Animal Metropolis

Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, Christabelle Sethna

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781552388648
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781552388679
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Geography
• Index: History

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 spectacle: 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 spaces: 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 Canada's 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.With contributions by: Kristoffer Archibald, Jason Colby, George Colpitts, Joanna Dean, Carla Hustak, Darcy Ingram, Sean Kheraj, William Knight, Sherry Olson, Rachel Poliquin, and Christabelle Sethna

Index

Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations. All page numbers refer to print edition.

A

Aboriginal peoples. See Indigenous peoples

Acme Farmers Dairy Co., 197

activism

animal rights, 289, 301–2

animal welfare radicalism, 87–88, 93, 95, 97, 102, 168–69

anti-vaccination, 167–68

in Vancouver counterculture, 286, 294, 296

for whales, 286, 288, 299, 300

Acton, James, 207

Actor Network Theory (ANT), 7

Adams, Carol J., 6–7

Africa

imperialist projects in, 30, 31–32, 40, 198

Western beliefs about, 33–34

agencements, 8, 156, 174

Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, 258

Alberta rabies crisis, 219–20, 223–24, 226–30

Alice (cow elephant), 35, 42

animal capture and captivity

beavers in, 147–48

cetaceans in, 287, 288–89, 295–98, 300–301

elephants in, 30–31, 32, 33, 34–39

Animal Contagious Diseases Act, 77

animal cruelty, 77, 92, 96–97, 99, 102–5

animal-human relations

agencements, 8, 156, 174

Canadian identity in, 1–2

as colonial encounters, 29–30, 49

with domestic animals, 10, 71, 74, 90, 92, 196–97

scholarly treatments, 2–8, 12–19, 314–15, 319–21

with wildlife, 149, 220–21, 224, 243, 259–60, 262–63, 288, 316–19

women perceived in, 18, 89, 96, 102–5

animal labour essays, 17–18

animal rights, 6–7, 289, 301–2

animal turn, 2–8, 15–19

animal welfare movements

against vaccine production, 168–69

animal rights, 6–7, 289, 301–2

for cetaceans, 286, 288, 299, 300

debates against, 101–6

organization of, 90–91, 93–101, 106–8

for polar bears, 260

radicalism in, 87–89

values and narratives, 91–93, 161

animalization, 29–30, 49

animals

as fetish objects, 40

as heroic, 176, 177–78

personalization of, 303

as representations, 146, 286

ANT. See Actor Network Theory (ANT)

anthropomorphism, 35, 42, 91

anti-cruelty legislation, 96–97, 102–5

anti-whaling campaigns, 288, 300

Antitoxin Laboratory. See Connaught Laboratories

antitoxin production, 162, 163–65, 169–77

antivaccination movements, 167–69

antivivisection movements, 4, 95, 97, 168–69

aquariums, 116, 118–20, 128–29. See also Vancouver Aquarium

Archibald, Kristoffer, 17, 18, 316

Arctic foxes, 219, 230. See also f...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Canamalia Urbanis
• The Memory of an Elephant:Savagery, Civilization, and Spectacle
• The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840–1914
• Wild Things: Taming Canada’s Animal Welfare Movement
• Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada
• The Beavers of Stanley Park
• Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse, and the Human
• Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880–1940
• Howl: The 1952–56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at Banff
• Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba
• 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
• Contributors
• Index