Making Muskoka
Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920
Seiten
2023
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6784-9 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6784-9 (ISBN)
Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.
Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers' ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.
Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers' ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.
Andrew Watson is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. His work has appeared in publications such as Agricultural History, Scientia Canadensis, Regional Environmental Change, and Canadian Historical Review. He has also served as editor-in-chief of The Otter, the blog of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
Introduction
1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–80
2 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–1920
3 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–1900
4 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–1920
5 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Nature |
| Zusatzinfo | 42 b&w photos, 9 maps, 1 chart/diagram |
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 430 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-6784-1 / 0774867841 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-6784-9 / 9780774867849 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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