Dr. George Warecki

Chair, Division of Social Sciences
Office: Portable Office #3
Email: gwarecki@uwo.ca
Telephone: (519) 432-8353 ext 28239

Academic Background

Honors B.A., History, King's College, University of Western Ontario
M.A., History, University of Western Ontario
Ph.D., History, McMaster University

Research and Scholarly Interests

Dr. Warecki specializes in North American Environmental History, particularly the history of wilderness protection and public parks policy. His current research examines the Ontario Government's Strategic Land Use Plan, 1970s-1980s.

Teaching

History 2168B: Tackling Nature: Canadian Environmental History
History 2205E: Canada From Confederation to the Present
History 3217E/4291E: Environmental History of Canada

Representative Publications

“Balancing Wilderness Protection and Economic Development: The Politics of Planning for Atikaki, 1972-1983,” Ontario History Vol. CII, No. 1 (Spring 2010): 56-77.
Review of Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, June 2008. view page
Book Review of Formidable Heritage: Manitoba’s North and the Cost of Development 1870 to 1930 by Jim Mochoruk (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2004), in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Winter 2005): 736-9.
“The Beginning of Wildlife Preservation in Canada, 1880-1920," in The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History (New York: Routledge, 2003).
Protecting Ontario's Wilderness: A History of Changing Concepts and Preservation Politics, 1927-1973 (New York: Peter Lang, 2000).