Friday, April 29 Coffee and Registration 8:00 am – 8:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:45 am – 9:00 amSession 1: Canadian Provincial and Colonial History 9:00 am – 10:30 am Chair: Ian Keay (Queen’s University) Herb Emery (University of New Brunswick) and Sarah McRae, “Back to the Future or the End of History? Lessons for the future of the New Brunswick economy from a century of government economic development strategies” Livio Di Matteo (Lakehead University), “A Fiscal History of Ontario, 1867 to 2020: Income Elastic Spending or Displacement Effects?” Gordon Holmes (McMaster University), “Statistical Profile of the Colonial Economy of British North America”
Break 10:30 am – 10:45 amSession 2: Indigenous Communities 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Chair: Joshua Lewis (Université de Montreal) Ann Carlos (University of Colorado, Boulder), Erik Green (Lund University), Calumet Links (Lund University), and Angela Redish (University of British Columbia), “Ecology and Indigenous Agency in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: A case study of Cape Horn and Hudson Bay” Donna Feir (University of Victoria), Rob Gillezeau (University of Victoria), Maggie Jones (University of Victoria), and Kris Inwood (University of Guelph), “Indigenous nations at the turn of the twentieth century: Evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census and Indian Affairs Reports” Kris Inwood (University of Guelph), Ian Keay (Queen’s University), and Blair Long (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee), “Paternalism in Criminal Sentencing: Evidence from British Columbia, 1864-1913”
Lunch 12:15 pm – 1:30 pmSession 3: International History 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Chair: Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) Benjamin Milner (University of Alberta), Matt Lowe (University of British Columbia), and Cory Smith (University of Maryland), “Investing in Angels: The Impacts of a Century of Randomized Grants to Clergy in 18th-Century Britain” Luis Roberto Martinez (University of Chicago), Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes), Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo) Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia), and Juan David Torres (Stanford University) “Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire” Daniel Araújo (University of British Columbia), Bladimir Carrillo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Breno Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), “Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs”
Break 3:00 pm – 3:15 pmSession 4: Innovation, Development, and Political Climate 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm Chair: Herb Emery (University of New Brunswick) Tianyi Wang (Princeton University), “The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation” Amrita Kulka (University of Warwick) and Cory Smith, “Long-Run Agglomeration: Evidence from County Seat Wars” Jacob Greenspon (Harvard University), “Labour Strikes and Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution”
Break 4:45 pm – 5:00 pmMary MacKinnon Memorial Lecture 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)
Conference Dinner 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 30 Coffee 8:30 am – 9:00 amSession 5: Trade, Finance, and Mobility 9:00 am – 10:30 am Chair: Angela Redish (University of British Columbia) Ian Keay (Queen’s University) and Brian Varian (Newcastle University), “Preferential Access to the Canadian Market Under the 1897 Fielding Tariff: British Exports to Canada, 1892-1903” Elissa A.M. Iorgulescu (University of Münster), Alexander Putz (University of Münster), Pierre Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Grain Futures Trading During the Interwar Period: Introducing a New Dataset and Evidence” Luiza Antonie (University of Guelph), Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) Chris Minns (London School of Economics), and Fraser Summerfield (St. Francis Xavier University), “The Geography of Economic Opportunity in Canada over the Long Run: 1870 – 200x”
Break 10:30 am – 10:45 amSession 6: Late 20th Century History 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Chair: Blair Long (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) Jamein Cunningham (Cornell University), Donna Feir (University of Victoria), Rob Gillezeau (University of Victoria), Matthew Harvey (University of Washington – Tacoma), and Abdul Rad (Oxford University), “Law Enforcement Officer’s Bills of Rights, Policing, & Police Violence” Ricard Gil (Queen’s University) and Jingyi Xing (Wuhan University), “Political Backlash and Consumer Boycotts: Evidence from the NFB HQ Relocation and Movie Demand in Canada” Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont) and George Deltas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “The Transformation of Transatlantic Passenger Transportation, 1945-1970”
Lunch 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Business Meeting 1:30 pm – 2:00 pmKeynote Speaker Sponsored by Alan Green Memorial Fund 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Break 3:00 pm – 3:15 pmSession 7: Social Programs and Health 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm Chair: Ben Milner (University of Alberta) Kate Fairley (Stanford University), Maggie Jones (University of Victoria), and David Rosé (Wilfrid Laurier University), “A Vaccination Scar: The Cutter Incident and Medical Mistrust in America” Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon), Joshua Lewis (Université de Montreal), Edson Severnini (Carnegie Mellon), and Xiao Wang (Carnegie Mellon), “The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality” Shari Eli (University of Toronto) and Laura Salisbury (York University), “The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt”
Thanks and Closing Remarks 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Informal Dinner 7:00 pm