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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 11
8:30 a.m. Registration Opens
9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
9:45 a.m. G. Malcolm Lewis, University of Sheffield (emeritus)
“First Nations Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use in the Great Lakes Region: A Historical Review.”
This paper will be read by Margaret W. Pearce.
10:30 a.m. Keith R. Widder, Michigan State University
“The Western Great Lakes in 1767: The Manuscript Maps of Robert Rogers and Jonathan Carver.”
11:15 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. Mary Pedley, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
“Louis Charles Karpinski and the Cartography of the Great Lakes .”
12:45 p.m. Lunch in the Baber Room, Park Library
2:15 p.m. J. P. D. Dunbabin, Oxford University
“Motives for Mapping the Great Lakes — Upper Canada , 1782-1827.”
3:00 p.m. Francis M. Carroll, University of Manitoba (emeritus)
“The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary along the Michigan Frontier, 1819-1827:
The Boundary Commissions under Articles VI and VII of the Treaty of Ghent .”
3:45 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. Kenneth E. Lewis, Michigan State University
“Mapping Antebellum Settlement Spread in Southern Lower Michigan.”

Saturday, June 12
8:30 a.m. Registration Opens
9:00 a.m. Margaret W. Pearce, Western Michigan University
“The Holes in the Grid: Reservation Surveys in Michigan .”
9:45 a.m. Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Newberry Library
“Mapping Grand Traverse Indian Country: The Contribution of Peter Daugherty.”
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Cheryl Lyon-Jenness, Western Michigan University
“Picturing Progress: Assessing the Nineteenth-Century Atlas Map Bonanza.”
11:45 a.m. David K. Patton, Amy K. Lobben, and Bruce Pape, Central Michigan University
“ Mapping Cities and Towns in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries:
A Look at Sanborn, Plat, and Panoramic Mapping Activities in the Great Lakes Region.”
12:45 p.m. Lunch in the Baber Room, Park Library
2:00 p.m. Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois–Chicago (emeritus)
“Popular Cartography of the Great Lakes : Some Case Studies and Comparative Dimensions.”
2:45 p.m. James R. Akerman, Newberry Library, and Daniel Block, Chicago State University
“Official State Maps and the Promotion of the Great Lakes Region in the Automobile Era.”
For more information, see www.clarke.cmich.edu or call 989.774.3352

Mapping Michigan Conference -- (2003)

Grant Awarded: August 2003

Type of Grant: Public Humanities Development Grant

Sponsor: Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan University

Contact: Frank Boles, 989-774-3352, frank.j.boles@cmich.edu

Award: $10,284

Website: clarke.cmich.edu/mappinginmichigan/

The Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan University has been awarded a $10,284 Public Humanities Development Grant for a “Mapping Michigan Conference,” to be held June 11-12, 2004 in Mt. Pleasant. The purpose of the conference is for 14 original, scholarly papers to be revisited and update the long neglected history of how Michigan was mapped.