Canada Program

Our Mission

“A program of research and teaching which can have a marked effect on deepening and widening the understanding between the United States and Canada.”

—From a 1966 letter signed by Neil Hosler McElroy and David Rockefeller

Upcoming Events

Canada Seminar

October 13, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Bowie Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Sugar Farmers of Manitoba

Janis Thiessen, Professor of History, The University of Winnipeg

Chair: Mary Jane McCallum, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Weatherhead Canada Program

Janis Thiessen is Professor of History at The...

Farm field.

Canada Seminar

October 20, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Bowie Vernon Room (K262) CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Across the Detroit River: Why the American and Canadian White Working-Class Votes Differently

Lewis Krashinsky, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Canada Program

Chair: Dean Ray, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program...

Canada Research Spotlight

The Serpent Mound of the Ohio Valley

A close look at Harvard’s complex relationship to an ancient Indigenous monument through our Story Map.

Vintage postcard of arial view of Serpent Mound in Ohio.

Want to be part of the Canada Program?

For Harvard Undergraduates

Funding Opportunity

The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs will award undergraduate thesis research grants of up to $5,000 each for field research in Canada.

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Mural of a woman in indigenous dress in Montreal, Canada.

For Harvard Graduate Students

Funding Opportunity

The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awards dissertation fellowships to support Harvard graduate students who focus at least half of their dissertation topics on Canada.

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Image of a pipeline in Canada running through the middle of a forest.