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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: September 2025

Find historical ecology, a chicken tax, and living rivers in the September list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Check out "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares

The latest article in our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #ushistory

The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track

Amid wildfire smoke, assembling a vintage toy racetrack evokes reflections on U.S. militarism, consumer culture, and the erasure of northern Canadian histories.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"There was the sense of how the scene played into the Canadian stereotype: of a people so tolerant, or so passive, that they permitted squatting squatters to take up residence next to the seat of government." - @alanmaceachern.bsky.social

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#caturday #cdnhist

A Parliament of Cats

You couldn’t visit the cats without thinking about the wild and the tame, and the thin line between the two.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"Such rebellion ignites affective bodies with ambiguity and flux, fostering a queer politics of rebel becomings that resists cis and hetero normative conceptions of the body." - Jay Sinclair

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#nationalcomingoutday #queerecology #plastics #queer

The Plastic-Body: A Queer Politics of Rebel Becomings

I argue microplastics and their endocrine-disrupting effects can incite resistance against the traditional norms and values of heterosexuality and cis-genderism.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Job Opportunity – Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions

Seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with and for Indigenous communities in Alberta & elsewhere in Canada.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 1d

DEVASTATED to learn that we keep losing at olympic curling because all of our coaches got poached

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"Today, there are around one thousand curling clubs across Canada, from Stephenville, NL, to Whitehorse, YT, and there are more active curlers than in any other country." - @ccoates.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"Today, there are around one thousand curling clubs across Canada, from Stephenville, NL, to Whitehorse, YT, and there are more active curlers than in any other country." - @ccoates.bsky.social

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Mina Harker @bellalieughosty.bsky.social · 1d

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." - Anna Soper

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"On the surface, naming a newly discovered frog in Ecuador after Led Zeppelin, the British rock music group, seems like scientists having a bit of fun or sharing a rare touch of whimsy. Let me squash that notion." - Jacqueline Scott

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#science #ecology #histsci

Naming a Frog After Led Zeppelin is Not a Fairy Tale

Naming a frog after a British rock group is an

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 1d

This is whimsical as fuck.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." - Anna Soper

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"Does humour in the face of the climate crisis allow us to explore environmental humanities research in novel and innovative ways?" - @nulybranch.bsky.social

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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis

This series explores how humour helps environmental historians engage climate crisis narratives, bridging human-nonhuman relations and resisting despair.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Watch: "Building of the Alaska Highway in WWII - Original Color Documentary" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMC6...

Read: "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares - niche-canada.org/2025/10/10/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #militaryhistory

Building of the Alaska Highway in WWII - Original Color Documentary

YouTube video by Look in The Past War Archives

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Funded Master’s Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

Work with @jamiemurton.bsky.social on the How Canadians Ate Project at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario.

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#envhist #cdnhist #foodhistory #foodstudies

Funded Master's Position in the History of Food Systems in Canada

The project asks: how did Canadians get their food following the rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century? In other words, in a Canada that was increasingly industrial from about the 1870s, w...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 2d

Please sign to support part-time academics and teaching assistants at Dalhousie! #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 1d

GM: "We have the car of the future, but we can't make it."
Toyota: "We are complying with regulations."

Eisler notes that this was a public element of technical dramaturgy that shows what automobility might look like in the future. But GM didn't know about Toyota's new hybrid (#Prius)

#SHOT2025

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

"It has long been obvious that the fossil fuel lobby has a powerful influence on the Liberal Party of Canada. However, it is truly amazing to see how quickly they have gained influence over this new Prime Minister." - @drlorileeoates.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

"On a crisp autumn day along the south shore of Lake Superior, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay set off into the woods. His quarry was 'a true local delicacy: the chaga mushroom.'" - @robinshistory.bsky.social

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#envhist #foodstudies #foraging #chaga

Picking Stories, Selling Chaga: How History Helped Make Chaga a Superfood

Jonathan Robins investigates how history has been adapted to market chaga as a popular superfood.

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference

I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist

woman presenting to a woman and man in front of a screen in a ball room

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

Our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser continued this week with "A Deeper Cultural Divide" by Antoine Mountain.

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#indigenous #envhist #cdnhist #residentialschools

A Deeper Cultural Divide

Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 2d

A list of birds that once frequented New York City, but had disappeared by 1923. It's encouraging that nearly every one that has not gone extinct can at least occasionally be spotted in the city.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

Study Abroad in Costa Rica: Explore Environmental & Social History in Summer 2026!

Taught by Jennifer Bonnell.

The course is open to all York University undergraduate (3rd & 4th year) & graduate students, as well as students from other universities.

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Study Abroad in Costa Rica: Explore Environmental & Social History in Summer 2026!

Save your spot by January 23rd. Taught by Professor Jennifer Bonnell, this course explores the history of ecological conservation in southern Costa Rica.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

"In my own travels around Quebec as a teenager, one such story reached me: the tale of a woman who was caged and hanged for witchcraft, only for her ghost to haunt the island every Samhain eve." - Adrian Deveau

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#samhain #halloween #folklore #quebec #envhum

Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary

Folklore is embedded in the heart of Quebecois culture.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI:

"In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus." - @scoutblum.bsky.social

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#envhist #envhum #pedagogy

Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their ef...

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