University of British Columbia Press
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914
About this book
Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of wildlife conservation in North America. However, these early strategies were not as forward-focused as they appear. Ingram traces the emergence of a lease-based regulatory system that blended elite forms of sport and conservation. Applied first to British North America’s prized salmon rivers, this system came to encompass the bulk of Quebec’s hunting and fishing territories. Inspired by a longstanding belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as well as North American models, this system effectively privatized Quebec’s fish and game resources, often to the detriment of commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.
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Ingram revealingly explores the distinctive class relations that governed attitudes towards wildlife in Quebec in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This well-researched study provides new insights into the social and environmental history of the region.
from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn:
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec offers a new and important account of fish and game protection in that province and adds significantly to our understanding of the development and implementation of conservationist ideas in Canada ... Ingram’s substantial contribution challenges readers to ponder anew the ways in which people have framed their interactions with the natural world and to reflect upon whether, or how far, developments in other jurisdictions parallel those charted here.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Figures and Appendices
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
3 - Beginnings, 1840–80
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The New Regulatory Environment
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Salmon, Sport, and the Lower St. Lawrence
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Conflict
75 - Expansion, Consolidation, and Continuity, 1880–1914
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From Public Space to Private Power
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The Evolution of Patrician Culture
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Opposition, Resistance, and the New Century
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Conclusion
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Appendices
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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