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Canada Strong, Knowledge Devalued: Decommissioning the Parks Canada Library
In November 2025, the federal government released Canada Strong , its somewhat overdue budget. Of the many items mentioned in its nearly 500-pages, one should worry historians; namely, the labelling of Parks Canada’s library services as “lower priority” and targeting them for reduction or closure.[1] Whatever you might think of ending library services – and I have lots of thoughts about that – explicitly naming it as part of a cost reduction plan is odd.
Travels with Tom: A Story Map of the Berger Inquiry’s Community Hearings, 1975-1976
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry is celebrated as a model of participatory environmental assessment. Among other innovations, it opened hearings to those who stood to be directly affected by the proposed development as well as public interest groups, provided financial support for their participation, and mandated disclosure of all studies by pipeline proponents and intervenors.
The Origins and Legacy of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry – also known as the Berger Inquiry – is widely seen as a landmark in environmental impact assessment, particularly because it took Indigenous perspectives and rights seriously. But how did it come about? The evidence I’ve found suggests it was a strategic state response to growing Indigenous and environmental activism, aimed at maintaining federal control over northern development.
Swimming in Political Waters: Understanding Racism and Exclusion at Banff National Park
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Canadian Historical Review
Articles 102(1), pp. 1–26 First published online: January 16, 2021 Abstract | Full Text | PDF (578 KB) | ePub (578 KB) 102(1), pp. 27–52 First published online: February 3, 2021 Abstract | Full Text | PDF (174 KB) | ePub (39 KB) 102(1), pp. 53–78 First published online: January 16, 2021 Abstract | Full Text | PDF (326 KB) | ePub (217 KB) Historical Perspectives / Perspectives Historiques 102(1), pp.
Getting into Hot Water: Racism and Exclusion at Banff National Park
This post is part of an ongoing series called, “Whose Nature? Race and Canadian Environmental History” This series examines the intersections of race and environment in Canada’s past and asks how human-nature relations are affected by ideas of race and racism. In 1910, a group of “lady tourists” vacationing at Banff objected to having to share the bathing pools at Cave and Basin and the Upper Hot Springs with “negroes and chinamen.”[1] It wasn’t an isolated incident.
Canadian Historical Review
Articles 101(4), pp. 497–521 First published online: July 24, 2020 Abstract | Full Text | References | PDF (759 KB) | ePub (704 KB) 101(4), pp. 522–551 First published online: June 18, 2020 Abstract | Full Text | References | PDF (883 KB) | ePub (641 KB) Historical Perspectives / Perspectives historiques 101(4), pp. 552–558 First published online: December 22, 2020 First Page | Full Text | PDF (143 KB) | ePub (15 KB) 101(4), pp.
From Politics to the Political: Historical Perspectives on the New Canadian Political History
This ain't your father's political history. As a recurring feature of the Canadian Historical Review, the editors periodically invite a selection of scholars to reflect on a particular theme or issue. For this Historical Perspectives section, we invited practitioners of the new Canadian political history to reflect on changes in the field, discuss new avenues of research that are opening up, and consider possibilities for the future.
From Politics to the Political: Historical Perspectives on the New Canadian Political History / De la politique au politique : Perspectives historiques sur la nouvelle histoire politique canadienne | Canadian Historical Review
‹ Volume 100 Issue 4, December 2019, pp. 564-571 ›
Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
By Tina Loo September 17, 2019 Review By Caroline Desbiens Focusing on the “trente glorieuses” period, Tina Loo’s study of how the Canadian welfare-state pursued its promise of universality gives us an in-depth look at five communities: namely Inuit villages in the district of Keewatin (Nunavut), small outports in Newfoundland, rural villages in the lower Saint-Lawrence and Gaspé (Quebec), the Africville settlement in Halifax (Nova Scotia), and the Stratchcona area in the Vancouver East Side...
Moved by the State
Tina Loo is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia. Her previous book is States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. A recipient of Clio and Sir John A. Macdonald prizes from the Canadian Historical Association, as well as the Canada Prize from the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, she is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Belonging to Place
Editor’s note: This is the first article in “Soundings,” a series of articles jointly published by The Otter ~ la loutre and the Acadiensis Blog that considers new approaches to history and the environment in Atlantic Canada. The entire series is available here on the Otter and here on Acadiensis. The fog comes in quickly around Tilting, Newfoundland. So it was only the crunch of gravel that announced the arrival of a stately beige Buick of 1980s proportions.
The Bow Valley and ‘People’ Without a History
148, Bear, grizzly, omnivore, daughter, and sister; b. ~ 2011 near Banff, Alberta, one of three offspring of Bear 122 (b. ?) and Bear 64 (b. 1989); d. 24 September 2017 near McBride, British Columbia. She was predeceased by her mother (d. 2013) and brother, Bear 144 (d. 2015) and is survived by her father and sister, Bear 160. Detail from one of Colleen Campbell’s panels showing Bear 148’s history. Photo credit: Tina Loo.
“To C or not to C”: Dam Development in Northern British Columbia
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series titled “Dam Nation: Hydroelectric Developments in Canada.” The pun is terrible, but Hamlet’s soliloquy about choices and consequences is an apt place to begin a discussion of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia. Construction began in 2015 and the federal government recently signalled its support for the project by approving two key permits allowing it to continue.
No. 142/3: On the Environment, Summer/Autumn 2004
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