- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
George Colpitts
Research Interests
Areas of Specialization:
Currently Teaching
| F2012 - HTST 211 - Canada: Origins To 1867 | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2012 - HTST 352 - Northern Horizons: Subarctic & Arctic Canadian History | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2013 - HTST 437 - Canadian Environmental History | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2013 - HTST 593.10 - Selected Topics in History | |||||||||||||||||
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Consulting
Historical Consultant (trapping, fishing and hunting economies) on the
B.C. Hydro-sponsored environmental impact study of the Peace-Athabasca
Delta and the community of Fort Chipewyan following the construction of
the W.A.C. Bennett Dam: Way of Life Study, 1993-1994.
Specific Claims Analyst and Research for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
Specific Claims Analyst and Research for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
Most recent publication projects:
“Harold Innis’ Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State and the Economics of Conservation,” as part of William Buxton's upcoming collection of articles arising from the Innis and the North Conference, August 14-17 2007, organized by William Buxton, Concordia University.
“The Domesticated Body and the Industrialized Woman’s Fur Coat in Canada in the Interwar Period,” as part of the upcoming collection by Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicolas, Contests and Contestations: The Body in Canadian History.
In 2010, I have been finishing work on two studies as a follow-up to my work on the provisions trade: a compilation and analysis of price series on pemmican and other traded food products in the British Northwest, and how price possibly prompted the exhausion of the "buffalo commons" in the 19th century; and a closer study of the specialization of plains First Nations in the provisions trade.
Publications
Book
- Colpitts, George. Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. Print.
Book Chapter
- Colpitts, George. "“Films, Tourists and Bears in the National Parks: Managing Park Use and the Problematic “Highway Bum” Bear in the 1970s” " A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011. Print.
- Colpitts, George. "“’Victuals to Put into our Mouths’: Environmental Perspectives on Fur Trade Provisioning Activities at Cumberland House, 1775-1782” " The Early Northwest: History of the Prairie West Series Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2008. 125-146. Print.
- Colpitts, George. "“Buffalo Hump and Moose Nose: The Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade, 1780-1840” " Dining on Turtles: Food, Feasts and Drinking in History Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 64-81. Print.
Journal Article
- Colpitts, George. “The Methodists’ Great 1869 Camp Meeting and Aboriginal Conservation Strategies in the North Saskatchewan River Valley” 29.1 2009. 3-27.
- Colpitts, George. “Reports of Environmental Degradation in Hudson’s Bay Company Fur Trade Journals,” 19.1 2006. 1-32.
- Colpitts, George. ‘Animated Like Us By Commercial Interests’: Commercial Ethnology in New France Fur Trade Descriptions, 1660-1760 2002.
- Colpitts, George. Wildlife Promotions, Western Canadian Boosterism and the Conservation Movement, 1890-1914 28. 1998. 103-130.
- Colpitts, George. ‘Victuals to Put into our Mouths’: Environmental Perspectives on Fur Trade Provisioning Activities at Cumberland House, 1775-1782 22.1 1997.
- Colpitts, George. Conservation, Science and Canada’s Fur Farming Industry 59. 1997. 77-108.
- Colpitts, George. Fish and Game Conservation in Alberta, 1907-1930 1994.
Curricula Vitae
Degrees
- 2000 - Ph.D. - University of Alberta
- 1993 - M.A. - University of Calgary
- 1990 - B.A. - University of Calgary
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