A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

ISBN-13: 9781552385265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 447 str.

Claire Campbell

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... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks.- - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University


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.


A Century of Parks Canada is published in partnership with NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment; http: //niche-canada.org/).

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

Spis treści

• 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