Canada's Forest History

The Forest History Society (FHS) is an international organization with an emphasis in the Americas. For over two decades FHS has helped to preserve forest, conservation, and environmental history in Canada.
These efforts occur across our program areas in Library and Archives, Research and Publication, and Education and Outreach. Because environmental history is oftentimes common across borders, this supports and demands an international perspective.

This page acts as a portal to the many Canadian resources and activities of the Forest History Society. The FHS staff have helped many forest history collections safely reach official repositories in Canada. We have published consistently on Canadian forest history and continue to seek articles, books, and other information to publish. We also hope in the near future to open an office in Canada.

We invite you to assist us in our mission to preserve forest, conservation, and environmental history for the purpose of providing a historical context for environmental decisionmaking now and in the future. Please contact us immediately if you know of a collection of Canadian forest history materials at risk of being lost.

FHS & Canada Fact Sheet:

• The FHS Environmental History Bibliographic Database contains information on over 3,200 publications about Canada.

• The FHS Environmental History Archival Collections Database contains descriptions of about 900 groups of records about Canadian individuals or organizations to be found in repositories within and outside of Canada.

• FHS has published around 50 articles about Canada in its various journals and magazines and eight full-length books with Canadian content.

• FHS receives 10 Canadian journals and houses small collections of other Canadian publications from 1900–1930 in its Library and Archives.

• FHS has conducted 10 oral history interviews dealing with Canadian topics.

• The FHS Board of Directors has 4 Canadian members including one of its Vice-Chairs.

• FHS is affiliated with Duke University, and maintains close working relationship with several departments on campus including the Center for Canadian Studies.

• Through its affiliation with Duke University, all contributions to FHS are tax deductible to individuals and corporations, according to Revenue Canada.