Publication of “Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History”

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The newest edited collection in the NiCHE-University of Calgary Press “Canadian History and Environment Series” has just been published. Moving Natures is edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin Coates and features a host of NiCHE members. As is the case with every book in this series, it is simultaneously available in print and open access.

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Cover of Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Front matter
 
PART I: Production, Pathways, and Supply
1. Maitland’s Moment: Turning Nova Scotia’s Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
2. Forest, Stream and . . . Snowstorms? Seasonality, Nature, and Mobility on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876–1914
3. Supply Networks in the Age of Steamboat Navigation: Lakeside Mobility in Muskoka, Ontario, 1880–1930
4. Seasonality and Mobility in Northern Saskatchewan, 1890–1950
5. Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject
6. Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944–1968
7. The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility
 
PART II: Consumption, Landscape, and Leisure
8. Views from the Deck: Union Steamship Cruises on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1889–1958
9. Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880–190
10. What Was Driving Golf? Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870–1930
11. Rails, Trails, Roads, and Lodgings: Networks of Mobility and the Touristic Development of “The Canadian Pacific Rockies,” 18
12. Automobile Tourism in Quebec and Ontario: Development, Promotion, and Representations, 1920–1945
 
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Feature Image: Ship. Credit: Clifford Johnston / Library and Archives Canada / e011196524
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Daniel Macfarlane

Daniel is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is an editor for The Otter-La loutre and is part of the NiCHE executive. A transnational environmental historian who focuses on Canadian-American border waters and energy issues, particularly in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, Daniel is the author or co-editor of six books on topics such as the St. Lawrence Seaway, border waters, IJC, and Niagara Falls. His book "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" was published in summer 2023. His newest book is "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (September 2024). He is now working on a book about Lake Michigan and hopes to eventually write a book on the environmental history of the Great Lakes. Website: https://danielmacfarlane.wordpress.com Twitter: @Danny__Mac__

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