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Placing Montreal: Urban Parks and Protests

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Parc La Fontaine, Montreal. Source: Wikipedia

Alec Angle and Colleen Morawetz

Urban Canadians think about parks a lot this time of year, but city parks are also sites of year-round activity, planning, and protest.

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2013 McLean Lectures on Video

Matthew Evenden

The 2013 McLean lecture 'Navigating a Wasting World': Perspectives on Environmentalism and Sustainability in Canada" are now available
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Vernacular Architecture Forum 2013: The ebb and flow of religion and economy in the Gaspé Peninsula

Catherine McInnis

Deadline: May 15

Event Date: Jun 11 - Jun 15

Held in Gaspé and Percé from June 11 to 15, 2013, The Vernacular Architecture Forum offers a rich and diversified program, including 2
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BookLook 2013

Alan MacEachern

Last year, I wrote about the historical geography / environmental history titles I saw while trolling the book fair at Congress. There'
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Festival de films de Portneuf sur l’environnement

Je l’ai découvert un peu tard et il est déjà passé… Je parle du Festival de films de Portneuf sur l’environnement (FFPE), qui en était à
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From Exploration to Climate Change: Northern History in the Anthropocene

Tina Adcock

Northern History and the public demand for tales of northern adventure, hardship, and heroism in high latitudes.
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Picturing uranium, producing art: A.Y. Jackson’s Port Radium collection

Carmella Gray-Cosgrove

A. Y. Jackson and a community's struggle with the environmental and health legacies of Radium Mine.
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Carnivorous Walrus as Country Food

Liza Piper

Canada's reactions to Inuit subsistence and the mystery of the “strange malady” at Creswell Bay.
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CFP: Northern Nations, Northern Natures

Tina Adcock

Deadline: Jun 07

Event Date: Nov 08 - Nov 11

We invite applications from graduate students interested in attending the workshop “Northern Nations, Northern Natures” in Stockholm.
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Episode 37 of Nature's Past Podcast Now Available

Sean Kheraj, Stacy Nation-Knapper, and Andrew Watson

On this second part of our look at agri-food systems in Canadian history, we discuss Canadian food history.
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Revue de presse du mois d’avril

La fin du mois est un bon moment pour réaliser une petite mise à jour des sujets d’actualité portant sur des enjeux environnementaux au

NiCHE brings together historians, geographers, and other researchers who study nature and humans in Canada's past. We offer a forum for the field, support collaboration among scholars, and ensure that this research is shared with policymakers, scientists, and the Canadian public.

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NACEHF 2013	Jun 21
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CSHM 2013 Call for Papers	Jun 01 - Jun 03
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Histoire des politiques publiques de l’énergie solaire	Jun 24
CAG 2013	Aug 11 - Aug 15
Mountains Across Borders	Aug 17 - Aug 21
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NACEHF 2013	Sep 28
Aesthetics of Landscape	Oct 06 - Oct 10
Objets d'histoire	Oct 10 - Oct 12
Heritage and Change in the Arctic	Oct 11 - Oct 14
CSTHA/AHSTC Conference / colloque	Nov 01 - Nov 03
Northern Nations; Northern Natures	Nov 08 - Nov 11
SSHA Environmental Network CFP	Nov 21 - Nov 24

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