Riding Mountain National Park
Did you know that one of our nicest parks has kind of an evil backstory? We’ll be talking about how Park officials expelled actual Indigenous residents while welcoming in a famous fraudster, and the many forms of semi-coerced labour that were used in the development of the park.
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Sources
Grey Owl, The Men of the last Frontier, 1932
Bill Waiser, “Riding Mountain POWs: The Teacher’s Tale,” Manitoba History, 2009
Winnipeg Tribune
John Sandlos, “Not Wanted in the Boundary: The Expulsion of the KeeseekooweninOjibway Band from Riding Mountain National Park,” Canadian Historical Review, 2008
Anahareo, Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl
NFB, “The Beaver People,” 1928
The Last Objectors
Dauphin Herald
"In the Matter of the Commission on Relief Camps,” British Columbia: Report. Ottawa: 1935.
Edward S. Stozek, A Slice of the Parkland Circa the Late 1890s-1970s
Manitoba Archives - interview with John Huyda
Adrian Myers, The Archaeology Of Reform At A German Prisoner Of War Camp In A Canadian National Park During The Second World War (1943–1945)
Edward S. Stozek, The Sawmill Boys, POWs and Conscientious Objectors: Stories from the Parkland
Bill Waiser, Park Prisoners: the Untold Story of Western Canada’s National Parks, 1915-1946
