Views of the Salish Sea : one hundred and fifty years of change around the Strait of Georgia /

Interweaving geography, biology and resource economics with history, this is a deft examination of the Strait of Georgia from the 1850s to the modern era.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stewart, Howard Macdonald (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2017]
Subjects:
HISTORY / Canada / General
Historical geography
Georgia, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.) > Historical geography.
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) > Historical geography.
Géorgie, Détroit de (C.-B. et Wash.) > Géographie historique.
Salish, Mer des (C.-B. et Wash.) > Géographie historique.
Pacific Ocean > Salish Sea
Pacific Ocean > Strait of Georgia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The sea as barrier, the sea as highway
  • 2. Empty land or stolen land? The colonial Strait
  • 3. Resource mining by the sea : mining and forestry
  • 4. Resource mining in the sea : fish and oysters
  • 5. The strait as waste dump
  • 6. Recreation on the restorative Strait
  • 7. Conclusions and reflections on the twenty-first century Strait.

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