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An accidental history of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2024

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press

Call Number: 08.1 D28a

Responsibility: edited by Davies, Megan J. and Hudson, Geoffrey L.

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press

Published Date: 2024

Physical Description: 380pages, 22.7cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Fires; Nature; Natural history

Abstract: "Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomenon of risk, upset, and misfortune has been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid afterlife in the communities where they happen, and the way in which they are explained and remembered has significant social, cultural, and political meaning. An Accidental History of Canada brings together original studies of an intriguing range of accidents stretching from the 1630s to the 1970s. These include workplace accidents, domestic accidents, childhood accidents, and leisure accidents in colonial, Indigenous, rural, and urban settings. Whether arising from colonial power relations, urban dangers, perils in resource extraction, or hazardous recreations, most accidents occur within circumstances of vulnerability, and reveal precarity and inequities not otherwise apparent. Contributors to this volume are alert to the intersections of the settler agenda and the elevation of risk that it brought. Indigenous and settler ways of understanding accidents are juxtaposed, with chapters exploring the links between accidents and the rise of the modern state. An Accidental History of Canada makes plain that whether they are interpreted as an intervention by providence, a miscalculation, inevitability, or the result of observable risk, accidents--and our responses to them--reveal shared values."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780228021162

Accession Number: P2024.06

Call Number: 08.1 D28a

Collection: Archives Library

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The language of fire - interview with Parks Canada Gregg Walker

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 2018

Author: Wilson, Niki

Publisher: In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018

Call Number: P

Author: Wilson, Niki

Editor: Ward, Meghan J.

Publisher: In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: p.48-53

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Fire ecology; Fire fighting; Fires; Parks Canada; Banff National Park; Kootenay National Park; Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park; Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park

Abstract: Wildfires play an important role in the landscape. But when they burn out of control, professionals dive in to manage them. Fire expert Gregg Walker explains what's really going on amidst the flames