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Article Excerpt
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 attention of resource developers and tourists to the mountain grandeur. (Railway mogul William C. van Horne is said to have declared that "If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.") Measuring the changes wrought by improved access to remote places is difficult, however, because there are few quantitative ways to compare their original condition to the present state. Fortunately, the CPR encouraged photographers to travel along its line, sometimes enticing them with free passes and supplies. The result is...
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