The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields;however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie,poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding.Wet Prairie br
In the early hours of 15 December 2006, a powerful windstorm rippedthrough Vancouver. The city's residents awoke to discover StanleyPark, their most treasured landmark, transformed into a tangle ofspl
In the 1970s, Hydro-Quebec declared in a publicity campaign"We Are Hydro-Quebecois." The slogan symbolized the extentto which hydroelectric development in the North had come to bothreflect and fuel Fr
Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is arecent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an eramore closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation.How
The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location -- British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the cen
Encompassing more than six million hectares of globally rare coastal rainforest, the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia was once slated for clear-cut logging. This fate was forestalled, however
It was a megaproject half a century in the making -- possibly thelargest construction operation, and certainly the largest relocationproject, in Canadian history, and a technological and engineeringma
For many Canadians, wilderness is a fairly straightforward idea- an untouched natural place to visit and to protect. Yet, inTemagami's Tangled Wild, Jocelyn Thorpe shows in vividhistorical detail that
Stanley Park bordering Vancouver, British Columbia, is known as one of the world's great urban parks. In a case study contributing to the emerging field of Canadian environmental history, Kheraj (hist
Bower (history and classics, U. of Alberta) tells how farmers who answered the call of the Canadian government to settle the northern Great Plains during the late 19th century found that the seasonal
Ingram (University of Ottawa) shows that wildlife conservation in Quebec had its origins 150 years ago when elitist patrician values shared by upper- and middle-class society were embedded in state le
