John Sandlos is a professor in the History Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he has been studying mining history the last nineteen years. Sandlos has previously developed projects on the impacts of abandoned mines on Indigenous communities in northern Canada, but his work has recently moved toward histories of working class encounters with pollution and physical danger in the workplace. In addition to many book chapters and papers on mining history, Sandlos is the co-editor (with Arn Keeling) of the collection, Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics and Memory (University of Calgary Press, 2015). He is also the co-author (with Arn Keeling) of Mining Country: A History of Canada’ Mines and Miners (Lorimer, 2021), and the forthcoming (September 2025) book, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution and Resistance in Yellowknife (McGIll-Queen’s, 2025).
Arn Keeling is a settler-scholar and geographer whose research and publications focus on the historical and contemporary encounters of Indigenous communities in Northern Canada with large-scale resource developments. With John Sandlos, he is co-editor of Mining and Communities in Northern Canada (2015), Mining Country: A History of Canada’s Mines and Miners (2021) and the forthcoming The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife (2025).
Heather Green (she/her) is an associate professor in the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia who specializes in environmental histories of mining and Indigenous-settler relations. While her work primarily focuses on mining colonialism and environmental change in the Canadian North, she has also researched mining, energy production, and Indigenous activism in the American Southwest, and coal mine resurgence and reclamation in Alberta. In the Mining Dangers Project, Heather is researching black lung among coal miners in Nova Scotia and Alberta, particularly the connection black lung rates had on the implementation of occupational health and safety measures with provincial legislation. She will also examine workplace accidents, injuries, and disasters within Nova Scotia’s underground coal mines. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, Inuit Studies, the Northern Review, Journal of Tourism History and in the edited collection Mining and Communities in Northern Canada. Her first book, The Great Upheaval: Gold Mining and Environmental Change in the Klondike, is forthcoming with UBC Press.
Sarah Perry is a PhD student in the Department of History at McMaster University. She holds an MA degree in History, as well as a BA in History and Peace Studies. Sarah’s research focuses on Indigenous ways of knowledge in the Environmental field, most specifically in the Maritime regions. She also explores Indigenous histories in relation to mining disasters. Sarah is of Irish, Norwegian and Mi’kmaw descent. You can contact her at perrys6@mcmaster.ca.
