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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 Alan MacEachern

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 By Alan MacEachern

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 by Alan MacEachern

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When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks.

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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011: 1911-2011 by Alan MacEachern

When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Canada manages over forty parks and reserves totalling over 200,000 square kilometres and featuring a dazzling variety of landscapes, and is recognized as a global leader in the environmental challenges of protected places. Its history is a rich repository of experience, of lessons learned-critical for making informed decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health of our national parks.

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"the standard of illustrations is exceedingly good throughout, with archival black-and-white and modern colour photos being well chosen for their interest and relevance. The importance and theclarity of maps is often ignored nowadays, but here they are excellent, and are a real bonus." - Ken Atkinson, University of York St John, British Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 25 No. 1 2012

About Alan MacEachern

Claire Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Coordinator of Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay and co-editor of Groundtruthing: Canada and the Environment, a special issue of the Dalhousie Review. I.S. MacLaren teaches at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics and the Department of English and Film Studies. Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930 (2005) is his biography of the Dominion Land Surveyor whose phototopographic work in Jasper in 1915 created the first reliable maps of the area and made possible, eight decades later, the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project. Lyle Dick is the West Coast Historian for Parks Canada and president of the Canadian Historical Association. He has published extensively in the fields of Arctic history, western Canadian history, and historiography. Lyle Dick has also received numerous awards for endeavours and accomplishments in his chosen fields. John Sandlos is an associate professor in the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His recent research examines the conflict between state wildlife managers and resource harvesters in the hinterland regions of Canada. His book, Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories, won a Clio Prize. BEN BRADLEY is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. His research examines the linkages between mobility, landscape, and mass culture in twentieth-century Canada. George Colpitts is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. He has published five books, as well as contributing numerous chapters and journal articles to academic publications. Colpitts is the winner of both the American Society for Ethnohistory's 2012 Robert F. Heizer Prize and the 2010 Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship. David Neufeld a Parks Canada historian, has worked on Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site for over ten years. Based in Whitehorse, he does research on the Kluane National Park Reserve, the Yukon River, Dawson City and the Klondike goldfields, and the Yukon north slope.

Table of Contents

Governing a Kingdom: Parks Canada, 1911--2011 Claire Elizabeth Campbell M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada Alan MacEachern Natureas Playgrounds: The Parks Branch and Tourism Promotion in the National Parks, 1911--1929 John Sandlos "A Questionable Basis for Establishing a Major Park": Politics, Roads, and the Failure of a National Park in British Columbiaas Big Bend Country Ben Bradley "A Case of Special Privilege and Fancied Right": The Shack Tent Controversy in Prince Albert National Park Bill Waiser Banff in the 1960s: Divergent Views of the National Park C.J. Taylor Films, Tourists, and Bears in the National Parks: Managing Park Use and the Problematic "Highway Bum" Bear in the 1970s George Colpitts Hunting, Timber Harvesting, and Precambrian Beauties: The Scientific Reinterpretation of La Mauricie National Parkas Landscape History, 1969--1975 Olivier Craig--Dupont Kouchibouguac: Representations of a Park in Acadian Popular Culture Ronald Rudin Klaune National Park Reserve, 1923--1974: Modernity and Pluralism David Nuefeld Negotiating a Partnership of Interests: Inuvialuit Land Claims and the Establishment of Northern Yukon (Ivvavik) National Park Brad Martin Archaeology in Rocky Mountain National Parks: Uncovering an 11, 000--Year--Long Story E. Gwyn Langemann Rejuvenating Wilderness: The Challenges of Reintegrating Aboriginal People into the "Playground" of Jasper National Park I.S. MacLaren Epilogue Lyle Dick Appendix A: Canadaas National Parks and National Park Reserves Appendix B: National Park Zoning System, Parks Canada Agency Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index

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CIN1552385264G
9781552385265
1552385264
A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011: 1911-2011 by Alan MacEachern
Alan MacEachern
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Calgary Press
2011-04-06
458
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