A poetics of Simpson Pass: natural history and place-making in Rocky Mountains Park
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Krotz, Sarah Wylie
- Call Number
- 04 K92p Pam
- Author
- Krotz, Sarah Wylie
- Responsibility
- Sarah Wylie Krotz
- Physical Description
- p.57-76 : ill
- Subjects
- Immigration
- Sanson, Norman Bethune
- Notes
- Copy of article published in Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 39, 2014. Abstract: This essay examines A Sprig of Mountain Heather, an early pamphlet designed by J.B. Harkin and Mabel Williams to promote Canada’s dominion parks. The pamphlet provides a fascinating glimpse into the colonial practice of natural history and its role in shaping European relationships to wild spaces such as Simpson Pass, on the border Banff National Park. A Sprig of Mountain Heather demonstrates how natural history made it possible for European settlers to imbue even a remote and alien space with the homely resonance of place – a key attribute of the national parks’ colonial and curatorial relationship to wilderness.
- Accession Number
- 2015.8415
- Call Number
- 04 K92p Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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