Wilderness and waterpower: how Banff National Park became a hydroelectric storage reservoir

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dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, Christopheren_US
dc.contributor.authorNelles, H.V.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-11T19:13:45Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T08:00:16Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionSeries: Energy, ecology, and the environment series, 1925-2935; 5en_US
dc.description.abstractThis engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.en_US
dc.description.embargoterms2013-02-19en_US
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.citationArmstrong, C. & Nelles, H.V. "Wilderness and waterpower: how Banff National Park became a hydroelectric storage reservoir". Energy, ecology, and the environment series, 1925-2935 , No. 5. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2013.eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34597
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55238-635-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/49374
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Presseng
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/eng
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/*
dc.subjectWater-power—Alberta—Banff National Park—Historyeng
dc.subjectBow River Watershed (Alta.)—Power utilization—Historyeng
dc.subjectReservoirs— Alberta—Banff National Park—Historyeng
dc.subjectWilderness areas—Economic aspects—Alberta—Historyeng
dc.subjectElectric power consumption—Alberta—Historyeng
dc.titleWilderness and waterpower: how Banff National Park became a hydroelectric storage reservoireng
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