Preliminary
Presentation Schedule
Tentative:
time, locations and activities may change. |
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| Thursday,
October 12 |
| 19:00
to 22:00 |
Registration
Ice Breaker, no host bar — Panorama Room, International
Building (IB) |
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| Friday,
October 13 |
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| 8:30-9:30 |
Opening
and Keynote Lecture |
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H. Kato |
Diverse and changing communities
in Japan: New trends and future prospects |
| 9:30-10:00
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Coffee
Break |
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| 10:00-12:00
|
Panels |
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| Panel
1: Communities
within Communities(1) (Panorama 1) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| F.
Ikawa-Smith and H. Kato |
N. Suzuki |
An attempt to establish a new home for
elderly Japanese Canadians and Nikkei groups in Toronto |
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S. Matsumoto |
Korean Community and Church in Montreal |
| |
Y. Shibata |
Four Japanese Canadian (Nikkei) Women Writers:
An Anthropological Twist |
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I. Yamaguchi |
Vivre avec et dans les differences: l'integration
identitaire chex de jeunes montrealais d'origine chinoise |
| Panel
2: Business,
marketing and economics (Panorama 2) |
| T. Bryant |
J. Beamer |
Kimono Revived: A Response to a Homogenized
World Culture? |
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T. Bryant |
Kijiro Nambu: pre-war Japan’s most
influential inventor/businessman? |
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A. Uzama |
Global Market Entry: Selling to the Japanese;
A critical evaluation of current theories and practices
for Japan market entry |
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Y. Foong & S. Richardson |
Working in a Japanese company: The Perceptions
of Malaysian Employees |
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P. Parker |
Japan on our rooftop: Looking up and to
the future with solar photovoltaic technology |
| Panel
3: Geography
(Panorama 3) |
| T.
Waldichuk |
T. Kubo |
Residential Choice of Condominium Residents
in the Centreal Area of Local Cities: A Case Study of Mito
City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan |
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H. Kikkawa |
Dissolution of Communal Property and of
Pre-modern Collective Land Rights Under Modernization Policy
of the Japanese Government |
| |
T. Matsubara |
Structural Change of Farming and Policy
for Preserving Farmland: the Case Study of Hukuchiyama City
in Kyoto Prefecture |
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N. Numata |
Re-centralization of Population in Sapporo
City |
| Panel 4:
Contemporary Art (Visual Arts Gallery OM 1578) |
| D.
Kalynka |
R. Wallace |
“Aibo Come Home” Im-printing
Experience |
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D. Neave |
Uncharted Territory: The Performance Art
of Japan’s Dumb Type |
|
| 12:00-13:00 |
LUNCH
— Panorama Room |
| 12:35-12:50 |
Book
Launch |
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Yuzo Ota |
|
| |
Debito Arudou |
|
| |
Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien |
|
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| 13:00-14:30 |
Panels |
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| Panel
1: Communities
within communities(2) (Panorama 1) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| F.
Ikawa-Smith and H. Kato |
M.Creighton |
It’s Not Just About Kimchi, Tacos
and Coconut Soup: Ethnic and Foreign Minorites Staging a
More Diversity Tolerant Japanese Society |
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Y. Munoz |
A struggle towards multiculturalism in
Japan: the Ainu People |
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D. Arudou |
Japan’s Imminent Internationalization:
Can Japan Assimilate its Immigrants?
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C. Yamada |
The Strategy for Community Survival, Christian
Island, Kuroshima, Nagasaki |
| Panel
2: Women
& modernizing Japan (Panorama 2) |
| P.
Tsurumi |
P.Tsurumi |
Life is Resistance: Ito Noe |
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J. Matsumura |
Resistance is Life: Nakamoto Takako (1903-1991) |
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G. Bell |
“No, Kabuki, and Rakugo: the Give
and Take of Japanese Modernization” |
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N. Takayanagi |
The Cultural Production of Motherhood:
Urban Middle-class Mothers' Identity Formation and their
Communities in Japan |
| Panel
3: Rewriting
the global other (literature) (Panorama
3) |
| N.
Ota |
S. Callaghan |
Re-reading the Global Other in Contemporary
Japan, Kuki Shozo and the Excess of Essence |
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S. Osenton |
Bean Buns from Heaven: Anpanman and the
Construction of National Identity |
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B. Ambury |
Representing the Other—The Monster
Within AND Without |
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N. Ota |
Translation Culture, Identity and Globalization |
|
| 14:30-15:00 |
Coffee
Break |
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| 15:00-16:30 |
Panels |
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| Panel
1: The
“Other” Japan — changing communities (1) (Panorama 1) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| D.
Edgington |
M. Takeuchi |
The State Reinforcement of Homogeneity
and Nationalism in Japan; The Investigation of Japaneseness
and the Notebook of the
Heart |
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S.R. Nagy |
National Exclusion, Local Inclusion: Examining
the Disconnect between National Immigration Policies and
Local Integration Policies |
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D. Edgington |
Gaijin are Residents Too!: Multiculturalism,
Japanese Cities and Field Work |
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M. Lewis |
Soeda Azembo, Enka Ballads, and Protest
and Patriotism in Prewar Japan |
| Panel
2: University
reforms (Panorama 2) |
| J.Chan |
S. Okayama |
Le public et le privé dans la -
privatisation - des universités japonaises |
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N.Inuzuka |
University Reform for Gender Equality in
Japan |
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H. Hara |
Deregulation, Competition, and the Emergence
of For-Profit Universities in Japan |
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J.
Chan |
Academic Capitalism in Japan: national
University Incorporation and Special Zones for Structural
Reform |
| Panel
3: Women
communities — pre-modern Japan (Panorama 3) |
| G.
Ivanova |
L. Zwarenstein |
“My Father’s Writing Set”:
Medieval; Women’s Diaries and Literary Tradition |
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H. Shiga |
Edo Women on the Road: Pleasures and Hardships
in Travel Diaries |
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G. Ivanova |
Women’s In-jokes in Heian Japan:
Makura no soshi |
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S. Arntzen |
Discussant |
| Panel
4: Exploring
missionary experiences in prewar SE Asia
(IB1020) |
| Y.
Chang |
B. Sewell |
Between a Half-dozen Rocks and
a hard Place: The Dynamics of Missionary Activities in Prewar
Manchuria |
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S. Nantais |
“Sur le front des missions”:
French-Canadian Catholic Missionaries in Manchuria in the
1930s |
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W. Tait |
Competing Missions: Atlantic
Canadian Presbyterian Missionaries in Korea and Manchuria |
| |
R.J. Perrins |
A Growing Lack of Concord: Scottish
Missions and Legislative Landmines during the Manzhouguo
Era |
| 17:00-18:00 |
guest lecture |
| |
A. Kobayashi |
Redefining Nikkei in a globalizing context |
| 18:00-20:00 |
ART GALLERY
RECEPTION — Exhibition Opening:
(TRU Art Gallery, OM) |
| D. Kalynka |
|
Trilateral Print Exchange Exhibition “Re-identification”
Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands |
|
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| Saturday,
October 14 |
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| 8:30-10:00 |
Panels |
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| Panel
1: Pros &
cons of online testing with moodle (IB1015) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| N. Ota |
G. Ivanova |
Pros & cons of online testing with
moodle |
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N. Yabuki-Soh |
Pros & cons of online testing with
moodle |
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M. Street |
Pros & cons of online testing with
moodle |
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N. Ota |
Pros & cons of online testing with
moodle |
Panel
2: Health &
Ageing — Lessons for Canada; Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific
Foundation of
Canada (1) (IB1020) |
| J. Tiessen |
C. McMillan |
forthcoming |
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J. Campbell |
Policy Correction: The First Reform of
Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System |
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J. Tiessen |
forthcoming |
| Panel
3: The Kakehashi
(Bridge-Across) Project: Bridging between Evolving Transnational
Japanese Communities (IB1014) |
| H. Noro |
H. Noro |
Introduction to our panel |
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S. Kojima |
Searching for new “Nikkei”
identities |
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S. Kotani |
The Intercultural Meanings of “Nikkei”
in the Era of Global Capitalism:An Ethnographic Study in
San Francisco’s Japantown |
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T. Inoue |
Education and bilingual situation surrounding
Nikkei Nissei in Hawaii before WWII |
| Panel
4: The “Other”
Japan — changing communities (2) (IB1010) |
| B. Pendleton |
K. Furuhashi |
Impact of International Residents
and Changes to Community in Shizuoka Prefecture |
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B. Pendleton |
2266 CE —The Last Japanese Passes
Away: Implications of the Population-Immigration Debate |
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D. Arudou |
The Otaru Onsens (Hot Springs) Case and
Racial Discrimination in Japan |
|
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
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| 10:30-12:00 |
Panels |
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Panel
1: Health & ageing — Lessons
for Canada; Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific
Foundation of
Canada (2) (IB1020) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| T. Waldichuk |
Y. Kaneko |
forthcoming |
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N. Ogawa |
Population aging and health care spending
in Japan: public and private sector responses |
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N. Chappell |
Lessons to be Learned
from Aging in Japan—Will Canada Benefit from or Misuse
Them? |
| Panel
2: Religion (1) (IB1014) |
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R. Aitken |
Globalization and the Construction of Alternative
Religious Movements in Modern Japan |
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T. Yamada |
Contesting the Sacred in the Discourse
of Cultural Heritage |
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M. Petrucci |
In search of new social values: the impact
of Christian and Buddhist Educated Elite on Occupational
and Religious Organization in Sixteenth Century Japan |
| Panel
3: Japanese education system (IB1010) |
| J. Dierkes |
Y. Ida |
The comparison of education for developing
identity in Nunavut and Okinawa |
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S. Miyafusa |
Critical Examination of the Educational
Delivery in Japan |
| |
J. McLean |
An investigation into the source of pedagogical
techniques that have resulted in a high level of mathematical thining
competence among Japanese secondary school students |
| |
J. Dierkes |
Empiricism in Postwar Japanese History
Materials |
|
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Workshop
(IB204 computer lab) |
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T. Suzuki |
Japanese Online Database Workshop: Introduction
to Searching for Books, Journals, Prewar Asian Diplomatic Documents,
Statistics, and Women’s Studies |
| 12:00-1:00
|
GUEST
LECTURE (IB1008) |
| D. Kalynka |
M. Kuroyanagi |
Between Light and Shadow |
| 12:00-1:00
|
JSAC Executive meeting (IB1019) |
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| 13:00-14:30 |
Panels |
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| Panel
1: East Asian History (IB1015) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| B. Sewell |
C.S. Takagaki |
State Shinto and the Subjugation
of Local Communities in Japanese Colonies |
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S. Simon |
Making Natives on Formosa: Japanese Colonial
Policy and the Creation of Taiwanese Indigeneity |
| |
Y. Chang |
Contesting Identities: Japanese Colonial
Rule and the Formation of Nationalistic NGOs in Hong Kong |
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Y. Ota |
ARISHIMA Takeo (1878-1923):
A Case Study towards a Better Understanding of the Taisho
Period |
| Panel
2: Government & politics (IB1020) |
| Amb. J. Caron |
C. Holroyd & K. Coates |
Preparing for the 21st Century: Innovation,
Reorganization and Mobilization in Japan |
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A. Corrin |
Phoenix of perennial underdog: has Okinawa,
in the aftermath of the pacific war and post U.S. occupation,
been given a voice; or does the once independent kingdom
now capitulate to the political volition of mainland Japan? |
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D.Beason |
Growth implications of Japan’s debt
crisis |
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J. Kovalio |
Positive and negative
aspects in Japan’s present position in Asia Pacific |
| Panel
3: Social studies education
(IB1014) |
| T. Waldichuk |
M. Tsubota |
The Citizenship Education: Trends and Issues
in Social Studies; Canada and Japan |
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S. Miyazaki |
A Comparative Study on Environmental Learning
in Geographical Education in Canada and Japan |
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T. Waldichuk |
The evolution of teaching the geography
of Japan in Japan in Japanese, outside Japan in English,
and the present situation of teaching the Geography of Japan
at Canadian universities |
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H. Pirnes |
Learning by developing—encouraging
innovativeness in joint Japanese-Finnish elderly care research
and development project. |
| Panel
4: Language and Culture (IB1010) |
| J. Kess |
Y. Igarashi & J. Kess |
Developing Transliteration Rules
from Katakana Loanwords to English Originals |
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N. Langton |
“Kuitsuki ga chau nen:” Gender,
Language and Change in a Women’s University |
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X. Yang |
Classical Literature in Modern Voice—The
Creation of “Narration: a Scroll of the Late
Three Years War” |
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A Devine |
Sociopragmatic knowledge and pragmalinguistic
behavioiur |
| Panel 5:
Chado (IB1010) |
| C. Cadre |
R. Pussel |
Chado: The Japanese Way of Tea |
|
| 14:30-15:00 |
Coffee
Break |
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| 15:00-16:30 |
Panels |
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| Panel
1: Printmaking (IB1015) |
| Chair |
Presenter(s) |
Title of paper |
| D. Kalynka |
C. Stewart |
Printmaking Cooperatives as
Conduits for Cross-Cultural Exchange |
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M. Kuroyanagi |
Sightline for the Future |
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N. Saito |
Recent Graduate Student of Tama University
experience of Printmaking studios and Co-ops |
| Panel 2:
NE Asia Security (IB1008) |
| W. Jiang |
W. Jiang |
forthcoming |
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K. Hara |
From Bilateralism to Multilateralism: land
Settlement as a Model for the
“Northern Territories” Problem? |
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M. Hossain |
Fostering “Human Security”:
The Heightened Promises of Japan and Canada |
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S. Ikeda |
Japan between US Unilateralism and Revived
Sino-Centrism: An Exploration of Long-term Security |
| Panel 3:
Investigating Nikkei (IB1020) |
| Y. Shibata |
T. Kage |
Postwar Japanese Immigrants in the Vancouver
Area - Adaptation Process through their Organizational Activities |
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Y. Hoyano |
Getting Involved in Japanese Canadian Community
in Edmonton |
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Y.Tanaka |
Telling the Tales of Diaspora—through
Japanese Folklore and Immigrant Experiences |
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N.Takei |
The Place and Value of Heritage Language
in the Lives of Japanese Canadians |
| Panel 4:
Japanese education and culture (IB1014) |
| J.Dobson |
K. Namita |
Revision of Foreign Language
Education Policy in Japan |
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C. Mizoue |
Cultural Exchange between Canada and Japan:
Building Educational Museum in Toronto and Tokyo |
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N. Nakamura |
Managing Cultural Representation and Promotion
of the Ainu: Ainu Culture Cluster Project at the Nibutani
Ainu Culture Museum |
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J. Dobson |
Dispatch law and Education in Japan |
| Panel 5:
Canada-Japan comparisons and connections (IB1010) |
| J. Alexander |
R. O'Day |
Japanese Tourism to Canada: re-thinking
the Japan-Canada relationship in the age of globalization |
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D. Kojima |
Changing Process of Projected Image of
Canada in Japanese Package Tour Brochure |
| |
J. Alexander |
The Japan-Canada Meth Connection: How Canadian
Smugglers are Reviving Japan's Postwar Amphetamine Epidemic |
|
| 5:00-6:00 |
JSAC
AGM (IB1020) |
| F. Ikawa-Smith |
|
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| 7:00-10:00
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| CONFERENCE BANQUET and KEYNOTE
ADDRESS BY: His Excellency Joseph Caron, Ambassador of Canada
to Japan — “The new Japanese government : New
directions and implications for Canada” |
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| Sunday, October
15 |
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There
are no presentations on Sunday, October 15.
There will be a field trip to Adams River. Please contact Tom
Waldichuk if interested (twaldichuk@tru.ca). |
