Tuesday, February 7, 2012 – Wine & Cheese starts at 5:00 pm, Program from 5:45 โ 7:00 pm
Location: Members’ Lounge, the Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.
Please join us on Tuesday, February 7th to welcome our guest speaker Dr. James A. Boutilier who previously spoke at our 2007 International Churchill Conference and our October 21, 2010 Evening with Churchill. He will address our Society on Churchill’s Finest Hour? The Practicalities and Politics of Writing the History of World War Two.
Dr. James Boutilier is the Asia-Pacific Policy Advisor at Canada’s Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Dr. Boutilier attended Dalhousie University (BA History, 1960), McMaster University (MA History, 1962), and the University of London (PhD History, 1969). Dr. Boutilier has held posts at various universities throughout his career, including the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, British Columbia and the University of Victoria. Dr. Boutilier’s field of expertise is Asia-Pacific defence and security.
He published RCN in Retrospect in 1982 and has written extensively on maritime and security concerns. He lectures nationally and internationally on political, economic, and security developments in the Asia-Pacific region.
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