1836 and after ; a commemorative lecture to mark the completion of 150 years of higher education in Charlottetown

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Date Recorded
1986-01-18
Date Digitized
2024
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Physical Location
Original cassette held by UPEI Archives and Special Collections
Duration
01:11:39
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
00:00 Introduction

05:30 Discussion of Edmund Fanning

07:00 Discussion of Cape Breton and Vancouver island in relation to Prince Edward Island

07:30 Discussion of the 1763 Treaty of Paris

10:30 Discussion of the founding of Kent College

16:00 Discussion of genealogy in relation to colonial history

19:30 Discussion of the process of colonising PEI

27:00 Discussion of the problems with respectability politics

28:30 Discussion of the waves of settlers to PEI

30:00 Further discussion of Fanning and Kent College

31:30 Discussion of controversy over non-islanders as faculty members

33:30 Discussion of the failures of responsible government

34:30 Discussion of the political history of 19th century PEI

36:00 Discussion of the founding of the Prince of Wales College

39:30 Discussion of literature; education as vocational training

43:00 Discussion of "too many chiefs, not enough Indians" in relation to academia

47:00 Discussion of the relationship between PEI and the rest of Canada

49:30 Discussion of the Speech from the Throne in 1981

52:30 Discussion of the nature of citizenship, universities perception of

55:00 Discussion of industrialisation and enterprise

01:02:00 Concluding remarks

01:03:00 Closing remarks from Bennett

01:09:00 Discussion of a scholarship established in honour of the Academy of 1836