Daylighting Chedoke : exploring Hamilton's hidden creek / by John Terpstra.
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TextPublication details: Canada : Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, 2018. Description: 131 pages : maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9781928088721Subject(s): Human ecology -- Ontario -- Hamilton | Rivers -- Ontario -- Hamilton | Urbanization -- Ontario -- Hamilton | Hamilton (Ont.) -- Environmental conditionsOther classification: FC3098.56 TER 2018 Summary: "Chedoke Creek is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. Its waters are seen only in a couple of waterfalls as it flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403. In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra traces Chedoke Creek back to its source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. He weaves the history of the creek with the lyrical observations of nature and humankind's connections to nature that he is celebrated for, while also examining the reality of our contaminated waterways. Daylighting Chedoke is a meditation on how urbanization and industrialization has literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and perhaps, while doing so, free our society."-- Provided by publisher.
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Canadian Corner Collection
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Universiti Teknologi Brunei Library - at level 1 | FC3098.56 TER 2018 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | Reg. no. 016002(H)_UTB | 901483 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 131).
"Chedoke Creek is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. Its waters are seen only in a couple of waterfalls as it flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403. In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra traces Chedoke Creek back to its source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. He weaves the history of the creek with the lyrical observations of nature and humankind's connections to nature that he is celebrated for, while also examining the reality of our contaminated waterways. Daylighting Chedoke is a meditation on how urbanization and industrialization has literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and perhaps, while doing so, free our society."-- Provided by publisher.
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