I teach at Selkirk College in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, where I work hard to strike a balance between the academic world and the pull of the mountains. My research addresses the historical dimensions of social movements and governance via a trajectory that has seen me working in areas of Environmental History, Sociology, and Political Studies. Much of my research these days centers on the evolution of the animal protection movement, but I continue also to work on developments within the environmental movement and on social movements and governance more broadly. A list of my publications in chronological order appears below. Some of the links provided will lead directly to the document in question, while others will take you to a journal or publisher’s website, where you are likely to find an abstract or a portion of the document, with the remainder requiring academic library access or purchase to acquire. If the website appears not to have been updated recently, you can probably blame the mountains.

I can be contacted at: dingram AT selkirk.ca

Darcy Ingram, “‘It Even Makes the Animals Laugh’: Contesting Henry Bergh and the Animal Protection Movement in Nineteenth-Century New York,” Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements 68 (2022): 5-31.

Keywords: animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; American SPCA; New York; Henry Bergh; social movements; history; nineteenth century; political cartoons

Darcy Ingram, “The Strange Case of Henry Bergh’s ‘Declaration of the Rights of Animals,” Society and Animals 30 4 (2022): 479-91 (Online Publication Date: 30 January 2020).

Keywords: Declaration of the Rights of Animals; animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; American SPCA; New York; Henry Bergh; social movements; history; nineteenth century


Darcy Ingram, “Imagining Animal Rights in Nineteenth-century New York: Satire and Strategy in the Animal Protection Movement,” Journal of Historical Sociology 32 2 (2019): 244-57.

Keywords: animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; American SPCA; New York; Henry Bergh; social movements; history; nineteenth century

Darcy Ingram and Sarah Smart, “Governance, Politics, and Environmentalism in the Age of Mass Recreation: The Campaign Against ‘Village Lake Louise,” Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements 59 (2018): 129-54.

Keywords: environmental movement; social movements; governance; postmaterialism; history; Canada; Banff National Park; Lake Louise; National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada; Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; ski resorts


Darcy Ingram, “National Aspirations and Governance Networks in Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement,” British Journal of Canadian Studies 30 1 (2017): 91-113.

Keywords: animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; social movements; governance; Canada; history; nineteenth century; SPCA

Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna, eds, Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017.

Keywords: human-nonhuman animal relations; Canada; urban history


Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna, and Joanna Dean, “Introduction: Canamalia Urbanis,” in Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna, eds, Animal Metropolis: Histories of Animals in Urban Canada. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017.

Keywords: human-nonhuman animal relations; Canada; urban history



Darcy Ingram, “Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement,” in Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna, eds, Animal Metropolis: Histories of Animals in Urban Canada. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017.

Keywords: animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; social movements; gender; Canada; history; nineteenth century; SPCA



Darcy Ingram, “Governments, Governance, and the “Lunatic Fringe”: The Resources for Tomorrow Conference and the Evolution of Environmentalism in Canada,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 51 (2015): 69-96.

Keywords: environmental movement; conservation; social movements; governance; non-governmental organizations; Canada; history



Darcy Ingram, “‘We Are No Longer Freaks’: The Cyclists’ Rights Movement in Montreal,” Sport History Review: Special Issue of Sport History Review – A Ten-Year Retrospective on “the Best” of SHR 46 1 (2015): 126-50.

Keywords: cyclists’ rights; bicycling; Canada; Montreal; history; social movements; nineteenth century



Kathleen Rodgers and Darcy Ingram, “Ideological Migration and War Resistance in British Columbia’s West Kootenays: An Analysis of Counterculture Politics and Community Networks among Doukhobor, Quaker, and American Migrants during the Vietnam War Era,” American Review of Canadian Studies 44 1 (2014): 96-117.

Keywords: counterculture; migration; United States; Canada; history; social movements



Darcy Ingram, “Beastly Measures: Animal Welfare, Civil Society, and State Policy in Victorian Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes 47 1 (2013): 221-52.

Keywords: animal protection; animal welfare; animal rights; social movements; governance; Canada; history; nineteenth century; SPCA


Darcy Ingram, Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2013.

Keywords: wildlife conservation; environmental movement; Quebec; Canada; history



Darcy Ingram, “‘We Are No Longer Freaks’: The Cyclists’ Rights Movement in Montreal,” Sport History Review 43 (2012): 18-42.

Keywords: cyclists’ rights; bicycling; Canada; Montreal; history; social movements; nineteenth century



Darcy Ingram, “Horses, Hedges and Hegemony: Foxhunting in the Montreal Countryside,” in Stéphane Castonguay and Michèle Dagenais, eds, Metropolitan Natures: Urban Environmental Histories of Montreal (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011): 211-27.

Keywords: foxhunting; Canada; Montreal; history; nineteenth century



Darcy Ingram, ‘“Au temps et dans les quantités qui lui plaisent’: Poaching and Rural Banditry in Quebec,” Histoire Sociale/Social History 42 83 (2009): 1-34.



Darcy Ingram, “Saving the Union's Jack: The Montreal Sailors' Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98,” in Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers, eds, Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005): 49-76.