Jennifer Bonnell

Jennifer Bonnell is a historian of public memory and environmental change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, where she teaches courses in Canadian and environmental history. She is the author of Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley, which won the Heritage Toronto Book award and the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Award in 2015. Her most recent book, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia, won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing from the BC Historical Federation. She is currently working on a new book project on the history of beekeeping and environmental change in the Great Lakes Region.

Amy Lavender Harris

Amy Lavender Harris is a geographer based in Toronto, with a keen focus on the intersection between culture and nature in urban environments. Her book, “Imagining Toronto,” received the 2011 heritage Toronto Award and was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism. As a contributing editor with Spacing Magazine, Harris has contributed to various books, journals, and exhibitions exploring place and culture in Canadian art. After teaching for 25 years at institutions including York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University, she retired in 2022. Harris is currently working on projects including a novel called “Acts of Salvage” and a non-fiction work, “The Space Between Us: Commentaries on a Divided Culture,” co-authored with her husband, Peter Fruchter. Beyond her intellectual pursuits, Harris is an avid gardener, composter, kayaker, cyclist, and explorer of back alleys and ravines.