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Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government
designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest
Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur
traders toiled, and Metis families homesteaded. In Culturing
Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other
writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca
River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human
history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies'
largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an
interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection
in this long overdue study of Jasper.
Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor
Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of
many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this
unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to
compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field
work, and spent his winters collating them to provide the Canadian
government and tourists and mountain climbers with accurate
topographical maps. Bridgland was also a great climber and
co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains tells
the story of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, which
studies the changes sustained in the Rockies, repeating the field
work accomplished by Bridgland almost a century ago.
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