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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 […]
CHESS 2014: Suburbia and Environmental History (CFP)
NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and the Environment, is pleased to announce that the eighth Canadian History and Environment Summer School will be held at York University in Toronto, […]
De la neige au Musée canadien de l’histoire
Post préparé en collaboration avec le Musée canadien de l’histoire. Par un jour de grand froid, quoi de mieux que d’aller profiter de l’hiver… à l’intérieur! C’est ce que propose […]
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