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Title The culture of hunting in Canada / edited by Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner
Published Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Jean L. Manore. pt. 1. Hunting and identity. Why I hunt / Leigh Clarke -- Learning to hunt at the age of twenty-seven: a new hunter's views on hunting / Jason E. McCutcheon -- Hunting with Dad / Robert Sopuck -- Hunting stories / Peter Kulchyski -- The empire's Eden: British hunters, travel writing, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Canada / Greg Gillespie -- Powers of liveness: reading Hornaday's Camp-fires / Mark Simpson. pt. 2. Hunting and conservation history. Views of a Swampy-Cree elder on the spiritual relationship between hunters and animals / Louis Bird and Roldand Bohr -- 'When the need for it no longer existed': declining wildlife and Native hunting rights in Ontario, 1791-1898 / David Calerley -- Contested terrains of space and place: hunting and the landscape known as Algonquin Park, 1890-1950 / Jean L. Manore -- The sinews of their lives: First Nation's access to resources in the Yukon, 1890-1950 / Kenneth Coates -- The Canadian Wildlife Service: enforcing federal wildlife regulations / J. Alexander Burnett. pt. 3. Hunting and contemporary challenges. Aboriginal peoples and their historic right to hunt: a reasonable symbiotic relationship / Bruce W. Hodgins -- Personal expression as exemplified by hunting: one man's view / Edward Reid -- Gun control in Canada / Simon Wallace -- A hunter's perspective on gun control in Canada / Dale Miner -- The activists move west: recent experiences in Manitoba / Tim Sopuck -- Fair chase: to where does it lead? / Edward Hanna. Conclusion: Learning about passions, policies, and problems / Jean L. Manore
Summary "The essays collected here address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting. Topics include hunting identities; conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions between hunters and non-hunters and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; hunting ethics; debates over hunting practices and regulations; animal rights; and gun control. The discussion involves consideration of the social, political, and economic context as well as class and racial tensions between sport hunters and subsistence hunters."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hunting -- Canada
Hunting -- Canada -- History
Hunting -- Social aspects -- Canada
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Hunting.
Hunting
Hunting -- Social aspects
Chasse -- Canada.
Chasse -- Canada -- Histoire.
Chasse -- Aspect social -- Canada.
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Manore, Jean, 1960-
Miner, Dale G
LC no. 2007272764
ISBN 0774812931
9780774812931
9780774855327
0774855320
1282741276
9781282741270
9786612741272
6612741279