A Moment for Council to Build the Waterfront Toronto Deserves
Originally posted to Torontoist.com, 29 May 2015 By removing the Gardiner and building a better vision for the waterfront, Toronto has the rare opportunity to learn from its historic mistakes, writes Jennifer Bonnell. By Jennifer Bonnell (Guest Opinion) Photo by mooncall2012 from…
Review of Don Valley book in Alternatives Journal
Reviewed by Alanna Bodo. Originally published in Alternatives Journal 10 March 2015 For the 100,000 daily commuters who travel on the Don Valley Parkway in to Toronto’s East end, the landscape is likely viewed as a picturesque transportation corridor, if…
HGIS book featured on Nature’s Past podcast
Originally posted to Nature’s Past 26 Jan 2015 Episode 46: Historical GIS Research in Canada, 26 January 2015 [38:27] Download Audio In recent years, environmental historians and other historians have been working with maps in new ways. Specifically, they have been…
Interview on significance of L.R. Wilson investment for McMaster’s Wilson Institute for Canadian history
Originally posted on McMaster Daily News, 25 November 2014 Red Wilson invests $2.5 million in the study of Canadian history by renewing successful institute Red Wilson’s latest gift to McMaster – $2.5 million – is a catalyst for revitalizing the…
Don River history referenced in Toronto Star article on Don Mouth redevelopment
Originally published by Toronto Star staff reporter Eric Andrew-Gee, 16 November 2014 Overhaul of Don River mouth could spur Port Lands development By reducing flood risk, planners hope “renaturalization” will give new life to a forgotten corner of Toronto. Don…
From the Archives to the Bee Yard
One of the reasons I chose to locate my postdoctoral research on the environmental history of beekeeping at the University of Guelph was the presence of reknown honeybee researchers Ernesto Guzman and Gard Otis, and the existence of the Honey…
Thinking with Bees
Bees have received a lot of attention over the last five years. You could say they’ve become media darlings, of sorts. The “disappearance” of 30 billion honeybees—one quarter of the population in the northern hemisphere—from hives in North America and…
Writing the Environmental History of Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway
When I first began to explore the history of Toronto’s Don River Valley five years ago, the story of the major highway that runs through the valley failed to capture my imagination. I was interested in the effects of highway…
On Oral History and the Presence of the Past
When I first moved to Toronto from British Columbia ten years ago, I took up a job with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, coordinating an oral history project on the Scarborough community of Agincourt. Conducted in partnership with the…
Fruitful Collaborations: Libraries as Partners in Historical Research
Part of my doctoral research on the social and environmental history of Toronto’s Don River Valley involved making sense of the area’s industrial past. Given the volatile nature of nineteenth-century industry—some companies opening and closing again in short succession, others…
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