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Defiant Builders: How Loyalists Constructed a New Society from Stone with Michael Bussiere

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Overview

Buildings provoke interaction: the building of buildings; the occupancy of buildings; the maintenance and legacy of buildings. That interaction stems from and leads to the formation of families, communities and, in the case of this lecture series, the formation of a country. This lecture series is a people’s history told by a remarkable collection of humble and robust stone structures that dot Ontario’s towns, canals and rural landscapes in what is the greatest concentration in North America. It has selected for its subjects the oldest stone buildings constructed by Loyalists, their first-generation descendants, and others who emigrated from Great Britain in the formative years of Upper Canada. They are material expressions of dynastic endurance and symbolize the building blocks of a defiant new society: home, faith, government, and industry.
This lecture series includes 135 original colour photographs, maps, historical images and illustrations.

About the Lecturer

Michael Bussière is a retired professor of media and technology in art and culture (adjunct architecture) at Carleton University and was one of Canada’s first virtual classroom researchers. He has been published by MIT Press, uChicago, uPlymouth UK, uAlberta, etc. Michael is an avid backcountry paddler with a deep interest in Canadian history.

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