Articles on Canadian Topics
in Environmental History

The Forest History Society's interdisciplinary quarterly journal Environmental History publishes scholarly articles relating to the history of human interaction with the environment. A number of articles on Canadian issues have appeared in the journal since its founding in 1996.

Articles Relating to Canada Published in Environmental History (2000 - present)

• Pyne, Stephen J. "Burning Border." Environmental History 12 (October 2007): 959-965. Looks at the differences in approach to fire management policies between the United States and Canada.

• Piper, Liza, and John Sandlos. "A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North." Environmental History 12 (October 2007): 759-795. An examination of colonization and ecological imperialism in northern Canada in the form of invasive plants, animals, and diseases throughout the 20th century.

• Loo, Tina. "Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River." Environmental History 12 (October 2007): 895-919. An examination of environmental justice in the context of the damming of the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada and its environmental and social impacts.

• Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, and Matthew Farish. "The Cold War on Canadian Soil: Militarizing a Northern Environment." Environmental History 12 (October 2007): 920-950. A history of Cold War-era military activity in northern Canda and its impact on Canada's natural landscapes and the environment.

• Binnema, Theodore, and Melanie Niemi. "'Let the Line Be Drawn Now': Wilderness, Conservation, and the Exclusion of Aboriginal People from Banff National Park in Canada." Environmental History 11 (October 2006): 724-750. Using a case study of the exclusion of the Stoney people from Rocky Mountains (Banff) Park in Canada between 1890 and 1920, explores the history of the removal of aboriginal people from national parks in North America. Argues that aboriginal groups were excluded not to make national parks uninhabited wilderness, but rather in the interests of game conservation, sport hunting, tourism, and Indian assimilation

• Gilliland, Jason A., and Matthew Novak. "On Positioning the Past with the Present: The Use of Fire Insurance Plans and GIS for Urban Environmental History." Environmental History 11 (January 2006): 136-139. Suggests new ways of applying fire insurance plans for urban environmental history research, discussing both the information they offer and their use as the basis of a Historical Geographic Information System (HGIS). Uses example of authors' project on London, Ontario, Canada (1855-2005).

• Cruikshank, Ken, and Nancy B. Bouchier. "Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960." Environmental History 9 (July 2004): 464-496. Discusses the negative environmental and social impacts of zoning regulations, city planning policies, and industrial development practices on the working-class community of a Canadian steel town.

• Parenteau, Bill. "A 'Very Determined Opposition to the Law': Conservation, Angling Leases, and Social Conflict in the Canadian Atlantic Salmon Fishery, 1867-1914." Environmental History 9 (July 2004): 436-463. On the conservation politics associated with early salmon fishery regulation in Canada.

• Mulvihill, Peter R., Douglas C. Baker, and William R. Morrison. "A Conceptual Framework for Environmental History in Canada's North." Environmental History 6, no. 4 (October 2001): 611-626. Analyzes prominent approaches to environmental history and explores factors considered in constructing environmental history such as frontier folklore and mythology and environmental concerns.

• Zeller, Suzanne. "Darwin Meets the Engineers: Scientizing the Forest at McGill University, 1890-1910." Environmental History 6, no. 3 (July 2001): 428-450. Examines the timber studies program at this university in Quebec, Canada, based on cooperation between engineers and botanists.

• Sandlos, John. "From the Outside Looking In: Aesthetics, Politics, and Wildlife Conservation in the Canadian North." Environmental History 6, no. 1 (January 2001). Twentieth century.

• Little, John J. "A Wilderness Apprenticeship: Olaus Murie in Canada, 1914-15 and 1917." Environmental History 5, no. 4 (October 2000). Brief biographical sketch of
  United States wildlife biologist Olaus Murie (1889-1963), focusing on his ornithological expeditions into the Labrador region of Ontario in the early twentieth century.

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