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category: History
published: Apr 2011
ISBN:9781552385265
publisher: University of Calgary Press

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

edited by Claire Campbell, 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 & Lyle Dick

tagged: environmental conservation & protection
Description

 

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.

 

About the Authors
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.

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.

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.

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.

Bill Waiser is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books, including Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western CanadaÆs National Parks and (with Blair Stonechild) Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, which was a finalist for the Governor GeneralÆs literary award for non-fiction. His most recent book, All Hell Cant Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, won the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for non-fiction.

Bill Waiser is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books, including Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western CanadaÆs National Parks and (with Blair Stonechild) Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, which was a finalist for the Governor GeneralÆs literary award for non-fiction. His most recent book, All Hell Cant Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, won the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for non-fiction.

Bill Waiser is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books, including Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western CanadaÆs National Parks and (with Blair Stonechild) Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, which was a finalist for the Governor GeneralÆs literary award for non-fiction. His most recent book, All Hell Cant Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, won the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for non-fiction.

Bill Waiser is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books, including Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western CanadaÆs National Parks and (with Blair Stonechild) Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, which was a finalist for the Governor GeneralÆs literary award for non-fiction. His most recent book, All Hell Cant Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, won the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for non-fiction.

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.


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.


Brad Martin is the Dean of Faculty of Education, Health and Human Development at Capilano University.

Brad Martin is the Dean of Faculty of Education, Health and Human Development at Capilano University.

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 with Parks Canada in Vancouver, B.C. He has authored sixty-five publications in the fields of Arctic, Canadian, and American history and historiography. His Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact was awarded the Harold Adams Innis Prize by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2003 for the best English-language book in the social sciences.
Awards
  • Short-listed, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year
Editorial Review

 

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

 

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