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Natural selections : national parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970 / Alan MacEachern.
LIBRA SB484.C2 M33 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacEachern, Alan, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch.
- National parks and reserves--Maritime Provinces--History.
- National parks and reserves.
- Nature--Social aspects.
- Nature.
- History.
- Maritime Provinces.
- Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch--History.
- Canada.
- Nature--Social aspects--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: A Walk at Herring Cove 3
- Part 1 In Search of Eastern Beauty
- 2 James Harkin and the National Parks Branch 25
- 3 Sublimity by the Sea: Establishing Cape Breton Highlands National Park, ca. 1936 47
- 4 The Greening of Green Gables: Establishing Prince Edward Island National Park, ca. 1936 73
- 5 Suburbia Comes to the Forest: Establishing Fundy National Park, ca. 1947 98
- 6 Sawed-off, Hammered-down, Chopped-up: Establishing Terra Nova National Park, ca. 1957 126
- Part 2 A Pious Hope
- 7 Accommodations and Concessions: Use in Four National Parks, 1935-65 155
- 8 Changing Ecologies: Preservation in Four National Parks, 1935-65 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773521577
- OCLC:
- 44713451
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