Wilderness and Waterpower
How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir
Contributor(s)
Nelles, H. V. (editor)
Armstrong, Christopher (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
This engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.
ISBN
9781552386347Publisher
University of Calgary PressPublisher website
https://press.ucalgary.ca/Publication date and place
Calgary, 2013Series
Energy, Ecology, and the Environment,Classification
Biography and non-fiction prose
Environmental economics
Society and Social Sciences