The Archives and Special Collections Department and the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton will host An Evening with Edward Winslow on Wednesday, May 11. As part of the event, an official launch of the electronic edition of the Winslow Papers will take place.
The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. in the J. Harper Kent Auditorium of the Wu Conference Centre at UNBF. It will include a talk on the Winslow Papers and Loyalist history, an introduction to the electronic edition of the papers, and a discussion on the enhanced opportunities for research offered by the digitization of the papers.
The Winslow Papers documents the personal and professional activities of American Loyalist Edward Winslow and his family as well as the early history of New Brunswick. The collection, which as been widely consulted, is housed in UNBF