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Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire and society. The choices Canadians have made says a great deal about their national character. Awful Splendour narrates the history of this grand saga. It will interest geographers, historians, and members of the fire community.
Contents
Foreword: Mon pays c'est le feu / Graeme Wynn
Author's Note: A Boreal Burning Bush
Prologue: White Canada
Book 1: Torch
Kindling
Fire Rings of Indigenous Canada
Fire and Frost: Tundra
Fire and Water: Boreal Forest
Fire and Grass, Fire and Leaf: Great Plains Prairies and Great Lakes Forests
Fire on the Hills, Fire on the Mountains: Acadian Woods and Cordilleran Forests
Fire and Fog: The Incombustible Fringe
Tongues of Fire: Black Spruce and High Plains
Conflagration and Complex
Book 2: Axe
Creating Fuel
Fire Frontiers of Imperial Canada
New Found Land
Acadia
The Canadas
Far Countries
With Fire in Their Eyes: Gabriel Sagard and Henry Hind
"Burning Most Furiously"
Book 3: Engine
Containing Combustion
Reconnaissance by Fire: Robert Bell and Bernhard Fernow/ xxx
Fire Provinces of Industrial Canada
Dominion of Fire: Canada's Quest for Fire Conservancy
Sea and Shield: Fire Provinces of Eastern Canada
Fire's Lesser Dominion
Tracer Index: James G. Wright and Herbert B. Beall
Plain and Mountain: Fire Provinces of Western Canada
Prosperity and Peril
Two Solitudes: C.E. Van Wagner and Donald Stedman
Revanchism and Federalism
Fire's Outer Limits: Fire Provinces on the Fringe
Internal Combustions
Epilogue: Green Canada
Continental Drift and Global Warming
Fire Geography of Green Canada
Fire's Reconfederation
Settlement Symmetries, Then and Now
Counting Carbon
Virtual Fire
Slow Burns, Fast Flames
Fire and Ice
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
