Selected Publications
Book Chapters and Journal Articles (refereed):
"mus co shee": Indigenous Plant Foods and Horticultural Imperialism in the Canadian Sub-Arctic." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 32, no. 2 (2015): 253-274.
"Victory in the Kitchen: Food Control in the Lakehead during the Great War." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 42 (2014): 29-44.
"The Fur Traders’ Garden: Horticultural Imperialism in Rupert’s Land, 1670-77." In Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, edited by David A. Wilson. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
"Throwing good money after bad: the 1936 burning of Northern Ontario." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 36 (2008): 89-100.
"In the shadow of a city: a history of the Current River neighbourhood." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 34 (2006): 51-64.
Online Publications:
Post-Confederation Canadian History Students Study Guide. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Canadian History Students Study Guide. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Recent Conference Papers & Presentations:
Cooking Up Culture: Food in African Canadian History”, 25 February 2014, “History for Lunch” speaker series, Black History Month, History Department, Lakehead University
‘mus co shee’: Indigenous Plant Foods and Horticultural Imperialism in the Canadian Sub-Arctic.” Foodscapes of Plenty and Want: Historical Perspectives on Food, Health and the Environment in Canada Conference, University of Guelph, 24 – 25 June 2013.
Unattached, adrift, and not a priority: single women in the Lakehead and Duluth during the Great Depression.” North Shore Assembly Conference, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 20 -21 September 2013
"The Fur Traders’ Garden: The HBC and Horticulture in Rupert`s Land, 1670-1770." Rupert`s Land Colloquium, University of Winnipeg, 19 May 2010.
"The Fur Traders’ Garden: Horticultural Imperialism in Rupert’s Land, 1670 – 1770." Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples Conference, University of Toronto, 10 June 2010.
"Beanery Queens: The ‘angel-in-the-station’ in 1950s working-class Ontario." New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 2009.
Research Reports:
"Unattached, adrift, and not a priority: single women in the Lakehead and Duluth during the Great Depression." Paper, Northeastern Minnesota Historical Center, Duluth, Minnesota, August 2007.
"Little inconveniences: Frances Simpson and her 1830 journey in the Canadian wilderness." Paper, Lady Frances Simpson Collection, Fort Frances Museum, Fort Frances, Ontario. 2005.