ABSTRACT by Leanna Lalonde “…last came the prospector and the mining company, but when they came they made the region theirs, and what they found, made all other industries seem of no account.  Even the sulphur that blasted all things living, only made nature’s grimness grimmer still, substituted, as it were, deadly purpose for beautiful desolation.”         – Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West; cited in John M. Gunn, Restoration and Recovery of an...