Synopses & Reviews
Review
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec offers a new and important account of fish and game protection in that province and adds significantly to our understanding of the development and implementation of conservationist ideas in Canada ... Ingram's substantial contribution challenges readers to ponder anew the ways in which people have framed their interactions with the natural world and to reflect upon whether, or how far, developments in other jurisdictions parallel those charted here.
- from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn
Review
Ingram revealingly explores the distinctive class relations that governed attitudes towards wildlife in Quebec in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This well-researched study provides new insights into the social and environmental history of the region.
- Colin M. Coates, Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes, Glendon College, York University
Synopsis
Despite the popular assumption that wildlife conservation is a recent
phenomenon, it emerged over a century and a half ago in an era more
closely associated with wildlife depletion than preservation. In
Wildlife, Conservation, and Conflict in Quebec, Darcy Ingram
explores the combination of NGOs, fish and game clubs, and
state-administered leases that formed the basis of a unique system of
wildlife conservation in North America. Inspired by a long-standing
belief in progress, improvement, and social order based on European as
well as North American models, this system effectively privatized
Quebec's fish and game resources, often to the detriment of
commercial and subsistence hunters and fishers.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword: What You See Depends upon Where (and How) You Look /
Graeme Wynn
Introduction
Part 1: Beginnings, 1840-80
1 The New Regulatory Environment
2 Salmon, Sport, and the Lower St. Lawrence
3 Conflict
Part 2: Expansion, Consolidation, and Continuity,
1880-1914
4 From Public Space to Private Power
5 The Evolution of Patrician Culture
6 Opposition, Resistance, and the New Century
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index