All posts tagged Canada
Let’s Not Underestimate the Victorians: Interpreting the Evolution of Animal Welfare and Rights
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts from contributors to Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (University of Calgary Press, 2017). In each […]
Raising Cattle, Losing People: Tracking soil nitrogen in Wise Creek, Saskatchewan
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series showing the work of the Sustainable Farm Systems project. Southwestern Saskatchewan is an isolated area where the low population density makes it easy […]
From mixed dairy farming to intensive feedlot agriculture: The evolution of agrarian landscapes in Quebec
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series showing the work of the Sustainable Farm Systems project. When most of us think of Quebec agriculture, we think of dairy farming […]
Telling the Stories Staples Tell: Visualizing Data and a Call for Contributors
Andrew Watson and Jim Clifford Are there still stories that Canadian staple histories can tell us? This was the theme of a panel called “The Stories Staples Tell” organized by […]
Review: Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada
Reviewed By: John Thistle (Labrador Institute of Memorial University) Published: The Otter-NiCHE (September, 2014) Claire Campbell and Robert Summerby-Murray, Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, […]
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 […]
Announcing another archival donation: the Douglas Rickson fonds.
We are happy to have facilitated another donation of Forest History related materials to UBC Rare Books and Special Collections. For this, we thank Mr. Douglas Rickson who created and […]
RSC consultations on “Libraries, Archives, and Canada’s Future”
The Royal Society of Canada has convened an expert panel on the future of libraries and archives in Canada. The panel is encouraging interested parties (archives dependent historical geographers/environmental historians?) […]
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