Laurel Sefton MacDowell

Professor MacDowell is Professor of History at the University of Toronto (Mississauga). She researches Canadian history, focussing in particular upon the history of the Canadian labour relations, and the environmental history of North America, particularly as it interacts with unions. She has published on the history of unions and the Canadian labour relations, including Remember Kirkland Lake: ’The Gold Miners’ Strike 1941-42, which won an honourable mention for the Floyd S. Chalmers award, 1984. Professor MacDowell is currently writing a textbook on the environmental history of Canada (Fragments and Patterns: An Environmental History of Canada) for UBC Press.