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Understanding Past Environments through Historical Photographs
David Brownstein from the Department of Geography at UBC has posted an excellent interview with Jill Delaney from the Library and Archives of Canada about the use of historical photography in scholarly...
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Urban Animal Field Research: Whale Watching in Vancouver
One of the most exciting things about environmental history research is the opportunity to do field research. It’s fun to get away from the desk and get outdoors. I did just that this afternoon when I...
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Moose Strolls Through Downtown Calgary
A moose on the run in downtown Calgary. Unusual urban animal sightings abound in Canada this month. Last week I wrote about the grey whale that visited Vancouver’s False Creek, the first to be seen in...
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State of the Park: Report on the Ecological Integrity of Stanley Park
The Stanley Park Ecological Society (SPES) has released its 2010 State of the Park Report for the Ecological Integrity of Stanley Park. This project emerged following the 2006-07 windstorms. As the...
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A Different Kind of Environmental History Workshop
The Network in Canadian History & Environment New Scholars group will be hosting its own graduate student workshop this October, but it’s a different kind of workshop. If you visit the Place and...
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Nature’s Past Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 15 Available
Episode 15 Forestry Education in Canada: May 26, 2010 Download: natures-past15.mp3 [43:04] In 1907, the University of Toronto opened Canada’s first forestry school to undergraduate students. This was...
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Canadian Environmental History on the Radio
You can now listen to Nature’s Past, the Canadian environmental history podcast, on the radio (in Prince George)! The kind folks at CFUR 88.7, the campus radio station at the University of Northern...
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What the Copyright Modernization Act Means for Historians
Last week the federal government tabled its long anticipated copyright reform legislation for first reading in the House of Commons. The Copyright Modernization Act or Bill C-32 attempts to overhaul...
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Textbooks in a Digital Age: The History of Canada Online
Digital technologies are changing the way we read history. With the popularization of consumer electronic e-readers like Kindle, Sony Reader, Kobo, and (yes) iPad, many textbook publishers are trying...
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We’ve Moved!
I’ve finally migrated this blog over to its own domain. You can now find everything at: http://www.seankheraj.com I’ll leave this site up so that all old links still work, but new content will be...
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