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Canadian Historical Association Conference: Ottawa, ON, 2009. Thank you to Jim Clifford, Jason Young and Sean Kheraj for their work recording and editing the audio.
These presentations are a selection of talks given at Carleton University that relate to Environmental History and Canada.
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Sean Kheraj, "A Multi-Species Metropolis: Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg"
Gregory Stott, "Changing Expectations: The Transformation of Lake Huron Villages into Summer Cottage Communities, 1880-1930"
Jonathan Clapperton, "Who Knows Nature?: First Nations, the Environment, and Acceptable Knowledge"
Chris M Parsons, "Jesuit Networks and French Knowledge of the Environment of New France"
Jessica van Horssen, "Body Politics in Asbestos, Quebec"
Glenn Walker, "The Curve Lake Ojibwas and the Fur Trade"
Ruth Sandwell, "Empowering the Home?: Canadian Households Encounter Fossil Fuels and Hydro-Electricity, 1920-1960"
James Murton, "Handling Apples: Perishability and the Global Food Chain in the Interwar Period"
Dean Bavington, "Energy and Equity in Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries"
Ryan O'Connor, "The Air of Death and the Origins of the Environmental Movement in Canada"
Jim Clifford, Keith Jamieson, Geoffrey Reaume, and Robin Elliott, "Active History: History for the Future"
Sharon Ann Weaver, "Rural Encounters: 1970s Back to the Land - Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and Lasqueti Islands, BC"
Joshua MacFadyen, "Mennonites and Mixed Paint: Canada's Flax Commodity Chain, 1878-1901"
Liza Piper, "State and Science in Shaping Community Life in Canada's North, 1900-1975"
Jason Patrick Bennett, "'From shiftless fruit tramps to a respected seasonal reservoir of people': Migratory Labour, Science and Community Identity in the Orchards of the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1950"
Michael F. Robinson, "Taking Wild Theories Seriously: a New Look at the Arctic's Mythic Places"
A Multi-Species Metropolis: Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg
Sean Kheraj, University of British Columbia, "A Multi-Species Metropolis: Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper uses nineteenth-century Winnipeg as a case study to examine how early city councils managed urban animal populations in Canada. When the former frontier town was incorporated as a city in 1873, Winnipeg’s earliest city councilors created the regulatory architecture for the foundation of what was intended to be a new western metropolis and gateway to the Canadian prairies. Managing the city’s non-human animal population was a vital part of this city-building process. The earliest by-law regulations in Winnipeg demonstrate that the efficient management of urban animals for transportation, labour, energy, and food was a key component of making cities in the nineteenth century. Furthermore, the behaviour and autonomy of non-human animals in the past demonstrated the limits of human control. Stampeding horses, free-roaming cattle, and stray dogs shaped human actions and the making of Winnipeg in its early years.
Bio:
Dr. Kheraj is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He is also the producer and host of a monthly Canadian environmental history podcast called Nature’s Past. This conference paper is based on his current research project on the history of urban animals in Canada. For more information, please visit: http://seankheraj.wordpress.com
Download File: A Multi-Species Metropolis: Managing Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg [19:00]
Changing Expectations: The Transformation of Lake Huron Villages into Summer Cottage Communities, 1880-1930
Gregory Stott, Nipissing University, "Changing Expectations: The Transformation of Lake Huron Villages into Summer Cottage Communities, 1880-1930". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
A study of the transformation of small nineteenth-century Lake Huron villages, which had previously hoped to become major port and manufacturing cities, into summer cottage communities.
Bio:
Gregory Stott teaches at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario.
Who Knows Nature?: First Nations, the Environment, and Acceptable Knowledge
Jonathan Clapperton, University of Saskatchewan, "Who Knows Nature?: First Nations, the Environment, and Acceptable Knowledge". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper raises questions about the relationship between the environmental knowledge of Aboriginal people and western scientific knowledge.
Bio:
Jonathan Clapperton is a Ph.D. student at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
Download File: Who Knows Nature?: First Nations, the Environment, and Acceptable Knowledge [13:48]
Jesuit Networks and French Knowledge of the Environment of New France
Chris M Parsons, University of Toronto. 'Jesuit Networks and French Knowledge of the Environment of New France'. CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper looks at early French Jesuit descriptions and understandings of the biota of the New France.
Bio:
Chris Parsons is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
Download File: Jesuit Networks and French Knowledge of the Environment of New France [16:58]
Body Politics in Asbestos, Quebec
Jessica van Horssen, University of Western Ontario. 'Body Politics in Asbestos, Quebec'. CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper looks at the politics surrounding asbestos mining in Asbestos, Quebec.
Bio:
Jessica van Horssen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
Download File: Body Politics in Asbestos, Quebec [17:14]
The Curve Lake Ojibwas and the Fur Trade
Glenn Walker, McGill University. 'The Curve Lake Ojibwas and the Fur Trade'. CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Download File: The Curve Lake Ojibwas and the Fur Trade [13:26]
Empowering the Home?
Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto, "Empowering the Home?: Canadian Households Encounter Fossil Fuels and Hydro-Electricity, 1920-1960". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper looks at how domestic electrification in Canada during the mid-twentieth century was limited by problems of supply and demand. It is part of a larger project that studies the ways in which fossil fuels in the home changed relationships in family life, society, and women and the environment.
Bio:
Assistant Professor, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Handling Apples: Perishability and the Global Food Chain in the Interwar Period
James Murton, Nipissing University, "Handling Apples: Perishability and the Global Food Chain in the Interwar Period". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper examines how Canadian apple production interacted with world markets - specifically Britain - as part of the creation of a global food system.
Bio:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Nipissing University.
Download File: Handling Apples: Perishability and the Global Food Chain in the Interwar Period [20:09]
Energy and Equity in Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries
Dean Bavington, Nipissing University, "Energy and Equity in Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Fisheries: Cultural, Social and Physical Thresholds and the Explosion of Energy Use in Fisheries". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper looks at the disparities between scientific fisheries management and local fisherperson knowledge in the Newfoundland and Labrador cod fisheries
Bio:
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental History, Department of History, Nipissing University
The Air of Death and the Origins of the Environmental Movement in Canada
Ryan O'Connor, University of Western Ontario, "The Air of Death and the Origins of the Environmental Movement in Canada". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper examines the public responses of Canadians to an important late-1960s CBC documentary on air pollution
Bio:
Ryan is a PhD student at the University of Western Ontario. He is also one of the co-creators of the NiCHE Member Project, "Back to the Island", an oral-narrative history of the back to the land movement in 1970s Prince Edward Island.
Download File: The Air of Death and the Origins of the Environmental Movement in Canada. [14:22]
Active History: History for the Future
Jim Clifford, York University, Keith Jamieson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Geoffrey Reaume, York University and Robin Elliott, Murmur Toronto, "Active History: History for the Future". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Download File: Active History: History for the Future. [1:15:55]
Rural Encounters: 1970s Back to the Land - Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and Lasqueti Islands, BC
Sharon Ann Weaver, University of Guelph, "Rural Encounters: 1970s Back to the Land - Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and Lasqueti Islands, BC". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Mennonites and Mixed Paint: Canada's Flax Commodity Chain, 1878-1901
Joshua D. MacFadyen, University of Guelph, "Mennonites and Mixed Paint: Canada’s Flax Commodity Chain, 1878-1901". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
This paper examines Mennonites and their interest in flax cultivation, cultural separation, and self sufficiency in both Waterloo County, Ontario and the Manitoba West Reserve. It argues that these farmers grew flax for transnational markets through industrial systems and not because of cultural folkways. New markets for intermediate goods in manufacturing and urban construction stimulated demand for flax products such as cordage, rough textiles, and linseed oil for paint. Flax was not important in Waterloo or the West Reserve until non-Mennonite millers approached both communities directly and offered them contracts if they would start growing flax. Farmers also brought their own knowledge to flax production, taking some partially processed fibre home for cloth production in Waterloo and using flax as a way to increase productivity on new land in the West Reserve. Participating with industry and applying local knowledge in global markets allowed Mennonites to cultivate distinctive communities.
Bio:
Josh MacFadyen is a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph. His dissertation on flax fibre and linseed oil examines specialty crops, industrial growth, and environmental stresses in the Great Lakes and Great Plains regions.
Download File: Mennonites and Mixed Paint: Canada’s Flax Commodity Chain, 1878-1901. [19:35]
State and Science in Shaping Community Life in Canada's North, 1900-1975
Liza Piper, University of Alberta, "State and Science in Shaping Community Life in Canada's North, 1900-1975". CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Liza is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alberta, and the leader of the NiCHE core group cluster, Early Canadian Environmental Data.
Download File: State and Science in Shaping Community Life in Canada's North, 1900-1975. [16:31]
From shiftless fruit tramps to a respected seasonal reservoir of people
Jason Patrick Bennett, Library and Archives Canada, "'From shiftless fruit tramps to a respected seasonal reservoir of people': Migratory Labour, Science and Community Identity in the Orchards of the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1950." CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Taking Wild Theories Seriously: a New Look at the Arctic's Mythic Places
Michael F. Robinson, University of Hartford, "Taking Wild Theories Seriously: a New Look at the Arctic's Mythic Places." CHA 2009 Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Abstract:
Bio:
Download File: Taking Wild Theories Seriously: a New Look at the Arctic's Mythic Places. [21:58]
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