The Canadian Historical Association is heading to George Brown University (Toronto June 2-4) for its annual conference, this year titled: Critical Dialogues: Identities, Differences, Silences, and Conflicts. While you can read the full program here, here are some of the presentations you can find about environmental history, urban history, tourism, energy, land use, extractive industries, and more!
Editor’s note: Did we miss a presentation or panel? Email gabtmcl@yorku.ca
1. 8:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (WFL-605)
Tourism and Mobility | Tourisme et mobilité
Em Coulton & Michael Dawson, “Hippie go home”: Local Responses to Western Tourism on the Overland Route, 1950s-1970s
Etienne Faugier, Res-publica: Automobility in Canada at Stakes
Ben Bradley, From Dining Station to Destination to ‘Ghost’ Attraction:The Development and Abandonment of Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels in the Canadian Rockies, 1885-1965
3. 8:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (WFL-401)
Between Capitalism and Christian Humanitarianism: The Commodification of Land and Resources and the Assertion of Indigenous Identities | Entre capitalisme et humanitarisme chrétien : la marchandisation des terres et des ressources et l’affirmation des identités autochtones
Michael Borsk, Reading Belshazzar’s Wall: Information, Company Colonization, and the Price of Land in Upper Canada
Wyeth Robertson, Conscripting the Christian Conscience: Currents of ‘Civilization’ in International Anishinaabe Land Tenure Diplomacy, 1825-1840
Colby Gaudet, “Daniel Tony begs of me to writte to you”: IndigenousPetitions, Government Aid, and Christian Charity in Pre-Confederation Nova Scotia
Angela ela Tozer, Economies and Ecologies of Difference: Treaty, Eels, and Capital
6. 8:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (WFL-538)
Expanding Power: Modern Canadian Energy Histories | Étendre le pouvoir : histoires canadiennes modernes de l’énergie
Sean Kheraj, The Sarnia-Montreal Pipeline: Energy Nationalism, Environmentalism, and the Oil Crisis in 1970s Canada
Sabrina Perić, Women and the Work of Care in Alberta’s 20th and 21st-Century Oil Towns
Daniel Macfarlane, Levelling Up: A History of Pumped Storage Hydropower in the Great Lakes
Jim Kenny, Environmental Opposition to Hydro Development on the International St. John River, 1950-1970
Chair | Présidence : Andrew Watson
17. 15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (WFL-401)
Online History Projects Come of Age: Challenge and Opportunity in the Digital Space | Les projets d’histoire en ligne murissent : défis et opportunités dans l’espace numérique
Edward Dunsworth (Active History)
Sara Wilmshurst (Active History)
Samia Dumais (Histoire Engagée)
Camille Robert (Histoire Engagée)
Blair Stein (Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l’environnement (NiCHE)
Jessica DeWitt (Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l’environnement (NiCHE))
Corey Slumkoski (Acadiensis)
Leanna Thomas (Acadiensis)
18. 15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (WFL-601)
Agricultural Production: The State, Businesses, and Scientists | Production agricole : l’État, les entreprises et les scientifiques
Ross Fair, Lower Canadian Hemp: The State, its Subjects, and Agriculture, 1800-1820
Andrew Goodwin, Domestic Reindeer and Corporate Promotion of the North American Arctic as an Agricultural Frontier during the 1920s
Royden Loewen, An Agricultural History Turning Point: Rewriting the History of High Modernity and the Chemical in Canadian Food Production
Chair | Présidence : Janis Thiessen
32. 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (WFL-531)
“Spaces of Power” in Canada: A Framework for Reflecting on Conflict, Legislation, and Identity | « Espaces de pouvoir » au Canada : un cadre pour réfléchir au conflit, à la loi et à l’identité
Thomas Peace, Spaces of Power and the Great Swarming of the Maritime Peninsula
Andy Post, Beothuk Frontier, Inuit Borderland, Colonial Policy: Indigenous-Imperial Relations in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador
Erin Spinney, The Royal Navy and Spaces of Power in the Long Eighteenth-Century Greater Gulf of St. Lawrence
Zachary A. Tingley, Saltwater Spaces of Power: Sovereignty, Legislation, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1763-1867
Chair | Présidence : Richard Yeomans
36. 13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (WFL-438)
Covert Control: Eugenics Policy and People on the Margins in 19th- 20th-Century Canada | Contrôle secret : les politiques eugénistes et la population en marge dans le Canada du 19 e et 20e siècle
Jason Nichols, Race Improvement through Environment: Euthenics Discourse, Housing, Sanitation, and the Assimilation Goals of the Department of Indian Affairs in Treaty 7, 1885-1910
38. 13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (WFL-531)
Workers and Labourers: Health, Identity, Precarity | Travailleur.se.s et ouvrier.ière.s : santé, identité et précarité
Alex Souchen, Toxic Work: Workplace Safety and Industrial Hygiene in Canada’s Munitions Industry during the Second World War
Michael Feagan, Embodying Telecommunications: Telegraph Operators’ Work
Samira Saramo, Finnish Migrant-Settler Identity and the Uneasy Legacies of Extractive Industry in Ontario
Chair | Présidence : Magda Fahrni
39. 13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (WFL-401)
Making and Unmaking Settler and Indigenous Narratives | Faire et défaire les récits des colons et des Autochtones
Connor Thompson,The Depth of the Furrows: Settler Representations of the Canadian Prairie Pioneer, 1945-1976
46. 8:30-10:00 | 8h30-10h00 (WFL-405)
Activism, Politics, and Challenges to Authority in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s | Activisme, politiques et défis face à l’autorité au Canada dans les années 1970 et 1980
Shannon Brown, Satellite Pirates: Homemade Earth Stations and Space-Age Equality in Canada
Chair | Présidence : David Tough
55. 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (WFL-531)
Legal and Illegal Trading across Borders | Commerce légal et illegal par-delà des frontières
Mark Kuhlberg, “[A] favour unrequited by an advantage to the Canadian people”: The Royal Commission on Pulpwood and Capitulating to American Interests, 1920-1925
Mark Sholdice, Albertans Respond to Ontario in the Oil Sands, 1975-1993
56. 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (WFL-401)
The Urban Variable in Canadian Life | Table ronde : la variable urbaine dans la vie canadienne
Jennifer L Bonnell, Architects of Bloom: Beekeeper Relationships with Urban Environments in the Great Lakes Region, 1880-1940
Richard Harris, The Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s
Daniel Ross, Vertical Villages or Inhuman Scale? Understanding High-Rise Neighbourhoods in Canadian Cities, 1960-1980
Sponsored by the Urban History Caucus of the CHA | Parrainé par le Caucus d’histoire urbaine de la SHC
57. 10:30-12:00 | 10h30-12h00 (WFL-601)
Creating Cultural Heritage in Canada: Parks Canada and Federal Designation Programs in 2025 | Créer un patrimoine culturel au Canada : Parcs Canada et les programmes fédéraux de désignation en 2025
Bilingual session | Session bilingue
Dominique Foisy-Geoffroy (Historian and Director, History and Commemoration | Historien et directeur, Histoire et commémoration)
Jennifer Cousineau (Historian and Manager, Federal Heritage Review Office and Historical Services, Eastern Canada | Historienne et gestionnaire, Bureau d’examen du patrimoine federal et Recherche historique Est du Canada)
Alexandra Mosquin (Principal Historian, Parks Canada | Histoirenne principale, Parcs Canada)
12:00-13:30 | 12h00-13h30 Business meetings | Réunions d’affaires
Environmental History Group | Groupe d’histoire environnementale
(WFL-531)
58. 13:30-15:00 | 13h30-15h00 (WFL-405)
Ruptures and Continuities on the Indigenous Pacific Coast in the Mid-Nineteenth Century | Ruptures et continuités sur la côte Pacifique autochtone au milieu du 19 e siècle
John Lutz, A Border Strong Enough to Stop the Pox?
Chair | Présidence : Andrea Geiger
65. 15:30-17:00 | 15h30-17h00 (WFL-438)
Naming Power: White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and the Politics of Place Names in Ontario | Pouvoir toponymique : la suprématie blanche, le colonialisme de peuplement et les politiques toponymiques en Ontario
Ian Mosby, Teaching the History of Residential Schools in the Shadow of Egerton Ryerson
Natasha Henry-Dixon, Reinterpreting Public Spaces in Toronto with the Black Presence in Mind
Daniel Rück, Renaming Places with Problematic Names: An Assignment in Anticolonial Pedagogy
Jonathan Weier, George Brown’s Legacy and the Arithmetic of Re-naming
