Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir

by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles

Wilderness and Waterpower 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552386341
• ISBN13: 9781552386347
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"