Subscribe
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
Tag Archives: mountains
The “Trouble” with Wi-Fi Hotspots in National Parks
On Tuesday April 29, 2014 Parks Canada announced it will install Wi-Fi hotspots in National Parks. The response from Canadians is divided; some welcome the ability to access the internet in remote areas, others see it as an unnecessary incursion of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Public History
Tagged Banff, Canada, Environment, mountains, national parks, public history, Wi-Fi, wilderness
Leave a comment
Canmore, Floods, and Southern Alberta Museums
Thursday mornings I was woken by a 6:45am phone call from Canmore. It was my mum to tell me the usually dry creek behind the house was a raging river and our neighbours with homes backing the creek had been … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Public History
Tagged Canmore, Environment, mountains, museums, public history, Reflection
1 Comment
Stop the Great Canmore Rabbit Invasion
Canmore need to take drastic action about the bunnies. Action that should have been taken twenty years ago when the rabbits were only in South Canmore Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion
Tagged bunnies, Canmore, Ecology, Environmentalism, invasive species, mountains, Opinion, rabbits, wilderness
14 Comments
Stop the Great Rabbit Invasion of Canmore
Canmore need to take drastic action about the bunnies. Action that should have been taken twenty years ago when the rabbits were only in South Canmore. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment
Tagged Canada, Canmore, Ecology, Environment, invasive species, mountains, wilderness
2 Comments
ASEH Phoenix: Days 2 and 3
The internet in my hotel room was very temperamental and instead of staying in the air conditioning longer than necessary the Canadian contingent went out and basked in temperatures well above freezing late into the night. As a result the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, NiCHE, Research
Tagged ASEH, Environment, Historiography, mountains, NiCHE
1 Comment
Micro Environmental History – Weather and Missing Mountain Tops
Weather related travel seem to be dominating the news this holiday season. Before snow paralyzed air travel in Europe and Britain, it trapped people in their cars in southern Ontario while rains and storm surges were flooding rural New Brunswick. … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment
Tagged Canmore, climate change, Environment, Mines, mountains, weather, wilderness
Leave a comment
