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Crafting the Plasticene Robins' DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture.

New Comment: "My Dad & I built a similar one in the 70’s from plans out of Popular Mechanics. That canoe was used a LOT in the years before college was finished. It is now tied up in the roof of the garage at home. I need to get that thing out and on..." - Dave

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Call For Papers – Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2026 The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum
Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop

Friday, July 10 and Saturday July 11, 2026
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Deadline: April 24, 2026

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useful to know: Atlantic and Canadian history

UNICORN ALERT!

ITS A TENURE TRACK HUMANITIES POSITION IN BEAUTIFUL (not currently fascist) CANADA!!!!!

RGDST: Matthieu Caron (Athabasca University) - Policing the Night: Vice, Power, and the Making of Modern Montreal Policing the Night: Vice, Power, and the Making of Modern Montreal. — Book talk by Matthieu Caron Tuesday 17 March 2026, 12:30-2pm Arts Building, Room 160. 853 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal Accessibility…

Matthieu Caron will be giving a talk about his book, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City, at McGill University on March 17th!

Learn more about the book: buff.ly/zfPXLS7

a man in a black shirt is standing in front of a wall with flowers on it and smiling . ALT: a man in a black shirt is standing in front of a wall with flowers on it and smiling .

Adult life for me as an academic is getting excited about a new planner delivered from Japan because it has both a daily schedule and daily/weekly to-do checklists in the SAME planner.

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History - University of Prince Edward Island The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, Department of History, welcomes applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor level, beginning on July 1st, 2026, in the...

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History – University of Prince Edward Island

Closing date for applications is March 13th, 2026.

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#envhist #cdnhist #atlanticcanada #publichistory

Education Need Not Mean Assimilation Jocelyn Thorpe describes how this series shows how colonial schooling suppressed Indigenous land-based education, nothing that now Indigenous-led, university-supported learning now fosters cultural re...

"Education Need Not Mean Assimilation" by Jocelyn Thorpe is the latest in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #education

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

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Doctoral student in the history of polar governance in the national polar research school

Last application date
12.Mar.2026

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"The sea mink, once found from the Isles of Shoals in New Hampshire to New Brunswick, went extinct in the mid-1800s due to over harvesting [....] Twice the size of today’s American mink (their closest living relative), the sea mink was highly desired for its expensive pelt"
@nichecanada.bsky.social

#OTD (Thu, Mar 2) 1911 at #CedarLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Mr. Hagerman & I went to Sand Bay for mail. Going to a box on a post we found mail for all of us, placed there through kindness [of] lumbermen. We returned home. After tea, we read the papers." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

J.A. Corry Lecture: Why Great States Fail with Dr. Alasdair Roberts | Department of Political Studies Date

Alasdair Roberts will be giving the J.A. Corry Lecture entitled "Why Great States Fail" on tomorrow afternoon at Queen's University.

Learn more about his latest book, The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century buff.ly/bDIUEhw

Event details:

Lake Minnewanka the secret of a mountain revealed itself while I stood on the water’s edge looking at its reflection...

"Lake Minnewanka" by Reneltta Arluk is our latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, part of our Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

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#mountains #books

Year 1 Preliminary Progress Meeting with Project Observers Project observers are predominately individuals who have participated in the project either as an interviewee or through conversations and insights. At present there are 35 observers to Seals, Stigma and Survival and on January 26th, 2026 there was an opportunity to engage with them about the Year 1 progress of the project. In advance of the meeting all observers were provided a draft copy of the Year 1 preliminary progress report to review.

Available now! Our Year 1 preliminary report (in English and Kalaallisut). Many thanks to our partners NAMMCO and Innovation South Greenland and to our observers and project participants for making this work possible, @nichecanada.bsky.social @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @arcticinstitute.bsky.social

#OTD (Tue, Mar 1) 1911 at #CacheLake, #AlgonquinPark: "At Headquarters. Received letters regarding Vespra Company, 35 Reg’t, asking me to take over command. Weighed today 175 lbs.; a loss of seven lbs. during trip."
@csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

I’m proud to announce the fourth CFP for Succession IV: Queering the Environment, which I’ve edited biennially since 2020.

This year we are inviting topics related to “queer joy.”

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

"We further wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment and more-than-human beings." -

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Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

Succession IV is here!!

Call for Submissions – Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy”
Editors: @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, and Sarah York-Bertram
Get your proposals in by March 28th.

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#envhist #envhum #queerecology #queer

A broad, curving, undulating staircase made of light stone seems to flow downhill amidst a background of darker stone. A sinewy metal railing bisects it.

Need a timeline cleanse? Me too.

So, here’s this week’s staircase: The Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Québec, by Douglas Cardinal, 1986-89. #StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

Our Most-Read Articles Published in December 2025! #envhist #rdr2 #popculture #environmentalstudies YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE

Pop culture meets academia in our two most read articles in December, on Red Dead Redemption 2 and Terror Camp. Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the details!

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This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more!

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OPINION: Canada built its forest industry for one customer. Northern Ontario knows the cost — and the way forward A new push for biofuels and biomaterials could reshape Northern Ontario's forestry economy

Finland is pursuing a national strategy to double the value of its forest sector without harvesting more wood by shifting away from commodity exports and toward advanced wood products, renewable chemicals, and bio-based fuels.
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Sniffing at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum! Discover how the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum uses scent to interpret living plant collections through olfactory storytelling.

Learn more about how #SmellingTheBouquet came together @mobotmuseum.bsky.social at the Olfactory Contractor blog post olfactorycontractor.com/stephen-and-...

Open letter from the Board of the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society re. the closure of 12 of 18 provincial museum sites Minister RitceyDepartment of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage1741 Brunswick St., 3rd FloorHalifax, NS B3J 2R5Email: MIN_CCTH@novascotia.ca Premier HoustonOffice of the PremierOne Governme…

On the blog we share an open letter from the board of the Nova Scotia Women's History Society re. the decision of the NS government to close 12 of 28 provincial museum sites:

The 1977 Parks for Tomorrow protest in Banff attracted significant media attention. “Marchers protest Sunshine expansion,” Calgary Herald, October 24, 1977.

Today we are highlighting an episode from the new season of the Let's Find Out podcast on "Parks for Tomorrow."

Join host @chriscyphillips.bsky.social to learn about this 1970s coalition of scientists and environmental groups from across Canada

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Doctoral student in the history of polar governance in the national polar research school KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Built Environment seeks a PhD student interested in the history and geopolitics of governance in the polar regions.

Doctoral student in the history of polar governance in the national polar research school

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Built Environment

Apply by March 12th

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#envhist #polarstudies #history

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IASH Presentation of New Routledge Book: Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North Missed PI Danita Burke's presentation of the new Routledge book Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North: Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era? at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh? You can check out the presentation below. Please note the Q&A portion was not recorded.

If you missed the presentation by PI Burke @danitaburke.bsky.social
@cwswarstudies.bsky.social today @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social, you can access the presentation on our website. Many thanks to Ben Fletcher-Watson for hosting! @sduarctic.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Event - The Cultural Logic of Energy in a Warming World 6 March 2026 - Calgary - This talk explores the cultural and political foundations of America’s enduring attachment to fossil fuels and asks why that attachment remains so powerful today.

The Cultural Logic of Energy in a Warming World with @calebwellum.bsky.social

Friday – 6 March 2026 – 2pm MST – University of Calgary

This talk explores the cultural and political foundations of America’s enduring attachment to fossil fuels.

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#envhist #energy