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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

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Contributions by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley, Bill Waiser, C. J. Taylor, George Colpitts, Oliver Craig-Dupont, Ronald Rudin, David Neufeld, Brad Martin, E. Gwyn Langemann, I.S. MacLaren, and Lyle Dick

Edited by Claire Campbell

Published by: University of Calgary Press

Imprint: University of Calgary Press

Sales Date: 2011-04-06

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CA$34.95

Published: April 2011

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Imprint: University of Calgary Press

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Page Count: 458 Pages

Illustrations: 19 maps, 44 colour and b&w images, notes, appendices, bibliography, index

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

458 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 33.00 mm, 19 maps, 44 colour and b&w images, notes, appendices, bibliography, index

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ISBN: 9781552385265

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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. 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.

Alan MacEachern is professor of history at the University of Western Ontario and has written widely on Canadian environmental history.

Ronald Rudin is a professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University. His most recent book, Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie, received both the US National Council on Public History Book Award and the Public History Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.

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.

Governing a Kingdom: Parks Canada, 1911-2011
Claire Elizabeth Campbell

M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada
Alan MacEachern

Nature?s 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 Columbia?s 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 Park?s 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: Canada?s National Parks and National Park Reserves
Appendix B: National Park Zoning System, Parks Canada Agency
Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index

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 the clarity of maps is often ignored nowadays, but here they are excellent, and are a real bonus.

-Ken Atkinson, British Journal of Canadian Studies

BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

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