Core Projects
Early Canadian Environmental Data
Leader: Liza Piper, University of Alberta
The goal of this project is to assemble digital resources that facilitate the study of historical data on Canadian environments.
Forest History
Leader: Graeme Wynn, UBC
Facilitating understanding of forests in Canada's history and preserving our nation's long experience with forestry.
Landscapes
Leader: Colin Coates, York University
Landscapes seeks to encourage reflection on the environmental history of common and public landscapes.
Transnational Ecologies
Leader: Laura Cameron, Queen's University
Species migrate. So does environmental knowledge. We are working to improve understanding of migratory species.
Water History
Leaders: Stéphane Castonguay & Matthew Evenden
This project is interested in all ways that the humans interact with the hydrological environment.
Digital Infrastructure
Leader: Bill Turkel, UWO
Working to create and promote new tools and services that support humanities research and NiCHE projects
Networks
New Scholars Committee
Leader: Will Knight, U Ottawa
The New Scholars in Canadian History & Environment is a sub-group of NiCHE for those embarking on their careers.
History & Environment of Atlantic Region
A network for scholars studying the environmental history and historical geography of the Atlantic provinces.
Nature | History | Society
Leader: Graeme Wynn, UBC
A regional network that hosts events in Vancouver for those studying the environmental history of the West Coast.
Prairie Environmental Network
Based at U Sask, this network promotes knowledge of environmental history on the Prairies projects
Quelques Arpents de Neige
Leader: Dan Rueck, McGill
Bringing together scholars along the Quebec-Windsor corridor and in New England.
Member Initiatives
Nature's Past
Leader: Sean Kheraj, Mount Royal
A monthly discussion about the environmental history community and research in Canada
Abandoned Mines
A project that seeks to study the historical impacts of abandoned mines on First Nations communities in northern Canada.
Don River Valley Historical Mapping Project
Jennifer Bonnell & Marcel Fortin
The project uses GIS to document historical changes in the landscape of the Don River watershed in Toronto.
Reaching a Popular Audience
Crymble, Young, Kheraj
A series of workshops and resources for graduate students interested in reaching a wide audience with their research.
Environmental History in the Classroom
An educational materials collaboration between NiCHE, EcoKids Canada and the UWO Public History students of 2009/2010.
Towards a Guide to Best Practices in XML Markup
By: Leon Robichaud
A pilot project using historical environmental data that seeks to outline best practices for using XML Markup.
The Programming Historian
By: William J. Turkel, Adam Crymble, Alan MacEachern
An open-access introduction to programming in Python, aimed at working historians (and other humanists) with little previous experience.
The Programming Historian
By: Adam Crymble
An open-access introduction to creating customized translators for Zotero. Includes lessons in HTML, HTML DOM and JavaScript.
Back to the Island
By: Ryan O'Connor, Alan MacEachern, UWO
An online exhibit dedicated to the "Back to the Land" movement of 1970s in PEI. Features both a narrative and oral history of life at the time.
Back to the Island
By: Peter Pope, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A photo exhibit of the archaeological sites along Newfoundland's Petit Nord, along with maps of the sites.