This weekend I saw the stunning, chilling anti-war protest/memorial known as Arlington West in Santa Barbara, California. Since November 2003, community activists, mainly from Veterans for Peace, from the Santa Barbara area have weekly transformed the beach adjacent to Stearns Wharf, a heavily trafficked tourist site, into a Central Coast […]
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Last week I attended the fourth annual Canadian History & Environment Summer School in Ottawa, Ontario at St. Paul University. The weekend event was excellent. I had only been to the first CHESS in Toronto previously and found that to be a great opportunity to get to meet environmental historians […]
A new episode of Jan Oosthoek’s environmental history podcast series “Exploring Environmental History” is now online. This looks to be a very interesting new four-part series on the state of the field of environmental history. This is a good opportunity to hear what he thinks about environmental history and the […]
I started this page as a way for people to find out a little bit more about what I do as a Canadian environmental historian. I hope that this will fill in some blanks and introduce readers to the growing field of environmental history in Canada. Since this is just […]