Dr. John Lewis

John Lewis is a member of Timiskaming First Nation. He has over twenty years of practice and research experience in forestry and landscape management and has published research that focuses on the history of landscape change both prior to and during British Columbia’s colonization and explored the cultural significance of landscape change among Indigenous and settler communities in northwestern British Columbia. He is currently the Associate Vice-President (Interim) in the University of Waterloo’s Office of Indigenous Relations and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment. He spends much of his free time away from administration, teaching and research in northern Québec and Ontario fishing or hunting with his two young adult children.