Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir (Energy Ecology and the Environment Series) - Softcover

Armstrong, Christopher; Nelles, H. V.

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ISBN 10: 1552386341 ISBN 13: 9781552386347

Verlag: University of Calgary Press, 2013

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Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.

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Christopher Armstrong is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at York University. H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University. Both have written and published extensively on Canadian history and are widely recognized as two of the foremost scholars in the field.

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• Verlag: University of Calgary Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1552386341
• ISBN 13: 9781552386347
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286