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Stephen Laycock (December 16, 1926 – October 12, 2018) was a Canadian historian, author, editor, educator, and social activist who was one of Canada's most prominent environmental historians and early critics of the forest industry. He was a professor at three Canadian universities, founding director of the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), chairman of the British Columbia Heritage Trust, and a founding member of numerous public-interest groups, including the Sierra Club of British Columbia, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, and the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve Task Force.

Laycock wrote or edited 20 books, over 100 book chapters, and 350 articles in academic and popular journals. Many of these publications were devoted to environmental and Canadian history, including:

- *City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan Toronto, 1893–1924* (1970)

- *Concepts in Urban Planning* (1973)

- *Politics and Urban Growth: A Study of Metropolitan Toronto* (1974)

- *The Alien and the Aborigine: Three Centuries of Cultural Conflict in Canada* (1978)

- *Forest and Mines: Development and Devastation on the Labrador Peninsula, 1700–1970* (1980)

- *Legacy: The Historical Geography of Western Canada* (1981)

- *A Wilderness Called Home: A Personal and Historical Journey Across the Canadian North* (1992)

- *Britannia: The Life and Times of the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1871–1980* (1994)

- *Sacred Land: The Western Rockies, Banff–Jasper–Yoho National Parks* (1996)

- *The CPR and Western Landscapes* (1997)

- *The New Environmentalism: The Fighting Back* (1998)

- *The World Around Mount Robson* (2000)

- *The Salmon Chase: 15,000 Miles Around the Wild Pacific* (2002)

- *The Rocky Mountain National Parks of Canada: A History* (2004)

- *Nature's Fury, Nature's Grace: The Fraser River Year* (2006)

- *The Last Salmon: A Journey Through Fish, Rivers, and Memory* (2010)

- *Watershed: The Role of Water in the Development of Canadian Society* (with Don Macpherson) (2012)

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