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Harry McGrath, 604.268.6810, hmcgrath@sfu.ca
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SFU’s centre for Scottish Studies (CSS) has received a $10,000 donation from Vancouver’s British Consulate General to help expand and enhance the centre’s archives project. James Rawlinson, the British Consulate General, presented the cheque to SFU President Michael Stevenson at a recent reception sponsored by the CSS.

The event honoured the launch of the St. Andrews & Caledonian Society lecture series. It recently featured visiting Scottish scholar Ted Cowan, a professor of Scottish history at the University of Glasgow, as the inaugural speaker.

CSS’s archives project is an extensive and constantly expanding bibliography of archival resources dealing with Scots in Canada. The resources include numerous printed items, photographs, objects and information about Scottish clubs, cultural events and congregations dating primarily from 1858 to 1950. The CSS’s archival project has traced these items and information to almost 50 archival repositories around the Lower Mainland.

Some of the material will be added to SFU’s archives permanently. See www.sfu.ca/~scotsbib/ or call CSS co-ordinator Harry McGrath at 604.268.6810 for more information.

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Websites:
Centre for Scottish studies, www.sfu.ca/scottish/start.htm