Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914 (Hardcover)

Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. As Darcy Ingram shows in Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, many of the wildlife conservation strategies currently in place today were inspired by a longstanding belief in progress, improvement, and social order. However, these early strategies were not as forward-focused as they appear. Ingram traces the emergence of a lease-based regulatory system that blended elite forms of sport and conservation. Applied first to British North America's prized salmon rivers, this system came to encompass the bulk of Quebec's hunting and fishing territories. The partnership between lessees, the province, and fish and game clubs effectively privatized Quebec's wildlife resources, often to the detriment of commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.

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