A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

by Claire Campbell (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552385265
Publisher:	University of Calgary Press
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Series:	Canadian History and Environment , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	0.24(w) x 0.35(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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 Bayand co-editor of Groundtruthing: Canada and the Environment, a special issue of the Dalhousie Review.

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, and Bill Waiser

Table of Contents

Governing a Kingdom: Parks Canada, 1911-2011 Claire Elizabeth Campbell 1

M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada Alan MacEachern 21

Nature's Playgrounds: The Parks Branch and Tourism Promotion in the National Parks, 1911-1929 John Sandlos 53

"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 79

"A Case of Special Privilege and Fancied Right": The Shack Tent Controversy in Prince Albert National Park Bill Waiser 103

Banff in the 1960s: Divergent Views of the National Park Ideal C.J. Taylor 133

Films, Tourists, and Bears in the National Parks: Managing Park Use and the Problematic "Highway Bum" Bear in the 1970s George Colpitts 153

Hunting, Timber Harvesting, and Precambrian Beauties: The Scientific Reinterpretation of La Mauricie National Park's Landscape History, 1969-1975 Olivier Craig-Dupont 179

Kouchibouguac: Representations of a Park in Acadian Popular Culture Ronald Rudin 205

Kluane National Park Reserve, 1923-1974: Modernity and Pluralism David Neufeld 235

Negotiating a Partnership of Interests: Inuvialuit Land Claims and the Establishment of Northern Yukon (Ivvavik) National Park Brad Martin 273

Archaeology in the Rocky Mountain National Parks: Uncovering an 11,000-Year-Long Story E. Gwyn Langemann 303

Rejuvenating Wilderness: The Challenge of Reintegrating Aboriginal Peoples into the "Playground" of Jasper National Park I.S. MacLaren 333

Epilogue Lyle Dick 371

Appendix A Canada's National Parks and National Park Reserves 385

Appendix B National Park Zoning System, Parks Canada Agency 387

Notes on Contributors 391

Select Bibliography 395

Index 419

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher