Introduction -- 1. The sea as barrier, the sea as highway -- 2. Empty land or stolen land? The colonial Strait -- 3. Resource mining by the sea : mining and forestry -- 4. Resource mining in the sea : fish and oysters -- 5. The strait as waste dump -- 6. Recreation on the restorative Strait -- 7. Conclusions and reflections on the twenty-first century Strait
Summary
Interweaving geography, biology and resource economics with history, this is a deft examination of the Strait of Georgia from the 1850s to the modern era
Notes
Based on thesis (doctoral)--University of British Columbia, 2014, under title: Five easy pieces on the Strait of Georgia - reflections on the historical geography of the North Salish Sea
