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- Title
PEOPLE IN THE WAY: Modernity, Environment, and Society on the Arrow Lakes.
- Authors
Loo, Tina
- Abstract
Examines the agents, techniques and logic associated with the creation of a modern British Columbia through hydroelectric development. Relationship between modernity and the control of nature in postwar B.C.; Support of 1952 Prime Minister W. A. C. Bennett for the proposal made by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. of the U.S. to develop a storage dam on the upper Columbian River; Influence of human migration on the modernist planning of the province.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; SOCIAL history; HYDROELECTRIC power plants; BENNETT, William Andrew Cecil, 1900-1979; PRIME ministers; WATER power
- Publication
BC Studies, 2004, Issue 142/143, p161
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article