Historian saves thousands of Environment Canada files at risk of government purge; In a day when

government research libraries are closing and surplus material is being discarded, a professor and his

colleagues at Environment Canada decided the collection had to be preserved

GLORIA GALLOWAY

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18 March 2014

OTTAWA --

A thousand old boxes stuffed with pages of hand-scrawled numbers are taking up space in the basement of an

Environment Canada research building and could easily have become part of a government purge. Read more....