This panel presentation brought five Indigenous leaders to Queen鈥檚 to discuss Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau鈥檚 concept of the 鈥淛ust Society鈥 and how it related to Indigenous lives.
At the time of his Dunning Trust lecture, Jean Chretien was the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was born in Quebec in 1934 and graduated from Laval University.
Lord Bertram Vivian Bowden was the principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After earning his PhD in natural sciences from Cambridge, Bowden taught physics at a number of schools. During the Second World War, he was involved with radar research for British and U.S governments and assisted in the early development of digital electronic computers. After the war, he returned to Britain and worked with the Atomic Energy Authority and later with Ferranti Ltd., a Manchester-based electronics company.
Robert Baffour was a noted Ghanaian nuclear engineer, businessman, and civil servant. He was a professor and vice-chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University, a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the president of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. At Kwame Nkrumah University, he helped to establish engineering education. He graduated from the University of London with a B.Sc. in engineering before returning to Ghana to work on the Gold Coast Railway.
Garrett Hardin was Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a prominent environmentalist. He specialized in human population dynamics, evolution and the history of science.
Raymond Moriyama is a well-known Canadian architect. He was born in Vancouver in 1929 and a graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill.
Ian McHarg was an expert on town planning. Born in Scotland in 1920, he was a proponent of regional planning using natural systems.
Michael R. Lubbock was Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Latin America. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1906 and graduated from Oxford University. Before World War II, he worked for the Hudson鈥檚 Bay Company.
This panel was part of a series on 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Involvement in Latin America,鈥 which began with Michael Lubbock鈥檚 lecture. The five speakers each addressed a different aspect of Canada-Latin America relations.
