On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
Author: Alan MacEachernLanguage: English
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Publishing Date: July 23rd, 2020
# of Pages: 288