{"id":70526,"date":"2020-10-27T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=70526"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:28","slug":"carletons-past-president-richard-van-loon-to-present-hard-travel-alexander-mackenzie-from-canada-by-land-july-1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carletons-past-president-richard-van-loon-to-present-hard-travel-alexander-mackenzie-from-canada-by-land-july-1793\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s Past President, Richard Van Loon, to Present: Hard Travel: Alexander MacKenzie from Canada by Land July 1793"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton\u2019s Past President, Richard Van Loon, to Present: Hard Travel: Alexander MacKenzie from Canada by Land July 1793\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>For more than 6,000 years, the St. Lawrence and Ottawa valleys formed the major highway leading to the interior of North America. This talk, by Carleton\u2019s past President Richard Van Loon and the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences (OSFAS), will focus on the travellers and traders who moved west, with the support of First Nations, in the 18th century culminating in Alexander MacKenzie\u2019s epic voyage to the Pacific in 1793.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register and participate in this Zoom meeting, please email OSFAS co-chair Gail Larose at <a href=\"mailto:glarose0@gmail.com\">glarose0@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information visit &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfas.ca\">http:\/\/www.osfas.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Richard Van Loon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Loon is the past president of Carleton and past chair of the Council of Ontario Universities. He joined Carleton in 1970 as an assistant professor of Political Science and has held faculty positions in Carleton\u2019s School of Public Policy and Administration where he is a professor emeritus. He is also a member of the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ottawa. He was associate deputy minister of Health Canada and of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and held several assistant deputy minister positions in the Canadian federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 6,000 years, the St. Lawrence and Ottawa valleys formed the major highway leading to the interior of North America. This talk, by Carleton\u2019s past President Richard Van Loon and the Ottawa Society for the Arts and Sciences (OSFAS), will focus on the travellers and traders who moved west, with the support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":64920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[97,102],"class_list":["post-70526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-community-engagement","tag-event"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70528,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70526\/revisions\/70528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}