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Shaped by the west wind : nature and history in Georgian Bay / Claire Elizabeth Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Claire Elizabeth, 1974-
- Series:
- Nature, history, society.
- Nature, history, society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes--Symbolic aspects--Ontario--Georgian Bay Region.
- Landscapes.
- Georgian Bay Region (Ont.)--History.
- Georgian Bay Region (Ont.).
- Georgian Bay Region (Ont.)--Environmental conditions.
- Georgian Bay (Ont. : Bay).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This wide-ranging history of Georgian Bay examines changing cultural representations of landscape over time, shifts between resource development and recreational use, and environmental politics of place -- stories central to the Canadian experience.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Of Canoes and Pines and Rock- Bound Gardens
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- Writing a History of Place
- What Word of This Curious Country? Surveying the Historical Landscape
- A Region of Importance: Industry and Land Use
- A Vivid Reminder of a Vanished Era: Imagining Natives and History in a Terre Sauvage
- Rocks and Reefs: The Culture of an Inland Sea
- Our Dear North Country: Developing a Sense of Place
- Some Proper Rule: Managing and Protecting Georgian Bay
- Listening to the Bay
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-268) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-5130-9
- OCLC:
- 180772862
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