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The Revelstoke Railway Museum does a great job of displaying the “regions” theme. I say this because Revelstoke is a functional region, shaped by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Revelstoke Railway Museum does a good job of explaining how the railway has shaped Revelstoke. environment influencing the nature of political, social, and economics in the West. The photo I chose shows a model train inside of the Revelstoke railway museum, which shows how the west was truly made by the Canadian Pacific Railway. British Columbia wouldn’t be apart of Canada if it wasn’t for the Canadian Pacific Railway. To me this photo represents how small things and even smaller details can show so much, like this model. It’s insanely detailed, not just looks-wise, it even has a stowaway in one of the train cars.

Lake Minnewanka is an example of the “Movement” theme of geography because of the movement of people, ideas and legends surrounding it. A good example is how there was an indigenous story about how lake Minnewanka got its name. The story starts with some indigenous peoples on the bank of lake Minnewanka, around dinner, when they heard drumming from the water, getting louder and louder. Then some of the warriors got in their birch canoes, and paddled towards the drumming, until they were swallowed up by a massive sea monster! then, years later, “Mr. Banff”, Norman Luxon, said he would go out and slay the sea monster, and if he didn’t come back in 7 days to send a search party to recover his body. On the 7th day, he returned claiming to have slain the monster, and had its body, in a glass case, and would show it to you for ¢15. Later it turns out he had bought a taxidermy monster from a Japanese company for $9,000 dollars today. environment influencing the nature of political, social, and economics in the West. This photo represents how Parks Canada first experimented with what is now called prescribed burns, and this is because the quaking aspen, the yellow tree in the photo is only on one side of lake Minnewanka, and this is because of Parks Canada trying the first “controlled” burn, where they tried to only burn a 1x1 km square, but it turned into a 33x33 plot. And that is why there’s quaking aspen on only one side of lake Minnewanka. To me, this photo represents how we as people have so much impact on way more than we think about. On the tour, where I took this photo, we had a moment where there was 30 seconds of silence, and it was so interesting to think about because we had gone on other hikes, where we could still hear city life, but here, in the middle of a lake, the only thing you could hear was the water hitting the side of the boat.

Along with the Columbia Icefields, Cave and Basin is the best example of the theme of Human-Environment Interaction. This is for a few reasons, one of the largest being the Banff Spring Snail (Physella Johnsoni) which is one of the most endangered species on the planet. I say this because even through Parks Canada was making a lot of money of off Cave and Basin, they still shout down the hot spring resort after figuring out that there were endangered snails in the waters there, which a good example of how people can sometimes do good, even in our bleak future. This photo shows where the “three brothers” first climbed down into the basin on a log ladder, which is a very important part of Cave and Basin’s history. And this represents more than the historical aspect of Cave and Basin, it also represents political aspects, like with how the “three brothers” are credited with the discovery of Cave and Basin, even though there is evidence of indigenous peoples using the Cave and Basin springs. My own interpretation of this photo is pretty similar to what I started to talk about at the end of the paragraph before this one, where people who stole from indigenous lands were credited with finding what is now a Canadian national historic site. The people at Cave and Basin are doing a good job of crediting indigenous peoples in their informative story hall.

As previously stated, along with Cave and Basin, the Columbia Ice Field is the best example of human-environment interaction, and I say that because the Athabasca glacier (the one in the photo) has shrunk by over half in less than 100 years, and has only about 40 years left. This photo shows how the natural beauty can affect climate change, for the worse, and sometimes, the better. By simply showing how small the current Athabasca glacier is, as I touched on earlier. My perception of this photo is that of history, and how it shapes us. The Athabasca glacier used to be as tall as the mountains surrounding it, even though it was hundreds of thousands of years ago, but it was a time, and it should always be remembered

Photo 7: Moraine Lake or Lake Louise Include a photo here that represents “What made and makes the West” as well as explaining how it shows one or more of the Five Themes of Geography. For now, put multiple photos on the page, then you will be able to edit and choose from them later.

<a href="bookcreator://page/uATO2Z5TTSaDl2G2uPG15Q">The Last Spike</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/gAxPIL0mQpuzl3fZsgVoYg">Roger’s Pass</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/tPlV6tvmRdWMdAwLBhmdug">Cave &amp; Basin </a> <a href="bookcreator://page/oo0emCL3REaGhUA9KtgSYg">Lake Minnewanka</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/wLQCB8ucS0mDTvW_bBhKHQ">Columbia Icefields</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/SBbMTOLQSEKwRUbBJGq2Mg">Moraine Lake</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/om2Ao17STEyPdInucW0BXQ">The Golden Skybridge</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/YjJ8itWeTUWcmkKB3worBw">Revelstoke Railway Museum</a> <a href="bookcreator://page/skfEbS_ySDeF2RLVM1-nqA">About the Author</a>

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The Golden Skybridge is an example of the “Place” theme through displaying how place can impact what people do with natural beauty. In this example, people used the natural beauty to make a tourist attraction, where people could do fun and scary stuff, like the suspension bridge and ropes courses. while soaking in the views. This photo represents how the creativity of entrepreneurs can shape entire regions. In this example, the Golden Skybridge is owned by a company called Pursuit Collective, which was founded by Norman Luxon, also known as “Mr. Banff.” He owned a large percentage of the land in banff, and leveraged that to make what we now know as a billion dollar industry. To me, this photo represents how opportunity in place has helped shaped the west, along with the creativity of entrepreneurs, into what we now know today.

Photo 2: Rogers Pass Include a photo here that represents “What made and makes the West” as well as explaining how it shows one or more of the Five Themes of Geography. For now, put multiple photos on the page, then you will be able to edit and choose from them later.

Moraine lake is an example of the “Regions” theme and how they can flourish together and gain aspects from one another. Moraine lake is one of the most popular tourist locations in all of banff, and as such, it takes in one of the largest amounts of different cultures, and shows how tourist locations are one of the biggest melting pots for culture and ideals. While we were on our trip, I interviewed 3 tourists, two of which were from New York, and the other was from Germany. Think about how far away that is! environment influencing the nature of political, social, and economics in the West. Tourism in the west is made by views. Sure having history is cool, but everyone’s here for the views, the stunning, breathtaking, spend $250 dollars a day on a week-long trip because it’s so good views. Tourism in the west can’t exist if the water isn’t that beautiful blue, or if the glaciers are gone, but that’s what’s happening. My connection to this photo is that of hope and despair. Hope, because people are trying with everything to stop global warming and despair because there are more people leveraging their money and making everything so much worse because of their infinite greed

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Photo 8: Golden Skybridge Include a photo here that represents “What made and makes the West” as well as explaining how it shows one or more of the Five Themes of Geography. For now, put multiple photos on the page, then you will be able to edit and choose from them later.

About Me! Hi, I’m Parker, but you already know that Oh god that made me throw up a little writing that Anyways. Thanks for reading, Wait. You actually want an about the author page in the year 2023? What are you, crazy? About me i guess. As of writing this, (early October, 2023) I’m in PLP, which you’ve probably already read about, but incase you haven’t, PLP (the Performance Learning Program) is a program available at seycove community secondary school. We get iPads, and use multiple systems like Project Based Learning and Critique and Revision to make some really interesting and thoughtful work. Wow that’s not really about me is it. Anyways, Bye now.

Photo 3: Cave and Basin National Historic Site Include a photo here that represents “What made and makes the West” as well as explaining how it shows one or more of the Five Themes of Geography. For now, put multiple photos on the page, then you will be able to edit and choose from them later.

Most obviously, the last spike represents movement and place, but it does it in less obvious ways than people think about, like the movement of ideas, concepts and stories. As well as representing place through the being of the railway, and the people that it brings, like people interested in not only the past of the railway, but the future as well. This photo shows how we as people can use our brains to evolve technologies to be more powerful, efficient, and useful. In this example, we quite literally created Canada through this railway, which had many challenges due to the scale of the Rockies. To me, this photo, but more importantly, its thought, represents society, in all of its facets. It shows how we use people for our own gain and glory through the Chinese workers, and how we can do amazing things if we work together through building a railway that is about 20,100 kilometres long. It shows how people think they have good interests and what they will do to act on those interests.

Photo 6: The Columbia Ice field Include a photo here that represents “What made and makes the West” as well as explaining how it shows one or more of the Five Themes of Geography. For now, put multiple photos on the page, then you will be able to edit and choose from them later.

Roger’s Pass is a good example of the regions and movement themes, for multiple reasons. The easiest to see and understand being movement, because it was chosen as a pass for the trans-Canada highway. But there’s more to it, because the movement of people also carries the movement of ideas, concepts, and art. It also shows the theme of regions through the fact that it, again, is a highway, which transports you between regions. But it’s more than just physical aspects of the region, there’s also the ideology of the region that plays an important role in displaying the region as a whole, both to the locals and tourists. This photo shows a road going through Roger’s Pass, which as I said earlier can represent certain themes of geography, it can also represent the economics of the west. Roger’s Pass holds the trans-Canada highway, which goes, as the name implies, across Canada, so imagine the amount of goods being carried along that highway! To me, this photo represents so much of Canada, the economics, through transport of things like oil and products. And ideologies, through going different places, and learning about the regional culture and ideals. and even more displayed through a road in a mountain valley.

This is where you will help your reader understand “What is Geography?” One of your Building Knowledge keystones that helps you explain your answer to the Driving Question. This should include your graphics and representation of your understanding of the Five Themes of Geography. It will probably cover 2 - 3 pages depending on how you lay it out.

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