D Macfarlane
Biographic Data
| ID | 188699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Macfarlane |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Macfarlane |
| SIGNATURE | MACFARLANE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6268-8945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engineering the St. Clair waterscape: Flows of water, sediment, and expertise
US–Canada Energy and Environmental Relations
Autonomy vs. prosperity. This paradox might be at the heart of the Canada–US relationship—or, at least, a central dilemma that Canadians need to ponder when it comes to engaging and trading with Un
Whither Wintego: Environmental Impact Assessment and Indigenous Opposition in Saskatchewan’s Churchill River Hydropower Project in the 1970s
This article details Saskatchewan’s first environmental impact assessment, which took place in the 1970s over a proposed dam on the Churchill River at the Wintego Rapids. The Wintego Dam, which would have been the largest hydroelectric dam in the province at the time, was controversial because of the environmental repercussions and impacts on the local Indigenous communities, particularly the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. We show that the Blakene…
Hydro Diplomacy: Canada-U.S. Hydroelectricity Exports and Regulations Prior to the NEB
Energy and environmental diplomacy factors were a major, though often unrecognized, part of Canada-United States relations prior to the Cold War. Hydroelectricity was the most important of these factors, particularly power exported from the Canadian side of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin. The history of Canada-U.S. hydroelectricity relations, exports, and regulations offered here covers the key steps, institutions, and actors in the evolution…
Environmental nationalist: Andrew McNaughton and Canada–US relations in the Cold War
Prior to 1945, General Andrew George Latta McNaughton had already made a name for himself as an army general, engineer, inventor, and cabinet minister. After 1945, McNaughton occupied a number of key international roles for Canada: at the United Nations, on the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, and on the International Joint Commission. Even though he became one of Canada’s most important diplomatic actors during the early Cold War period, this a…
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby
Reviewed by: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby Daniel Macfarlane Luby, Brittany – Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020. 256 p. Brittany Luby’s Dammed is a fine-grained, intimate, and highly readable analysis of the impact of hydroelectric development on Anishinaabe communities in the Lake of the Woods–Winnipeg River waters…
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
Most of Ontario’s border with the United States is liquid. Given that the international demarcation was drawn right through watersheds, the borderlands territory in both nations has many visual sim
Nature Empowered: Hydraulic Models and the Engineering of Niagara Falls
Under a 1950 U.S.-Canada treaty the majority of the Niagara River is diverted to massive hydroelectric complexes. To hide the aesthetic impact of turning Niagara Falls into an energy waterscape, and retain tourism, the waterfall was physically reshaped and shrunk, and remedial works were built to control water flows and hydropower diversions. To achieve this, hydraulic engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ontario Hydro relied on hy…
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
"Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed." Canadian Historical Review, 100(4), pp. 667–668
Negotiating Niagara Falls: US-Canada Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most iconic natural features. Yet in many ways Niagara Falls is decidedly unnatural, for the United States and Canada physically manipulated this waterfall over the course of the twentieth century so that its waters could be diverted for hydropower production while still ostensibly retaining the cataract’s aesthetic beauty for tourism. While this appears contradictory, since the latter depends on ample amounts …
As nearly as may be: Estimating ice and water on the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers
Mapping the Welland Canals and the St. Lawrence Seaway with Google Earth
Saving Niagara From Itself: The Campaign to Preserve and Enhance the American Falls, 1965-1975
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States and Canada investigated whether they should preserve and enhance the American Falls, one of the two main cataracts at Niagara Falls, by physically reengineering it. This campaign had its roots in local concerns, but tapped into wider sentiments and emotions about the famous waterfall, and came to involve multiple levels of government and the International Joint Commission. Engineers looked at whether it wa…
Hydraulic Imperialism: Hydroelectric Development and Treaty 9 in the Abitibi Region
This study aims to untangle the knot of treaty-making, industrialization, and hydroelectric development in the Lake Abitibi region in northeastern Ontario by examining the extent to which industrialist discourses on waterways influenced changes to the physical and political landscape. An analysis of events leading up to the signing of Treaty No. 9 in 1906, and then the Abitibi River hydroelectric dams and concomitant flooding of Lake Abitibi in 1…
Fluid Meanings: Hydro Tourism and the St. Lawrence and Niagara Megaprojects
In the 1950s Canada and the United States, along with Ontario and New York State (and their respective power entities), completed two hydro-electric developments: the International Niagara Control Works and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. Both water control projects—and the concomitant large-scale environmental manipulation of these borderland waterscapes—were shaped by “hydraulic nationalism” and “hydro tourism.” This study explores t…
Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
This book originates from our realization several years ago that the fast-growing fields of environmental history and mobility studies had much in common, yet were not in close communication.We observed that a number of scholars in Canada, at various stages of their careers and employing perspectives gained from anthropology, geography, technology studies, and other fields, were examining the relationship between mobility and the environment in t…
Global Ecopolitics: Crisis, Governance, and Justice, by Peter John Stoett
The International Joint Commission, Water Levels, and Transboundary Governance in the Great Lakes
This article provides a historical background of the evolution of transboundary water governance and environmental diplomacy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, with a focus on the International Joint Commission (IJC), during the twentieth century. This study focuses on water quantity issues, such as diversions, canals, hydroelectric developments, control works, and water levels, revealing the range of artificial and natural impacts on water l…
A Completely Man-Made and Artificial Cataract”: The Transnational Manipulation of Niagara Falls
Over the first half of the twentieth century, Canada and the United States considered engineering works that would simultaneously divert water around Niagara Falls for hydroelectric production while ostensibly maintaining and enhancing the appearance of the great cataract. Binational studies and environmental diplomacy resulted in the 1950 Niagara Diversion Treaty, which authorized the International Niagara Control Works. The construction of thes…
Caught between Two Fires: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, Canadian-American Relations, and Linkage
The St. Lawrence seaway and power project, built between 1954 and 1959, was the product of a half century of twisted and tortuous negotiations. It is one of the largest transborder projects ever undertaken by two countries and one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. The seaway runs 181.5 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Beauharnois and Weiland canals, and features a continual minimum depth of 27 feet, four…
Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 (review)
Reviewed by: Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 Daniel Macfarlane Fahrni, Magda, and Rutherdale, Robert (eds.) — Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. 347. Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 brings together 13 studies that explore the "trente glorieuses" — the 30 years in Canadian histor…
Courting War over a Rubber Stamp: Canada and the 1961 Berlin Wall Crisis
The establishment of the Berlin Wall was one of the seminal moments of the Cold War. Not only did the wall serve as the most powerful symbol of the protracted conflict, but its erection was one of the few occasions in which a hot war appeared imminent. Construction on the Berliner Mauer began on 13 August 1 961, marking the beginning of the indefinite period that has become known as the Berlin Wall crisis. Although Berlin was technically under th…
Japan's minister extraordinary
Empire and Aftermath. Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience 1878–1954. By J. W. Dower, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 618. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £9.00 (hardback
Obituary
As nearly as may be: Estimating ice and water on the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers
The International Joint Commission, Water Levels, and Transboundary Governance in the Great Lakes
This article provides a historical background of the evolution of transboundary water governance and environmental diplomacy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, with a focus on the International Joint Commission (IJC), during the twentieth century. This study focuses on water quantity issues, such as diversions, canals, hydroelectric developments, control works, and water levels, revealing the range of artificial and natural impacts on water l…
Fluid Meanings: Hydro Tourism and the St. Lawrence and Niagara Megaprojects
In the 1950s Canada and the United States, along with Ontario and New York State (and their respective power entities), completed two hydro-electric developments: the International Niagara Control Works and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. Both water control projects—and the concomitant large-scale environmental manipulation of these borderland waterscapes—were shaped by “hydraulic nationalism” and “hydro tourism.” This study explores t…
A Completely Man-Made and Artificial Cataract”: The Transnational Manipulation of Niagara Falls
Over the first half of the twentieth century, Canada and the United States considered engineering works that would simultaneously divert water around Niagara Falls for hydroelectric production while ostensibly maintaining and enhancing the appearance of the great cataract. Binational studies and environmental diplomacy resulted in the 1950 Niagara Diversion Treaty, which authorized the International Niagara Control Works. The construction of thes…
Courting War over a Rubber Stamp: Canada and the 1961 Berlin Wall Crisis
The establishment of the Berlin Wall was one of the seminal moments of the Cold War. Not only did the wall serve as the most powerful symbol of the protracted conflict, but its erection was one of the few occasions in which a hot war appeared imminent. Construction on the Berliner Mauer began on 13 August 1 961, marking the beginning of the indefinite period that has become known as the Berlin Wall crisis. Although Berlin was technically under th…
Obituary
Japan's minister extraordinary
Empire and Aftermath. Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience 1878–1954. By J. W. Dower, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 618. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £9.00 (hardback
Courting War over a Rubber Stamp: Canada and the 1961 Berlin Wall Crisis
The establishment of the Berlin Wall was one of the seminal moments of the Cold War. Not only did the wall serve as the most powerful symbol of the protracted conflict, but its erection was one of the few occasions in which a hot war appeared imminent. Construction on the Berliner Mauer began on 13 August 1 961, marking the beginning of the indefinite period that has become known as the Berlin Wall crisis. Although Berlin was technically under th…
Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 (review)
Reviewed by: Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 Daniel Macfarlane Fahrni, Magda, and Rutherdale, Robert (eds.) — Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. 347. Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945–1975 brings together 13 studies that explore the "trente glorieuses" — the 30 years in Canadian histor…
Caught between Two Fires: The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, Canadian-American Relations, and Linkage
The St. Lawrence seaway and power project, built between 1954 and 1959, was the product of a half century of twisted and tortuous negotiations. It is one of the largest transborder projects ever undertaken by two countries and one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. The seaway runs 181.5 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Beauharnois and Weiland canals, and features a continual minimum depth of 27 feet, four…
A Completely Man-Made and Artificial Cataract”: The Transnational Manipulation of Niagara Falls
Over the first half of the twentieth century, Canada and the United States considered engineering works that would simultaneously divert water around Niagara Falls for hydroelectric production while ostensibly maintaining and enhancing the appearance of the great cataract. Binational studies and environmental diplomacy resulted in the 1950 Niagara Diversion Treaty, which authorized the International Niagara Control Works. The construction of thes…
Global Ecopolitics: Crisis, Governance, and Justice, by Peter John Stoett
The International Joint Commission, Water Levels, and Transboundary Governance in the Great Lakes
This article provides a historical background of the evolution of transboundary water governance and environmental diplomacy in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, with a focus on the International Joint Commission (IJC), during the twentieth century. This study focuses on water quantity issues, such as diversions, canals, hydroelectric developments, control works, and water levels, revealing the range of artificial and natural impacts on water l…
Hydraulic Imperialism: Hydroelectric Development and Treaty 9 in the Abitibi Region
This study aims to untangle the knot of treaty-making, industrialization, and hydroelectric development in the Lake Abitibi region in northeastern Ontario by examining the extent to which industrialist discourses on waterways influenced changes to the physical and political landscape. An analysis of events leading up to the signing of Treaty No. 9 in 1906, and then the Abitibi River hydroelectric dams and concomitant flooding of Lake Abitibi in 1…
Fluid Meanings: Hydro Tourism and the St. Lawrence and Niagara Megaprojects
In the 1950s Canada and the United States, along with Ontario and New York State (and their respective power entities), completed two hydro-electric developments: the International Niagara Control Works and the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. Both water control projects—and the concomitant large-scale environmental manipulation of these borderland waterscapes—were shaped by “hydraulic nationalism” and “hydro tourism.” This study explores t…
Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
This book originates from our realization several years ago that the fast-growing fields of environmental history and mobility studies had much in common, yet were not in close communication.We observed that a number of scholars in Canada, at various stages of their careers and employing perspectives gained from anthropology, geography, technology studies, and other fields, were examining the relationship between mobility and the environment in t…
Mapping the Welland Canals and the St. Lawrence Seaway with Google Earth
Saving Niagara From Itself: The Campaign to Preserve and Enhance the American Falls, 1965-1975
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States and Canada investigated whether they should preserve and enhance the American Falls, one of the two main cataracts at Niagara Falls, by physically reengineering it. This campaign had its roots in local concerns, but tapped into wider sentiments and emotions about the famous waterfall, and came to involve multiple levels of government and the International Joint Commission. Engineers looked at whether it wa…
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
"Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed." Canadian Historical Review, 100(4), pp. 667–668
Negotiating Niagara Falls: US-Canada Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most iconic natural features. Yet in many ways Niagara Falls is decidedly unnatural, for the United States and Canada physically manipulated this waterfall over the course of the twentieth century so that its waters could be diverted for hydropower production while still ostensibly retaining the cataract’s aesthetic beauty for tourism. While this appears contradictory, since the latter depends on ample amounts …
As nearly as may be: Estimating ice and water on the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed
Most of Ontario’s border with the United States is liquid. Given that the international demarcation was drawn right through watersheds, the borderlands territory in both nations has many visual sim
Nature Empowered: Hydraulic Models and the Engineering of Niagara Falls
Under a 1950 U.S.-Canada treaty the majority of the Niagara River is diverted to massive hydroelectric complexes. To hide the aesthetic impact of turning Niagara Falls into an energy waterscape, and retain tourism, the waterfall was physically reshaped and shrunk, and remedial works were built to control water flows and hydropower diversions. To achieve this, hydraulic engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ontario Hydro relied on hy…
Whither Wintego: Environmental Impact Assessment and Indigenous Opposition in Saskatchewan’s Churchill River Hydropower Project in the 1970s
This article details Saskatchewan’s first environmental impact assessment, which took place in the 1970s over a proposed dam on the Churchill River at the Wintego Rapids. The Wintego Dam, which would have been the largest hydroelectric dam in the province at the time, was controversial because of the environmental repercussions and impacts on the local Indigenous communities, particularly the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. We show that the Blakene…
Hydro Diplomacy: Canada-U.S. Hydroelectricity Exports and Regulations Prior to the NEB
Energy and environmental diplomacy factors were a major, though often unrecognized, part of Canada-United States relations prior to the Cold War. Hydroelectricity was the most important of these factors, particularly power exported from the Canadian side of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin. The history of Canada-U.S. hydroelectricity relations, exports, and regulations offered here covers the key steps, institutions, and actors in the evolution…
Environmental nationalist: Andrew McNaughton and Canada–US relations in the Cold War
Prior to 1945, General Andrew George Latta McNaughton had already made a name for himself as an army general, engineer, inventor, and cabinet minister. After 1945, McNaughton occupied a number of key international roles for Canada: at the United Nations, on the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, and on the International Joint Commission. Even though he became one of Canada’s most important diplomatic actors during the early Cold War period, this a…
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby
Reviewed by: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory by Brittany Luby Daniel Macfarlane Luby, Brittany – Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020. 256 p. Brittany Luby’s Dammed is a fine-grained, intimate, and highly readable analysis of the impact of hydroelectric development on Anishinaabe communities in the Lake of the Woods–Winnipeg River waters…
US–Canada Energy and Environmental Relations
Autonomy vs. prosperity. This paradox might be at the heart of the Canada–US relationship—or, at least, a central dilemma that Canadians need to ponder when it comes to engaging and trading with Un
Engineering the St. Clair waterscape: Flows of water, sediment, and expertise
Political science (14 works) · Canadian Identity and History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (8 works) · Hydroelectricity (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works)