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The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s
“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Blogroll
- Active History
- Adam Crymble, Thoughts on Public and Digital History
- Adam Mandelman, Porous Places
- Colin Tyner, the Labour of Nature, and Island Life
- Crystal Fraser, Canadian and Aboriginal History
- Daniel Macfarlane, Environmental/Transnational Historian
- Highline Online
- Historiography (Mostly) Matters – John Walsh
- Jeff Slack, Mountain Nerd
- Jim Clifford, West Ham and the Lower Lea River
- Jim Opp, Lug The Camera
- Mark Wilson, Environmental Activism (UK)
- Merle Massie A Place in History
- Michael Egan, History for a Sustainable Future
- NiCHE
- Pacific Dreams, New York Life
- Peeling Back the Bark, Forest History
- Place/Placelessness Un-Workshop
- Podcast from WCSC 2008
- Ryan O'Connor, Great Green North
- Rylan Kafara, The Past is Unwritten?
- Sean Atkins, Canadian Historical Geography
- Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
- Sound and Noise, Online Music Magazine from the UofA
- Stillwaters Historians, Katherine O"Flarherty and Rob Gee
- Sustainability History Project
- Will Knight | History, Nature, Fish
Author Archives: Lauren Wheeler
Public History, Pop History, Academia, and Jobs.
On the last day of the 2013 ASEH meeting in Toronto I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with two other public historians at a graduate luncheon and answer questions from graduate students about job opportunities outside academia. … Continue reading
Posted in Public History
Tagged academia, ASEH, job market, pop history, public history, Reflection
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Good-Bye STEP
Today the Alberta Budget dropped and the news is not good for local heritage and history institutions or the students who keeps them going in the summer months. The Student Temporary Employment Program, or STEP, was suspended. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Public History
Tagged budget cuts, Opinion, public history, Reflection, STEP
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A Little Bit of Everything
The key to working in public history is to be adaptable and willing to try anything. You will learn quickly in this field that no matter what the job description said you will be asked to do things you never … Continue reading
Making History Look Delicious at the Royal Alberta Museum
*This post was written for Active History. I recently took a trip to a Calgary restaurant where the most iconic of Chinese-Canadian dishes originated. The restaurant is on Centre Street at 27th Avenue North and you would likely miss it unless … Continue reading
Posted in Public History
Tagged Chinese-Canadian food, ginger beef, interviewing, public history, Research, Royal Alberta Museum
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Mountain Names
As a public historian working outside of academia I often get contracts that are vaguely in my area general area of expertise — western Canada — but not the odd corners of history that are where I like to spend … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Public History
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YEG…I think I heart you…
Edmonton there is something I have to say, I don’t want to love you but I kind of, sort of think that I do. I feel no pride when the Oilers or the Eskimos win a game. If something notable … Continue reading
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Reviving a Canadian Hero
*This was written for Active History and can also be found on the Sam Steele Collection site. Sam Steele was the Forrest Gump of Canadian History. He was involved in some way with the Fenian Raids, the Long March West, the 1870 … Continue reading
Pollution and the Tar Sands: The Same Old Story.
All weekend in Alberta the news covered the provincial and federal Environment Ministers toured new pollution monitoring stations in the Oil/Tar Sands. It reminded me of the consistent sense of deja vu that comes with studying the early environmental movement in Alberta and and of a recent presentation I gave at the Directions West conference at the University of Alberta. Below is a portion of that presentation about pollution monitoring, court cases, and environmentalism in Alberta in the 1970s. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism
Tagged Activism, Canada, conservation, court cases, Environment, Environmentalism, Natural Resources, oil sands, Pollution, STOP, tar sands
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Oil and Environment in Alberta – Or When a Spill Hits Close to Home
Last night (June 8) a pipeline running along a tributary of the Red Deer River spilt crude oil contaminating the surrounding environment. As Sean Kheraj noted earlier this week, this is not the first spill in recent memory and it will … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alberta, Environment, Macleod family, oil spill, Pollution, Sun, Sundre
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Of Monsters and Men.
Digression Alert! This post is only tangentially about environmental history, or Canadian history. It is, however, all about MUSIC THAT ROCKS. On Thursday May 24th “Of Monsters and Men” finally made it to Vancouver to play a show originally … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Iceland, Music, not sigur ros, of monsters and men, review, Vancouver
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