After months and months of hype, the long-awaited Apple tablet – the iPad – has arrived. It’s actually a real thing. Perhaps I too have just been caught up in the media spectacle that is an Apple product launch, but since I wrote a post back in November about the […]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
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Episode 12 Industrialization in Subarctic Environments: January 19, 2010. [audio:http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past12.mp3][24:30] Between 1920 and 1960, Canada’s northwest subarctic region experienced late-stage rapid industrialization along its large lakes. These included Lake Winnipeg, Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and Great Bear Lake. Powered by high-energy fossil fuels, the natural resources of the northwest […]
If you’re a historical researcher, the Library and Archives of Canada wants to hear from you. LAC recently released a survey on the relationship between historians and the archives that focuses particularly on the digitization of archival materials. Unfortunately, it seems that LAC is under pressure to use digitization as […]
Had John A. Macdonald not passed away at the age of 86, he would be 195 years old today. Canada’s first (and third) Prime Minister and co-conspirator in the confederacy of the remaining British North American colonies was born on January 11, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland. He later resettled in […]
This week my course on the history of the Canadian West since 1885 kicked off with a look at the trial of Louis Riel. This November 16th will mark the 125th anniversary of his execution as the first and only person to be tried and convicted for high treason in […]