This article provides a short summary of the relationships between people and nature in Canada from the country’s earliest days. It considers native people and settlers, and describes the country as an archipelago composed of many small islands of settlement hemmed in by forest and rock. Today, when Canadians construct an increasingly symbolic nature, they cannot escape the materiality of a nature that is beautiful, harsh, and at hand.Cet article offre un bref aperçu des rapports entre les gens et la nature au Canada depuis la formation du pays. On y explore les rapports des autochtones et des colons avec la nature, et le Canada y est décrit comme un archipel de poches de peuplement entourées de près par un pays sauvage composé de forêts et...