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Peter A. Stevens 🇨🇦 @peterastevens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've done the opposite: breakfast and Christmas stockings in YYZ ✈️ ➡️ Christmas dinner in YVR. The airport is a breeze on Christmas Day!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We've got a book for that! Interested in reading the real story of Lake Ontario? Daniel Macfarlane, professor at Western Michigan University, has written the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario. Read it now! #LakeOntario #researchthatmatters buff.ly/woiwybh

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Seasonal recreation homes have a long history in Canada, but for most of that history, 'seasonal' has really meant 'summer.'" - @peterastevens.bsky.social Who is headed to their seasonal home this summer? niche-canada.org/2024/03/15/w... #envhist #cdnhist #summer #leisure

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Winter and the Summer Cottage

Technology and changing social conditions led the summer cottage to morph into the year-round vacation home in the 1970s.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Mary Sanseverino on the value of Mountain Voices as a tool for environmental advocacy. Find the full virtual roundtable, Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence, here: niche-canada.org/2026/04/02/r... @ucalgarypress.bsky.social #envhist #mountains #books #environment

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The recording of our Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence roundtable, co-hosted with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, is now available! Absolutely wonderful 1.5 hour reflection & discussion between the volume's editors and a few contributors. niche-canada.org/2026/04/02/r... #envhist

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Recording - Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence

In celebration of World Day for Glaciers, on March 20th, the editors of Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada gathered for a roundtable reflection on t...

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Peter A. Stevens 🇨🇦 @peterastevens.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I am very happy to be moderating this session next Friday. Please join us!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We're stoked! Join us!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We are excited to invite you all to our Virtual Event – Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence featuring the book's editors and moderated by @peterastevens.bsky.social Friday, 20 March 2026 – 2:00pm EDT/12:00pm MDT Hosted with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/v...

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Virtual Event - Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence

20 March 2026 - In celebration of World Day for Glaciers, join the editors of Mountain Voices for a roundtable reflection on the art, science, and history of capturing images and stories of these ever...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In our latest book review, Lianne Leddy examines @tinaadcock.bsky.social's A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North ( @ubcpress.bsky.social 2025) niche-canada.org/2026/01/30/r... #envhist #cdnhist #arctic #bookreview #histsci

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Review of Adcock, A Cold Colonialism

Adcock examines modern northern explorers, revealing how gendered networks and knowledge production enabled Canadian settler colonial power with lasting impacts.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thanks to our circle on Bluesky! Here's to another year of sharing environmental knowledge and building community. #envhist #cdnhist #histgeog #envhum

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our editor, Nicole Miller, chose "Crafting the Plasticene" by @robinshistory.bsky.social as our most recent Editor's Pick! "There is no way to unmake resin-infused wood and fiberglass. Wind turbine blades pose the same problem." niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c... #envhist #envhum #plastics #canoes

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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.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Historian Gregory Klages is in the process of publishing the diaries of @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social, who spent 3 decades as a Park Ranger in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. Klages recently met with @peterastevens.bsky.social to discuss the project. niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t... #envhist #cdnhist

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The Algonquin Diaries: Reflections of an Early-20th-Century Park Ranger

Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson’s diaries (1907–1936) detail social, environmental, and moral changes, offering rare insights into early conservation, policy, and wilderness life.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Today our Director, Andrew Watson, launches our 2025 November Fundraising Campaign! We are aiming to raise $16,000 over the next three weeks. If you appreciate the work that we do daily for #envhist & #envhum, for free, consider sending us $20 CAD our way! niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/l...

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Loving NiCHE Month: 2025 November Fundraising Campaign!

NiCHE fosters a vibrant environmental history and humanities community, supporting scholars through publications, events, resources, and annual fundraising to sustain its work.

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Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

2 softcover volumes of Mark Robinson's edited & annotated diaries are available, covering 1908-1917; 1917-1924. Canadian online shoppers can order at: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/search... Also avail for order in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Japan & more! @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Up until the introduction of a vaccine in 1955 ... some parents took their children to the cottage for the summer to protect them against polio, which was thought to spread rapidly in crowded urban environments." - @peterastevens.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/05/13/s... #envhist #cdnhist

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Second Homes During a Time of Crisis

Amidst a global health crisis that has government officials imploring people to self-isolate, many Canadians are choosing to relocate to the most isolated places they have access to—their cabins, camp...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today @robinshistory.bsky.social's DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture, in "Crafting the Plasticene." niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c... #makerculture #canoes #plastics #envhist

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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.

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