Canadians are going to San Francisco this week and “crossing divides” with environmental historians at the 2014 ASEH annual conference. All but one of the NiCHE executives are on the […]
Book Launch: A History of Forestry in Canada
FPInnovations, Natural Resources Canada and Cégep de Sainte-Foy are pleased to announce that Gilbert Paillé’s book Histoire Forestière Du Canada, previously available in French, has now been translated into English. […]
Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française. Appel à contributions : “TERRITOIRE ET ENVIRONNEMENT”
La Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française sollicite des propositions d’articles pour un numéro thématique qu’elle veut consacrer à la problématique des rapports sociaux au territoire et à l’environnement. Au cours […]
The Climate is History
The Climate is History: Documents as Evidence of Climate Change 12 May, 2014 The University of Western Ontario A one-day workshop introducing a new collection of archival climate records and […]
Digitizing Slide Collections: A Transnational Ecologies Project
by Christine Grossutti and Mitch Patterson. This past summer we found ourselves surrounded by cardboard boxes full of 35mm slides, the material artifacts of a nearly obsolete technology. We spent […]
La Vie dans les chantiers au temps de la pitoune
Beaudoin, Raymonde, 2014, La Vie dans les chantiers au temps de la pitoune, Québec, Septentrion, 121 p. par Maude Flamand-Hubert. Dans cette chronique, je vous présente la récent livre de […]
EH-SO: Fourth Symposium of Environmental Historians of Southern Ontario
by Ben Bradley. The 4th Symposium of Environmental Historians of Southern Ontario (EH-SO) will be held in Toronto, on energy and forestry. The EH-SO symposiums are intended to develop connections between […]
Updated member project: An archaeology of the Petit Nord
by Peter Pope and Bryn Tapper An archaeology of the Petit Nord: the maritime cultural landscape of the French migratory fishery in northern Newfoundland The transatlantic, migratory, salt-cod fishery is […]
Review: Managed Annihilation, An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse
Review by Joshua Tavenor (Wilfrid Laurier University) Published on The Otter-NiCHE (February, 2014) Dean Bavington. Managed Annihilation, An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010. 224 pp. $32.95 […]
A Call for Reviews for The Otter ~ La loutre
Presenting The Whelp, a review column for The Otter ~ La loutre: The editors of The Otter ~ La loutre, the NiCHE group blog, are pleased to announce that the blog […]
Cultivating an Online Presence: Leading the Academic into the Digital Realm
by Jessica DeWitt, Several months ago I wrote a piece for my department’s graduate student blog that addressed the need for Humanities students’ to expand their skill set in order […]
A River Runs Under, Along, and Through It: Montreal and the St. Lawrence Seaway
by Daniel Macfarlane. It goes without saying that the St. Lawrence River is a fundamental part of Montreal. La grande riviere du Canada dictated the spatial placement and development of the initial […]
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