National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: Robert Grenier, O.C.

Affiliation: Parks Canada

Robert Grenier is Chief of the Underwater Archaeology Service for Parks Canada, and the past President of the International Scientific Committee on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, UNESCO/ICOMOS. He has conducted searches for shipwrecks in North American waters for over 45 years, and is currently Project Leader for Parks Canada’s Arctic Survey in the North-West Passage, an extensive search for the Franklin Expedition ships H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Dr. Grenier is the AIA Wilkie Lecturer for 2009/2010.

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