The Culture of Hunting in Canada
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
The Culture of Hunting in Canada
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Hunting and Identity
1 Why I Hunt / Leigh Clarke
2 Learning to Hunt at the Age of Twenty-Seven: A New Hunter’s Views on Hunting / Jason E. McCutcheon
3 Hunting with Dad / Robert Sopuck
4 Hunting Stories / Peter Kulchyski
5 The Empire’s Eden: British Hunters, Travel Writing, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Canada / Greg Gillespie
6 Powers of Liveness: Reading Hornaday’s Camp-Fires / Mark Simpson
Part 2: Hunting and Conservation in History
7 Views of a Swampy-Cree Elder on the Spiritual Relationship between Hunters and Animals / Louis Bird and Roland Bohr
8 “When the Need for It No Longer Existed”: Declining Wildlife and Native Hunting Rights in Ontario, 1791-1898 / David Calverley
9 Contested Terrains of Space and Place: Hunting and the Landscape Known as Algonquin Park, 1890-1950 / Jean L. Manore
10 The Sinews of Their Lives: First Nations’ Access to Resources in the Yukon, 1890-1950 / Kenneth Coates
11 The Canadian Wildlife Service: Enforcing Federal Wildlife Regulations / J. Alexander Burnett
Part 3: Hunting and Contemporary Challenges
12 Aboriginal Peoples and Their Historic Right to Hunt: A Reasonable Symbiotic Relationship / Bruce W. Hodgins
13 Personal Expression as Exemplified by Hunting: One Man’s View / Edward Reid
14 Gun Control in Canada / Simon Wallace
15 A Hunter’s Perspective on Gun Control in Canada / Dale Miner
16 The Activists Move West: Recent Experiences in Manitoba / Tim Sopuck
17 Fair Chase: To Where Does It Lead? / Edward Hanna
Conclusion
Contributors
Index
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