Download or read book Making Muskoka written by Andrew Watson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Picturesque Spots of the North written by George Monro Grant and published by Chicago : A. Belford & Company. This book was released on 1899 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Things written by Patricia Jasen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness. Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape perception and images of `wildness' and `wilderness, ' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century, most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the `race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry. The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.
Download or read book Muskoka Resorts written by Andrew Hind and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1880s, people have travelled to Muskoka in search of solace and relaxation, enjoying the comfort and warm hospitality of resorts while revelling in the tranquil wilderness and refreshing lakes. Here the stories of twenty classic resorts are explored, some of which are thriving today while others are long gone but fondly remembered.
Download or read book Giants of Tourism written by Richard Butler and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents individuals who have made an important contribution to tourism. Most are entrepreneurs in the classic sense, but others are individuals who have had unintentional subsequent effects on tourism through their actions. The book is arranged in four parts: (i) giants of hospitality (chapters 1-5); (ii) giants of travel (chapters 6-10); (iii) giants of activities (chapters 11-14); and (iv) giants of development (chapters 15-19).
Download or read book Shaped by the West Wind written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Claire Campbell draws from recent work in cultural history, landscape studies in geography and art history, and environmental history to explore what happens when external agendas confront local realities - a story central to the Canadian experience. Explorers, fishers, artists, and park planners all were forced to respond to the unique contours of this inland sea; their encounters defined a regional identity even as they constructed a popular image for the Bay in the national imagination."--Jacket.
Download or read book Picturesque Canada Hunter J H From Toronto westward Kemp A and Grant G M From Toronto to Lake Huron Adam G M Georgian Bay and the Muskoka lakes Hunter J H Central Ontario Grant G M and Machar A M Eastern Ontario Hunter J H South eastern Quebec Creighton J G A The lower St Lawrence and the Saguenay Roberts C G D New Brunswick Murray R and Simpson Mrs A Nova Scotia Murray R and McLennan J Cape written by George Monro Grant and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nipissing written by Françoise Noël and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake Nipissing area is best known as a voyageur route between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay visited by explorers, missionaries, and fur traders. All of these travellers, however, were on a journey elsewhere. This book focuses on the less well-known story of the area's transformation into a tourist destination between 1875 and 1955.
