Nipissing (eBook)

Historic Waterway, Wilderness Playground

Françoise Noël (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
268 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-2441-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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2016 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award — Shortlisted
2015 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted

Explore the history of tourism in the Nipissing Passageway, from Mattawa to Georgian Bay, beginning with Champlain’s voyage in 1615.
In the nineteenth century, while the hope of building a Georgian Bay Ship Canal remained elusive, promotional efforts were made by the railways to market the area as a “sportsman’s paradise.” In the early twentieth century, Ontario began to build roads to lure American motorists to the area. In Nipissing, Françoise Noël demonstrates how these efforts led to the early appearance of cottagers in the French River area and the rise of local outfitters. Places of interest include Quintland, named for the famed Dionne Quintuplets, which was seen as a “pilgrimage” site and saw resort expansion through to the post-war recovery.
A look at the Nipissing area today reveals that, for many, it remains a wilderness playground.

Autor

Françoise Noël is a professor of history at Nipissing University. Through her photography and by visiting local scenic spots she has became intimately familiar with the Nipissing area. Françoise is the author of Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario. She lives in North Bay, Ontario.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2015
• Zusatzinfo: notes
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 230 x 230 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: American visitors • automobile touring • cabin camps • Canadian Pacific Railway • Cottages • Dionne Quintuplets • Dokis First Nation • Ferguson Highway • Fishing • French River • Grand Trunk Railway • Highway 11 • Highway 17 • Hotels • Hunting • Lake Nipissing • licensed tourist outfitters • Mattawa • Mattawa River • Nipissing First Nation • Nipissing Passageway • North Bay • Ontario lure books • Quintland • railway tourism • Resorts • Sturgeon Falls • sudbury • Tourism • Trans-Canada Highway • vacations • voyageur route
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-2441-0 / 1459724410
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-2441-9 / 9781459724419