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Regulating Eden: The Nature of Order in North American Parks
IN “YELLOWSTONE AT 125,” the new preface to his classic National Parks: The American Experience (1997), Alfred Runte despairs that Yellowstone’s function as a “sanctuary” has been shattered by “a million cars and the drone...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 312-3
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson’s British Columbia’s Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years is a tribute to the first century of the Provincial Park system in BC. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history, sensitive to ongoing...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 134-5
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Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Two powerful and iconic institutions can be found at the centre of most histories of tourism and recreation in the mountains of western Canada: the Canadian Pacific Railway and the agency known today as Parks...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 166-168
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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925
Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40
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Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
Contributing to the emerging and vibrant field of national park histories in Canada, J. Keri Cronin’s Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper explores how photographs created for tourist consumption...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 201-02
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Guardians of the Wild: A History of the Warden Service of Canada’s National Parks
PDF – Murton Review Essay, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002/03
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 111-5
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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
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National Parks: What are they good for? 
Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970
Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies: A History of Waterton Country
Guardians of the Wild: A History of the Western Service of Canada's National Parks
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Pages 111-5
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Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Discussion of land governance and land administration matters on Indian Act reserves in Canada has persisted for several decades. There is a general consensus that the lands have been poorly managed by a federal department...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 103-105
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Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History
When the Kicking Horse Trail opened in 1927, connecting Banff to Golden by route of Lake Louise, parks visitors were presented with a scenic highway system unsurpassed elsewhere in the nation. For a nation that...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 173-174
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Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
Jean Barman brings clarity to a long misunderstood part of the early history of Vancouver and British Columbia. Building upon earlier re-search on Stanley Park by William C. McKee (Urban History Review 3 [1978]), Robert...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 113-5
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Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
In Creative Subversions, Margot Francis starts from the premise that some of the key images that inform Canadian national identity, such as the beaver, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), national parks, and Indians are “public...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 168-9
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Peter O’Reilly: The Rise of a Reluctant Immigrant
Peter O’Reilly, third son of a landed Anglo-Irish family with estates in County Meath (Ireland) and Lancashire (England), immigrated to Vancouver Island early in 1859. He was thirty-two years of age and had served...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 156-157
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Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences
The title suggests a broad discussion of sustainability, with Canadian examples. The core of this book, however, is about “Canadian experiences” with Man and Biosphere Reserves (sic) or MAB, and Model Forests. Francis was an...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia
Evergreen Playland is the dvd version of the movie of the same name that was part of the exhibition “Free Spirits: Stories of You, Me and BC,” held at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 203-5
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Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
Vancouver’s famous park has received a lot of attention, including from notable historians like Jean Barman and Robert A. J. McDonald, prominent artists like Emily Carr, and a continuous collection of journalists and tourism writers...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 171-73
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British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape
Read British Columbia by the Road backwards. Or forwards. It doesn’t matter. Like the highways themselves, you can drive Ben Bradley’s bright, engaging work on automobility, identity, and landscape in British Columbia’s Interior in different directions. Stop...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 175-6
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Legacy in Time: Three Generations of Mountain Photography in the Canadian West
British Columbia and Alberta are home to the most iconic mountain landscapes in Canada. To many of us, visitors and Canadians alike, these landscapes are the embodiment of Canada. They tempt us to stop, explore,...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 167-68
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The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
ONE OF THE SALIENT features of British Columbia’s geography is its myriad coastal islands. Among the wildest and most remote of these, the ecological reserve Triangle Island lies in the open Pacific Ocean thirty miles...