George Colpitts: 2 books

Book cover of A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
Book cover of Pemmican Empire

Pemmican Empire

Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882

by George Colpitts
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the continent....
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