An April Canadian Shower.

The increased traffic north of Hanover this past month has been caused by the small army of artists, scholars, government officials and others involved in the busy and varied schedule of Canadian Year activities on the Dartmouth campus.

A Canadian Provincial Premier, Louis Robichaud of New Brunswick, New Hampshire's Governor John W. King, and 24 other government officials, economists, geographers, and engineers from both countries attended a two-day conference on "Industrial Development in Southeastern Canada and Northern New England." The event was sponsored by the Comparative Studies Center and the Thayer School of Engineering.

Another two-day conference early in the month attracted more than 100 students and faculty members from northeastern United States and southeastern Canada to deal with "Language and the Formation of National Consciousness." Principal participants included Allan M. Kulakow, Director of Language Training for the Peace Corps; Pierre Bourgault, who has served as president of the Quebec separatist party RIN; Dale Tomson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal; and Yosuf Ibish of Beirut, a visiting professor at the College this year. This conference was also sponsored by the Comparative Studies Center along with the College's Peace Corps program and the Student Council for International and Comparative Studies.

The Marc Sickel Lecturers this year were two eminent Canadians, Michael Langham, Artistic Director of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival, who talked about the Festival and other features of Canadian theater; and David P. Wilcox, Arts Officer with the Canada Council and a well-known historian and critic, who spoke on the Council's pattern of patronage and its impact upon the visual arts in Canada.

Visitors to the Hopkins Center this past month had. many opportunities to see more representations of Canada's art. Les Jeunes Canadiens, a touring company of actors, presented as its first performance in the United States a program of two short plays by Garcia Lorca (translated into French) as well as Lorca poems, songs, and dances. On the musical side audiences heard an organ recital by Barrie Cabena, a young Canadian organist and composer, and a concert by the Festival Singers of Toronto, a group which has been acclaimed as one of the finest choral ensembles in North America.

Sixty works by major artists from north of the border were shown in a special Jaffe-Friede Gallery exhibition entitled "Eleven Canadian Printmakers." The exhibition was selected by J. Barry Lord, editor of arts/canada, Canada's leading art periodical. The series of exhibitions of Eskimo art continued with a Barrows Print Room showing of "Eskimo Prints from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Pool (Dublin, N. H.)."

In addition to three teachers from the north in residence and now teaching (Professors S. D. Clark and Keith Spicer from the University of Toronto and Peter B. Waite from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia), students had an exposure this month to Prof. Douglas LePan, Principal at University College, University of Toronto, who spoke on "Canada and the United States: A Laboratory for International Relations."