“More importantly, the end of a commitment to maintaining a library signals the end of a commitment to amassing one – having staff continue to research and write material related to the parks’ cultural and natural past, present, and future.” - @alanmaceachern.bsky.social
#parkhistory #parkscanada
In "If Parks Canada’s Library Goes Quiet," @alanmaceachern.bsky.social weighs in on the impending closure and decommissioning of the Parks Canada library and its materials.
niche-canada.org/2026/03/16/i...
#envhist #cdnhist #cdnpoli #parkhistory #parkscanada #archives #nationalparks
New comments on "Canada Strong, Knowledge Devalued: Decommissioning the Parks Canada Library" by @lootina.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #parkscanada #parkhistory #archives
"Late in 2013, we used the NPSHistory.com model and began the process of converting Parks Canada publications into electronic editions." - Randall D. Payne and Harry Butowsky
niche-canada.org/2014/05/20/a...
#envhist #parkhistory #parkscanada #cdnhist
If you haven't yet, make sure you read @lootina.bsky.social's latest for us, "Canada Strong, Knowledge Devalued: Decommissioning the Parks Canada Library," which includes a suggested action to take.
niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #parkscanada #parkhistory #cdnpoli
Season 2 of the Parks Canada podcast, ReCollections, is now available!
Learn more here: niche-canada.org/2026/01/20/s...
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist #parkscanada
Our editor, @peterastevens.bsky.social, sat down with Gregory Klages of the @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social project in "The Algonquin Diaries: Reflections of an Early-20th-Century Park Ranger."
niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t...
#envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory
"Prisoners in the Park: German PoWs in Riding Mountain National Park" by @michaelsohagan.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2013/06/21/p...
#envhist #warhistory #cdnhist #parkhistory
"Quebec did not have a comprehensive system of formal segregation such as the 'white’s only' signage in the southern United States, but it did have a history of slavery and pervasive anti-Black racism." - @stevenhigh.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2020/10/20/g...
#envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory
2) "Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures" by @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w...
#envhist #parkhistory #publiclands #wilderness #outdoors
#NationalParksDay
Nature’s Past Episode 74: Colonial Legacies of Wood Buffalo National Park
niche-canada.org/2022/03/28/n...
#envhist #parkhistory #nationalparks #parkscanada #cdnhist #indigenoushistory
Looking for a space to write about current effects of US federal administration on US national parks?
Check out our Tracking the Effects series CFP. Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#nationalparks #parkhistory #envhist
If you want a space to write about this order to wipe erase history at the NPS, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#envhist #parkhistory #NPS
We are accepting proposals on a rolling basis for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series, if anyone wants a space to write about this whitewashing of history.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#envhist #parkhistory
#PrideMonth Reading
"Utopia at the Margins: Opportunistic Plants and Queer Community at Jacob Riis Park" by Tim (Teal) Nottage
niche-canada.org/2024/08/08/u...
#envhist #parkhistory #queerhistory
Order a copy of Whitson's Marketing the Wilderness from @uminnpress.bsky.social here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791511...
#envhist #parkhistory #nationalparks #wilderness
Bygone SFO flight offered rare sweeping pass over Yosemite Valley
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
#envhist #parkhistory #aviation
#NationalParkWeek Reading
"'Parks Are Not for Profit,’ or Park Mythology and White Denial" by @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2021/02/04/p...
#envhist #parkhistory #parks
#NationalParkWeek Listen
Off-Campus History: Ken Burns’s The National Parks with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2022/05/11/o...
#envhist #parkhistory #nationalparks
"In this sense, Banff is just the most concrete, or extreme, illustration that parks are places of human history, marked by generations of experiments in environmental management and manipulation." - @clairecampbell.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2011/05/25/a...
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist
#BlackHistoryMonth Reading
"Black and Chinese men were told they could use the bathing facilities but only between seven and eight o’clock in the morning, when few other patrons were likely to be present."
niche-canada.org/2021/11/12/s...
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist
Park and Queer History have long been linked.
Read "A Raid in the Ash Forest" by Jamie Ross for one example.
niche-canada.org/2022/06/08/a...
#envhist #parkhistory #queerhistory
Read about that time Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King were denied accommodations in Fundy National Park in this set of vignettes from @alanmaceachern.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2020/09/09/r...
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist
"Provincial park accessibility hinges on the availability of automobile transport and cheap fuel, both of which were increasingly elusive for most of Toronto’s citizens during the 1970s." - @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2014/07/04/p...
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist #parks
New Comments on "The Trouble on Hell Hollow Road: White Ghosts, Maternal Grief, and the Gendered Fragility of American Park Mythology" by @carolineabbott.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2021/06/29/t...
#envhist #genderhistory #parkhistory
Sarah Carter reviews Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park, the latest book in our University of Calgary Press Canadian History and Environment series
albertaviews.ca/remembering-...
#envhist #cdnhist #indigenous #parkhistory
Read about Black porters being banned from using the Banff Springs baths in this piece by Tina Loo and Meg Stanley - "Swimming in Political Waters: Understanding Racism and Exclusion at Banff National Park" - niche-canada.org/2021/11/12/s...
#envhist #parkhistory #BlackHistory
Who coined the term "America's best idea" first? James Bryce, Wallace Stegner, someone else?
Look back on Alan MacEachern's thoughts on the topic here:
niche-canada.org/2011/10/23/w...
#envhist #parkhistory #nationalparks
If you are a historian or other scholar that wants to write about the historical and current context of the #JasperFire for our site, check out our guidelines and get in touch!
#envhist #parkhistory #cdnhist
niche-canada.org/guidelines-f...
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City - @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/parks-for-pr...
#envhist #parkhistory #parks #urbanplanning
