Parks

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. State parks and provincial parks are administered by sub-national government states and agencies. Parks may consist of grassy areas, rocks, soil and trees, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as monuments, fountains or playground structures. Many parks have fields for playing sports such …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy …

watershed has two Canadian national parks, three US national parks, numer- ous wildlife sanctuaries, and and dozens of state, provincial, and municipal parks. arguments and approaches Lake Ontario and


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Half-Light offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe.

and reminding. We learn, for instance, that E.K. Parks moved to Retlaw in 1925, just as the town was sliding found its way onto Google Maps. In 2018, the city parks department came in and cleaned it up, posting signs


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 13 August 2024

For the past 20 years, the Symons Medal is presented annually by the Confederation Centre of the Arts to honour persons who have made an exceptional and outstanding contribution to …

Galleries, Festivals and Events, Public Spaces and Parks, the Performing Arts, Educational Institutions


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 6 August 2024 English

Spotlights the work of trans youth in creating inclusive spaces within high schools Based on a year-long ethnographic study conducted in a Canadian high school, Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid presents …

board. When Mr. Hill ar- rived at the slide on Rosa Parks, a few of the students turned to each other and


FCM: Federation of Canadian Municipalities · 30 July 2024 English

struggling families a boost in their quality of life, providing them with roads, infrastructure, parks, recreation facilities and essential local services they can rely on. In response to the call for

providing them with infrastructure like roads, water, parks and recreation facilities and essential local services


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

Always Sacajawea immortalized in the National Parks’ brown and yellow, pointing West. A destiny manifested


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

this one of a different order. The amusement parks of Coney Island — Steeplechase Park, Dreamland visitors later, but never again for the classic parks. These parks, inspired by the Midway Plaisance at the would have spent some time as a young man at the parks of Coney Island. While in Manhattan, Joe was little


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

things available are the stone benches of the parks in which we are not even shadows.”4 Disillusioned


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 June 2024 English

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for …

farm, undated. Courtesy of Anita Webb Collection, Parks Canada, Halifax. | xxiv 6 Ada Simpson (née Macneill) home, c. 1925. Courtesy of Anita Webb Collection, Parks Canada, Halifax. | 17 14 Cavendish, Prince Edward c. 1925. Courtesy of Marion Webb Collection, Parks Canada, Halifax. | 24 17 Pauline Webb and unidentified hay, c. 1928. Courtesy of Anita Webb Collection, Parks Canada, Halifax. | 33 20 Webb children with Chester Road from the Webb farm, 1936. Photo by National Parks Branch site inspectors. Courtesy of Public Archives


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …

article “Parks Canada and the 1885 Rebellion/Uprising/Resistance.” In his study of how Parks Canada has “insidious influence” of political correctness among Parks Canada historians (29). An example she offers to


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