Game in the Garden : A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada To 1940.
Colpitts, George.
Game in the Garden : A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada To 1940. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (216 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Game in the Garden -- Introduction -- 1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade -- 2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement -- 3 From Meat to Sport Hunting -- 4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance -- 5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
9780774850384
Animals and civilization -- Canada, Western.
Animals -- Social aspects -- Canada, Western.
Wildlife utilization -- Canada, Western -- History.
Wildlife conservation -- Canada, Western -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada, Western.
Electronic books.
QL85 -- .C64 2002eb
333.95/4/09712
Game in the Garden : A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada To 1940. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (216 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Game in the Garden -- Introduction -- 1 Amerindians, Voyageurs, and the Animal Exchange in the Western Fur Trade -- 2 The Territorial Period, Game Crisis, and the Western Domestication Movement -- 3 From Meat to Sport Hunting -- 4 Boosters, Wildlife, and Western Myths of Superabundance -- 5 Pioneer Society and Fish and Game Protection -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Independent Conservation Associations in Western Canada -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people.
9780774850384
Animals and civilization -- Canada, Western.
Animals -- Social aspects -- Canada, Western.
Wildlife utilization -- Canada, Western -- History.
Wildlife conservation -- Canada, Western -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada, Western.
Electronic books.
QL85 -- .C64 2002eb
333.95/4/09712