Sustaining the West

Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature
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Author: ISBN: 9781554589258
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication: March 31, 2015
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781554589258
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication: March 31, 2015
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English

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Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker
Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon
Few conceptual controversies in Canadian Rockies' history have proven more persistent than that occasioned by the young Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who, in 1827, incorrectly ascribed tremendous elevations to two peaks guarding the highest point of the transcontinental furtrade route, Athabasca Pass: “Mount Brown” and “Mount Hooker” in honour of his benefactors at the Royal Horticultural Society. This paper provides a combined documents- and fieldwork-based assessment of the Hooker/Brown controversy and foregrounds the recognitions of class exclusion and the elision of Aboriginal agency and communal knowledge from the archival/imperial enterprise by bringing geography, literature, and history into direct conversation with one another.

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9
Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker
Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon
Few conceptual controversies in Canadian Rockies' history have proven more persistent than that occasioned by the young Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who, in 1827, incorrectly ascribed tremendous elevations to two peaks guarding the highest point of the transcontinental furtrade route, Athabasca Pass: “Mount Brown” and “Mount Hooker” in honour of his benefactors at the Royal Horticultural Society. This paper provides a combined documents- and fieldwork-based assessment of the Hooker/Brown controversy and foregrounds the recognitions of class exclusion and the elision of Aboriginal agency and communal knowledge from the archival/imperial enterprise by bringing geography, literature, and history into direct conversation with one another.

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