Invocation: The Magnificent Seven

Part I. The West We Had: Foundations of Place
1. A Walk into the Past: Setting a Context of Place
2. The Creation: Monumentality and Place
3. The Creation: People and Place Before European Contact
4. Exchanging What We Had for What We Want: The Fur Trade Era in the Canadian West
5. The Coming of Death: Diminishment and Loss among the First Peoples of the West

Part II. The West We Have: Making the Mountains Our Home
6. Giving Meaning to Mountains and Making Them Ours: Mountaineering and the Aesthetics of Place
7. Brushes with Eternity: Landscape Art and Photography in the Canadian Rockies
8. Crystal and Cold Blue Chasms: The Literature of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
9. Stemming the Tide of Loss: The Give and Take of Modern Management In and Around the Mountain Parks
10. Countering Dispossession: Saving Our Unique Mountain Culture
The East Slope: Flowing Toward the Atlantic
11. The Birthplace of Canada’s National Park Ideal: Banff National Park The North Slope: Flowing Toward the Arctic
12. The Birthplace of Western and Northern Rivers: The Columbia Icefield and Jasper National Park
The West Slope: Flowing Toward the Pacific
13. The Roof of the Canadian Rockies: Mount Robson Provincial Park
14. Small, Remote, but Utterly Wild: Hamber Provincial Park
15. The Geography of Wonder: Yoho National Park
16. The Road to Radium: Kootenay National Park
17. Matterhorn of the Rockies: Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park

Part III. The West We Want: Creating a Culture Worthy of Place
18. Respecting and Honouring the Great Bear: The Grizzly as a Symbol of the West We Want
19. Seeing What Is Hidden in Plain Sight: Triumphing Over Diminishment and Loss
20. Expanding the World Heritage Site Designation: Managing for Future Integrity Instead of Loss
21. Creating a Culture Commensurate with Place