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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.
In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of
Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings
offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff
Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination.
Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of
culture and liberal democratic citizenship intrinsic to the
development of modern Canada. In an era of unstable cultural policy
and state support, Uplift draws welcome attention to the continued
place of the arts, culture, and the humanities in public education
and a life well lived.
In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of
Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings
offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff
Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination.
Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of
culture and liberal democratic citizenship intrinsic to the
development of modern Canada. In an era of unstable cultural policy
and state support, Uplift draws welcome attention to the continued
place of the arts, culture, and the humanities in public education
and a life well lived.
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human
thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal
journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the
way the west served as a place of constant movement between places
of spiritual, subsistence and aesthetic importance. The region, it
would seem, gained its very life in the movement of its people.
Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western
Canada's Past, showcases new Western Canadian research on the
places found and inhabited by indigenous people and newcomers, as
well as their strategies to situate themselves, move on to new
homes or change their environments to recreate the West in
profoundly different ways. These studies range from the way
indigenous people found representation in museum displays, to the
archival home newcomers found for themselves: how, for instance,
the LGBT community found a place, or not, in the historical record
itself. Other studies examine the means by which MA (c)tis
communities, finding the west transforming around them, turned to
grassroots narratives and historical preservation in order to
produce what is now appreciated as vernacular histories of
inestimable value. In another study, the issues confronted by the
Stoney Nakoda who found their home territory rapidly changing in
the treaty and reserve era is examined: how Stoney connections to
Indian agents and missionaries allowed them to pursue long-distance
subsistence strategies into the pioneer era. The anthology includes
an analysis of a lengthy travel diary of an English visitor to
Depression-era Alberta, revealing how she perceived the region in a
short government-sponsored inquiry. Other studies examine the ways
women, themselves newcomers in pioneering society, evaluated new
immigrants to the region and sought to extend, or not, the vote to
them; and the ways early suffrage activists in Alberta and England
by World War I developed key ideas when they cooperated in
publicity work in Western Canada. Finding Directions West also
includes a study on ranchers and how they initially sought to
circumscribe their practices around large landholdings in periods
of drought, to the architectural designs imported to places such as
the Banff Centre that defied the natural geography of the Rocky
Mountains. Too often, Western Canadian history is understood as a
fixed, precisely mapped and authoritatively documented place. This
anthology prompts readers to think differently about a region where
ideas, people and communities were in a constant but energetic
flux, and how newcomers converged into sometimes impermanent homes
or moved on to new experiences to leave a significant legacy for
the present-day.
The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their
value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels,
souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971
The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring
ranges to the west and the north as a "climber's paradise." Through
a century of adventure and advocacy, the ACC led the way to
mountain pursuits in spectacular regions. Historian and mountain
studies specialist PearlAnn Reichwein's research is informed by her
experiences mountaineering and by her interest in mountain culture.
She presents a compelling case for understanding wild spaces and
human activity within them as parts of a whole. A work of
invaluable scholarship in the areas of environmental history,
public policy, sport studies, recreation, and tourism, Climber's
Paradise will appeal to many non-specialists, mountaineers,
environmentalists, and travellers across Canada and beyond.
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