Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0888644833 ISBN 13: 9780888644831

Casa editrice: Univ Ff Alberta Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies’ largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada’s national parks will find a sense of connection in this long overdue study of Jasper.

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L'autore:

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. Michael Payne is the City of Edmonton Archivist and an historian.Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux is Senior Researcher at UTSB Research. She lives in Banff, Alberta.Eric Higgs directs the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.

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Book by MacLaren I S Payne Dr Michael Murphy Peter J Reich

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• Editore: Univ Ff Alberta Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0888644833
• ISBN 13: 9780888644831
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356
• Redattore: Maclaren I. S.