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« The abilities of settlers: Leah Wiener, Enabling Settler Citizens: Disability, Age, Public Health, and Settler Colonialism in Northern Ontario, 1876-1951, Simon Fraser University, 2023
Go back where they did not come from! Karl Gardner, ‘Indigenous Anti/ Deportation: Contesting Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Belonging in Canada and Australia’, Social & Legal Studies, 2023 »

Settler recreation: Robert Vranich, ‘Beyond Preservation and Use: National Parks and Settler Colonialism in Western Canada, 1880s–1930s’, Prairie History, 10, 2023, pp. 5-19

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Excerpt: Canada’s national parks system originated in western Canada. On 25 November 1885, a week after authorities executed Louis Riel for his role in the North-West Resistance, and about two weeks after railway financier Donald Smith hammered in the Last Spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Sir John A. Macdonald’s Conservative government reserved approximately 26 square kilometres of forested land around the hot mineral springs near Banff Station, in present-day Alberta.

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