Description
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast element of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and 8 other writers unearth the in large part unrecorded past of the higher Athabasca River watershed, and produce to light two centuries’ worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies’ largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and the ones with an interest in Canada’s national parks will discover a sense of connection on this long past due have a look at of Jasper.