Animal
Metropolis
Canadian History and Environment Series
Alan MacEachern, Series Editor
ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)
The Canadian History & Environment series brings together scholars from across the academy and beyond to explore the relationships between people and nature in Canada’s past.
Alan MacEachern, Founding Director
NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement
No. 1 ∙ A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011
Edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell
No. 2 ∙ Historical GIS Research in Canada
Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin
No. 3 ∙ Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
Edited by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos
No. 4 ∙ Canadian Countercultures and the Environment
Edited by Colin M. Coates
No. 5 ∙ Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates
No. 6 ∙ Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Edited by Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane
No. 7 ∙ Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History
Edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin
No. 8 ∙ Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna
edited by
Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna
Animal
Metropolis
Histories of Human-Animal
Relations in Urban Canada
Canadian History and Environment Series
ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)
© 2017 Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Animal metropolis : histories of human-animal relations in urban Canada
/ edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna.
(Canadian history and environment series ; 8)
Includes index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55238-864-8 (softcover).—ISBN 978-1-55238-865-5 (open access PDF).—
ISBN 978-1-55238-866-2 (PDF).—ISBN 978-1-55238-867-9 (EPUB).—
ISBN 978-1-55238-868-6 (Kindle)
1. Human-animal relationships—Canada. 2. Human-animal relationships—
Canada--History. 3. Urban animals—Canada. 4. Urban animals—Canada—
History. 5. Animals and civilization—Canada. 6. Animals and civilization—
Canada—History. 7. Urban ecology (Sociology)—Canada. 8. Urban ecology
(Sociology)—Canada—History. 9. Urban wildlife management—Canada.
10. Urban wildlife management—Canada—History. I. Dean, Joanna, editor
II. Ingram, Darcy, editor III. Sethna, Christabelle Laura, 1961-, editor
IV. Series: Canadian history and environment series ; 8
QL85.A546 2017 304.2’70971 C2017-900231-7
C2017-900232-5
The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Front cover art: “Sovereign” by Mary Anne Barkhouse
Copyediting by Peter Enman
Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano