Japanese-Canadian internment during WWII intertwined environment, health, and racism—revealing how Slocan Valley’s landscape shaped experiences, care, and contradictions within forced displacement.

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

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.

NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) partners with scholars working on projects in environmental history and adjacent fields, particularly when these projects include attention to northern North America. Partnering with NiCHE provides scholars with access to NiCHE's knowledge mobilization infrastructure and expertise, helping ensure robust strategies for research dissemination.

Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.

The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.