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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Apr 16
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 9h
"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 · 9h
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
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 9h
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 · 10h
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 · 9h
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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#envhist
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 · 9h
"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 · 14h
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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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 1d
In addition to focusing on how lighting #technologies have affected #birds over the ages...

(...and not just the glassy windows & bright skylines that harm birds today—think: #penguins 🐧, #oil, and #kerosene…),

the article makes four main points. Thread: ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶
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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 1d
A good summary of @charlotte-leib.bsky.social 's recent piece "Healing Wounds of Light..." posted yesterday to the #Metropole.

@nichecanada.bsky.social @asehearlycareer.bsky.social @audubon.org @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @intbirdrescue.bsky.social

#envhist #urbanhistory #urbanecology #birds
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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 1d
In addition to focusing on how lighting #technologies have affected #birds over the ages...

(...and not just the glassy windows & bright skylines that harm birds today—think: #penguins 🐧, #oil, and #kerosene…),

the article makes four main points. Thread: ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 14h
What a wonderful event!

On Wednesday evening, Martha Langford launched her new book, A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918, at the McCord Stewart Museum.

Learn more about the book: buff.ly/Q97xh2W
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
"The decision of what trees to plant on streets was a response to utility poles, and regulations managing utility poles were a response to street trees." - @mfeagan.bsky.social

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#envhist #urbanhistory #energyhistory
Electric Trees: The Constructed Nature of Utility Poles and Street Trees
Telephone poles and street trees overlapped in nineteenth-century cities, contested between aesthetics, technology, and regulation, blurring natural and built environments.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
This is an old post, so I'm guessing it is linking to Thorpe's Temagami's Tangled Wild.

I'll update the link! Thanks for the heads up.

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Temagami's Tangled Wild
Temagami's Tangled Wild - Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature; A vivid and engaging history that shows how the much-beloved concept of Canadian wilderness is more troubling than it seems.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
"Perhaps bearing witness represents potential for a different way to do historical research on human-environment relationships." - Jocelyn Thorpe (October 2012)

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#envhist #cdnhist #truthandreconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation
Reflecting on humility, openness, and witnessing, Jocelyn Thorpe embraces relational, decolonial approaches to land, knowledge, and reconciliation through attentive, transformative practice.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
"Climate and environmental conditions of internment sites are common topics in memories that Japanese-Canadian internees, like Adachi, share about their experiences. Yet, there remains a gap within historical work on internment." - Letitia Johnson

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#envhist #cdnhist
A ‘Showplace’ of Forcible Relocation
Japanese-Canadian internment during WWII intertwined environment, health, and racism—revealing how Slocan Valley’s landscape shaped experiences, care, and contradictions within forced displacement.
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Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social · 1d
#OTD (Thu, Oct 9) 1913 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Hon. Frank Cochrane [IMG], P.W. Ellis, John Muldrew arrived on morning train for breakfast. An enjoyable day was spent at Joe Lake." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
"Prisoners in the Park: German PoWs in Riding Mountain National Park" by @michaelsohagan.bsky.social

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#envhist #warhistory #cdnhist #parkhistory
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d
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ALT: the word very cool is written in pink and purple bubble letters
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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 2d
A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

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

niche-canada.org/2025/10/03/d...
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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Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲 @ethnographer.bsky.social · 2d
Correct.
And now, pipeline proponents want to secure new land for non-Indigenous interests, all over again.

(I'm ok with a pipeline, so long as it goes through settler population centres, not Indigenous territories or wildlife refuges, & doesn't require new risks to Orca & other sea populations).
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
"Canadian government representatives took Indigenous children away from their families, communities and territories to residential schools in order to secure the land base for non-Indigenous families and communities..." - Jocelyn Thorpe

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#envhist #cdnhist
Canadian government representatives took Indigenous children away from their families, communities and territories to residential schools in order to secure the land base for non-Indigenous families and communities. - Jocelyn Thorpe The transfer of land from Indigenous peoples to European powers and then to the Canadian government and settlers had, and continues to have, profound consequences for both people and land. It doesn’t get much more environmental historical than that. - Jocelyn Thorpe
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
"Canadian government representatives took Indigenous children away from their families, communities and territories to residential schools in order to secure the land base for non-Indigenous families and communities..." - Jocelyn Thorpe

niche-canada.org/2016/04/27/i...

#envhist #cdnhist
Canadian government representatives took Indigenous children away from their families, communities and territories to residential schools in order to secure the land base for non-Indigenous families and communities. - Jocelyn Thorpe The transfer of land from Indigenous peoples to European powers and then to the Canadian government and settlers had, and continues to have, profound consequences for both people and land. It doesn’t get much more environmental historical than that. - Jocelyn Thorpe
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
"The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in are not opposed to the mine, but they want to ensure it is carried out with consultation and reducing environmental impacts on the land and water." - @drheathergreen.bsky.social

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#envhist #mining #mininghistory #indigenous #yukon
Historical Mining and Contemporary Conflict: Lessons from the Klondike
The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in are not opposed to the mine, but they want to ensure it is carried out with consultation and reducing environmental impacts on the land and water.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

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

niche-canada.org/2025/10/03/d...
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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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 2d
Call for Papers: Self | Other | History – Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada 2026
- @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

CHA Annual Meeting 2026 – University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown – 1-3 June 2026
Deadline: November 15, 2025

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Call for Papers: Self | Other | History - Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada 2026
This call for papers invites participants to consider the way conceptions of self and other change over time, their tensions, and mediations.
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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 3d
The Metropole is collaborating with @nichecanada.bsky.social on a series dedicated to the dialogue between environmentalism and urbanism. Check out the call!
UHA/NiCHE Collaborative Call for Papers: Urban and Environmental Dialogues
A NiCHE/Metropole Blog Series Proposal Deadline: October 24, 2025 Draft Deadline: December 1, 2025 Series Publication: January/February 2025 The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) …
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Women in the Arctic and Antarctic @warcticantarctic.bsky.social · 7d
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program call for the Polar Archives Research Award - Oct 31, 2025 deadline library.osu.edu/polararchive... @arcticcentreumu.bsky.social @sduarctic.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @eupolarcluster.bsky.social @scottpolar.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
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