History at SWGC

 

GREENLEE, James Professor
Keywords
• British Empire; Canadian intellectuals; university history; British missionaries, 19th and 20th centuries
Current research
• Female missionaries: Britain, 1880 to 1930
Past research
• Education and Imperial Unity, 1900 to1926
• Sir Robert Falcomer: A Biography
• Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1875 to 1918

 

JANZEN, Olaf Associate professor
Keywords
• Eighteenth century; Newfoundland; maritime; naval and military; settlement; fishery
Current research
• Scottish trade with Newfoundland in the 1720s
Past research
• British Navy and local defense of Newfoundland, 1762 to 1783
• Micmac Indian settlement in western Newfoundland, 1762 to 1783
• The French raid on the British Newfoundland fishery, 1762
• Piracy in Newfoundland, 1713 to 1730
• Settlement in western Newfoundland, 1720 to 1765
Potential research
• Yankee privateers at Newfoundland, 1776- 1783
• Royal Engineers and fortifications in St. John's, 1776 to 1783 and 1793 to 1802

 

 

 

 

 

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