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9/8/03

CELEBRATION TO HONOR SLU PROF FOR BOOK PUBLICATION

CANTON – The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Library at 
St. Lawrence University will hold a reception to honor Visiting 
Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies Neil S. Forkey for the 
publication of his book, Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: 
Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley. The event 
will be on Friday, September 12, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young 
Room of Owen D. Young Library. Forkey will speak about his book at 
the reception.
	Published by the University of Calgary Press, Shaping the 
Upper Canadian Frontier provides a look at Canada's Trent Valley in 
the 19th century, an area termed by the publishers "a microcosm for 
wider human and environmental changes throughout North America."
	"Forkey makes a significant contribution to the growing body 
of work on Canadian environmental history," the publishers state. 
"Themes of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley are brought 
into wider perspective with comparisons to other areas of contemporary 
settlement throughout the British Empire and North America."
	Forkey begins by placing his study within the literature of 
settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. The Trent Valley's 
geography, prehistory and Native peoples – the Huron and the Mississauga – 
are discussed alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations and "resettlement" 
of the area. 
	A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Forkey earned a 
master's degree from the University of Maine and the Ph.D. from Queen's 
University in Kingston, Ontario. He also teaches in St. Lawrence's 
First-Year Program.

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