Openings
Subtitle: a meditation on history, method, and Sumas Lake
By: Laura Cameron.
Contributors: UBC Academic Women's Association.
Publisher: University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association; McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [Vancouver]; London; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Lakes -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Drainage -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Reclamation of land -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Historiography -- Philosophy; Oral history -- Philosophy; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Valley; Culture -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia -- Fraser River Valley; Géographie historique -- Cas, Étude de; Drainage -- Colombie-Britannique -- Abbotsford (District municipal); Améliorations foncières -- Colombie-Britannique -- Abbotsford (District municipal); Plaines inondables -- Gestion -- Colombie-Britannique -- Abbotsford (District municipal); Fraser River Valley (B.C.) -- Historical geography; Fraser River Valley (B.C.) -- History; Sumas, Lac (C.-B.) -- Géographie historique
Description: "British Columbia's Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s to create farmlands in the Fraser Valley. This event is the subject of Laura Cameron's Openings, a history of a vanished lake as seen from the perspectives of various groups - Native people, bureaucrats, families, farmers - and an important attempt at the lake's "reclamation." A multifaceted exploration of the complex relationship between place and history, Openings presents an innovative meditation on the historian's craft. Cameron shows that this task involves not only locating the past in the fluid process of oral discourse and the creative bonds people forge between stories and the places around them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-128) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1994.