'They call it progress, we call it destruction': Memory and the construction of the W.A.C Bennett Dam

• Main Author: Poirier, Margaret
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: W.A.C. Bennett Dam; First Nations
• Online Access: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/19814

This thesis discusses the W.A.C Bennett Dam Visitor Centre and how memory is presented and re-presented in visual form through exhibition and film. In this thesis, I offer the W.A.C Bennett Dam as a case study. Prior to 2015, the Visitor Centre presented a ‘high modernist’ story of ‘progress’ when d...