https://depot.erudit.org//id/004949dd Search the Channel search https://depot.erudit.org//simple-search https://depot.erudit.org//id/004965dd Title: Prix / Prizes <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2020-01-21 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:06:49 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004964dd Title: À venir / Things to come <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2020-01-21 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:03:05 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004963dd Title: An introduction to the NiCHE Forest History Cluster <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2020-01-21 <br/> <br/>Abstract: The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) is a cross-Canada environmental history group that promotes new ways of supporting collaboration among Canadian environmental historians and colleagues in adjacent fields. It also works to ensure that this research is accessible to policymakers, natural scientists, and the Canadian public. NiCHE is not a funding organization, but rather a networking and informative body currently composed of several clusters around water history, forest history, early Canadian environmental data, landscapes and transnational ecologies. Given its importance to Canada, the forest warrants concerted investigation across disciplines, and the Forest History cluster, with your help, seeks to facilitate understanding of the place of the forest in Canada’s (environmental) history. Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:01:15 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004962dd Title: Count me in / J'en suis <br/> <br/>Authors: Heron, Craig <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2020-01-21 <br/> <br/>Abstract: In the spring the CHA learned that only 56 per cent of Canadians who completed a form in the 2006 Census had agreed to let their personal information be released 92 years later. Like other groups, the CHA was concerned that this valuable resource for historians and social scientists(and many other Canadians interested in family or community history) would be permanently weakened as a research tool. In May we held a workshop during our AGM to draw together members of our association and other societies(especially sociologists, political scientists, and economists) who were concerned about this situation. Eric Sager(University of Victoria) agreed to head up this initiative. Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:57:29 GMT https://depot.erudit.org//id/004961dd Title: The Canadian census for the common good <br/> <br/>Authors: Sandwell, R.W. <br/> <br/>Issue Date: 2020-01-21 <br/> <br/>Abstract: I was invited to speak at this workshop primarily because, in my role as a microhistorian, my work is rooted in the description and analysis of individuals within a community over time. Like genealogists, therefore, my work relies heavily on manuscript census information pertaining to individuals, and is therefore particularly vulnerable to the recent suppression of historical evidence about individuals through Bill S18, as Eric Sager outlines in his paper for this panel. My comments today do not, however, address the particular difficulties that this legislation will bring to people within my sub-specialty of microhistory, though they are significant. Instead, I will suggest that the government’s decision to destroy or suppress particular kinds of historical evidence has implications that reach far beyond microhistorians’, and indeed beyond historians’ work, out to the common good of society at large. Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:53:53 GMT