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A quarterly discussion about the environmental history community and research in Canada.
Nature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment
English, History, 1 season, 77 episodes
Nature's Past: A Podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment
English, History, 1 season, 77 episodes
Nature's Past - Episode Sixteen
The industrialization of agriculture.
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Nature's Past Episode 76: Methodological Challenges in Animal History
A roundtable discussion about a new book on methods in animal history.
11/25/2022 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 74: The Colonial Legacies of Wood Buffalo National Park
An interview about the colonial legacies of Wood Buffalo National Park.
3/27/2022 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 73: New Books in Canadian Environmental History
A panel discussion with three authors from UBC Press's Nature, History, Society book series.
11/14/2021 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 71: Water and Anishinaabe Territory
An interview with Brittany Luby and Chief Lorraine Cobiness about water, power, and resources in Anishinaabe territory.
4/12/2021 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 69: Environmental Racism and Canadian History
An interview with Ingrid Waldron about environmental racism and history in Nova Scotia.
7/29/2020 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Thirteen
New Directions in Urban Environmental History
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Nature's Past - Episode Ten
Digital Technologies and Environmental History
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Nature's Past - Episode Seven
The E-Waste crisis and an interview with Giles Slade, author of Made to Break
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Nature's Past Episode 56: Animal Metropolis
A panel on the history of animals in Canadian urban environments.
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Nature's Past - Episode Eight
The history of Aboriginal people and natural resource conflict in Canada
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Nature's Past - Episode Five
Wolf Read discusses the history of windstorms in British Columbia's Lower Mainland
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Nature's Past Episode 75: Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake
An interview about the history of uranium mining and its consequences on Serpent River First Nation territory.
6/28/2022 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Nineteen
Metropolitanism and Environmental History.
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Nature's Past - Episode Six
A special episode on teaching environmental history
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Nature's Past Episode 72: What’s Next for Canadian Environmental History?
A round-table discussion about the past ten years of Canadian environmental history and what may come next.
7/12/2021 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 70: Environmentalism and the Company of Young Canadians
An interview with Kevin Brushett about the role of the Company of Young Canadians in early environmental activism.
9/1/2020 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 68: Environment and Home
An interview with Karen Routledge about her new book on nineteenth-century Inuit and American encounters.
5/11/2020 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 67: Science, Technology, and the Modern
An interview with Tina Adcock, Edward Jones-Imhotep, and Blair Stein about the history of science and technology in Modern Canada.
3/2/2020 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 66: Communicating Toxic Legacies
An interview with Caitlynn Beckett and John Sandlos about the toxic legacies of the Giant Mine.
10/16/2019 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 65: 3rd World Congress of Environmental History
A travelogue of the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History.
8/12/2019 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 64: Environment and Alibi
An interview with Claire Campbell about the age of sail as a historical alibi for Nova Scotia.
5/22/2019 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 63: Unbuilt Environments
An interview with Jonathan Peyton about his new book on unbuilt environments of northwestern British Columbia.
3/24/2019 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 62: Carbon Democracy and Canadian History
A discussion of the Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy and its utility for Canadian history.
9/26/2018 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 61: Why Graduate Students Study Environmental History
Four amazing stories about four impressive graduate students in environmental history.
5/23/2018 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 60: New Research in Canadian Environmental History
A review and discussion of new articles and books chapters.
4/8/2018 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 59b: Introducing Papers in Canadian History and Environment
New post to correct earlier feed error. Apologies for the mistake and the re-download.
2/21/2018 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 59: Introducing Papers in Canadian History and Environment
Find out more about NiCHE's new peer-reviewed publication.
2/19/2018 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 58: The Past and Future of Canadian Environmental History
A round-table panel about the state of Canadian environmental history from CHA 2017.
11/29/2017 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 57: Why Study Canada?
A discussion about why scholars abroad study Canadian environmental history.
9/12/2017 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 55: Asbestos Mining and Environmental Health
An interview with Jessica van Horssen about her new book on the town of Asbestos.
11/29/2016 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 54: Reclaiming the Don, From Dissertation to Book
A conversation with Jennifer Bonnell about making her dissertation on the environmental history of the Don River into an award-winning book.
9/28/2016 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 53: The Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour
An interview with Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank about the social and environmental history of Hamilton Harbour.
5/26/2016 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 52: Hydro-Power and War
A discussion with Matthew Evenden about the mobilization of hydro-power during Canada's Second World War.
3/22/2016 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 51: Has Environmental History Lost Its Way?
A round-table discussion about the state of environmental history.
1/25/2016 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 50: Canadian Energy History
A round-table discussion on Canadian energy history with Steve Penfold, Ruth Sandwell, and Andrew Watson.
11/23/2015 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 49: Wildlife Conservation in Quebec
An interview with Darcy Ingram about his book on the history of wildlife conservation in Quebec from 1840 to 1914.
9/21/2015 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 48: Ecotones and Saskatchewan History
An interview with Merle Massie about her new book about the forest-prairie edge.
5/25/2015 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 47: Pollution Probe and the History of Environmental Activism in Ontario
An interview with Ryan O'Connor about his new book on the history of Pollution Probe and enviornmental activism in Ontario.
4/20/2015 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 46: Historical GIS Research in Canada
A round table discussion about the use of HGIS in environmental history research in Canada.
1/25/2015 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 45: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
An interview with Daniel Macfarlane about the history of the St. Lawrence Seway.
10/29/2014 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 44: The Second World Congress for Environmental History
A round-table discussion about the Second World Congress for Environmental History.
9/24/2014 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 43: Environmental Scholarship and Environmental Advocacy
A round-table discussion about the relationship between environmental history and environmental advocacy.
7/2/2014 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 42: The Right to a Healthy Environment
An interview with David Boyd about Canadian environmental rights.
3/17/2014 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 41: Closing Federal Libraries
An interview with Andrew Nikiforuk and a round table discussion about the closure of federal libraries in Canada.
2/2/2014 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 40: Environmental History of Atlantic Canada
A roundtable discussion about environmental history in Atlantic Canada.
11/4/2013 • 0
Nature's Past Episode 39: The Environmental History of Stanley Park
An interview with Sean Kheraj about his new book, Inventing Stanley Park.
9/30/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 8 - Tar Sands
An exploration of the history of the Alberta tar sands.
5/29/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 7 - Agri-Food Systems, II
A round table discussion on Canadian food history.
5/5/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 6 - Agri-Food Systems, I
An interview with Margaret Derry about the history of chicken breeding in North America.
3/31/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 5 - Fisheries, Regulation, and Science
A round table discussion with environmental historians about the history of Canadian fisheries regulation.
2/27/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 4 - The Canadian Environmental Movement II
A round table discussion with environmental historians about the Canadian environmental movement.
1/21/2013 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 3 - The Canadian Environmental Movement I
An interview with Neil Forkey about his new book on the historical relationship between Canadians and the natural environment.
11/26/2012 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 2 - Health and Environmental Issues in Aboriginal History
A round table discussion about health and environmental issues in Aboriginal history in Canada.
10/29/2012 • 0
Nature's Past: Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues, Part 1 - Global Warming
An examination of the role of climate and climate change in Canadian history.
9/24/2012 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Thirty
Environmental Histories of Montreal
4/30/2012 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty-Nine
The Contributions of Environmental History
3/21/2012 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty-Eight
Winnipeg Beach
2/22/2012 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Seven
Wildlife Histories
1/25/2012 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Six
Environmental History as Public History
11/30/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Five
National Parks Beyond the Nation
10/26/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Four
Draining the Wet Prairie
9/21/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Three
Writing the Next Chapter of Canadian Environmental History
5/25/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty Two
A Century of Parks Canada
5/15/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty One
Migratory Birds on the Pacific Flyway
3/30/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twenty
The 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in Winnipeg.
2/27/2011 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Eighteen
Local and Regional Parks.
11/21/2010 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Seventeen
Virtual Field Trips, Automobiles, and Global Commodity Chains.
10/29/2010 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Fifteen
The history of forestry education in Canada.
5/26/2010 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Fourteen
Management of the Newfoundland cod collapse.
4/19/2010 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Twelve
Industrialization in subarctive environments
1/18/2010 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Eleven
Animals, History, and the Environment
11/22/2009 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Nine
Environmental history graduate studies in Canada
9/21/2009 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Four
Ken Cruikshank speaks about environmental justice and the history of Hamilton, Ontario's waterfront since 1955.
3/16/2009 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Three
An extended interview with John Sandlos about wildlife conservation in the Canadian Northwest Territories
2/16/2009 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode Two
A discussion of resource development in BC including a look at hydro electric dam construction and an interview about the Stikine Plateau
1/19/2009 • 0
Nature's Past - Episode One
The environmental history of the Don River and web resources
12/18/2008 • 0