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Historians’ Histories: Heather Green

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features fellow Cape Bretoner and Yukon trekker Heather Green. She was kind enough to take some time from her busy adventure schedule to share with us!

Image of Heather GreenHeather Green is a post-doctoral fellow with the Wilson Institute in Canadian History at McMaster University where she studies transnational tourism in the Yukon, specifically the rise of sport hunting, conservation policy, and Indigenous engagement. She is also a Fulbright Canada scholar with the University of Arizona examining the ways in which Indigenous groups in Arizona developed guiding and outfitting businesses for tourists in the early 20th century. She is also this year’s New Scholars representative for NiCHE! You can find her on Twitter @heathergreen21 usually tweeting about #envhist, the Yukon, and her dog, Whiskey!

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Guest Post: “The Sourdough’s Favorite Beverage”: Place, Identity, and the Klondike Brewery, 1904-1919

Neon sign that says: "Craft Beer for the People."

 

Note from Andrea: I’m just finishing up my marking for my condensed summer course, so we have another special guest post for you today! When I found out that Heather Green was researching beer in the Klondike, I just knew I had to talk her into a blog post. Enjoy!

 

Image of Heather Green.Heather Green recently received her PhD from the University of Alberta studying environmental and indigenous histories of gold mining in the Klondike region of the Yukon from 1890 to 1940. She is an incoming Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University where she will research trophy hunting tourism in the southern Yukon from 1920 to 1950.

 

This blog is the early research for a larger collaborative project with Matt Papai (University of Alberta) on the connections between local identity, environment, and beer production in the Yukon. Both collaborators are craft beer enthusiasts, and the idea for this project arose in 2015 from discussions about the environmental impacts of Northern beer production while researching in the Yukon and Alaska. Our next steps include examining liquor laws, temperance, and prohibition movements in the Yukon, as well as tracing commodity chains of brewing ingredients into the North. We also hope to investigate how successful O’Brien’s ad campaign was in reaching the public.

The craft beer movement has gained momentum over the past few decades with new microbreweries popping up each year all over North America and around the globe. In Canada, the microbrewery movement began in the 1980s, primarily in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Vancouver, British Columbia. Today, you are guaranteed to find at least one craft brewery in most towns and cities in Canada. Around the world one thing seems to ring true no matter where you go – breweries, and the beer they produce, hold a connection with place and local identity.

 

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Digital Pedagogy: A History of the Yukon in 100 Objects

A History of the Yukon in 100 Objects

Several weeks ago, a new blog started showing up in my social media feeds, A History of the Yukon in 100 Objects. Just FYI, titles like that are catnip for me! After some investigating, I discovered that this project was created by Amanda Graham — a faculty member at Yukon College — for the students enrolled in her course entitled “Northern Studies 200: Research in the North.” The project echoes the BBC and the British Museum’s “A History of the World in 100 Objects,” but reconfigured for a classroom setting. Graham was kind enough to agree to talk to me about this project so that I could in turn share it with you! I’ve talked previously about the importance of active learning in Canadian history, as well as the possibilities of digital history. However, such activities can often seem intimidating, so I hope that this blog post, the result of that conversation, will convince you that they are worthwhile additions to any classroom!

But first, allow me to introduce Amanda Graham!

A History of the Yukon in 100 ObjectsAmanda Graham, BA, Dipl. NOST MA

  • Coordinator/Instructor, University of the Arctic
  • School of Liberal Arts

Amanda Graham was the first graduate of the college’s Northern Studies program. She joined Yukon College in 1992 as managing editor of The Northern Review, taught northern studies, and served as Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities in the old Arts and Science Division for two terms (1994-1998). In 2004, Graham resigned to coordinate UArctic programs at Yukon College and to teach northern and circumpolar studies and, variously European and Canadian history. She piloted a successful service learning course that linked coursework and reflection to voluteer work with the Arctic Winter Games.

 

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