The Acquisition of National Parkland: A Challenge for the Future

• Main Author: Nation, Rosemary E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich Law Scholars 1983
• Subjects: National Parkland; Acquisition; Challenge; national park system; sporadic; virtual standstill; Land Use Law; British Columbia; Canada; Parkland; The Beaches; Wood Buffalo; Yukon; Kluane National Park; Wood Buffalo National Park; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol7/iss3/7; https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1349&context=dlj

Since the inception of a national park system in Canada, land acquisition for national parks has been sporadic and is now at a virtual standstill. In 1930, when legislation was introduced to designate national parks and govern their use, fourteen parks areas had been established.' Four parks we...