Past Events
WEBINAR February 20th - Tony Robinson-Smith
Of Canoes and Crocodiles - Paddling the Sepik in Papua New Guinea
Of Canoes and Crocodiles - Paddling the Sepik in Papua New Guinea
Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country’s longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea.
WEBINAR March 6th - Darin Wybenga,
“We Are Still Here - the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.”
In the 17th century because of the European fur trade, the Mississaugas -- a subgroup of the Ojibway (Anishinaabe) Nation -- established homes on the flats of rivers and creeks flowing south into Lake Ontario. Mississauga First Nations in Ontario include Alderville, Hiawatha, Curve Lake, Scugog Island, and the Mississauga First Nation (near Blind River).
The territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit was approximately 4 million acres at the western end of Lake Ontario, and the Credit River was their principal home. This territory encompasses much of the present Greater Golden Horseshoe region, including Toronto. Once a water people, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation have a reserve (New Credit) that occupies just under 6,000 landlocked acres near Hagersville. In this webinar, neighbour Darin Wybenga, historian and teacher, shares the Nation’s historical and present connections to the lands and waters and the treaty relationship between the land and the people. (Excerpts from Darin Wybenga, Sept. 21, 2022, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, The Canadian Encyclopedia.ca).