Preface

Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and present

Chapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon

Chapter 3: ‘In the Acadian land’ of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow’s literary legacy

Chapter 4: ‘The marsh lies rich and wanton’: The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead

Chapter 5: ‘Noisome marsh’ and ‘incurable marshes’: Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula

Chapter 6: ‘A swampy flat’: Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta

Chapter 7: A city ‘set in malarial lakeside swamps’: Toronto and Ashbridge’s Bay Marsh

Chapter 8: ‘Land and water disputed empire’: Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau

Chapter 9: ‘Quaking morass’: The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold

Chapter 10: ‘Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home’: Harry Thurston’s marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture

References

Index