Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada (Canadian History and Environment, 8)

__Animal Metropolis__ includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about the place of animals in historical analysis and, in turn, about the way issues regarding animals fit into Canada's political, social, cultural, economic, environmental and ethical landscapes. One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its capacity to present a wide variety of topics, sources and methodologies within a tightly focused theme. The sources employed in these articles cover a broad spectrum, from state and legal documents to the popular press, from corporate records and NGO reports to personal diaries, and from materials on industrial agriculture to those of the tourism industry. Even more compelling than the sources are the methodological issues that the collection raises. One of our key objectives is to highlight the sheer diversity of approaches historians are employing in their efforts to analyze non-human subjects that do not produce documentary records of their own. By focusing explicitly on urban contexts the book aims deliberately to cleave from a more obvious focus on wild animals and the wilderness environment that are so iconic to Canada. Readers will be impressed by the range of creatures, both domestic and wild: from horses and dogs to beavers and wolves to whales, fish, polar bears and captive elephants. Covering small and larger regions, and in some instances the nation as a whole, the collection offers impressive breadth in scope. Varying widely in the lenses through which human-animal relations are viewed, it brings to the forefront the contemporary as well as the historical dimensions of the issues it raises. "Animal Metropolis includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about the place of animals in historical analysis and, in turn, about the way issues regarding animals fit into Canada's political, social, cultural, economic, environmental and ethical landscapes. One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its capacity to present a wide variety of topics, sources and methodologies within a tightly focused theme. The sources employed in these articles cover a broad spectrum, from state and legal documents to the popular press, from corporate records and NGO reports to personal diaries, and from materials on industrial agriculture to those of the tourism industry. Even more compelling than the sources are the methodological issues that the collection raises. One of our key objectives is to highlight the sheer diversity of approaches historians are employing in their efforts to analyze non-human subjects that do not produce documentary records of their own. By focusing explicitly on urban contexts the book aims deliberately to cleave from a more obvious focus on wild animals and the wilderness environment that are so iconic to Canada. Readers will be impressed by the range of creatures, both domestic and wild: from horses and dogs to beavers and wolves to whales, fish, polar bears and captive elephants. Covering small and larger regions, and in some instances the nation as a whole, the collection offers impressive breadth in scope. Varying widely in the lenses through which human-animal relations are viewed, it brings to the forefront the contemporary as well as the historical dimensions of the issues it raises."-- Provided by publisher Annotation Animal Metropolis includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about the place of animals in historical analysis and, in turn, about the way issues regarding animals fit into Canadas political, social, cultural, economic, environmental and ethical landscapes. One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its capacity to present a wide variety of topics, sources and methodologies within a tightly focused theme. The sources employed in these articles cover a broad spectrum, from state and legal documents to the popular press, from corporate records and NGO reports to personal diaries, and from materials on industrial agriculture to those of the tourism industry. Even more compelling than the sources are the methodological issues that the collection raises. One of our key objectives is to highlight the sheer diversity of approaches historians are employing in their efforts to analyze non-human subjects that do not produce documentary records of their own. By focusing explicitly on urban contexts the book aims deliberately to cleave from a more obvious focus on wild animals and the wilderness environment that are so iconic to Canada. Readers will be impressed by the range of creatures, both domestic and wild: from horses and dogs to beavers and wolves to whales, fish, polar bears and captive elephants. Covering small and larger regions, and in some instances the nation as a whole, the collection offers impressive breadth in scope. Varying widely in the lenses through which human-animal relations are viewed, it brings to the forefront the contemporary as well as the historical dimensions of the issues it raises Front cover 1 Half title page 2 Series page 3 Full title page 4 Copyright page 5 Table of Contents 6 Illustrations 8 Tables 13 Acknowledgments 14 Introduction: Canamalia Urbanis 16 1: The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization, and Spectacle 44 2: The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840–1914 72 3: Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement 102 4: Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada 130 5: The Beavers of Stanley Park 154 6: Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse,and the Human 170 7: Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940 204 8: Howl: The 1952–56 Rabies Crisis andthe Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff 234 9: Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba 270 10: Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver 300 Epilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matterin Animal History 324 Contributors 340 Index 344 Back cover 360 Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canadas animal welfare movement. The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals. Chapter 1. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization, and Spectacle Chapter 2. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840–1914 Chapter 3. Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement Chapter 4. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada Chapter 5. The Beavers of Stanley Park Chapter 6. Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse, and the Human Chapter 7. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940 Chapter 8. Howl: The 1952–56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff Chapter 9. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba Chapter 10. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in Vancouver Epilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal History