Speed CHESS 2026

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It’s been twenty years since we hosted the first Canadian History & Environment Summer School. And while plans for a full CHESS 2026 fell through, on Sunday, 31 May, immediately prior to the Canadian Historical Association / Atlantic Canada Studies conferences in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, we’re hosting an all-day field trip & an evening public lecture. Perhaps inevitably, we’ve dubbed the day Speed CHESS.

Here’s the day’s schedule:

9:00-10:00 Bus takes us to St. Peter’s on the Island’s North Shore.

10:00-1:30 Tour the Canadian Centre for Climate Change; hear from Don Jardine on the environmental history of the Greenwich peninsula; & enjoy lunch from Black & White café.

1:30-4:00 Bus takes us to Greenwich Interpretation Centre, PEI National Park, where we get a guided tour from Parks Canada staff; hear from Barbara Rousseau about coastal change; and have a great walk at Greenwich Beach.

4:00-5:00 Bus takes us back to UPEI.

5:30-6:45 Prof. Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown U, author of Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean & host of The Climate Chronicles podcast will give a public talk, “Reflections on Resilience: 20,000 Years of Climate History,” at UPEI’s Murphy Student Centre 110 (McMillan Hall).

There are a few spots available on the field trip (contact amaceach@uwo.ca asap if interested) but the talk is open to all!

Thank you to the day’s sponsors:

·         NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

·         The School of Climate Change & Adaptation at UPEI – & in particular Aitazaz Farooque, Associate Dean (Interim)

·         The GeoREACH Lab and Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities, at UPEI

·         The Faculty of Social Science at Western U.

See you on the Island!

co-hosts Alan MacEachern & Josh MacFadyen

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Alan MacEachern

Professor at Western University
I am the author of Becoming Green Gables & the companion website GreenGablesDiary.ca (2024), The Summer Trade (with Edward MacDonald, 2022), & The Miramichi Fire (2020). I'm also the editor of the print/open-access Canadian History & Environment series at University of Calgary Press. I was Director of NiCHE, 2004-15. Contact me at amaceach@uwo.ca.

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