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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
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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
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Tagged Banff, Canada, Environment, mountains, national parks, public history, Wi-Fi, wilderness
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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
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Tagged Canmore, Environment, mountains, museums, public history, Reflection
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged Canmore, climate change, Environment, Mines, mountains, weather, wilderness
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The Canmore-Provincial Parks Conundrum
The province of Alberta is looking to changing how provincial parks are regulated. Nowhere will these changes have a greater affect than Canmore. CPAWS, the Sierra Club, and other conservation interest groups have taken up lamenting how these changes will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canmore, conservation, Environment, Mines, mountains, parks, public history, Reflection, wilderness
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A Mountain Research Interlude
My name is Lauren and I am addicted to the pursuit and dissemination of information. To be more specific, historical information. This is definitely one of the healthier addictions available, but like all addictions it is expensive – especially as … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Research
Tagged Archives, Banff, Graduate Students, mountains, Opinion, Reflection, Research, Whyte Museum
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Re-Naming; or Being Politically Correct
It seems in Canada there is always a debate going on over using the most politically correct name for places. Currently this is popping up in Vancouver around Stanley Park. The gist of the debate is the Squamish First Nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Canmore, Debate, Environment, mountains, place, Politics, public history, Rant, Stanley Park, Vancouver
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 