Dr. M. Kuhlberg, Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (York)
Office: A-253

Phone: 675-1151 ext 4284
e-mail: MKuhlberg@laurentian.ca

Courses Taught:

HIST 3356EL-01 – Canadian Environmental History
HIST 3006EL-01 – Approaches to Canadian History 
HIST 3216EL-01 – The First Nations in Canada in Historical Perspective
HIST 4186EL-01 – Canada in the 20th Century to World War II
HIST 4287EL-01 – Modern Canada Since World War II
HIST 5156EL-01 – Themes in Canadian History

Research Interests:

Northern Ontario / forest policy, forest industry and forestry education / First Nations

Books

One Hundred Rings and Counting :  Forestry and Forestry Education in Toronto and Canada (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2009). To listen to an interview in which Mark talks about this book, click here.

Chapters in Books

• “‘As the Indians were wards of the Dominion Government’: The Anishinabe of McIntyre Bay in the Hepburn-King Constitutional Battles,” in People, Provinces and Power: Federalism in Canada (University of Toronto Press) (forthcoming).

Articles in Refereed Journals

• “‘Mr. Burk is most interested in their welfare’”:  J.G. Burk’s Campaign to Help the Anishinabe of Northwestern Ontario, 1923-1953”, Journal of Canadian Studies, Winter 2011 [forthcoming]
• “‘under moral obligation to stay’:  Herbert R. Christie and the Origins of Forestry Education at the University of British Columbia, 1910-1933”, Historical Studies in Education, Spring 2010
• “Charles Riordon”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XVI [forthcoming]
• “James A. Little”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XVI [forthcoming]
• “Edward Wellington Backus”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XVI [forthcoming]
• “The Trials and Tribulations of Canada’s First Dean of Forestry:  Bernhard Fernow”, The Forestry Chronicle, July/August 2007, 452-455
• "Eyes Wide Open: E.W. Backus and the Pitfalls of Investing in Ontario's Pulp and Paper Industry, 1902-1932," Papers of the Canadian Historical Association, 2005.
• “‘Nothing it seems can be done about it’: Charlie Cox, Indian Affairs Timber Policy and the Long Lac Reserve, 1924-40.” Canadian Historical Review 84 (1) March 2003, 33-64.
• “‘By just what procedure am I to be guillotined?’: The Fight for Academic Freedom in the Toronto Forestry Faculty between the Wars.History of Education.” 31 (1) July 2002, 351-370.
• “A Failed Attempt to Circumvent the Limits on Academic Freedom: C. D. Howe, the Forestry Board, and ‘Window Dressing’ Forestry in Ontario in the Late 1920s.” History of Intellectual Culture Vol. 2, 2002, 1-23.
• “Biography of Isaac Weldon, paper industry executive.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XV, 2001.
• “‘We are the pioneers in this business’: Spanish River’s forestry Initiatives After the Great War.” Ontario History 93 (2) Fall 2001, 150-178.
• “‘Nothing but a cash deal’: Crown Timber Corruption in Northern Ontario, 1923-1930.” Thunder Bay Museum Society Papers 2000.
• “We have ‘Sold’ Forestry to the Management of the Company: Abitibi’s Forestry Initiatives in Ontario, 1919-29.” Journal of Canadian Studies 34 (3) Fall 1999, 187-210.

Other Publications

        "The Pulp and Paper Industry" in Oxford Companion to Canadian History, 2004.

        "The Child of My Creation," University of Toronto Magazine, Spring 2007.

Research Grant Income