Table of Contents

Introduction; Into The Mountains: Blackfoot Crossing to Canmore; A Keystone Species?: The Role of Mountain Peoples in the Historic Ecosystem; Birthplace of Parks: Banff Environs; "If We Can't Export the Scenery...": Railways and Park Establishment; The California-Banff Beeline: Banff to Windermere; "Dividends in Gold & Dividends in Human Units": Government and Private Enterprise Develop the Parks; Heart of the Rockies: Lake Louise, Red Deer Valley, Yoho, and the Icefields; Unimpaired For Future Generations: Balancing Park Use and Preservation; The Northwest Passage by Land: Jasper to Edmonton; Synthesis: The Processes of Landscape Change; Index.

About the Author

Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon are ethnohistorical researchers and writers with academic backgrounds in anthropology. Their research supports treaty negotiations, aboriginal land and resource use, archaeology, the development of First Nation archives and libraries and legal actions. Captain Richards's journal was obtained during a research trip to England in 2006. The editors were born and raised on Vancouver Island and live in Nanaimo. THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN G.H. RICHARDS is their first book.