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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: wilderness
The “Trouble” with Wi-Fi Hotspots in National Parks
On Tuesday April 29, 2014 Parks Canada announced it will install Wi-Fi hotspots in National Parks. The response from Canadians is divided; some welcome the ability to access the internet in remote areas, others see it as an unnecessary incursion of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Public History
Tagged Banff, Canada, Environment, mountains, national parks, public history, Wi-Fi, wilderness
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Canada vs. Iceland: The National Park Edition
Canada celebrates nature. It celebrates nature as ‘wilderness’ that much attacked idea that for nature to matter it cannot be touched by human hands. This is the legacy of the human history of Canada as a settler society that was … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, comparison, Ecology, Environment, Iceland, national parks, photography, Snaefellsjokull, wilderness
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Stop the Great Canmore Rabbit Invasion
Canmore need to take drastic action about the bunnies. Action that should have been taken twenty years ago when the rabbits were only in South Canmore Continue reading
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Tagged bunnies, Canmore, Ecology, Environmentalism, invasive species, mountains, Opinion, rabbits, wilderness
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Stop the Great Rabbit Invasion of Canmore
Canmore need to take drastic action about the bunnies. Action that should have been taken twenty years ago when the rabbits were only in South Canmore. Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Canmore, Ecology, Environment, invasive species, mountains, wilderness
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Micro Environmental History – Weather and Missing Mountain Tops
Weather related travel seem to be dominating the news this holiday season. Before snow paralyzed air travel in Europe and Britain, it trapped people in their cars in southern Ontario while rains and storm surges were flooding rural New Brunswick. … Continue reading
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Tagged Canmore, climate change, Environment, Mines, mountains, weather, wilderness
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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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What Trouble with Wilderness?
The downside to visiting the Rockies in the low-season with a stack of comps readings on wilderness and conservation is that it is hard to be critical of loaded terms like “wilderness” when it is everywhere! During ski season and … Continue reading
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Tagged Canmore, Environment, Historiography, mountains, place, Reflection, wilderness
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 