Courtney W. Mason

Courtney Mason is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Communities. He is cross appointed between Natural Resource Science and the Tourism Management Departments at Thompson Rivers University. Courtney's research examines rural and Indigenous land use development with a focus on tourism economies and park or protected area management. He is the author of Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park (U of Toronto Press, 2014) and the co-editor of A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario (U of Manitoba Press, 2017).