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Game in the garden : a human history of wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 / George Colpitts.

Title
Game in the garden : a human history of wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 / George Colpitts.
Author
Colpitts, George, 1964-
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2002.

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Description
x, 205 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Animals and civilization > Canada, Western
  • Animals > Social aspects > Canada, Western
  • Wildlife utilization > Canada, Western > History
  • Wildlife conservation > Canada, Western > History
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Canada, Western
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Geschichte - 1940.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Amerindians, voyageurs, and the animal exchange in the western fur trade -- The territorial period, game crisis, and the western domestication movement -- From meat to sport hunting -- Boosters, wildlife, and western myths of superabundance -- Pioneer society and fish and game protection.
ISBN
  • 0774809620
  • 9780774809634
OCLC
  • 50713652
  • SCSB-11392403
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