“The waters of the Williston Lake reservoir ended these first-hand experiences for all ages and for all time.” - Daniel Sims niche-canada.org/2026/02/23/w... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #residentialschools #ecogenocide

When Environmental Genocide Met Other Forms of Genocide: The W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Lejac Indian Residential School

Lejac residential school and Williston Lake reservoir together devastated Tsek’ehne lands, culture, hope, magnifying colonial genocide’s enduring harms and disconnection.

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Today we have "The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires" by @haydenlnelson.bsky.social. This is the latest article in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series. niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... #envhist #firehistory #uspoli

The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires

Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicat...

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We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 winner of our Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize is Jack Bouchard for Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World (@yalepress.bsky.social 2025)!! niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... #envhist #cdnhist #books

Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize: The 2026 Winner

We are pleased to announce that NiCHE’s 2026 Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize has been awarded to Jack Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rutgers Univer...

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Andrew Watson introduces our series exploring the potential of the Great Acceleration as a framework & reconnaissance of Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-posted with @activehist.bsky.social. This is going to be a big series, folks! niche-canada.org/2026/05/12/c...

Child of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration and a Reconnaissance of Canadian Environmental History

The Great Acceleration provides a unifying framework to analyze Canadian environmental history through interdisciplinary study, settler-colonialism, and global planetary changes.

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Today we have "The Voice of Women’s Radiation Brief: Mobilizing Motherhood for Citizen Science" by Emma Schroeder This is the first post in our series “Mobilizing Motherhood,” focused on mothers in twentieth-century industrial and environmental activism. niche-canada.org/2026/05/07/t... #envhist

The Voice of Women's Radiation Brief: Mobilizing Motherhood for Citizen Science

In 1960s Canada, VOW women conducted citizen science on radiation, blending motherhood and activism amid internal debates over politics, science, and femininity.

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The @cndhistassoc.bsky.social has written to Minister @JulieDabrusin to take issue with this attack on knowledge. You should too! cha-shc.ca/advocacy/cha... #cdnhist #envhist

Tina Loo@lootina.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More on the closure of the Parks Canada Library @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnhist #envhist www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/04/18/l...

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? A NiCHE Series Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026 Edited by @ramya.bsky.social NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage. niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c... #rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?

Can rivers be heritage? What is the place of rivers in our sense of place and/or self? What is the future of rivers? What lessons or parallels do rivers across the world have for Canada?

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This is me talking about early findings from my project on post-1945 publicly-funded irrigation on the Canadian prairies. Big thanks to @chrrumanitoba.bsky.social @adeleperry.bsky.social and others for welcoming me and engaging with my work.

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today we are happy to share the recording of @stundenbower.bsky.social's talk, "Refusing to Harness a River: A Study of Dryland Farmers Resisting Irrigation in Mid-20th Century Saskatchewan," given in Fall 2025 for the @chrrumanitoba.bsky.social Just Waters project. niche-canada.org/2026/03/14/r...

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

An invitation to help us think about the current moment in relation to the discipline of environmental history and the work of environmental historians -- please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat about a potential contribution.

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Editors @stundenbower.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social & @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social invite submissions related to "resistance" for the 2026 renewal of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History & the Current United States Federal Administration series niche-canada.org/2026/02/26/p...

If anyone would like to write about the environmental history of Alberta separatism for us, check out our Contributor Guidelines and get in touch! niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #cdnhist #envhist #alberta #abpoli #energyhistory

Guidelines for Contributors

Learn how to submit blog pieces, announcements, and other material to be published on the NiCHE website.

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Join @chriscyphillips.bsky.social at a Live Recording of the Let's Find Out Podcast in Edmonton on the evening of March 3rd! They will be exploring the fascinating history of the Whale Society of Edmonton. niche-canada.org/2026/02/19/e... #envhist #cdnhist #yeg #animalhistory

Federal cuts to agriculture science will hurt farmers and grocery shoppers, experts say - @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/canada-agric... #aghist #cdnhist #envhist #agriculture #histsci

Farmers oppose agricultural science cuts in Canada | The Narwhal

The federal government is closing farm research centres and cutting back on agriculture science, leaving farmers scratching their heads

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Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social

CJSR 88.5FM@cjsrfm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New 🧠🧠 Brains on Campus episode! Hear @tinaadcock.bsky.social on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and @mountroyalu.bsky.social's Dr. Muhannad Ayyash on what effective protest looks like after encampments were quashed at universities. #BDS #yeg podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...

CFP: "Critical Feminist Histories in Canada/Approches critiques en histoire féministe au Canada" conference at Queen's University, 2-4 October 2026. Please share widely! @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration A NiCHE Series Proposal Deadline: 18 February 2026 Edited by Andrew Watson niche-canada.org/2026/02/06/c... #envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies #energyhistory

Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration

The Great Acceleration refers to the period after WWII when the pace and scale of socioecological changes departed dramatically from previous trajectories.

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ICYMI: Any grad students, PostDocs, and recent grads interested in #envhum & #envhist who would like to get involved in our New Scholars community should get in touch with our New Scholars rep, @amritadasgupta.bsky.social! niche-canada.org/2026/01/23/j...

Join the New Scholars Committee and Mailing List

Amrita DasGupta joined NiCHE as the New Scholars Representative in the Fall of 2025. She is pursuing a PhD from the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University o...

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"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau niche-canada.org/2024/11/27/n... #envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry

New Book - The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry

How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?

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Job – Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization - @wwf.ca.web.brid.gy Apply by January 5th niche-canada.org/2025/12/29/j... #envhist #mininghistory #mining #conservation #ontario

Job - Associate Specialist, Mining Research and Knowledge Mobilization

The Associate Specialist, Mining Research & Knowledge Mobilization will support WWF-Canada’s work with industry, government, Indigenous communities, and civil society to reduce the impacts of mining o...

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Project Spotlight - Water and the Modern Prairies: Histories of Irrigation and Water Management Led by @stundenbower.bsky.social niche-canada.org/prairieswate... #envhist #aghist #waterhistory #cdnhist

Lots of important historical analysis in here, including some environmental history stuff.

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS@nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars! utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...

Today we have "Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway" by @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social This is the first post of the Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/08/c... #envhist

Concrete Memories: Constructing Denver’s Valley Highway

Denver’s 1950s Valley Highway film exposes intimate demolition scenes, revealing memory, loss, and urban transformation that complicate archival interpretation.

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One last push in support of @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising efforts. There are so many good causes, and money is tight for many, but if you can spare a few dollars, we'll put them to good use.

Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."

Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004

While NiCHE began as a Canadian environmental history network, its subject matter has always been situated in an international context, fostering conversations and collaborations across borders.

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Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.

Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream

We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...

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❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️ Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025 Publication: January/February 2026 niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c... #envhist #sporthistory #olympics

Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/17/b... #envhist

Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo)

Snow architecture enabled Inuit placemaking, memory, and renewal, while Europeans misread its ephemerality to erase Indigenous history and justify imperial claims.

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Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.

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Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history? Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!

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