# Event Details - **Event Name**: Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting? - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 18 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 18 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Engaging, thought provoking lectures by experts, professors and storytellers in Ottawa barsAbout this Event?Lecture: "Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting?"?Speaker: Nick Paquin (MA in History and Museum Educator)With frequent reports of police violence, abuse of power, killings, and the suppression of protests and Indigenous rights, many people say modern policing is broken, that this isn't what police are supposed to do. But is that true? Or is policing operating exactly as it was designed to just as it has since its beginnings?In this lecture, we will explore the history of Canadian police, starting with its origins in the creation of the capitalist system of labour and continuing through English dominion over Ireland, Canadian westward expansion, participation in a Victorian-Era war on the other side of the planet, an underground Bolshevik conspiracy, amalgamation of power, illegal surveillance, and Disney.Most commonly available police histories are written by police organizations, current or former cops, their families, or their fans. This is not that.Nick Paquin is a museum educator having worked in several museums across the country. He got his BA in history at Carleton, and his MA in public history at uVic. For that Master's, he researched archived complaints against the police in BC from the late 60s and early 70s and compiled a history of our police based on the work of other historians and sociologists studying policing from social and progressive perspectives.?Get a drink, connect and learn at Tipsy ScholarsAgenda6:00pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.6:55pm - Host Introduction7:00pm - Lecture starts7:45pm - Q&A with Audience8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233 - **Event Categories**: fitness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes - Location: Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.74, max: 27.37, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Ottawa - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom - **lat**: 45.4268347 - **long**: -75.6938776 - **full address**: Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom, 21 George Street, Ottawa, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting? - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/e501fdbb02bee149e636e1596ded0877001aa5eb097750476cfbcf0abafaf395-rimg-w1200-h600-dcebe1d7-gmir.jpg?v=1784968285 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting? being held? - **A:** Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting? takes place on Tue, 18 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 18 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom, 21 George Street, Ottawa, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting?? - **A:** Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting? is organized by TipsyScholars. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Capital, Colony, and Control: What Were the Police Actually Protecting?", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/e501fdbb02bee149e636e1596ded0877001aa5eb097750476cfbcf0abafaf395-rimg-w1200-h600-dcebe1d7-gmir.jpg?v=1784968285", "startDate": "2026-08-18", "endDate": "2026-08-18", "url": "https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Beyond the Pale Byward Taproom", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "21 George Street", "postalCode": "K1N 8W5", "addressLocality": "Ottawa", "addressRegion": "ON", "addressCountry": "CA" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "45.4268347", "longitude": "-75.6938776" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Engaging, thought provoking lectures by experts, professors and storytellers in Ottawa bars", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-08-18", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "lowPrice": "17.74", "highPrice": "27.37", "price": "17.74", "url": "https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233", "price": "17.74", "name": "Early Bird" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233", "price": "23.17", "name": "General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/ottawa/capital-colony-and-control-what-were-the-police-actually-protecting/100001994718668233", "price": "27.37", "name": "Last Chance" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "TipsyScholars", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/tipsyscholars/27361189", "description": "Curated lectures over drinks" } ] } ] ```