For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region's rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push-pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
- ISBN10 0774866756
- ISBN13 9780774866750
- Publish Date 20 December 2021 (first published 15 November 2021)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English