Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xv
Overview Map xx
Invocation The Magnificent Seven xxi
Part One The West We Had: Foundations of
Place
1. A Walk into the Past: Setting a Context of Place
3
2. The Creation: Monumentality and Place 17
3. The Creation: People and Place Before European Contact
27
4. Exchanging What We Had for What We Want: The Fur Trade Era in the
Canadian West 33
5. The Coming of Death: Diminishment and Loss among the First
Peoples of the West 41
Part Two The West We Have: Making the
Mountains Our Home
6. Giving Meaning to Mountains and Making Them Ours: Mountaineering
and the Aesthetics of Place 47
7. Brushes with Eternity: Landscape Art and Photography in the
Canadian Rockies 69
8. Crystal and Cold Blue Chasms: The Literature of the Canadian
Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site 77
9. Stemming the Tide of Loss: The Give and Take of Modern Management
In and Around the Mountain Parks 91
10. Countering Dispossession: Saving Our Unique Mountain
Culture 105
The East Slope: Flowing Toward the Atlantic
11. The Birthplace of Canada’s National Park Ideal: Banff
National Park 115
The North Slope: Flowing Toward the Arctic
12. The Birthplace of Western and Northern Rivers: The Columbia
Icefield and Jasper National Park 145
The West Slope: Flowing Toward the Pacific
13. The Roof of the Canadian Rockies: Mount Robson Provincial
Park 187
14. Small, Remote, but Utterly Wild: Hamber Provincial
Park 201
15. The Geography of Wonder: Yoho National Park
215
16. The Road to Radium: Kootenay National Park
243
17. Matterhorn of the Rockies: Mount Assiniboine Provincial
Park 257
Part Three 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 273
19. Seeing What Is Hidden in Plain Sight: Triumphing Over
Diminishment and Loss 299
20. Expanding the World Heritage Site Designation: Managing for
Future Integrity Instead of Loss 313
21. Creating a Culture Commensurate with Place
321
Notes 339
Index 347