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Gold · OntarioMica Jorgenson, The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2023. 268 pgs. ISBN 9781647791049. Reviewed by Michel S. Beaulieu
The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929 is heavily rooted in author Mica Jorgenson’s personal history. As Jorgenson comments in the preface, during a search to “understand how the past had unfolded to the present, I r…Read Article
Review of Jorgenson, The Weight of Gold
Climate Crisis · CanadaThis is the introductory post to the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach. A polar bear, climate scientist, a rotifer, and a climate denier walk into a bar… This series stemmed from the curiosity to explore how environmental historians engage with humour, satire, irony, and silliness in and out of the archive when thinking with and about the climate crisis. Does humour in …Read Article
