The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as s climber's paradise. Through a century of adventure and advocacy, the ACC led the way to mountain pursuits in spectacular regions. In Climber's paradise, historian and mountain studies specialist Pearl Ann Reichwein presents a compelling case for understanding wild places and human activity within them as parts of a whole. This is a work of invaluable scholarship in the areas of environmental history, public policy, sport studies, recreation, and tourism that gains significantly from the author's personal experience mountaineering and from has interest in mountain culture, This book speaks to mountaineers, environmentalists, travellers across. Canada and beyond, and all of us who embrace nature.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-392) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 333.78/3097110904
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral) -- Carleton University, 1996, under title: Beyond the visionary mountains : the Alpine Club of Canada and the Canadian national park idea, 1906 to 1969 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781772120257 9780888646743
- LCCN
- SB484.C2
- LCCN Item number
- R45 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xix, 402 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00237187 (OCoLC)964338173 (CaOOCEL)451955
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Untitled 5
- Dedication 6
- Epigraph 8
- Contents 10
- Preface 12
- Acknowledgements 16
- Abbreviations 18
- Map 19
- 1 | Imagining Canada's Mountain Parks 22
- 2 | Canada's Alpine Club 34
- 3 | Mountaineering Camp in the Tented Town 80
- 4 | Advocacy for Canada's Hetch Hetchy 140
- 5 | Conservation, Sport Tactics, and War Measures 174
- 6 | Limitless Playgrounds? 218
- 7 | Belonging in Mountain Landscapes 276
- Epilogue: Reconnections in a Living World 316
- Appendices 332
- Appendix 1: Statistical Profiles of Alpine Club of Canada Membership 332
- Appendix 2: Alpine Club of Canada National Executive, 1906-1974 334
- Appendix 3: Alpine Club of Canada Camps 336
- Notes 338
- References 380
- Index 414
- About the Author 424
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 425
