Table of Contents
Introduction: Canamalia Urbanis
1. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization, and Spectacle
2. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840–1914
3. Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement
4. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada
5. The Beavers of Stanley Park
6. Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse, and the Human
7. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940
8. Howl: The 1952–56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff
9. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba
10. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver
Epilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal History