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| Title: | Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park
: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed |
| Series: | (Mountain Cairns Series) |
| Author: | I S MacLaren (ed); Foreword by the Rt Hon Jean Chretien |
| ISBN: | 0888644833 : 9780888644831 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 190x255mm |
| Pages: | 356 |
| Weight: | 1.217 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - December 2007 |
| List Price: | 29.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social & cultural history: Canada |
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 tribes 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.
Introduction; The Fur Trade on the Upper Athabasca River, 1810-1910; Henry James Warre's and Paul Kane's Sketches in the Athabasca Watershed, 1846; "Following the Base of the Foothills": Tracing the Boundaries Jasper Park and its Adjacent Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve; Homesteading the Athabasca Valley to 1910: An Interview with Edward Wilson Moberly, Prairie Creek, Alberta, 29 August 1980; Opening the Secret Garden: Mary Schaffer, Jasper Park Conservation, and the Survey of Maligne Lake, 1911; The Changing Habitat of Jasper Tourism; Laying the Tracks for Tourism: Paradoxical Promotions and the Development of Jasper National Park; The Golden Years of Mountaineering in Canada: Ethics, Form, and Style, 1886-1925; Twinning Reality, or How Taking History Seriously Changes How We Understand Ecological Restoration in Jasper National Park; Index.
