Ya Ha Tinda: A Home Place - Celebrating 100 Years Of The Canadian Government's Only Working Horse Ranch
by Kathy Calvert /
2017 / English / EPUB
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An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this
historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of
the Canadian Rockies.
An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this
historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of
the Canadian Rockies.
The tale of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only
continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada
is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived
there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution,
with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people’s use
of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of
flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape. So important
is this small footprint that it has been the source of a constant
struggle for control between governments and special interest
groups since the early 1900s, when the Brewster Brothers Transfer
Company first obtained a grazing lease in the area for raising
and breaking horses for their guiding and outfitting business in
Banff and Lake Louise.
The tale of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only
continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada
is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived
there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution,
with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people’s use
of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of
flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape. So important
is this small footprint that it has been the source of a constant
struggle for control between governments and special interest
groups since the early 1900s, when the Brewster Brothers Transfer
Company first obtained a grazing lease in the area for raising
and breaking horses for their guiding and outfitting business in
Banff and Lake Louise.
This unique book covers the 100 years since the inception of the
ranch: its challenges to survive intact to the 2017 centennial
celebration and the stories of the men and women who worked and
survived on the spread as they fought the elements and the
politics to keep it as a “home place” for both the warden service
and Parks Canada.
This unique book covers the 100 years since the inception of the
ranch: its challenges to survive intact to the 2017 centennial
celebration and the stories of the men and women who worked and
survived on the spread as they fought the elements and the
politics to keep it as a “home place” for both the warden service
and Parks Canada.