Conference: Victorian Canada is the theme of this year's annual meeting of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. Jim Miller will deliver a keynote address on “‘Victoria’s Red Children’: ‘The Great White Queen Mother’ and Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada” at 9:am on Friday, October 15th, and at 1:30 pm that same day M.A. candidate Liz Scott will deliver a conference paper entitled “No ‘Fair Chance’: Public Opinion and Criminal Assumptions of the British Home Children in Canada 1869-1930". The panel Liz is on also includes former history student Jennifer Shepard, now completing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Alberta. The conference will be held at the Bessborough Hotel, with registration and a reception on Thursday evening starting at 6:30pm, and then a full day of conferencing on Friday. For details concerning registration and the conference program, click here.