Download or read book A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the center of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities.