“Nature’s Principal Reservoir: The Importance of Snow and Snow Surveys in Twentieth Century British Columbia”
with M. Blake Butler
Thursday, April 1st at 12:30pm (EST)
Please RSVP to historyrsvp@uwo.ca for the Zoom link.
Feature Image: British Columbia’s report of the water resources service, 1968.
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M. Blake Butler
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Western University. My dissertation is a cultural and environmental history of snow in Vancouver and the southern Coastal Mountains during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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