AS: Please note that this version of the program replaces the one I posted a few days ago. We have change the order in which the papers are to be presented.
Funding 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
Thursday, 22 May 2014
9:00 Meet for Breakfast, Introductions
9:15 Professor Chris Kobrak, University of Toronto, Welcome.
9:30 Overview of Workshop Themes, Andrew Smith and Jessica van Horssen
Note: Each Presentation will be 25 minutes in length. 10 minutes per paper has been set aside at the end of each panel for the Commentator’s feedback. 10 minutes per paper for feedback from other audience members has also been planned.
10:00 to 11:50
| 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 |
| Hayley Goodchild, McMaster University, “An Environmental History of Dairy Production in Ontario, 1860 to 1900”
|
Matthias Kipping, York University |
| Stéphane Castonguay, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, “ Shawinigan Water and Power Company and the Transfiguration of the Saint Maurice River Valley”
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Jessica Van Horssen, York University |
15:00 to 15:15 Coffee Break
15:30 to 17:50
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| Dawn Berry, Oxford, “Flows of Environmental Knowledge From Alcan’s Greenland Operations: 1940 to 1945” | Christine Rosen, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley |
| 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
9:00 Meet for Breakfast
10:00 to 12:00
| Presenter and Paper Title | Commentator |
| George Colpitts, University of Calgary, “Accountancy and the Quantification of Environmental Data by Hudson’s Bay Company, 1821-1862”
|
Pierre Desrochers, University of Toronto |
| 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 |
| Jessica Van Horssen, York University “Selling our land, tying our hands: the environmental history of Asbestos” | Laurence Mussio, McMaster University |
| 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 |
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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