The Network in Canadian History and Environment’s NiCHE prize recognizes meritorious publications that make important and innovative contributions to the field of Canadian environmental history, broadly conceived. The prize is awarded annually, rotating biannually between books and journal articles/book chapters.

The prize is generously supported by our founding director, Alan MacEachern.

Past Award Recipients

2024 – Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize – Andrew Watson, Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 (UBC Press 2022).

2023 – Best Article/Chapter in Canadian Environmental History Prize – Colleen Campbell and Tina Loo, “Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History,” in Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History (University of Calgary Press, 2022)

2022 – Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize: Brittany Luby, Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (University of Manitoba Press, 2020)

2021 – Best Article/Chapter in Canadian Environmental History Prize: Shannon Stunden Bower, “Irrigation Infrastructure, Technocratic Faith, and Irregularities of Vision: Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in Ghana, 1965–1970,” in Agricultural History (2019).