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Between City, Sea, and Sky: Historical Geographies of Vancouver’s North Shore
Principal Investigator: David A. Rossiter, Western Washington University
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Project Description
In keeping with my interest in the production of nature and space in BC, I am beginning a project that will provide a fine-grained analysis of the historical-geographic development of Vancouver’s North Shore. My aim is to provide a detailed account of the development of a specific landscape from pre-contact through to the present. In doing so, I aim to re-think regional-scale landscape studies within cultural-historical geographic scholarship by bringing recent insights from social theory to bear in tracing the production of the region, its natures, and spaces. My intention is that this project result in a book length manuscript that addresses the roles of aboriginal peoples, colonialism, industrial resource extraction, recreation, and urbanization in the making of both the social and natural spaces of the North Shore.
Funding
Research for a paper on the establishment of the Baden Powell Trail on the North Shore in the 1970s is currently being supported by a Canadian Embassy Faculty Research Grant and a Summer Research Grant from Research and Sponsored Programs at Western Washington University. |
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Looking south across Burrard Inlet to Mt. Baker from Cypress Mountain. Photo: D. Rossiter, 2007 |
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Looking north to the Coast Mountains from Cypress Mountain. Photo: D. Rossiter, 2008 |