The Environmental Movement
Bruce Peel Special Collections offers numerous resources of potential interest to environmental researchers, including materials in the Bruce P. Dancik Collection of Angling Books, the Dr. Ronald B. Madge Entomology Collection, the Martin S. Garretson Bison Archive, the Grey Owl Collection, and the Gregory Javitch Collection of books about Indigenous peoples. In addition to the several named collections, the library has other books of importance to the environmental movement, including first editions of the best-selling sea trilogy—Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1955)—by Rachel Carson (1907–1964), the pioneering marine biologist whose writings helped to inspire an international environmental movement in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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From the papers of an early conservationist, now housed in the Peel library in the Martin S. Garretson Bison Archive.
Grey Owl [Archie Belaney]. Pilgrims of the Wild. London: Lovat Dickson, 1934 (PS 8513 R45 Z6 1934).
The Salmon: Canada’s Plea for a Threatened Species. Produced by David Denbeigh, designed by Robert R. Reid, and edited by L.H. Legault. Ottawa: Fisheries and Marine Service, Environment Canada, 1974 (SH 346 C212 1974 folio). Bruce P. Dancik Collection of Angling Books.
Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us, NY: Oxford UP, 1951 (GC 21 C32), and Under the Sea-Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1941 (QH 92 C32 1941b).
Williams, M.B. Guardians of the Wild. London: Thomas Nelson, 1936 (SB 484 C2 W72 1936).
Alternatives: Perspectives on Society and Environment, Peterborough: Trent University, 1971 (S 900 A46), and the first issues of the Sierra Club Bulletin, San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1893-1896 (S 900 S5 v.1).