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

http://niche-canada.org

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

© 2016 Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

          Moving natures : mobility and the environment in Canadian

history / edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates.

(Canadian history and environment series, 1925-3702 ; 5)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55238-859-4 (paperback).—ISBN 978-1-55238-860-0 (open access pdf).—

ISBN 978-1-55238-861-7 (pdf).—ISBN 978-1-55238-862-4 (epub)

ISBN 978-1-55238-863-1 (mobi)

1. Transportation—Social aspects—Canada—History. 2. Tourism—Social aspects—

Canada—History. 3. Outdoor recreation—Social aspects—Canada—History. 4. Leisure—

Social aspects—Canada—History. 5. Landscapes—Social aspects—Canada—History.

6. Nature—Social aspects—Canada—History. 7. Canada—Environmental conditions—

History. I. Coates, Colin MacMillan, 1960-, editor II. Young, Jay, 1982-, author,

editor III. Bradley, Ben, 1975-, editor IV. Series: Canadian history and environment

series ; 5

HE192.55.C3M69 2016 303.48’320971 C2016-902811-9

C2016-902812-7

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 through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

Front cover: Alex Colville, Ocean Limited (1962). Acrylic on hardboard. Courtesy of A.C. Fine Art Inc.

Back cover: Ready for winter travel at Beaumont, Alberta, 1930s. Courtesy of Provincial Archives of Alberta, A9204

Copy editing by Alison Jacques

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

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