Natural selections : national parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970 / Alan MacEachern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacEachern, Alan, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch--History.

Canada.

National parks and reserves--Maritime Provinces--History.

National parks and reserves.

Nature--Social aspects--Canada.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 328 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Natural Selections traces the history of the first four parks in Atlantic Canada through the selection, expropriation, development, and management stages. Alan MacEachern shows how the Parks Branch's preconceptions about the landscape and people of the region shaped the parks created there. In doing so he details the evolution of the park system, from the conservation movement early in the century to the rise of the ecology movement. MacEachern analyzes Parks Canada's efforts to fulfill its twin mandates of preservation and use, arguing that the agency never favoured one over the other but oscillated between more or less interventionist in ensuring both. Touching on a wide range of matters - from landscape aesthetics to tourism promotion, from DDT to Martin Luther King - Natural Selections expands our understanding of the relation between nature and culture in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Photos and Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Walk at Herring Cove

In Search of Eastern Beauty

James Harkin and the National Parks Branch

Sublimity by the Sea: Establishing Cape Breton Highlands National Park, ca. 1936

The Greening of Green Gables: Establishing Prince Edward Island National Park, ca. 1936

Suburbia Comes to the Forest: Establishing Fundy National Park, ca. 1947

Sawed-off, Hammered-down, Chopped-up: Establishing Terra Nova National Park, ca. 1957

A Pious Hope

Accommodations and Concessions: Use in Four National Parks, 1935–65

Changing Ecologies: Preservation in Four National Parks, 1935–65

Conclusion

Departments in Charge of National Parks, and Senior Park Officials, 1930–70

Attendance at Atlantic Canada National Parks, 1936–66

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85913-7

9786612859137

0-7735-6901-4

OCLC:

929120787