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Article: The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies.(Book review)
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 Manitoba Historical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies by Cliff White and E. J. (Ted) Hart
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007, 312 pages.
ISBN 9781552382370, $69.95 (paper).
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Railways are credited with opening vast areas of western Canada to human exploration, settlement and, in many cases, degradation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Rocky Mountains of western Alberta. Although people arrived there long before the Canadian Pacific Railway, access was limited to the hardy and persistent. The CPR (and later the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific) drew the ...