“Landscapes and Landscape Architecture in Canada: An Illustrated History”

Ron Williams, FCSLA, FRAIC, Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal

LACF has funded the early research and more recently the finalization of the French and English versions of “Landscapes and Landscape Architecture in Canada: An Illustrated History”. The principal objective for this book is to provide the Canadian landscape architect and interested members of related professions as well as the public with a single-volume overview of the development of the “designed landscape” in Canada. There is a great wealth of published materials covering various aspects and periods within the field, but as of yet no book recounts in an orderly fashion the full range of projects, ideas and people that animate and have created the landscape architecture of Canada. The landscape has powerfully affected Canadian life and thought; this book will explore the art and science of modifying the natural landscape to accommodate the life of human beings, from the extensive but little-known interventions of the First Nations to the complex creations of the many cultural currents that characterize today’s Canada.