Precarious foundations: irrigation, environment, and social change in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Eastern Section, 1900–1930

Evenden, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2005.01.019

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“…According to one scholar, the Victoria legislation was "the first legislation in an AngloSaxon country to reject the doctrine of riparian rights and to substitute the Indian principle that surface waters should belong to the Crown, rather than to individual property owners," but the Canadian legislation was "still more sweeping in its obliteration of the principle of riparian rights" (Burchill 1948: 357, 360;Breen 2004). Canadian scholars have offered preliminary comparisons between irrigation laws in Canada and the United States (Evenden 2006;Percy 1992Percy , 2005. However, growing concerns over water deficits in western North America suggest that a thorough comparative history would be timely and instructive.…”

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“Most Fruitful Results”: Transborder Approaches to Canadian‐American Environmental History

Binnema

2010

A Companion to American Environmental History

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2010

A Companion to American Environmental History

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“…Pardo and Gil (2005) trace the consequences of changing woodland management in central Spain over the last millennium. Evenden (2006) takes a much shorter period -the first three decades of the twentieth century -in his analysis of the introduction of irrigation agriculture in Alberta, Canada. Encouraged by the Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Canadian federal government, the scheme transformed the semi-arid prairie in a 'landscaped grid of property, engineered canals and water conveyance systems' (p. 89).…”

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Historical geography: natures, landscapes, environments

Naylor

2006

Progress in Human Geography

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“…On aquesta forma de procedir sí va tenir més èxit va ser en les ciutats de nova creació del continent nord-americà (Reps 1965, Evenden 2006, Heath 2011, Herce 2013a), sud-americà (Barclay 1917, Duarte 2006, Ferrari 2011, Herce 2013a) o d'altres regions asiàtiques (Kosambi 1986i 1988, Kerr 2001i 2011, Black 2004) i africanes (Taaffe 1973, Debrie 2010, Jedwab 2011, Navarro 2012, Bourbonniere 2013, Castillo 2015. En aquests casos, la influencia del ferrocarril sobre l'urbanisme va ser molt major, doncs constituïa el centre neuràlgic sobre el que s'estructurava la ciutat.…”

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Xarxa ferroviària i sistema de ciutats

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The relationship between the railway network and the city system has been the subject of numerous studies in recent decades. The railway has assumed great importance as a key element of transport infrastructure for the both regional organisation of the cities and associated territories that it connects. It has conditioned such different phenomena as urban morphology, socio-economic development and the regional hierarchy of settlements. The proliferation of Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) and the creation of territorial databases has opened the door to a series of new ways of analysing the possible effects associated with the railway. The current work proposes new methods and instruments which make it possible to model and quantify a number of new explanatory variables and to thereby provide a better understanding of the resulting correlations. Understanding that the use of macroscopic models does not always guarantee a sufficient degree of explanation, we have also proposed a series of case studies to establish the conditions under which these correlations are obtained. Models that study the correlations between railway coverage and population growth, territorial accessibility and the distribution of population, and the impact of railways and strategies for territorial expansion are just a few of the tools presented here. Morphological analyses of cities in relation to the railway, rail colonisation based on the railway network, and the relationship between rail infrastructure and regional development are just a few of the themes that we have studied in detail with the aim of improving our understanding of the specific dynamics involved. This study also demonstrates the great potential of the railway to transform the city system. However, this is a potential has not always been appropriately exploited by railway promotors nor by the inhabitants of the territories served by the railway network. It is essential to structure specific urban planning policies in order to maximise the benefits accruing to the local territory and to minimise the negative impact that the railway has on it. The current study proposes a number of indicators that could help to achieve both of these goals. La relació entre xarxa ferroviària i el sistema de ciutats ha estat llargament estudiada des de fa dècades. Com a infraestructura de transport, el ferrocarril ha esdevingut un element cabdal en la configuració urbana i territorial de les ciutats connectades. N'ha condicionat aspectes tan diversos com la morfologia urbana, el desenvolupament sòcio-econòmic o la jerarquia regional de les localitat. Amb la proliferació dels Sistemes d'Informació Geogràfica Històrics, per a la creació de bases de dades territorials, s'obre un nou ventall de possibilitats a l'hora d'analitzar els possibles efectes causats pel ferrocarril. El present treball planteja nous mètodes i instruments, que permeten modelitzar i quantificar noves variables explicatives, podent arribar així a una major comprensió de les correlacions esmentades. Al mateix temps, i donat que la implementació de models macroscòpics no sempre és prou explicativa, es plantegen també diversos estudis de cas per tal de verificar les condicions en les que es compleixen les correlacions establertes. La correlació entre cobertura ferroviària i creixement poblacional, la correlació entre accessibilitat territorial i distribució de població o la influència ferroviària en la estratègia d'expansió territorial representen alguns dels models aquí plantejats. Al mateix temps, l'anàlisi morfològic de ciutats en relació al ferrocarril, la colonització ferroviària basada en el ferrocarril o la interrelació entre infraestructures i desenvolupament regional son alguns dels tòpics desenvolupats en detall per tal de comprendre les dinàmiques específiques. Amb tot, es demostra un gran potencial transformador del ferrocarril sobre el sistema de ciutats. Ara bé, aquest potencial no sempre ha estat aprofitat de forma adequada pels promotors ferroviaris o pels habitants dels territoris servits. La necessitat d'articular polítiques urbanístiques específiques per maximitzar els beneficis territorials i minimitzar els impactes causats és essencial. I el present treball planteja certes indicacions que permetrien un millor encaix d'ambdós elements

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Precarious foundations: irrigation, environment, and social change in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Eastern Section, 1900–1930

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

“Most Fruitful Results”: Transborder Approaches to Canadian‐American Environmental History

“Most Fruitful Results”: Transborder Approaches to Canadian‐American Environmental History

Historical geography: natures, landscapes, environments

Xarxa ferroviària i sistema de ciutats

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