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…

Fruitful Collaborations: Libraries as Partners in Historical Research

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…