Further Reading
Campbell, Claire E. A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011.
Hart, E. J. (Ted). J. B. Harkin: Father of Canada’s National Parks. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010.
History of Parks Canada Electronic Library.
Kaufman, Polly Welts. National Parks and the Women’s Voice: A History. 2nd ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006 [1996].
Kopas, Paul. Taking the Air: Ideas and Change in Canada’s National Parks. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007.
MacEachern, Alan. “Canada’s Best Idea? The Canadian and American National Park Services in the 1910s.” In National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on ‘America’s Best Idea,’ edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege, 51–67. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
———. “M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada.” In A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011, edited by Claire E. Campbell, 21–52. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011.
———. Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935–1970. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.
Reichwein, Pearl Ann. Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906–1974. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2014.
Smith, Donald B. From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990.
MB Williams: Living & Writing the Early Years of Parks Canada
This exhibition tells the story of Mabel “MB” Williams, an extraordinary, ordinary woman who became devoted to national parks and engendered that devotion in others. Historian Alan MacEachern documents her role in shaping the philosophy of Canada’s Dominion Parks Branch (the precursor to Parks Canada) in the early to mid-twentieth century. Digitized photographs and letters from Williams’s life, her guidebooks and other publications, and audio interviews with Williams herself reveal her influence on, and love for, Canada’s national parks.
Alan MacEachernAbout the author
