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 Canadas 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.--pub. desc.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-418) and index
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- C45 2011eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Series Information 3
- Title Page 4
- Bibliographic Data 5
- Table of Contents 8
- Governing a Kingdom:Parks Canada, 1911–2011Claire, Elizabeth Campbell 12
- M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada, Alan MacEachern 32
- Nature’s Playgrounds:The Parks Branch and Tourism Promotionin the National Parks, 1911–1929, John Sandlos 64
- “A Questionable Basis for Establishing a Major Park”:Politics, Roads, and the Failure of a National Park inBritish Columbia’s Big Bend Country, Ben Bradley 90
- “A Case of Special Privilege and Fancied Right”:The Shack Tent Controversy in Prince Albert National Park, Bill Waiser 114
- Banff in the 1960s:Divergent Views of the National Park Ideal, C.J. Taylor 144
- Films, Tourists, and Bears in the National Parks:Managing Park Use and the Problematic“Highway Bum” Bear in the 1970s, George Colpitts 164
- Hunting, Timber Harvesting, and Precambrian Beauties:The Scientific Reinterpretation of La MauricieNational Park’s Landscape History, 1969–1975Olivier, Craig-Dupont 190
- Kouchibouguac:Representations of a Park in Acadian Popular Culture, Ronald Rudin 216
- Kluane National Park Reserve, 1923–1974:Modernity and Pluralism, David Neufeld 246
- Negotiating a Partnership of Interests:Inuvialuit Land Claims and the Establishment ofNorthern Yukon (Ivvavik) National Park, Brad Martin 284
- Archaeology in the Rocky Mountain National Parks:Uncovering an 11,000-Year-Long Story, E. Gwyn Langemann 314
- Rejuvenating Wilderness:The Challenge of Reintegrating Aboriginal Peoples intothe “Playground” of Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren 344
- Epilogue, Lyle Dick 382
- Appendix A: Canada’s National Parks and National Park Reserves 396
- Appendix B:National Park Zoning System, Parks Canada Agency 398
- Notes on Contributors 402
- Select Bibliography 406
- Index 430
- Back Cover 460
