MacLaren, Ian
I.S. MacLaren
Professor
Department of History & Classics; and
Department of English & Film Studies
PhD: University of Western Ontario
2-45 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. 780.492.2623
ian.maclaren@ualberta.ca
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Explorers' and Travellers' Writing and Sketching as they relate to published narratives and engravings; Canadian History, Canadian Literature; Print Culture; Post-1500 Exploration; Arctic; National Parks of Canada; Environmental History.
George F. Lyon, "Cutting into Winter Island , Oct. 1821."
Engraved from a sketch for William Edward Parry, Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1821-22-23 in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla (1824), facing 118.
| Publications |
Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed. Ed. and Introd. by I.S. MacLaren. Fwd. by the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2007. Award: Scholarly Book of the Year, 2008, Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies 1902-1930. With Eric Higgs and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2005. Award: Trade non-fiction Book of the Year, 2006, Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat: Travels on the Athabasca, Mackenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926. With Lisa LaFramboise. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1998.
"Commentary." Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin 1819-1822. Ed. C. Stuart Houston. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1994. Award: Canadian Historical Association, Regional Award of Merit, Prairies and Northwest Territories, 1995.
Buffalo. Ed. with John Foster and Dick Harrison. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1992. Award: Scholarly Book of the Year, 1993, Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
Articles in Periodicals
Articles in Books
Book Reviews and Review Essays
Other Publications including:
Websites:
Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project
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