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From the outside looking in: Aesthetics, politics, and wildlife conservation in the Canadian north

When Dominion government entomologist and pioneering conservationist C. Gordon Hewitt wrote in 1921 that "it rests with us to prove that the advance of civilization into the more remote sections of Canada does not imply the total destruction of the wild life [sic], but that civilization in its true sense signifies the elimination of the spirit of barbarism and the introduction of an enlightened attitude," he confirmed a basic tenet of the early wildlife conservation movement in Canada: conservation was not a politically neutral and principled effort to preserve living things but was intimately associated with the civilizing ideology of the late colonial period in Canada.' The attempt to ...

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