Culture"
Gerald Pocius (Memorial University)
Chair: Terry Bishop-Stirling
A WEST COUNTRY EVENING $20
7:00 pm Dinner and Entertainment Masonic Temple
Host: Otto Tucker
Music by Anita Best and Jim Payne
Cash Bar
Saturday, June 14
1:15 pm LUNCH $6
3:45 pm Break sponsored by Browning Harvey Ltd.
AFTERNOON SESSION $1
4:00 pm "North Atlantic Voyages before Cabot"
Birgitta Wallace (Parks Canada), The Norse Voyages
Alan Williams (Birmingham), From St. Brendan to the Early
Bristol Probes
Chair: Warren Trask
Debate $3
With Dinner $15
6:30 pm United Church Hall
Dinner sponsored by the Bonavista Historical Society
Host: Otto Tucker
8:00 pm "The Cabot Landfall: A Debate"
Fabian O'Dea (St. John's) - Bonavista
Brian Cuthbertson (Halifax) - Cape Breton
Alan Williams (Birmingham) - Straits of Belle Isle
Moderator: Leslie Harris
Reception hosted by Fred Mifflin, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Sunday, June 15
BUS TOUR $20
8:30 am "Built Heritage"
A bus tour (approx. 4 hrs) of Port Union, Trinity, King's
Cove, Keels and Cape Bonavista with George Chalker, David
White, Aiden Maloney, Gordon Bradley
Hosted by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOPS $15
10:00 am - 3:00 pm Court House
The Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society will offer
genealogical workshops, concentrating on West Country
connections.
David Sturge Artiss (Memorial), John Guy and the Bristol Rule
of the Bonavista Bay Sturges
LUNCH AND ADDRESS $7
12:45 pm "The Aboriginal Experience"
Shayne McDonald - Miawpukek Band/ Federation of Newfoundland
Indians
AFTERNOON SESSION $2
2:00 pm "The West Country Fishery and Migration"
Gordon Hancock (Memorial University), The Question of Origins
Todd Gray (University of Exeter), Fish and Ships
Evan Jones (University of Leicester), Bristol and
Newfoundland, 1490-1600
Chair: Marilyn Coles Hayley
3:15 pm Break sponsored by Bonavista Foodland
3:45 pm "Cabot, Canadians and Newfoundlanders"
Shane O'Dea (Memorial University), Cabot Tower and the
Construction of Nationalism
Peter Pope (Memorial University), The Many Landfalls of John
Cabot: The Construction of National Memories in 1897.
Roberto Perin (York University), What's in a Name? Giovanni
Caboto and the Sense of Belonging
Chair: Gordon Bradley
EVENING SESSION $2
WITH DINNER $15
6:30 pm Dinner Hosted by the Town of Bonavista
Host: Otto Tucker
8:00 pm "Cabot and Popular Culture"
Gerald Pocius (Memorial University)
Chair: Bramwell Mouland
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