Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)
The decades immediately previous to World War I witnessed a marked shift in popular attitudes toward the Canadian North. . His 1907 canoe trip to the northeast of Great Slave Lake sharply focuses the impact Seton had on how we view the northern wilderness. . Yet Seton's influence on the new res...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64815 2023-05-15T14:19:14+02:00 Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) Davis, Richard C. 1987-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64815 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64815/48729 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64815 ARCTIC; Vol. 40 No. 2 (1987): June: 93–173; 170-171 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies History Literature Natural history Seton Ernest Thompson 1860-1946 Wildlife management Manitoba N.W.T Ontario info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1987 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:59Z The decades immediately previous to World War I witnessed a marked shift in popular attitudes toward the Canadian North. . His 1907 canoe trip to the northeast of Great Slave Lake sharply focuses the impact Seton had on how we view the northern wilderness. . Yet Seton's influence on the new response to the North was far more deep-seated than this single trip. He was in the advance guard of a new era of wildlife conservation, having sensed that a way of life fundamental to all mankind was rapidly growing extinct in the face of modern technology and communications. Unlike many outdoorsmen of his time and certainly unlike those of past generations, Seton saw the wilderness as a place that needed to be preserved, rather than conquered. He published over 40 books on the natural world. He undertook extensive lecture tours. He began "The League of the Woodcraft Indians," a youth organization that encouraged conservation and understanding of the natural world. When Robert Baden-Powell added a strong militaristic dimension to Seton's organization, the Boy Scouts came into being, and Seton, wholly dissatisfied, withdrew. . in the philosophy he developed toward untamed nature, he blazed a path leading directly to the conservationist attitudes of today. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Great Slave Lake University of Calgary Journal Hosting Great Slave Lake ENVELOPE(-114.001,-114.001,61.500,61.500) ARCTIC 40 2 |
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The decades immediately previous to World War I witnessed a marked shift in popular attitudes toward the Canadian North. . His 1907 canoe trip to the northeast of Great Slave Lake sharply focuses the impact Seton had on how we view the northern wilderness. . Yet Seton's influence on the new response to the North was far more deep-seated than this single trip. He was in the advance guard of a new era of wildlife conservation, having sensed that a way of life fundamental to all mankind was rapidly growing extinct in the face of modern technology and communications. Unlike many outdoorsmen of his time and certainly unlike those of past generations, Seton saw the wilderness as a place that needed to be preserved, rather than conquered. He published over 40 books on the natural world. He undertook extensive lecture tours. He began "The League of the Woodcraft Indians," a youth organization that encouraged conservation and understanding of the natural world. When Robert Baden-Powell added a strong militaristic dimension to Seton's organization, the Boy Scouts came into being, and Seton, wholly dissatisfied, withdrew. . in the philosophy he developed toward untamed nature, he blazed a path leading directly to the conservationist attitudes of today. |
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