I. S. Maclaren

Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park

Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed

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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 lo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Payne, Michael / Murphy, Peter J. / Reichwein, Pearlann / McDermott, Lisa / Taylor, C. J. / Zezulka-Mailloux, Gabrielle / Robinson, Zac / Higgs, Eric

ISBN: 978-0-88864-570-8
EAN: 9780888645708
Produktnummer: 34611187
Verlag: The University of Alberta Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 401 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 21'867 KB

Über den Autor

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.