The Network in Canadian History & Environment. NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history. niche-canada.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwyl6bqmks2nICYMI: “We have not yet had a public conversation about the ongoing consequences of the great land grab, but now is a good time to start.” - @kellyblack.ca - @vilocalhistory.bsky.social https://niche-canada.org/2026/10/02/the-great-vancouver-island-land-grab-kelly-black-on-how-a-19th-century-grant-shapes-the-present/ #envhist #cdnhist #bchistory #vancouverisland03 Oct 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyl6bqmks2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwyl2fgrkc2n"Environmental humanists have the tools to construct viable histories of the future designed to address lived injustice in place and time and through them to catalyze restorative social circumstances & more sustainable practices & processes." - Kent Curtis https://niche-canada.org/2021/04/06/histories-of-the-future-urban-microfarming-as-an-elegant-solution-for-a-just-and-sustainable-world/ #envhum03 Oct 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyl2fgrkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwvoy3h2r22bToday NiCHE New Scholars committee member, @hopelatta.bsky.social, speaks with Historian @kellyblack.ca about The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab project and travelling exhibit - @vilocalhistory.bsky.social https://niche-canada.org/2026/10/02/the-great-vancouver-island-land-grab-kelly-black-on-how-a-19th-century-grant-shapes-the-present/ #envhist #cdnhist #colonialism02 Oct 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvoy3h2r22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwvojdcpxk2b"My suspicion of the idea of queer joy does not result from a denial of the important role of positive affect in kinship, community-building, or political organizing. Nor do I dispute the possibility for 'romance at a pipeline protest' or 'intimacy at doomsday.'" https://niche-canada.org/2026/06/29/no-transition-affective-infrastructures-for-the-climate-class-conjuncture/02 Oct 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvojdcpxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwt7zy7uas2jListen to "Indigenous History & the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada – What’s Old is News" - @activehist.bsky.social - https://activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07/06/indigenous-history-the-historic-sites-and-monuments-board-of-canada-whats-old-is-news/ Read "A Failure to Commemorate" by @alanmaceachern.bsky.social - https://niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a-failure-to-commemorate-a-call-for-submissions/ #cdnhist #HSMBC #parkscanada01 Oct 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt7zy7uas2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwt7qlcljs2j"Hišimy̓awiƛ: Creating Our Own Mountain Culture" by Rain Scott is our final featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project & a Century of Change in Western Canada, the latest book in our series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social https://niche-canada.org/2026/10/01/hisimy%cc%93awi%c6%9b-creating-our-own-mountain-culture/ #envhist #cdnhist01 Oct 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt7qlcljs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwt7bwdtpk2j"Franklin developed national and international networks of women to track fallout monitoring practices in Canada, the UK, the United States, and West Germany and, in the process, 'buil[t] the peace movement horizontally.'" - Emma Schroeder https://niche-canada.org/2026/05/07/the-voice-of-womens-radiation-brief-mobilizing-motherhood-for-citizen-science/ #womenshistorymonth01 Oct 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt7bwdtpk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwr2lb2ijk25Have a question? Want to collaborate? Give feedback? Contribute to the website? You can always reach out to us at nichecanadawebsite at gmail dot com and a member of our executive will be in touch. niche-canada.org/contact/30 Sep 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr2lb2ijk25https://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwqvgvu6kk25Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Friday at 4:30pm EDT on Instagram Live. @thornleynfi.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss queer joy, affective infrastructures, and the climate-class conjuncture. Find NiCHE on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada30 Sep 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqvgvu6kk25https://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwqoqoskc225Learn about @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social's new book, Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta ( @uchicagopress.bsky.social 2026). Schmidt outlines how Alberta uses geosciences and policy to legitimize extractive land use. https://niche-canada.org/2026/09/29/new-book-landlocked-water-energy-and-planetary-politics-in-alberta/ #envhist #cdnhist30 Sep 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqoqoskc225https://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwqoic4dpk25"In choosing this idyllic life, Maurice and Alec prioritise real and simple joys over worldly and material comforts, thus stealing their metaphorical apricots." - Chetana Gavini https://niche-canada.org/2026/06/25/two-men-can-defy-the-world-e-m-forsters-happy-ending-in-the-greenwood/ #envhist #envhum #queerlit #queerecology #queerjoy #literature30 Sep 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqoic4dpk25https://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwm5yv4ed22z"As social historians like Mariana Valverde and Karen Dubinsky have shown, being from places considered “dirty” carries a number of derogatory and gendered connotations." - Amanda Robinson https://niche-canada.org/2015/09/18/history-in-the-hollows-environmental-history-and-local-heritage-in-oshawa-ontario/ #envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory #class28 Sep 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm5yv4ed22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwlu2cx6zs2z"Looking into Road Salt Use, Harms, and Alternatives" is our latest article to cross the 10,000 view threshold! - https://niche-canada.org/2022/12/19/looking-into-road-salt-use-harms-and-alternatives/ Congrats to Ambika Tenneti! #envhist #roadsalt28 Sep 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlu2cx6zs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwlrg2fijk2zNomination are now open for the 2027 NiCHE Prize for Best Article or Book Chapter! This prize is awarded every other year for meritorious publications that make important and innovative contributions to the field of Canadian environmental history, broadly conceived https://niche-canada.org/2026/09/28/2027-niche-prize-call-for-nominations/28 Sep 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlrg2fijk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwlqnerbjc2zICYMI: If you are an environmental historian, please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or a panel. NiCHE would like to organize a series of linked panels on environmental history at CHA 2027. https://niche-canada.org/2026/09/25/call-for-environmental-history-proposals-at-the-canadian-historical-association-meeting-in-winnipeg/ #envhist #cdnhist @cndhistassoc.bsky.social28 Sep 2026 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlqnerbjc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nichecanada.bsky.social/post/3mwloizg2tk2z"What environmental factors may have contributed to the foxing of the pages in just twenty years? Twenty years seemed too short." - @sritamabarna.bsky.social https://niche-canada.org/2025/12/17/print-cultures-of-environmentalism-and-archipelagic-imagination-from-contemporary-sundarbans/ #envhist #archives #climatechange #climhist28 Sep 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:vddcifniumnpsqudcqevv7a3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwloizg2tk2z