A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011

A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
Author: Claire Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2011
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781552385265

When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the center of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada s diverse ecosystems and its communities."

National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of Canada

National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of Canada
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2017
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 1426217560

An illustrated, region-by-region guide to the national parks of Canada, offering sample itineraries and site-by-site tours, and providing historical information, location and activity descriptions, tips for travelers, maps, and lodging information with addresses, phone numbers, and price ranges.

Natural Selections

Natural Selections
Author: Alan Andrew MacEachern
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780773521575

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.

Park Prisoners

Park Prisoners
Author: W. A. Waiser
Publisher: Saskatoon : Fifth House Publishers
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1995
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

COVERS : Banff National Park, Elk Island National Park, Glacier National Park, Jasper National Park, Kootenay National Park, Mount Revelstoke National Park, Point Pelee National Park, Prince Albert National Park, Riding Mountain National Park, Waterton Lakes National Park, Yoho National Park.

Taking the Air

Taking the Air
Author: Paul Kopas
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0774858141

In Taking the Air, Paul Kopas takes a comprehensive approach to the policy aspects of the management of parks and protected areas. He scrutinizes the policy-making process for national parks since the mid-1950s and interrogates the rationale and policies that have governed their administration. He argues that national parks and park policy reflect not only environmental concerns but also the political and social attitudes of bureaucrats, citizens, interest groups, Aboriginal peoples, and legal authorities. He explores how the goals of each group have been shaped by the historical context of park policy, influencing the shape and weight of their contributions.

Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
Author: Robert W. Sandford
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1897425570

Ecology and Wonder celebrates Western Canada's breathtaking landscape. The book makes several remarkable claims. The greatest cultural achievement in the mountain region of western Canada may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminshment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive. This may well be an important defence against future impacts of climate change in the Canadian West.

National Parks System Plan

National Parks System Plan
Author: Max Finkelstein
Publisher: [Hull, Quebec] : Environment Canada, Parks Service
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1990
Genre: National parks and reserves
ISBN:

A status report of the National Park System in each of Canada's 39 National Park Natural Regions, containing information on geography, vegetation, wildlife, photographs, descriptions and maps.

Manufacturing National Park Nature

Manufacturing National Park Nature
Author: J. Keri Cronin
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 077481909X

National parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, yet we are only beginning to understand how their visual representation has shaped and continues to inform our perceptions of ecological issues and the natural world. J. Keri Cronin draws on historical and modern postcards, advertisements, and other images of Jasper National Park to trace how various groups and the tourism industry have used photography to divorce the park from real environmental threats and instead package it as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals. Manufacturing National Park Nature demonstrates that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image.