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Item Open Access Animal Matters: Bovine Smallpox Vaccine at the Connaught Laboratories and University Farm(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Dean, JoannaItem Open Access Domesticating Poliovirus : Laboratory Monkeys and Vaccine Production(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Piper, LizaItem Open Access From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2020-08-10) Brushett, KevinOriginally conceived as the shock troops of Lester Pearson’s “War on Poverty,” the Company of Young Canadians focused on mobilizing communities to fight poverty and disenfranchisement. However, as the booming 60s turned to the stagnant 70s, issues of sustainable development came to the forefront of the CYC’s projects. This paper examines how the CYC became the midwife to projects geared broadly to concepts of sustainable development (industrial pollution, recycling programs, and agricultural and food cooperatives) that attempted to mesh both economic as well as environmental perspectives.Item Open Access The Go Home Bay Biological Station: A Landscape of Science(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Knight, WilliamItem Open Access The Herbarium: An Interior Landscape of Science(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Anderson, PeterItem Open Access Landscapes of Science(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Bocking, StephenItem Open Access Landscapes of Science(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Bocking, Stephen; Knight, William; Dean, Joanna; Anderson, Peter; Heidt, Daniel; Piper, Liza; Adcock, Tina; Adcock, TinaThis edited collection brings together six original essays that explore the intersections of environmental history, history of science, and history of technology. Five of these essays first appeared as blog articles in 2015 on The Otter~La loutre. They appear in this collection with an additional chapter, new preface and conclusion.Item Open Access Landscapes of Science : Placing Knowledge, Displacing Nature(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2019) Bocking, StephenItem Open Access Magical Regionalism: Canadian Geography on Screen in the 1950s(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2018-02-21) Dyce, Matt; Peyton, JonathanUsing geography and environmental history to analyze children's film in 1950s-Canada, this paper examines regionalism in a popular National Film Board of Canada series.Item Open Access Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 001: The Environmental History of the Don River(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2008-12-10) Kheraj, SeanOn this pilot episode of the show, we introduce listeners to the study environmental history by speaking with Jennifer Bonnell, a graduate student at the University of Toronto who is researching the history of Toronto’s Don River. Jennifer’s research spans the long history of the Don River and its place in the social and environmental history of the city. From nineteenth-century grist mills to Depression-era hobo jungles to Hurricane Hazel in 1954, we find out more about this river valley on Toronto’s eastside. Also, we speak with Adam Crymble, the website administrator for the Network in Canadian History & Environment, about web resources for environmental history at niche-canada.org.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 002: Natural Resource Development in British Columbia(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-01-19) Kheraj, Sean; ; dc. description. abstractThis month’s episode focuses on resource development in British Columbia. Last November, the Nature/History/Society group hosted a roundtable on hydro in BC, featuring Jeremy Mouat (University of Alberta), Tina Loo (University of British Columbia), and Paul Hirt (Arizona State). In this episode we highlight a selection from Tina Loo’s talk on hydro-electric development and high modernism called ‘Towards an Environmental History of ‘Progress’. You can listen to the full roundtable on hydro in BC here.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 003: Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-10-21) Kheraj, SeanWe turn our attention northward in this month’s episode with an extended interview with John Sandlos, author of the award winning book Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Professor Sandlos discusses how he came to write this book and explores some of his main argument regarding Canadian federal wildlife conservation policies in the Northwest Territories. This book makes a persuasive argument about the relationship between wildlife conservation and the colonization of Canada’s sub-arctic and arctic regions. Sandlos challenges previous literature on the history of wildlife policy in Canada by considering the implications for Native people in the Canadian North.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 004: Environmental Justice on the Hamilton Waterfront(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-03-16) Kheraj, SeanThe typical model of the environmental justice literature has focused on cases in which local communities fought to have government recognize their neighbourhoods as environmentally hazardous and fix the problem. Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario waterfront since 1955 turns this story around by looking at who determines the environmental health of a community. Also, we speak with Graeme Wynn and Emily Jane Davis about NiCHE’s Forest History Cluster.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 005: The Storm History of Stanley Park(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-04-22) Kheraj, SeanIn 2006, Vancouver’s Stanley Park was struck by an extreme windstorm event, which blew down more than ten thousand trees in the park. This was just one of a series of regular windstorms to strike the park in the twentieth century, including major storms in 1901, 1934, and 1962. The nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland is incredibly complicated and the research of Wolf Read, a graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, will help us try to make sense of it. Also, Professor Joanna Dean from Carleton University’s Department of History tells us about the upcoming Canadian History & Environment Summer School in Ottawa.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 006: Teaching Environmental History Special(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-05-19) Kheraj, SeanTeaching environmental history at the undergraduate level poses several challenges for instructors in this burgeoning subfield of history. As more and more universities add environmental history courses to their calendars, it is important to take some time to reflect on how we teach environmental history. This special episode of the podcast on teaching draws from the experiences of four environmental history instructors from the University of British Columbia: Matthew Evenden, Eagle Glassheim, Sean Kheraj, and Tina Loo. Also, we speak with Alan MacEachern, co-editor of Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History, about textbooks in the field.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 007: E-Waste and Obsolescence(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-06-15) Kheraj, SeanThe problem of e-waste grows with each new mobile phone, music player, laptop computer or other type of consumer electronic device. Because many of these products are made with toxic substances, disposal is a major challenge. The environmental crisis of e-waste can be attributed to a strategy of industrial manufacturing developed over the course of the twentieth-century known as obsolescence. On this episode of the podcast, we hear from Giles Slade, author of the award-winning book Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, on this historical trend in manufacturing.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 008: Aboriginal People and Resource Conflicts in Canada(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-07-14) Kheraj, SeanThe history of the resettlement of Canada by European peoples and the dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land was, in part, a struggle over natural resources. Since 1867, the federal and provincial governments of Canada have on many occasions come into conflict with different First Nations over the control of land and access to natural resources. This episode of Nature’s Past looks at a historical case study of one such conflict in northeastern Ontario in the Temagami region. Jocelyn Thorpe, a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, speaks about her recent article in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, which examines the social construction of the Temagami region as a wilderness area and its implications for the Teme-Augama Anishnabi. Also, we speak with Dorothee Schreiber and Siomonn Pulla, organizers of the 14th annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium. The colloquium will be held from September 17-20 and you can download the most recent Call for Papers here.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 009: Digital Technologies and Environmental History(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-09-21) Kheraj, SeanAfter our brief summer break, the podcast returns with an episode that looks at environmental history graduate studies in Canada. Last May, we recorded a round-table conversation with four environmental history graduate students following the Canadian History & Environment Summer School in Ottawa, Ontario. These students discussed their own experiences studying and researching and they spoke about the unique qualities of environmental history training. Also, Will Knight, the New Scholars in Canadian History & Environment representative, joins us to talk about the New Scholars group and future project ideas.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 010: Digital Technologies and Environmental History(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2009-10-21) Kheraj, SeanHow have online digital technologies changed environmental history research, communication, and teaching? This episode of the podcast explores this question in the context of the recent NiCHE Digital Infrastructure API Workshop held in Mississauga, Ontario. Online-based Application Programming Interfaces or APIs are just one digital technology that holds the potential to change the way environmental historians access resources, analyze historical data, and communicate research findings. Within the past decade alone, the development of online digital technologies has offered the potential to transform historical scholarship. This episode includes a round-table conversation with some leading figures in the realm of digital history as well as an interview with Jan Oosthoek, the producer and host of the Exploring Environmental History podcast.