The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting kicks off today and runs until March 13th. I’ll be down in Portland for the meeting for a couple of days, presenting on a panel about new directions in urban environmental history on Friday morning (10:30am, Round-table 6-A, Alexanders 23rd floor). While […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Episode 13 New Directions in Urban Environmental History & Abandoned Mines: March 3, 2010. [audio:http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past13.mp3][49:59] Next week the American Society for Environmental History will hold its annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. Environmental historians will gather from March 10-13 to share new research and ideas, roughly surrounding the theme of “Currents […]
A couple of weeks ago, The Simpsons aired their episode about the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Although they didn’t mention it by name, Bart and Lisa visited Stanley Park! You can clearly see the Lord Stanley statue which stands near the Coal Harbour entrance and some of the totem poles […]
“Vancouver has been profoundly changed,” according to local talk radio host and former BC cabinet minister Christy Clark. We’re just over halfway through the 2010 Winter Olympic Games here in Vancouver, British Columbia and Clark’s comments will not be the only ones proclaiming a new era for the city. In […]
As a follow up to my previous post about the Public Domain Manifesto, I wanted to direct readers to the controversy over the release of Canada’s intelligence file on Tommy Douglas. Douglas, as many Canadians will remember, was a prominent social democratic politician, former premier of Saskatchewan, long-time Member of […]
Historians know that our work is entirely dependent on access to and availability of sources, especially archival primary sources. Anyone who has spent months (and sometimes years) awaiting approval of a Freedom of Information Act request in Canada knows how frustrating limited access can be. It is a barrier to […]
This week, my course on the history of the Canadian West since 1885 is looking at the 1919 general strike in Winnipeg. We spent a lot of time going into the various factors that led to such discontent among Winnipeg’s working class, especially those related to wartime conditions between 1914 […]
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 […]
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 […]