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The Great Acceleration of the Laurentian Dairy Transition

Black and white archival photograph of a wood-shingled barn or farmhouse with a metal roof, two chimneys, and a weathervane, seen from the roadside. A wooden fence and overgrown brush line a dirt road in front of the building, with tall trees to the right. The image is labeled 'T.S. 9131' in the bottom corner.

Stéphane Castonguay and Colin Coates This is the ninth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-posed with NiCHE The relationship between agriculture and the Anthropocene unfolds across a temporal and conceptual spectrum punctuated by the various proposals for a “Golden Spike.”1 At one end… Read more »