Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures x
4. Foreword xiii
5. Author’s Note xxv
6. White Canada 3
7. Torch
8. Kindling 13
9. Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada 16
10. Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains 57
11. Conflagration and Complex 61
12. Axe
13. Creating Fuel 67
14. Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada 69
15. With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind 113
16. “Burning Most Furiously” 123
17. Engine
18. Containing Combustion 135
19. Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow 140
20. Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada 161
21. Internal Combustions 418
22. Green Canada
23. Continental Drift and Global Warming 437
24. Fire Geography of Green Canada 439
25. Slow Burns, Fast Flames 467
26. Fire and Ice 479
27. Notes 481
28. Bibliographic Essay 533
29. Index 538