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Author Campbell, Claire Elizabeth, 1974- author.

Title Nature, place, and story : rethinking historic sites in Canada / Claire Elizabeth Campbell.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

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Series McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 8
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Gateway to a new world : L'Anse aux Meadows -- Idyll and industry : Grand Pré -- Wilderness, lost and found : Fort William -- Variety, heritage, adventure, and park : he Forks of the Red River -- Nature's gentlemen and a nation's frontier : the Bar U Ranch.
Summary "National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But when seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of the occupation and transformation of nature into a nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there is a growing need to know more about the history of our relationship with the natural world and what lessons these places of public history, regional identity, and national narrative can teach us. Nature, Place, and Story provides new interpretations for five of Canada's largest and most iconic historic sites: L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; Fort William, Ontario; the Forks of the Red River, Manitoba; and the Bar U Ranch, Alberta. At each location, Claire Campbell rewrites public history as environmental history, revealing the country's debt to the power and fragility of the natural world, and the relevance of the past to understanding climate change, agricultural sustainability, wilderness protection, urban reclamation, and fossil fuel extraction. From the medieval Atlantic to modern ranch lands, environmental history speaks directly to contemporary questions about the health of Canada's habitat. Bringing together public and environmental history in an entirely new way, Nature, Place, and Story is a lively and ambitious call for a new way to view and comprehend natural heritage."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Historic sites -- Canada.
Public history -- Canada.
Canada -- Environmental conditions -- History.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Historic sites. (OCoLC)fst00957846
Public history. (OCoLC)fst01082429
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form: Campbell, Claire Elizabeth, 1974- Nature, place, and story.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] ©2017 McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; (CaOONL)20179021257 (OCoLC)981935175
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