Funding for this workshop has been provided by NiCHE and the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, and L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History.
Venue: Rotman School of Management, 105 St.George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada
Local Organizer: Jessica Van Horssen,jvanhors@yorku.ca
If you wish to attend some or all of these sessions, please RSVP.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
9:00 Meet for Coffee, Introductions
9:15 Professor Chris Kobrak, University of Toronto, Welcome.
9:30 Overview of Workshop Themes, Andrew Smith and Jessica van Horssen
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| Josh MacFadyen, Western, “The Business of Biomass Fuel in Nineteenth-Century Central Canada” | Christine Rosen, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
| Amanda Robinson, York University The UAW Welcomes a Spectacular Landmark of Progress: Suburbs, Shopping Malls, and Automobility in “Canada’s Motor City” | Christine Rosen, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
11:50 to 13:00 Lunch
13:00 to 15:00
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| Kirsten Greer, Nipissing University and Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool, “An Environmental History of the Trade in Sugar between the Province of Canada and the British West Indies”
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Christine Rosen, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
| Hayley Goodchild, McMaster University, “An Environmental History of Dairy Production in Ontario, 1860 to 1900”
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Matthias Kipping, York University. |
15:00 to 15:15 Coffee Break
15:30 to 17:50
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| Stéphane Castonguay, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, “Private Enterprise, Hydroelectricity, and First Nations”
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Jessica Van Horssen, York. |
| Mark Kuhlberg, Laurentian University, “Meshing Environmental and Business History in Ontario’s Pulp and Paper Industry, 1894-1932”
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Matthias Kipping, York University. |
Friday, 23 May 2014
10:00 to 12:00
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| Dawn Berry, Oxford, “Flows of Environmental Knowledge From Alcan’s Greenland Operations: 1940 to 1945” | Alison Kemper, Ryerson University |
| Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool “The Dominion Fisheries Act of 1868: a Hayekian Approach”
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Pierre Desrochers, University of Toronto |
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch
13:00 to 15:00
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| George Colpitts, University of Calgary, “Accountancy and the Quantification of Environmental Data by Hudson’s Bay Company, 1821-1862”
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Pierre Desrochers, University of Toronto |
| Jessica Van Horssen, York. “Selling our land, tying our hands: the environmental history of Asbestos” | Laurence Mussio, McMaster University |
15:00 to 15:15 Break
15:15 to 15:45 Publication Planning Session
15:45 Workshop Concludes
The Past Speaks 
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