A series of field trips will be offered at IST 2019 on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 25th. They showcase a variety of local content engaging with the Canadian transition context that we believe will be of interest to IST delegates. If you would like to attend a field trip, we ask that you sign up with the relevant contact listed below. Accompanying family and friends are also welcome!
Visit to the Arboretum
This field trip will guide participants around the Arboretum, a spectacular green space in the heart of Canada’s capital that has enchanted and delighted visitors for more than a century. Surrounded by the city, the Arboretum is a lush oasis in the summer months with a wide range of flora and fauna to discover. Guided by Ken Farr, a dendrologist with the Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resource Canada, this tour will focus on the trees of the Arboretum and the importance of the forestry industry in Canada. Take advantage of lookout points and views of the Rideau Canal, the Carleton Campus, Dow’s Lake and the surrounding city!
Coordinator: Kenn Far
Registration: Those interested should send an email to brie.r.morrison@gmail.com by June 23 to reserve a place.
Capacity: 20 people
Time: 4:30pm – 6pm
Cost: Participants will be required to arrange their own transportation (e.g., public transportation, uber, or taxi) back to the hotels at the end of the tour.
Meeting Location: In front of Dunton Tower on the Carleton campus
Additional Information: We will walk from Dunton Tower over the locks and into the Arboretum.
A Visual Tour of the Political-economic History of Ottawa
This specially-designed walking/visual ‘tour’ uses the spectacular vista from the highest point of land in Ottawa (Nepean Point, which overlooks Parliament Hill and the Ottawa River) to survey key moments in the city’s political-economic history. Included are discussions of the following: (1) the pre-contact millennia of Indigenous possession; (2) French colonialism and the fur trade; (3) British colonialism, Indigenous dispossession and the transformation of land into property; (4) settlement, British military needs and the timber trade; (5) British military strategy and construction of the 200 kilometer Rideau Canal; (6) lumber, the American market and Ottawa’s 19th century industrial revolution; (7) the 19th century selection of Ottawa as national capital and the construction of Parliament Hill; (8) World War II and the dramatic growth of the federal state; (9) Ottawa’s high tech boom and bust; and (10) Ottawa in the era of climate emergency.
Guide: The tour will be conducted by Brian McDougall Ph.D., an adjunct professor of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University and the founder of Peoples’ History Walking Tours.
Registration: Those interested should send an email to Abou Baker Kaddour at AboubakerKaddour@cmail.carleton.ca by June 21 to reserve a place.
Capacity: A minimum of 10 participants will be required for this tour to run. A maximum of 35 can be accommodated.
Time: 5.15pm – 6:45pm
Meeting Location: In front of the Chateau Laurier (downtown).
Cost: This tour is $30.00 per person (a discount will apply if more than 15 people participate)
Additional information: Participants will walk to Nepean Point from the Chateau Laurier and then later across the bridge to the Museum of History for the Conference Dinner. Participants can also book one of Brian’s six regular walking tours in Ottawa (for Sunday afternoon, June 23rd or Wednesday afternoon, June 26th). See his website for details. Reviews of Brian’s tours can be found here.
The Politics of Consent and Colonization: Indigenous-Canada Relations
A talk by Professor Frances Abele, of the School of Public Policy at Carleton University, on the evolution of Indigenous-Canada relations since European emissaries arrived, with an emphasis on current political issues, including land rights, treaties, sources of inequality and institutional reform. It will address historical and contemporary issues such as residential schools and the enquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
Professor Abele has worked with Indigenous Peoples all over Canada and in some parts of the circumpolar Arctic for most of her career. Her research has focused on northern economic and political development, Aboriginal self-governance, policy and programs important to Aboriginal people living in cities, policy and program evaluation, qualitative research and citizen engagement. Besides her academic publications, Abele has published research reports with the National Centre for First Nations Governance, Canadian Policy Research Networks, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Coordinator: Abou Baker Kaddour
Registration: Those interested should send an email to Abou Baker Kaddour at AboubakerKaddour@cmail.carleton.ca by June 21 to reserve a place.
Capacity: 20 people
Time: 4:20pm – 5:25pm
Cost: Free
Meeting place: Richcraft Hall 3220
Additional Information: We will catch the shuttle back to the hotels at 5:30pm.
Visit to the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research
This field trip will visit an experimental facility used for conducting long-term explorations of novel concepts aimed at radically reducing the dependence of Canadian housing on conventional energy sources. Located on the Carleton University campus, the facility incorporates a range of energy conversion, storage, and distribution systems (e.g., evacuated-tube solar-thermal collectors, two buried seasonal-thermal stores, an air-source heat pump coupled to a rock-bed thermal store, and radiant hydronic floors). Prof. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, who is the Canada Research Chair in Innovative Energy Systems for Residential Buildings and leads Carleton University’s Sustainable Building Energy Systems group, will be on hand to discuss the various energy technologies and experiments in the home.
Coordinator: Anthony Afful-Dadzie
Registration: Those interested should send an email to aafful-dadzie@ug.edu.gh by June 21 to reserve a place.
Capacity: 30 people
Time: 4:20pm – 5:30pm
Cost: Free
Meeting Location: In front of Richcraft Hall
Additional Information: We will walk to and from the experimental facility on campus (10-15 minutes in each direction). We will catch the shuttle back to the hotels from Richcraft Hall at 5:30pm.
Visit to Carleton University Art Gallery
This field trip will tour the permanent collection of the Carleton University Art Gallery as well as two current exhibits focused on the environment: Human Interventions in the Landscape and Places, Paths, and Pauses. The gallery hosts an impressive collection of Canadian, First Nations and Métis, and Inuit artwork. The tour will be conducted by Fiona Wright, the Student and Public Programs Coordinator for the CU Art gallery.
Coordinator: Fiona Wright
Registration: Those interested should send an email to Sasha Hanson Pastran at sashahansonpastran@gmail.com by June 21 to reserve a place.
Capacity: 30 people
Time: 4:20pm – 5:30pm
Cost: Free
Meeting place: Inside the main entrance of Richcraft Hall
Additional Information: Fiona Wright from the CU Art Gallery will meet any interested participants in the Richcraft Foyer at 4:20pm. She will walk participants to the Gallery for the tour and walk participants back to Richcraft Hall to catch the shuttle back to the hotels at 5:30pm.
Visit to Flora Hall Brewing
Deep changes are underway in the beer industry, with small and independently owned breweries challenging multinational behemoths. At the heart of this transformation is the craft beer movement that has enabled breweries to problematize industrialized processes, innovate technologies, reimagine and diversify a homogenized product, and focus on community-building to drive social change – one pint at a time. On this field trip, we visit Flora Hall Brewing and meet with founder Dave Longbottom to experience first-hand what makes craft breweries so transformative. We will get behind the scenes, learn about what goes into brewing small batches, followed by a beer tasting, and discuss with Dave the ins and outs of the Canadian craft beer movement.
Coordinator: Christopher Luederitz
Registration: Those interested should send an email to Abou Baker Kaddour at AboubakerKaddour@cmail.carleton.ca by June 21 to reserve a place.
Capacity: 20 people
Time: 4:20pm – 6:30pm
Cost: This tour is $10 per person
Meeting place: Inside the main entrance of Richcraft Hall
Additional Information: We will board a shuttle bus to Flora Hall Brewing. The tour of Flora Hall Brewery will last approximately 60 minutes. After the brewery tour, we will walk back to the Alt Hotel (a 15 minute walk along Bank Street) to catch the 6:35pm shuttle to the conference dinner.