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Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970

Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970

Maceachern, Alan

Hardcover

Environmental Studies

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ISBN10: 0773521577
ISBN13: 9780773521575
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Apr 23 2001
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

During the Depression the Canadian National Parks Branch was under pressure to make the park system truly national, to bring the advantages of parks to all provinces. In Atlantic Canada, however, it found itself dealing with an environment that was far different from what it was accustomed to in Western Canada. The land areas were smaller, flatter, and, having been settled for generations, could hardly be considered wild. Wildlife was smaller and less numerous.

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.

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