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Title
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Photographs of plains bison in Wainwright Park, 1920-1921
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Caption
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Herds of bison roamed what is now Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada for 10,000 years until nearly driven to extinction by human activity prior to the park's creation in 1885. These photographs depict herds of plains bison in Wainwright Buffalo Park, Canada, established in 1909 to regenerate dangerously low populations of bison (and to produce beef as the photo captions indicate). In December of 2019, Parks Canada announced the release of a small herd of plains bison in Banff, over 140 years after local populations were hunted to extinction.
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Containing Publication
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Stefansson Mss 238: Vilhjalmur Stefansson photographic files
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Date Created
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1920
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Place of Publication
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Alberta, Canada
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Rights
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No Known Copyright
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Bibliographic Citation
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Photographs of plains bison in Wainwright Park, 1920 - 1921. Stefansson Mss 238: Vilhjalmur Stefansson photographic files, circa 1890-2002., Box: 4 "Photographs by Subject: Alaska - Animals: Sea Lions, undated", Folder: 27 "Animals - Buffalo (1 photo of Yak), undated"
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Filename
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exh-vanishing_Steffanson_001.pdf
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Case Number
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Causes and Consequences of Extinction
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Item Number
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3
