Glenn Iceton

Glenn Iceton is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. He teaches Canadian History, focusing specifically on Environmental History, Indigenous History, and Northern History. In addition to history courses, Dr. Iceton teaches INDG 1002, Introduction to Indigenous History.

Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Dr. Iceton received his BA and MA in History from the University of Calgary. He completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan. His dissertation was entitled “Defining Space: How History has Shaped and Informed Notions of Kaska Land Use and Occupancy.”

His works examines how colonial understandings of Kaska-Dena land use in the Yukon-BC borderlands shaped their more recent efforts to demonstrate their Aboriginal rights and title. This research is the basis for his book project tentatively titled Traplines, Pipelines, and Storylines: The Legacies of History and Colonialism in Kaska Dena Efforts to Protect their Lands, currently under contract with University of Nebraska Press.

Dr. Iceton is also part of the Northern Borderlands Project. The Northern Borderlands Group seeks to expand scholarship focusing on northern borderland regions, such as the BC-Yukon border. Dr. Iceton is particularly interested in understanding hunting, trapping, and wildlife conservation in northern borderland regions.

Dr. Iceton periodically consults on matters relating to Aboriginal rights and title, natural resource development, and traditional land use.

Areas of supervision

If you are interested in pursuing either an Honours project, MA, or PhD, Dr. Iceton would be happy to discuss supervising you in the following areas:

• Environmental History
• Indigenous History
• Canadian History
• Northern History

Current students

MA Students

• Kelsey James (co-supervised with Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy)

Publications

Glenn Iceton, “Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Fur Trade in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence,” Acadiensis. (Forthcoming)

Glenn Iceton, ““The Land is No Longer as it Was”: Land Use, Resource Extraction, and Land Claims in the Yukon Territory,” Papers in Canadian History and Environment, no. 7 (January 2025): 1-41.

Glenn Iceton, “‘Many Families of Unseen Indians’: Trapline Registration and Understandings of Aboriginal Title in the BC-Yukon Borderlands,” BC Studies 201 (Spring 2019): 67-91. * Runner up for BC Studies Prize.

Glenn Iceton, “Trapped by Geography in the BC-Yukon Borderlands.” Historical Geography 45 (2017): 113-116.

Michelle Desveaux, Patrick Chassé, Glenn Iceton, Anne Janhunen, and Omeasoo Wāhpāsiw, “Twenty-First Century Indigenous Historiography: Twenty-Two Must-Read Books,” Canadian Journal of History 50, no. 3 (Winter 2015): 524-548.

Glenn Iceton, “Missionaries.” In Qikiqtaryuk: a natural and cultural history of Yukon’s Arctic island. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012.

Web publications

Glenn Iceton, “Reserves in New Brunswick,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, Historica Canada, 22 February 2024.

Glenn Iceton, “Land Beyond the Borders: Wildlife at the Peripheries of the Yukon Territory,” Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE), Yukon Environmental History Series, 2 August 2023.

Glenn Iceton, “Borderline Conclusions: Studying Borderlands in the Canadian North,” Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE), Northern Borders and Boundaries Series, 20 May 2021.