This past week I had the opportunity to conduct interviews with Monte Hummel (President Emeritus at World Wildlife Fund Canada and co-founder of Pollution Probe), Merle Chant (wife of the late Dr. Donald Chant, former Provost of the University of Toronto and co-founder of Pollution Probe), and Stanley Burke (former anchor of the CBC television national news and host of "The Air of Death" television documentary). All provided me with considerable insight regarding the early days of environmentalism in Canada.
There is much I could relay from these interviews but, alas, a blog is hardly an appropriate venue to go into detail about this. Some thoughts will no doubt work their way into upcoming posts. Otherwise, hopefully some of you will take a gander at my forthcoming dissertation (a guy can dream, no?) and subsequent publications.
In the meantime, I leave you with the wonderful photograph that adorns this post. Given to me by Merle Chant, it features the key members of Pollution Probe in High Park circa 1970. (Dr. Chant is the gentleman standing at the base of the tree, while Monte Hummel is the mustachioed man sitting to the right of generalissimo Tony Barrett.)
