Colin Coates, Canadian Studies program, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes, winner of the Lionel Groulx-Yves Saint-Germain Foundation’s award for Heroines and History – Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (co-authored with Cecilia Morgan of OISE). Professor Coates is studying communities of the past, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, Ville-Marie in 17th Century Quebec, and the free African-Canadian villages of Southern Ontario in the 1840s and 1850s. He is also researching the European notion of the ‘noble savage’ in the Canadian context, and early ethnographies of First Nations communities.