9781897425374
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver Hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east. An overview of the hills’ physiography helps us to grasp the complexity and diversity of landscapes, soil types, and vegetation communities. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Aboriginal peoples, Métis, and European immigrants.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Name "Beaver Hills"
Chapter 1: The Character of the Beaver Hills
Chapter 2: Ancient Ways Between Two Rivers
Chapter 3: Traders, Horses, and Bison, 1730–1870
Chapter 4: Visions of the Promised Land, 1870–1905
Chapter 5: Conservation, Communities and Egalitarianism, 1905–1930
Chapter 6: Hard Times and Good Times, 1930–1950
Chapter 7: Postwar Urbanism
Notes
Bibliography
Image Sources
Index
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