Date & Time
7:00pm EDT - 9:00pm EDT
About This Event
Join Canadian Geographic and the Mountain Legacy Project for a celebration of Canada's western mountains — and reflections on a century of change.
Through imagery and prose, Mountain Voices celebrates a love for Canada’s western mountains. The book features 50 diverse voices, including alpinists, artists, Indigenous knowledge holders, park and land managers, interdisciplinary scientists, archivists, and historians. Each contributor shares a unique and fascinating perspective through a short essay accompanied by a pair of photographs – an archival image, and a current repeated pair – drawn from the remarkable archive of the Mountain Legacy Project. Mountain Voices brings Canadian mountain landscapes, and change over time, to life through the passion and devotion of those who care for the mountains deeply.
About the panellists:
JILL DELANEY is the retired lead archivist in Specialized Media at Library and Archives Canada, where she worked on the acquisition and appraisal of documentary photography. She co-ordinated access to, and conducted research on, historical mountain photography for the Mountain Legacy Project. She holds a doctorate in Art History and Theory from SUNY-Binghamton. Jill’s publications include “An Inconvenient Truth. Scientific Photography and Archival Ambivalence” (Archivaria 2008) and an entry in Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow.
ERIC HIGGS is a founder of the Mountain Legacy Project, and professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He is fascinated by ecological restoration, especially in landscapes being reshaped by climate change, species movements and shifting cultural values.
IAN MACLAREN is a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930, and in 2024, the four-volume Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America Writings and Art, Life and Times.
KRISTEN WALSH joined the Mountain Legacy Project in 2014. Ever since, she has been blown away by the magic of the mountains and their unique weather. Kristen currently works on national climate change assessments, is an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, and search and rescue volunteer. Kristen enjoys scrambling, ski mountaineering, and tarn hopping from one high elevation cold swim to the next.
About the Mountain Legacy Project
The Mountain Legacy Project explores changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes. Working with the world’s largest collection of systematic historical mountain photographs, MLP researchers follow the footsteps of intrepid surveyors to retake the original images. The project engages with university researchers, managers, practitioners and mountain communities in order to understand the how and why ecosystems, landscapes, human communities change over time. Based in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, our work since 1998 involves repeat photography, archival research, image interpretation and analysis, software development, and making the image pairs widely available.
Admission for this event is pay-what-you-can. Your donation to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society helps us offer more insightful public programming like this!
About This Event
Join Canadian Geographic and the Mountain Legacy Project for a celebration of Canada's western mountains — and reflections on a century of change.
Through imagery and prose, Mountain Voices celebrates a love for Canada’s western mountains. The book features 50 diverse voices, including alpinists, artists, Indigenous knowledge holders, park and land managers, interdisciplinary scientists, archivists, and historians. Each contributor shares a unique and fascinating perspective through a short essay accompanied by a pair of photographs – an archival image, and a current repeated pair – drawn from the remarkable archive of the Mountain Legacy Project. Mountain Voices brings Canadian mountain landscapes, and change over time, to life through the passion and devotion of those who care for the mountains deeply.
About the panellists:
JILL DELANEY is the retired lead archivist in Specialized Media at Library and Archives Canada, where she worked on the acquisition and appraisal of documentary photography. She co-ordinated access to, and conducted research on, historical mountain photography for the Mountain Legacy Project. She holds a doctorate in Art History and Theory from SUNY-Binghamton. Jill’s publications include “An Inconvenient Truth. Scientific Photography and Archival Ambivalence” (Archivaria 2008) and an entry in Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow.
ERIC HIGGS is a founder of the Mountain Legacy Project, and professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He is fascinated by ecological restoration, especially in landscapes being reshaped by climate change, species movements and shifting cultural values.
IAN MACLAREN is a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930, and in 2024, the four-volume Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America Writings and Art, Life and Times.
KRISTEN WALSH joined the Mountain Legacy Project in 2014. Ever since, she has been blown away by the magic of the mountains and their unique weather. Kristen currently works on national climate change assessments, is an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, and search and rescue volunteer. Kristen enjoys scrambling, ski mountaineering, and tarn hopping from one high elevation cold swim to the next.
About the Mountain Legacy Project
The Mountain Legacy Project explores changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes. Working with the world’s largest collection of systematic historical mountain photographs, MLP researchers follow the footsteps of intrepid surveyors to retake the original images. The project engages with university researchers, managers, practitioners and mountain communities in order to understand the how and why ecosystems, landscapes, human communities change over time. Based in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, our work since 1998 involves repeat photography, archival research, image interpretation and analysis, software development, and making the image pairs widely available.
Admission for this event is pay-what-you-can. Your donation to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society helps us offer more insightful public programming like this!
Date & Time
7:00pm EDT - 9:00pm EDT