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Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
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Edited by:
Ben Bradley
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Thomas Peace
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2016
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Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate and landscape. Spanning Canada's diverse regions, throughout its history, from the closing of the age of sail to the contemporary era of just-on-time delivery, Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History examines a wide range of topics, from the impact of seasonal climactic conditions on different transportation modes, to the environmental consequences of building mobility corridors and pathways, to the relationship between changing forms of mobility with tourism and other recreational activities. Contributors make use of traditional archival sources, as well as historical geographic information systems (HGIS), qualitative and quantitative analysis, and critical theory. This thought-provoking collection divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers' uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility. Together, they highlight three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites' experiences of the environment through mobility. With contributions by: Judy Burns Jim Clifford Ken Cruikshank Jessica Dunkin Elizabeth L. Jewett Don Lafreniere Elsa Lam Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert J.I. Little Daniel Macfarlane Merle Massie Tor H. Oiamo Joy Parr Thomas Peace Andrew Watson
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Bradley Ben :
BEN BRADLEY is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. His research examines the linkages between mobility, landscape, and mass culture in twentieth-century Canada.Young Jay :
JAY YOUNG is outreach officer at the Archives of Ontario and a founding editor of ActiveHistory.ca. He completed his doctorate at York University in 2012 followed bya SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in history at McMaster University.Coates Colin M. :
COLIN M. COATES teaches environmental history and Canadian studies at York University. He is past president of the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes and was a member of the executive of NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and Environment.
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Moving Natures in Canadian History: An Introduction
1 - Production, Pathways, and Supply
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Maitland’s Moment: Turning Nova Scotia’s Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Forest, Stream and . . . Snowstorms? Seasonality, Nature, and Mobility on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876–1914
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Supply Networks in the Age of Steamboat Navigation: Lakeside Mobility in Muskoka, Ontario, 1880–1930
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Seasonality and Mobility in Northern Saskatchewan, 1890–1950
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Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject
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Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944–1968
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The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility
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Views from the Deck: Union Steamship Cruises on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1889–1958
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Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880–1903
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What Was Driving Golf? Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870–1930
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Rails, Trails, Roads, and Lodgings: Networks of Mobility and the Touristic Development of the “Canadian Pacific Rockies,” 1885–1930
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Automobile Tourism in Quebec and Ontario: Development, Promotion, and Representations, 1920–1945
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Contributors
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Index
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June 1, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781552388617
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352
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49
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25 b&w and 13 colour illustrations, 9 maps, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index
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9781552388617
Keywords for this book
canadian author; stem; climate; science; academic nonfiction; historical geographic information systems (HGIS); mobility technologies; infrastructure; getting around; transportation; technology; recreational mobility
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Professional and scholarly;
