Dispossessing the Wilderness: Contesting Canada’s National Park Narrative
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Contesting Canada’s National Park Narrative
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| Abstract |
The author examines the social and educational role of material culture to analyze, remember, and contextualize difficult periods in a community’s history. Forillon National Park in the Gaspé region of Quebec, established in 1970, serves as a lens to explore narratives of national identity formation in relation to governmental politics of recognition and reconciliation with former Francophone and Anglophone citizens whose land was expropriated to create the park. When preparing to create the federal national park, 225 families were forced to sell their properties under a dubious means. On 14 February 2011, the House of Commons adopted a motion which issued an official apology to the people whose properties were expropriated to create Forillon National Park.
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Cultural Contestation : Heritage, Identity and the Role of Government
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Cham, Switzerland
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018
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139-153
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en
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978-3-319-91913-3
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| Citation |
Valadares, Desiree. “Dispossessing the Wilderness: Contesting Canada’s National Park Narrative.” In Cultural Contestation : Heritage, Identity and the Role of Government, edited by Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar, 139–153. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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