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“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Author Archives: Lauren Wheeler
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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Public History Gets an App!
A great group of graduate students and staff at my alma mater, Carleton University, made an app for the entire length of the Rideau Canal. It is called “The Rideau Canal App” and it is free at the iTunes … Continue reading
Titanic EnvHist?
For the past week news sources have promoted the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. The commemoration focused on the people and the events of the night; the tales of survival and the grief of the loss of life. There … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged commemoration, envhist, Environment, Historiography, public history, Reflection, Titanic
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ASEH 2012: Madison Wisconsin and Digital History
Early on Thursday morning environmental historians from across the United States, Canada, and Europe converged on Madison, Wisconsin for the annual ASEH meeting. Madison is not an easy, or cheap, place to get to and it seemed like everyone had … Continue reading
FOUND! The Gateway Sept 1970-March 1971
Found the missing year! The helpful people at the University of Alberta Archives and in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library tracked down The Gateway run for the 1970/1971 academic year. The newspaper continued to publish and report on the … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environmentalism, Grad School, Research
Tagged Activism, Archives, ASEH, Canada, dissertation, Environmentalism, Research, University
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 