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The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society is currently seeking applicants for the Professor Ken Dawson Research Trust Bursary. The bursary is in aid of those doing original research on some aspect of the history of Northwestern Ontario. Contact the Museum’s Executive Director, Scott Bradley for more information. Applications must be post marked by 30 June 2021.

Ken Dawson, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Lakehead University, passed away on July 24, 2009. He was a longtime supporter of the historical community in Northwestern Ontario and the author of numerous books and articles on the region’s past including The Prehistory of Northern Ontario which we published in 1983. Ken was active in the Society’s revival in the late 1960s and early 1970s and in giving the Society a strong archaeological focus at the time. He helped to make known the archaeology of this part of North America.

Every second year the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society holds its Publications Awards. We are currently seeking nominations of books and articles, both academic and popular, that deal with some aspect of Northwestern Ontario’s history and that have been published in the past three years. If you know of a publication that is worthy of an award, contact the Museum’s Executive Director, Scott Bradley. If you are nominating one of your own works, we will require three copies of it for distribution to the judges.

Nominations close on 30 June 2021.  More information about the Society’s Publications Awards can be found here:

https://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/publications/awards/