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An (Ice) Bridge to the Past: Niagara Falls has Frozen
Niagara Falls has frozen. Well, not really. The entire water flow of the famous Horseshoe Falls doesn’t actually freeze, despite ‘polar vortexes’ (more commonly known to most Canadians as ‘winter’). Water […]
Environmental History of China’s Multiple Tea Trades: Peter Perdue, Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture, 2014
Last year, Professor Peter Perdue visited York University to deliver the 2014 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History. His lecture titled, “Mountains, Caravans, Rivers, and Salons: China’s Multiple Tea Trades,” explored […]
A Personal Journey to Understanding Space, Race, and Environmental Justice in Boston
In 1983, at five years old, my family and I moved closer to the town square in a suburb just outside of Boston. An older boy stalking the street looking […]
One Flew Over The City: Sensorial Experiences of Urban Space
“Plan Wathelet PAS QUESTION!” screamed the little yellow signs. They were taped to practically every window of the quiet Brussels street that my family and I had moved into late […]
Outils et ressources numériques sur le web
Comme première chronique de 2015, je vous propose un petit tour d’horizon de sites web francophones – avec quelques écarts! – offrant des outils et ressources numériques qui peuvent être […]
#EnvHist Worth Reading: January 2015
Every month I carefully track the most popular and significant environmental history articles, videos, audio, and other items making their way through the online environmental history (#envhist) community. Also check […]
Dislocated Landscapes: The Motor Car and Social Inequality in the Cultural Realm
I have come to think of my dissertation as a reflection of my way of seeing, both now, and in the past. As a daughter of Canada’s Motor City—Oshawa, Ontario—I was […]
“Defiled at once, and sanctified by contact”: Anna Brownell Jameson and Visual/Textual Tourism
Anna Brownell Jameson, like others of her class in the mid-1830s, was at pains to extricate herself from the common views and viewing habits of the nineteenth-century tourist. In many […]
Lake Abitibi Revisited
As a Master’s student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Environmental History appeared to me as something of a revelation. Here was a discipline that combined the scope and grandeur of […]
William McKay’s Character Book: Tracing Environmental Change in Archival Fragments
Through a sheer accident of history, a document useful for better understanding environmental change survived the test of time. Just after World War I, a farm boy digging around the […]
Nature’s Past – Episode 46: Historical GIS Research in Canada
Episode 46: Historical GIS Research in Canada, 26 January 2015 [38:27] Download Audio In recent years, environmental historians and other historians have been working with maps in new ways. Specifically, they […]
Review: Forest Prairie Edge
Reviewed By: Naomi Horst (University of Guelph) Published: The Otter-NiCHE (December, 2014) Merle Massie, Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014. 336 pp. $27.95 […]
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