History

David and Eva Bross were two Holocaust survivors who endured and survived the second world war. As Polish Jews during the Holocaust, David Bross lost his wife and four children, and Eva Bross lost her husband and two children, before immigrating to Canada following the war. Their sole son, Alon Bross, is a close friend of my family.

Skaai Davison is heading for Oxford University in England this fall to do an MSc in Embryology. She prepared herself to make this leap across the ocean by excelling in all the Biology, Chemistry and other courses she took at Nipissing University during her four years here. She made good use of specialized upper-year courses to distinguish herself from other students who are competing to get into Graduate School at Oxford University.

​Nipissing University is pleased to host the North Bay Regional Heritage Fair, Friday, May 11, in the Robert J. Surtees Student Athletics Centre.

Nipissing’s History department presents the fourth annual Clendinning Memorial Lecture, featuring guest speaker Dr. Roisin Cossar of the University of Manitoba on Wednesday, January 24, at 7p.m. in room B200.

Professor Emeritus at Nipissing University, the late Dr. John Long’s work is featured in a new article, Sharing the Land at Moose Factory in 1763, in the journal Ontario History.