Please note this event is sold out.
On Thursday, March 27 our guest speaker Margaret MacMillan, one of Canada’s top historians, who will address our Society on The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.
Professor Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St. Antony’s College and a Professor International History at the University of Oxford and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007); Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2002); Nixon in China: Six Days that Changed the World (2006, 2007); The Uses and Abuses of History (2008) and Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock (2009). Her most recent book, published in 2013, is The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. Margaret is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officer of the Order of Canada. She sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.
Margaret MacMillan was born in Toronto. She is former Provost of Trinity College, Toronto (2002-2007) and formerly a professor of History at Ryerson University. Professor MacMillan received an Honours B.A. in History from Trinity College, Toronto. Margaret has honorary degrees from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston Ontario and Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Location: Members’ Lounge, The Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.
Time: Reception and Cash Bar starts at 5:45 pm, Dinner in Ballroom at 7:00 pm
Cost: $115 each for a Member of the Society, SFU or RUSI, $130 each for a non-Member
(includes wine with dinner)
Please note the dress code is black tie or mess kit (business attire optional)
Please inform our Administrator, April Accola, of your attendance by email at aprilaccola@hotmail.com or click here