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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
Category Archives: Research
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
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
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Tagged Iceland, Music, not sigur ros, of monsters and men, review, Vancouver
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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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Missing: The Gateway April 1970-September 1971
The Gateway (newspaper) is missing from April 1970 to September 1971 and I need help finding it! Continue reading
Environment vs. Economy: The Perpetual Alberta Conundrum
The Gateway Pipelines public hearings have landed in Edmonton and the proceedings will probably get less press than the hearings with Aboriginal communities in British Columbia. Most communities along the proposed pipeline routes (Gateway and Keystone) have the opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Research
Tagged Canada, Debate, dissertation, economy, Environment, Environmentalism, Natural Resources, tar sands
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Dissertation Arithmetic, or 56hrs/wk
As the semester begins graduate students, like the undergraduates, get back to work. The difference is the grad students probably didn’t take much of a break from working during the week universities close between fall and winter semesters. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Procrastination, Research
Tagged dissertation, Graduate Students, Reflection, University
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Archives and the Digital World
The University of Alberta has a digital archive called ERA (Education and Research Archive) where any one working at the university can deposit electronic records. The items deposited include drafts of published papers, datasets, research materials, conference presentations, course materials, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Public History, Research
Tagged Archives, arctic, Canada, canadian circumpolar institute, photographs, Research
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Silent Summer: Noisy Fall…
Summer is an interesting time for graduate students. There are conferences to attend, research trips to take, much writing/editing to do, and always the need to find some sort of gainful employment to pay the bills during the 4 months … Continue reading
A Circulpolar Interlude
There is a hidden gem for environmental history at the University of Alberta. It is called Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). The CCI is an interdisciplinary institute with a mandate to promote and enhance the knowledge, awareness and sustainability of polar … Continue reading
Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 