7 November 2005

Dr. Bill Brennan (Department of History)

“Saskatchewan’s First Century: Five Events that Have Shaped Our Province”

Lecture, Reception, and Tour

Date: Monday 7 November 2005
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Darke Hall, 2201 College Avenue

Momentous events have shaped the history of Saskatchewan over the past 100 years. In the popular mind these have included two world wars, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the introduction of Medicare in 1962. Historians regard other events, ones that are not nearly so well known to the public perhaps, as being of great importance as well. On 7 November Dr. Bill Brennan offered a historian’s assessment of the five events over the last century that have had the greatest impact on our province and the reasons why.

Dr. Bill Brennan teaches courses in Western Canadian and Saskatchewan history at the University of Regina. His publications include Regina: An Illustrated History (published as part of the History of Canadian Cities Series by James Lorimer & Company and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1989). He also edited “Building the Co-operative Commonwealth“: Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada, the papers of a conference hosted by the Canadian Plains Research Center in 1983 marking the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Regina Manifesto. Dr. Brennan is the chair of the Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and a member of the editorial board of Saskatchewan History.