Writing the history of Canadian ecology

It was interesting to see that James Bruce Falls, an ecologist, ornithologist, and conservationist (and retired professor at the University of Toronto), was among those named last week to the Order of Canada.  He joins a small group of ecologists named to the order, including, among others, Pierre Dansereau, Peter Larkin, Ian McTaggart-Cowan, and Henry Regier.

This news also made me think a bit about just what we know about the history of Canadian ecology, and in particular, how this history has not (I would suggest) received nearly as much attention as has the topic in other countries.  There are a few biographies, such as Marianne Ainley's book on William Rowan, Briony Penn's biography of McTaggart-Cowan, my entry in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography on Dansereau, and George Warecki's work on J. R. Dymond.  And several other historians have done interesting relevant work as well, usually focused on specific regions -- such as Matthew Evenden's work on Pacific fisheries science, or the work by Tina Loo, John Sandlos, Peter Usher and others on caribou science -- illustrating how historical scholarship has tended to be organized in relation to particular societal concerns, such as fisheries or wildlife conservation.

But as far as I know, and unlike in, for example, Great Britain or the United States, there's been no effort to pull together a larger sense of the history of the discipline of ecology in the Canadian context.  A synthetic account of how this discipline has formed in relation to the Canadian landscape and society would be very interesting.