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Toronto Program 2013 Annual Conference CONFLUENCES, CROSSINGS, AND POWER 2013 April 3–6 Toronto, Ontario Annual Conference CONFLUENCES, CROSSINGS, AND POWER 2013 April 3–6 Toronto, Ontario Fairmont Royal York Hotel Conference sponsors NiCHE Trent University: McMaster University: Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and L.R. Wilson Institute of Canadian History; Indigenous Studies; Vice-President Academic; Provost and Vice-President, Academic; Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Vice-President, Research; Dean, Faculty of Programme; School of Graduate Studies; Humanities; Graduate Student Association Canadian Studies Department York University: University of Toronto: Vice-President Academic and Provost; Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science; Vice-Principal Vice-President Research and Innovation; Faculty of Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Liberal Arts and Professional Studies; Mississauga; History Department; Institute for the Department of History; Robarts Centre for Canadian History of Science and Technology Studies; Faculty of Graduate Studies; National Park Service Graduate History Students Association; USDA Forest Service Canadian Studies Programme (Glendon College); Oxford University Press Principal, Glendon College; Faculty of Environmental Studies Cover image: Alberta Oil Sands #9, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007. Photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier, Toronto. The conference organisers thank Mr Burtynsky for his generosity in allowing us to use this image. Conference program designed by Bahar Nasirzadeh Table of Contents Welcome from the Local Arrangements Committee ...............2 Welcome from the Program Committee .................................3 Conference Information .......................................................... 4 Conference schedule at a glance .............................................6 Special events Pre-conference workshop ....................................................... 7 Opening reception .................................................................. 7 Breakfasts ............................................................................... 7 ASEH Lunch and President’s Address ......................................7 Plenary Session ....................................................................... 7 Field trips Friday afternoon field trips ..................................................... 8 Post-conference field trip to Niagara Falls ...............................10 Events for graduate students Graduate Student Caucus meeting ..........................................11 Graduate student reception .................................................... 11 Graduate student lunch and roundtable .................................11 Graduate student writing workshop .......................................11 Hal Rothman Fun(d) Run ......................................................... 11 Saturday evening events ASEH members/business meeting ..........................................12 Poster reception ..................................................................... 12 Awards ceremony ................................................................... 12 Saturday night: Toronto à la carte ...........................................12 2013 Travel grant recipients ....................................................12 Posters .................................................................................... 13 Exhibits ................................................................................... 15 Concurrent Sessions ................................................................ 16 ASEH committees .................................................................... 36 Advertisements ....................................................................... 39 Index ....................................................................................... 58 CONFLUENCES, Crossings, AND Power 2013 1 Welcome to Toronto: Message From Local Arrangements Committee elcomeO T TORONTO! WE ARE PROUD THAT attempt to stop the expansion of the the ASEH is returning to Canada. The name Toronto, expressway system. This civic battle a Mohawk word (tkaronto) for “where there are trees succeeded. With streetcar, subway, W bus and intercity train services, the city standing in the water,” originally was attached to a location some has the second highest rate of public 125 kilometres to the north of the present city and likely referred transport usage on the continent. to the fish weirs in that place. The field trips explore the urban and ex-urban environments, including An engaging reference for environmental outside of Canada. The conference post-industrial and reclaimed sites historians, this name migrated along theme, “Confluences, Crossings, and in the Don Valley, Leslie Spit and long-standing trade routes to the Power” invites us all to reflect on Hamilton Harbour. You may choose site that developed around first a what it means to visit a city on the to visit the renowned McMichael French and later a British fort. (The Great Lakes, crossing international Collection with its stunning selection more commonly-held, if incorrect, borders (for most of the delegates) and of Canadian art, or view the site of belief holds that the name means exploring the differences that national Canada’s newest national park on the “place of meetings,” and this suits boundaries may make for a wide variety Rouge River, the only national park in our conference equally well.) Today, of environmental issues. In this city of close proximity to a major Canadian Toronto is the largest metropolitan many confluences, through continuous city. Other trips provide opportunities area in Canada and arguably the most immigration, cultures merge and meld such as reflecting on the layers of ethnically diverse city in the world. and occasionally conflict. aboriginal history embedded in the city Capital of the province of Ontario, and Although Toronto is affected greatly or uncovering the queer environmental the cultural hub for English-speaking by urban sprawl, it has also maintained history of Toronto. You may wish to Canada, Toronto may strike you most some features that distinguish it from stay closer to the conference venue dramatically for the multicultural other North American cities. Urbanist and walk around the financial centre nature of its population. Over half of Jane Jacobs moved to Toronto in the of the city. A post-conference tour to the population of the city was born 1960s, and was deeply involved in the iconic Niagara Falls and the Niagara 2013 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS TEAM: Ken Cruikshank History, McMaster University Colin Coates, director Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Michael Egan York University, Chair History, McMaster University Richard Hoffmann H.V. Nelles, director History, York University L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University Anders Sandberg Faculty of Environmental Studies, Stephen Bocking, chair York University Environmental and Resource Science/Studies, Trent University Andrew Watson PhD student, History, York University Laurel MacDowell, History, University of Toronto 2 CONFLUENCES, Crossings, AND Power 2013 wine-growing district may entice you Area from the very beginning. publication is a contribution to the to linger an extra day in the region. McMaster University, York University, environmental history of the Toronto Please join us on Thursday for one Trent University and the University region, and we hope that you enjoy of the highlights of the ASEH annual of Toronto have all generously learning about the location of this meeting, John McNeill’s presidential contributed to covering costs for the year’s conference. Printed copies will address on the topic of “Arnold events, including the general reception be available for purchase. Toynbee: World Environmental on Wednesday and the graduate The conference takes place in the Historian?” NiCHE (the Network in student reception on Friday. historic Fairmont Royal York, one of Canadian History & Environment - Each delegate will receive a usb the most splendid hotels in Toronto. Nouvelle initiative canadienne en key containing an electronic version Built in the 1920s as a railway hotel histoire de l’environnement) has of this programme and the panel and extended in the 1950s, it is located generously offered to pay half the abstracts. In addition, the usb key opposite Union Station in the core of ticket price for graduate students at will contain a specially prepared the city. We are sure that you will be the President’s luncheon. publication of chapters introducing impressed by the venue. This conference has been a the various field trips, including some We look forward to welcoming you collaboration of NiCHE and the themes beyond the ones available to Toronto in April! universities in the Greater Toronto to you on the Friday afternoon. This A note from the Toronto Program Committee HEP rogram COMMITTEE WOULD LIkE TO Extend a warm welcome to attendees of the 2013 meeting of 2013 PROGRAM T American Society for Environmental History. We are COMMITTEE: pleased to be part of the first ASEH gathering convened outside of the United States in nearly a decade. John Soluri Carnegie Melon University, chair The conference theme, “Confluences, sociology, cultural studies and film. Crossings and Power” captures the We encourage you to enjoy Colin Coates (second) nature of the host city, the panels, roundtables, posters, York University [local Toronto, as well as the flows and plenaries and field trips organized
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