selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Hurricane Hazel: Disaster Relief, Politics, and Society in Canada, 1954-55. Journal of Canadian Studies. 40:37-70. 2016
- Abandoning Nature: Swimming Pools and Clean, Healthy Recreation in Hamilton, Ontario, c. 1930s–1950s. Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la m�decine. 28:315-337. 2016
- Gateways, inland seas, or boundary waters? Historical conceptions of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River since the 19th century. Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien. 60:413-424. 2016
- Remembering the Struggle for the Environment: Hamilton's Lax Lands/Bayfront Park, 1950s-2008. Left History. 13. 2008
- Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960. Environmental History Environmental History Review. 9:464-496. 2004
- The War on the Squatters, 1920-1940: Hamilton’s Boathouse Community and the Re-Creation of Recreation on Burlington Bay. Labour/Le Travail. 9-46. 2003
- " The Heritage of the People Closed Against Them:" Class, Environment, and the Shaping of Burlington Beach, 1870s–1980s. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 30:40-55. 2001
- ’The pictures are great but the text is a bit of a downer…’Ways of Seeing and the Challenge of Exhibiting Critical History. The Canadian Historical Review. 80:96-113. 1999
- Creating Critical Sport History for Popular Audiences: A Comparative Analysis of Two Sport-Related Museum Exhibits in Hamilton, Ontario. … -NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SPORT HISTORY. 1998
- Dirty Spaces: Environment, the State, and Recreational Swimming in Hamilton Harbour, 1870–1946. Sport History Review. 29:59-76. 1998
- Reflections on Creating Critical Sport History for a Popular Audience:" The People and the Bay". Journal of sport history. 25. 1998
- “Sportsmen and Pothunters”: Environment, Conservation, and Class in the Fishery of Hamilton Harbour, 1858–1914. Sport History Review. 28:1-18. 1997
- WITH APOLOGIES TO JAMES + THE INTERCOLONIAL-RAILWAY AND ITS ROLE IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARITIME-PROVINCES - A RESPONSE TO FORBES,E.R.. Acadiensis. 24:26-34. 1994
- Taking the Bitter with the Sweet: Sugar Refiners and the Canadian Regulatory State, 1904–20. The Canadian Historical Review. 74:367-394. 1993
- The Intercolonial Railway, Freight Rates and the Maritime Economy. Acadiensis. 22:87-110. 1992
- The Transportation Revolution and its Consequences: The Railway Freight Rate Controversy of the Late Nineteenth Century. Historical papers / the Canadian Historical Association = Communications historiques / la Societe historique du Canada. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting. 112-137. 1987
- The People’s Railway: The Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Public Enterprise Experience. Acadiensis. 16:78-100. 1986
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book
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chapter
- ‘It doesn’t bother me....’: Local neighborhoods, planners and the meaning of spatial justice in an industrial city, 1955-2000.. 81-97. 2016
- Forest, Stream and... Snowstorms?: Seasonality, Nature and Mobility on The People’s Railway, 1876-1914.. 55-78. 2016
- ‘Can You Do This for My Neighbourhood?’: Public Sport History, the Environment and Community in an Industrial City. 333-362. 2015
- Nature’s Playground: Environmental Change and Planning for Pleasure on the Burlington Bay, 1860 2000.. 329-339. 2004
- The Transportation Revolution and Its Consequences: The Railway Freight Rate Controversy in the Late Nineteenth Century.. 78-104. 1997
- The Intercolonial Railway, Freight Rates and the Maritime Economy.. 171-196. 1993
- Policy Entrepreneurs and Regulatory Innovation: Simon James McLean, William Lyon Mackenzie King and Business-Government Relations in the Age of Laurier.. 103-124. 1989
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review
- West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914. Labour/Le Travail. 281-283. 2019
- Andrew Smith. British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation: Constitution-Making in an Era of Anglo-Globalization. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. viii + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-3405-6, $95.00 (cloth).. Enterprise and Society. 230-231. 2012
- Richard Dennis. Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 436 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-46470-3, $38.02 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-521-46841-1, $29.51 (paper).. Enterprise and Society. 439-441. 2011
- <i>Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840 – 1872</i> (review). University of Toronto Quarterly. 283-284. 2009
- Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society and Culture in the Trent Valley (review). The Canadian Historical Review. 591-592. 2004
- Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s. Journal of American History. 737-737. 2001
- Dictionary of Hamilton biography, vol 4. The Canadian Historical Review. 725-726. 2000
- Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland.. Journal of American History. 1801-1801. 2000
- Creese, Gillian, Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994. Relations Industrielles. 555-555. 2000
- Railroad voices. Histoire Sociale. 335-336. 1999
- The philosophy of railways: The transcontinental idea in British North America.. Technology and Culture. 427-429. 1999
- FORGING INDUSTRIAL POLICY, THE UNITED-STATES, BRITAIN AND FRANCE IN THE RAILWAY AGE - DOBBIN,F. Labour/Le Travail. 341-342. 1996
- Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. By Norman R. Ball and John N. Vardalas · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrations and index. $55.00. ISBN 0-7735-0983-6.. Business History Review. 624-625. 1996
- MacKay, Donald. The People's Railway: A History of Canadian National. Urban History Review/Revue d'Histoire Urbaine. 63-64. 1995
- Alberta's Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board. ByDavid H. Breen · Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1993. lxii + 800 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, notes, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-88864-245-8.. Business History Review. 176-178. 1994
- THE RAILWAY KING OF CANADA - MACKENZIE,WILLIAM, 1849-1923 - FLEMING,RB. Dalhousie Review. 136-138. 1992
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