As part of its original and continuing education and community out-reach mandate, CPRC has, since 1974, organized, facilitated or partnered with other organizations in delivering numerous conferences, symposia workshops, lectures, meetings and seminars.
2008
CPRC participated in the following conferences and workshops in 2008:
January: Workshop for Research Development and Innovation, Chilean Embassy, Ottawa, ON
April:
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Canadian Plains Symposium, Regina, SK
June: International Perspectives on Governance: Accomplishments, Challenges and Evolving Research Agenda Conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
June: Canadian Water Research Association, 60th Conference, Gimli, Manitoba
June: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vancouver, BC
June: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Vancouver, BC
2007
CPRC participated in the following conferences and workshops in 2007:
June: Canadian Water Research Association, 60th Conference, Saskatoon, SK
November: Taller on Cambio Climatico e Instituciones, Comision Nacional del Medio Ambiente, Chile
2005
CPRC participated in the following conferences and workshops in 2005:
February:Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Canadian Agriculture: Impacts and Capacity (Edmonton, AB).
March: National Workshop on Assessing Biodiversity on Agricultural Lands (Toronto, ON).
April: 1st North American Workshop on Capacity Building for Biodiversity Conservation: monitoring of species, spaces and common threats (Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico).
June: Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Research Colloquium (Ottawa, ON).
October: National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada: New Frontiers in Our History: 100 Years of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Confederation. Association of Canadian Studies (Edmonton AB).
2003
CONFERENCE
May: Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes: Plain As The Eye Can See.
2001
CONFERENCE
March: Aboriginal People and the Prairies: Plain As The Eye Can See.
2000
CONFERENCE
April: Monitoring for Ecosystem Health Conference
April: Plain as the Eye
Can See
WORKSHOPS
May: Social Cohesion delegates from Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Ottawa & Regina
June: Saskatchewan Research Council Urban and Rural Community adaptations
to climate change.
1999
CONFERENCE
August: Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) Annual Conference
LECTURE
March: Woodrow Lloyd Lecture by Freda Paltiel: "Healthy Public Policy: A Gendered
Approach to Health Protection and Promotion"
1997
WORKSHOP
February: Canada National Parks
1996
CONFERENCES
March: Constitutional Options for Quebec and the Prairie Region of Canada
September: "Caring for Home Place: Protected Areas and Landscape Ecology"
LECTURE
March: Woodrow Lloyd Lectures dealing with issues related to Quebec 's continued
involvement with Canada and implications for the prairies
WORKSHOPS
March: Prairie Dog Workshop
May: SK Encyclopedia Workshop
SEMINAR
October: Dr. Donald Lemmen, Using Multimedia to Bring Research to Educators
and Students
1995
SYMPOSIUM
On the impact of the 1995 federal budget on government plans to redesign and
restructure the national public service.
1994
TEA
February: Twenty-five farmer-inventors were honoured—all were associated
with the development of the disk plow.
WORKSHOP
May: 2nd Interprovincial Soil and Water Conservation Planning Workshop
1993
CONFERENCES
March: Prairie and Western Canadian Integration
May: The Work Group on Glacial Tectonics
August: The Fifth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
September: A Workshop on Research in National Parks
1992
CONFERENCE
September: On the constitutional future of the prairie and Atlantic Canada
regions.
1991
CONFERENCE
November: National conference on the economic prospects and constitutional
future of the Atlantic and prairie regions of Canada.
1990
CONFERENCE
April: On the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to the management
of agricultural land.
1989
SYMPOSIUM
On the history, geography and political economy of the Canadian Plains.
PUBLIC
MEETING
July: On the On-To-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot of 1935.
1987
CONFERENCE
June: Literary Symposium at Fort San, Echo Valley
1985
CONFERENCE
October: The Regina Riot and On-To-Ottawa Trek of 1935.
LECTURES
Lecture tour by Lady Naomi Mitchison, CBE, Scottish novelist, playwright,
poet and essayist.
Lecture Given by Mr. Zhu Zhao-Htia, senior scientist at the Chinese Academy
of Forestry. 1985 recipient of the Man of Trees Award.
PUBLIC WORKSHOP
January: Led by Dr. Wes Jackson, founder and co-director of The Land Institute
at Saline, Kansas, U.S. The subject was the possibility of developing an alternative,
sustainable agriculture on the prairies.
1984
CONFERENCES
May: Prairie regional conference on racial justice
October: Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and the Spanish Civil War - the special
contribution made by men and women from the Canadian prairies and western
Canada.
PUBLIC LECTURE
November: The High Cost of Ignoring History - delivered by the Honourable
Grant MacEwan of Alberta.
WORKSHOPS
January: Saskatchewan Labour Market: Issues, Policies, and Opportunities for
Change.
October: New Technology: Challenge and Change in the Prairie Labour Market
1983
CONFERENCES
History of Democratic Socialism in Canada
August: Aquatic researchers from the prairie provinces and northern plains
states.
1982
INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
Sturgis Teachers Association - on Plains topics
PANEL DISCUSSION
March: Obstacles to education in museums and galleries and ways and means
by which they have been overcome.
MEETING
CPRC was one of twelve agencies in Canada invited to attend a meeting at Stanley
House in the Gaspe Peninsula to formally discuss the UNESCO proposal for a
joint European study on cultural development of rural areas.
MEETING
July: Prairie Publishers Group
SEMINAR
August: Grassland Studies in the Plains
1981
SEMINAR
December: Human Resource Planning in western Canada
MEETING
November: Founding meeting of the Prairie Publishers Group.
1980
CONFERENCE
April: Pesticide Residue Analysts (W. Canada), annual meeting
June: Canadian-American Dialogue. Plenary sessions discussed grain transportation
and marketing, regional trade patterns, tourism and problems faced by small,
rural communities.
August: Plains Aquatic Research (University of Calgary)
September: China-Canada Trade - Examined the history, current status and prospects
of the China-Canada trade relationship.
LECTURES
March: Ethnic Research Section - Mennonites in Crises
April: Heavy Oil Development in the Prairies: Lloydminster
MEETINGS
May: Social Scientists in Western Canada
May: Canada West Foundation Study on Water
1979
CONFERENCE
May: Regional Literature - three-day conference examining the various aspects
and values of regional literature.
May: Energy & Community Planning in the Prairies
August: Land Reclamation in the Prairies, Annual Meeting of CLIZA
August: Plains Aquatic Research
LECTURES
February: Ethnic Research Section Jewish Settlements & Folklore.
SEMINAR
September: The On-To-Ottawa Trek: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.
WORKSHOP
February: Prairie Justice Research
April: Directors of Canadian Studies Programs in Canada, 31 persons from across
Canada attended.
1978
PUBLIC LECTURES
April: Development of Ideas About the Great Plains Region
WORKSHOP
March: MOSST: Prairie Workshop on the Conserver Society
1977
CONFERENCES
June: Geography of the Prairies, Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers.
August: Nature & Change on the Canadian Plains, Annual Meeting of Canadian
Nature Federation
November: Chemicals & Agriculture on the Prairies
November: Human Scale Alternatives - E.F. Schumacher and George McRobie, co-founders
of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (London, England) participated.
MEETING
May: Consultation on Plains Demography - attended by more than 30 demographers
from the prairies and Ottawa.
PUBLIC SEMINAR
September: American Indian Nations
SYMPOSIUM
October: Wind Energy (Saskatoon & Regina)
1976
CONFERENCES
March: Solar Energy (Saskatoon & Regina)
October: Culture, Education, and Ethnic Canadians - Designed to draw attention
to ethnic research and to bring members of various Saskatchewan ethno-cultural
groups together with academics from across Canada.
LECTURE
January: Ethnic Research Section - Selected Ethnic Groups in the Prairies
- French & Finns
1975
CONFERENCE
October: Plains Cree
INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
May: Oral History Techniques
LECTURE
March-April: Ethnic Research Section - Selected Ethnic Groups in the Prairies
- Romanians and Germans
MEETINGS
Several in Saskatoon & Regina - Crown Land Use Studies
1974
CONFERENCES
February: Ethnic Studies and the Canadian Plains.
MEETINGS
Several in Saskatoon & Regina - Crown Land Use Studies
SYMPOSIA
June: Futures Forecasting in the Prairies (Saskatoon)
November: Uses of Agricultural Wastes.
