Most of the damage was in the east and especially the southeast of the province, where the fi re atlas charted a dense concentration of burns. [...] Volca- nic eruptions, earthquakes, and the tsunamis sometimes associated with xvi Foreword them are all capable of changing the face of the earth, but the perceived disastrousness of the reshaping they produce is largely determined by the amount and type of human activity in the affected vicinity. [...] By the same token, the disastrous qualities of the Okanagan Mountain fi re owed much to an economic boom in the Okanagan valley, a rapid increase in the population of Kelowna, societal attitudes that valued large homes on the outskirts of cities (and especially, in the hot, dry Okanagan, in well-wooded settings), and a series of decisions by local offi cials and land developers that extended tenta [...] A dozen of these explore the story of fi re through the ages and around the world, and six of them form a suite – known as the Cycle of Fire – that xviii Foreword surveys the history of fi re. [...] By one account, the fi re resembled “the eve of the General Assize of Man- kind,” lacking only “the blast of a TRUMPET, the voice of the ARCH- ANGEL, and the resurrection of the DEAD.”9 Neither the fi rst nor the last massive confl agration to rage across Canadian space, the Miramichi fi re became the notorious archetype among dozens of calamitous and costly fi res that ravaged the landscape as Ca
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Figures 11
- Foreword: Mon pays c’est le feu 14
- Author’s Note: A Boreal Burning Bush 26
- Prologue: White Canada 32
- Book 1: Torch 42
- Kindling 44
- Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada 47
- Fire and Frost: Tundra 47
- Fire and Water: Boreal Forest 51
- Fire and Grass, Fire and Leaf: Great Plains Prairies and Great Lakes Forests 62
- Fire on the Hills, Fire on the Mountains: Acadian Woods and Cordilleran Forests 75
- Fire and Fog: The Incombustible Fringe 84
- Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains 88
- Conflagration and Complex 92
- Book 2: Axe 96
- Creating Fuel 98
- Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada 100
- New Found Land 101
- Acadia 105
- The Canadas 119
- Far Countries 135
- With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind 144
- "Burning Most Furiously” 154
- Book 3: Engine 164
- Containing Combustion 166
- Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow 171
- Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada 192
- Dominion of Fire: Canada’s Quest for Fire Conservancy 192
- Sea and Shield: Fire Provinces of Eastern Canada 251
- Fire’s Lesser Dominion 292
- Tracer Index: James G. Wright and Herbert W. Beall 298
- Plain and Mountain: Fire Provinces of Western Canada 309
- Prosperity and Peril 359
- Two Solitudes: C.E. Van Wagner and Donald Stedman 368
- Revanchism and Federalism 380
- Fire’s Outer Limits: Fire Provinces on the Fringe 406
- Internal Combustions 449
- Epilogue: Green Canada 466
- Continental Drift and Global Warming 468
- Fire Geography of Green Canada 470
- Slow Burns, Fast Flames 498
- Fire and Ice 510
- Notes 512
- Bibliographic Essay 564
- Index 569
- A 569
- B 570
- C 570
- D 572
- E 572
- F 572
- G 574
- H 574
- I 575
- J 575
- K 575
- L 575
- M 576
- N 577
- O 577
- P 577
- Q 578
- R 578
- S 579
- T 579
- U 579
- V 580
- W 580
- Y 580
- Z 580
