Last year, I published an article in BC Studies on the origins of forest management policy for Vancouver’s Stanley Park titled “Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931”. This article is based on research from my dissertation on the environmental history of Stanley Park. As a result of the threat […]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
5 posts
I meant to write about this earlier in the summer, but there is still time. Industry Minister Tony Clement and Heritage Minister James Moore launched a public consultation process on copyright policy on July 20th. Following the government’s failed efforts to quietly revise Canadian copyright law last year through Bill […]
It’s time to update your bookmarks, change your links, and tell your friends. The Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) has migrated to a new home at http://niche-canada.org. For those of you unfamiliar with this resource, NiCHE is a SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster for environmental historians and historical geographers […]
John Lutz asks this very question in the most recent issue of the Canadian Historical Association Bulletin. Lutz takes historians to task for failing to adequately prepare their graduate students for both the present and future of digital history. It is bad enough, as Lutz argues, “that the current professoriate […]
Remember a couple of years ago when there was a lot of discussion about employers using internet-based social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, to screen job applicants? We were advised to use these so-called Web 2.0 tools cautiously to avoid the possibility of a potential employer discovering embarrassing photos or […]