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The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s
“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Tag Archives: conservation
Pollution and the Tar Sands: The Same Old Story.
All weekend in Alberta the news covered the provincial and federal Environment Ministers toured new pollution monitoring stations in the Oil/Tar Sands. It reminded me of the consistent sense of deja vu that comes with studying the early environmental movement in Alberta and and of a recent presentation I gave at the Directions West conference at the University of Alberta. Below is a portion of that presentation about pollution monitoring, court cases, and environmentalism in Alberta in the 1970s. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism
Tagged Activism, Canada, conservation, court cases, Environment, Environmentalism, Natural Resources, oil sands, Pollution, STOP, tar sands
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Lessons from Environmental History: Success Through Past Failures
Pivotal moments in Canadian environmentalism are not restricted to successes; failures to produce change and instances where institutions created to promote a more sustainable way of living are also important. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Public History, Research
Tagged Activism, Canada, conservation, dissertation, Environmentalism, Opinion, Researching
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The Canmore-Provincial Parks Conundrum
The province of Alberta is looking to changing how provincial parks are regulated. Nowhere will these changes have a greater affect than Canmore. CPAWS, the Sierra Club, and other conservation interest groups have taken up lamenting how these changes will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canmore, conservation, Environment, Mines, mountains, parks, public history, Reflection, wilderness
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Mealy Meadows, One Giant Leap for Parks Canada
Last week a new national park officially came into being. It is part of a decades old endeavour by Parks Canada to ensure a part of each of the distinct ecosystems in Canada in preserved and protected through the creation … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Ecology, Environment, national parks, wilderness
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Environmentalism vs. Conservationism
Modern environmentalism, like early twentieth-century conservationism, is a movement of the educated, urban, predominately white, middle-class. It shares important aspects of its philosophy with conservationism. Gender and race historians have pointed to the years following the Second World War as … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, definitions, dissertation, Environmentalism, Reflection, wilderness
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 