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  1. Table of Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Moving Natures in Canadian History: An Introduction
  5. Part I: Production, Pathways, and Supply
  6. Maitland’s Moment: Turning Nova Scotia’s Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  7. Forest, Stream and . . . Snowstorms? Seasonality, Nature, and Mobility on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876–1914
  8. Supply Networks in the Age of Steamboat Navigation: Lakeside Mobility in Muskoka, Ontario, 1880–1930
  9. Seasonality and Mobility in Northern Saskatchewan, 1890–1950
  10. Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject
  11. Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944–1968
  12. The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility
  13. PART II: Consumption, Landscape, and Leisure
  14. Views from the Deck: Union Steamship Cruises on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1889–1958
  15. Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880–1903
  16. What Was Driving Golf? Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870–1930
  17. Rails, Trails, Roads, and Lodgings: Networks of Mobility and the Touristic Development of the “Canadian Pacific Rockies,” 1885–1930
  18. Automobile Tourism in Quebec and Ontario: Development, Promotion, and Representations, 1920–1945
  19. Contributors
  20. Index

Index

A

Aboriginal Peoples. See First Nations.

Adirondack Mountains, 231-233

agriculture, 79, 180, 215, 259-260

air travel, 125n54

airplanes, 16-17, 115

Akwesasne, QC, 135

Alaska, sea cruises to, 204, 221

Alert Bay, BC, 209, 213-215

Algonquin Hotel, 263

Alison, Hugh, 255-257

Alporto (boat), 100n19

Ambassador Bridge, 184, 186, 190-193

American Canoe Association (ACA), 8

encampments, 232-233, 236-242

canoe touring at, 241-242

division by gender, 239

domesticity, 239

travel to attend, 235-238

women at, 234, 238-239, 246n14, 247n29

formation of, 231

membership, 231, 246n13

regattas, 242-243

Ames, Mabel Croucher, 91

Anishinaabeg, 83

antimodernism, 288-289, 315

Anyox, BC, 211-212

Architect (ship), 34, 36

artists, 317

Ashbridges Bay (Toronto), 164

Association des bons chemins de la Province de Québec, 302

atomization, 97

automobiles, 8, 12, 104, 109-111, 260-262. See also Prince Edward Island: ban on automobiles

manufacturing of, 181, 183-186, 191-192

roads for, 137, 189-190, 285, 292, 302-305

all-weather, 119-120

government promotion of, 303, 310

protests against, 170n32

relocation of, 134

tourism via, 218, 285, 289-292, 300-303, 309, 317-318

travel via, 133, 137-139, 218, 251

B

Baddeck, NS, 72

Baedeker, Karl, 284

Baie de Chaleur, 71-72

Bain, Joseph, 84

Bala Falls, ON, 241

Banff, AB, 114, 252, 263, 282

Banff National Park, 282, 292

Banff Springs Hotel, 202, 263-266, 276, 282-286

Banff-Windermere Highway, 285, 290-294

Barker, Kent, 133

Baranowski, Shelley, 222

Bateman, Christina (née Henry). See Henry

beaches, 70-71

Bear, Billy, 103, 106, 109

Bear River, NS, 29-30, 49n12, 51n40

Beauharnois dam, 129

Beaumaris Hotel, 85

Beaumont, John James, 86, 89, 93, 97, 100n19

Bella Bella, BC, 210

Bella Coola, BC, 215

Belvedere Golf Club, 258, 262

Berton, Pierre, 5, 16, 20n10

Big River, SK, 116

billboards, 304

Bird, William, 103

Bliss, Michael, 15

Blue Ridge Parkway, 293

Bluewater Highway, 310

Boak, Robert, 36

boats. See names of specific boats.

boreal forest, 104, 112

Bowen Island, BC, 218

Bozo the bear, 293-294

Bracebridge, ON, 83

branch plants, 183

Bras d’Or Lake, NS, 71-72

bridges, 135, 141, 166, 251, 279-280. See also names of specific bridges.

Brighton Beach, ON, 186-189

Brinley, David Putnam, 316-317

Brinley, Katherine Sanger, 301, 317

Britannia, BC, 216-217

Brooks, John, 116

Brown, Harold, 217

bungalow camps, 264-265, 285-288, 291, 295. See also names of specific bungalow camps

Butedale, BC, 210


C

Camosun (ship), 208

Campbell, Colin, Jr., 51n39, 51n41

Campbell, James, 32

Campbell, John, 84

camping, 113, 240-241, 287-288, 313. See also American Canoes Association, encampments

Canada-U.S. Automotive Products Agreement (Auto Pact), 191-192

Canada-U.S. border, 7, 18, 25, 128-137, 177-190, 233-237, 292, 301

Canada-U.S. relations, 129, 133, 145

Canadian Golfer (magazine), 267

Canadian Motorist (magazine), 303, 311

Canadian National Exhibition seawall, 165-166

Canadian National Railway, 63, 215, 263-268

Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, 206

Canadian Pacific Railway, 8, 70, 206, 222n1, 263-269, 277-295

Canadian Salt Company, 188-189

Canadian Shield, 83, 104

canals, 128, 135-136, 144-145

canoes, 8, 105, 115, 199, 234-237, 243, 313-314

Cap Gros-Morne, QC, 311-312

Cape Breton, NS, 52n57

Carignan, Richard, 140

carioles, 16

cart roads, 105-106

Cartier, Jacques, 310

Cassels, Walter G.P., 259-260

caterpillar tractors, 117-120

Cavers Hill, ON, 312

Centennius, Ralph, 1-3, 17, 19

Charlevoix, QC, 304

Chignecto coal mines, 67

Chobee, O.K., 234

Chorley Park (Toronto), 159-161

Christopher Lake, SK, 110-116, 121

Chrysler Canada, 189

Churchill, MB, 1, 17

Churchill River, SK, 104, 122n2

City of Windsor, 188-194, 198n38

Civil War, U.S., 35

Clear Lake, MB, 125n40

Coast Mountains, 207-209, 221

Cocks, Catherine, 211

Cole, Douglas, 221

colonization roads, 83

Colt, Harry, 255-257

commodities, trade in, 47

Confederation, 20n4, 58

W.D. Lawrence’s opposition to, 38-41

Constance (boat), 87-92, 97

construction. See excavation and earth moving, landmaking, railways: construction of, road building, shipbuilding, subway, Toronto: construction

consumer culture, 239-240

corduroy roads, 106, 111, 119

cordword, as fuel, 82, 89-91, 97

Cornwall, ON, 131, 139

cottages, 83-87, 100n15

Country Club of Montreal, 251

Cox, Charles, 36, 53n66

Craig, Béatrice, 81

Crawford Street Bridge (Toronto), 166

Cree, 103, 105

Creighton, Donald, 4-5

Cresswell, Tim, 10, 230

Cronon, William, 12, 57, 276

Crosby, Alfred, 11-12

Crouch, David, 243

Cruising the Coast of Romance (book), 217

Cullon, T.M., 96

Cumberland House, SK, 105

Cutch (ship), 204-206

cycling, 121


D

Daily Herald (Prince Albert), 109-110

Dalhousie College, 33

dams. See also names of specific dams

ecological effects of, 137, 142-143

flooding, 131

lock size, 140-141

resettlement as result of, 132-135

use of fill material for earthworks, 142-143

Davis, T.C., 112

de Certeau, Michel, 230, 244

deforestation, 37, 46-47, 51n38

DeLeuw, Cather & Company, 153

Department of Highways (Ontario), 163, 189, 198, 302, 312

Department of Indian Affairs (Canada), 105-06, 119, 233

Department of Lands and Forests (Canada), 140-141

Department of Mines (Ontario), 157

Department of Northern Development (Ontario), 308-310

Department of the Interior (Canada), 113, 119, 124n36, 264-265, 275, 282, 290

Desportes, Marc, 300

Detroit, MI, 7, 176

Detroit River, 176-178, 186, 196n5

bridges over, 183-184. See also Ambassador Bridge, Gordie Howe International Bridge

Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC), 194

Detroit-Windsor tunnels, 178, 190

Digby, NS, 43, 52n56

Division of Industrial Wastes (Ontario), 188

Dominion Fisheries Act, 140

Dominion in 1983 (pamphlet), 1, 17

Dominion Iron and Steel Company, 67

Dominion Steel and Coal Company, 186, 189

Don Valley Brickworks (Toronto), 155, 169n16

Don Valley Conservation Association, 160, 168

Douglas constituency, 40

Douglas, NS, (Maitland), 31

Dreyfus Brothers, 43-44

Duncan, Colin, 9

Duncan, W.E.P., 159

E

Eaton, Timothy, 94

Eaton’s department store, 92-93

ecology, 142, 148n20

economy

global, 28, 42

U.S., 32, 42

E.C. Row Avenue (Windsor, ON), 189

Edith May (boat), 87, 89

Edwards, E.B., 234

eel ladders, 140

Ellis, James, 41

Emerald Lake Chalet, 286, 288

Empress Hotel, 263

Emma Lake, SK, 110-116, 118

engineers, 60-62, 127, 144, 152-153

environmental history, 10

Essex County, ON, 180

excavation and earth moving, 129, 142, 152, 159-166. See also landfills, landmaking

F

farming, 79, 180, 215, 259-260

Ferguson, G. Howard, 184

Ferguson Highway, 310-312

ferries, 137, 178, 183, 196n5

Field, BC, 286

First Nations, 83, 103, 105. See also Anishinaabeg, Cree, Department of Indian Affairs (Canada), Little Red River Reserve, SK, Treaty 6

communities, 135-136, 204, 210-211, 213

erasure of presence, 242, 245n3, 247n27, 282, 297n26, 313

representations of, 206-210, 213-215, 221

fish and game laws, 70

fish hatcheries, 70

fishing, 68-70, 108, 115-16, 313

Flin Flon, MB, 115

floatplanes, 115

food distribution, 89-93, 108, 206

Ford, Henry, 184

Ford Motor Company of Canada, 183, 189-191

forest fires, 109

Forest, Stream and Seashore (brochure), 65-72

forestry, 108, 112. See also logging

forests, 45, 207, 212-213, 311

Forge, Francis, 79, 86, 100n18

Forman, Richard, 19

fossil fuels, 24-25, 82, 96, 108, 145, 218

Free Trade Agreement (1988), 192

Freeman, Michael, 235

freight transport, 73-74, 103-109, 115-121, 206

friction, 23, 106-107

Friesens Corporation, 5

Furlough, Ellen, 222

G

Gandy, Matthew, 12

Gardiner Expressway (Toronto), 165

Gardiner, Fred, 166

Gardom, Basil, 287

Garrison Creek (Toronto), 166

gasoline, 96, 218

Gaspé, QC, 304, 309-317

geology and soil science, 154-157

Gibson, A., 38-39

glaciation, 155-157

Glazebrook, George, 4

Goldfields, SK, 115

golf, 8

at tourist resorts, 262-263

diffusion, 253, 270n4

“golden era” of, 252

origins in United Kingdom, 253, 259

participants prior to 1930, 254

role of Scottish immigrants in Canadian, 253

golf courses. See also Prince Edward Island: golf courses, and names of specific golf clubs and courses

design of, 254-256, 268, 271n7

early North American, 253

impression of nature while playing on, 254-255, 259, 261, 265, 268

relocation of, 257, 261

Gomery, Percy, 304

Gordie Howe International Bridge, 193

government intervention, 15-16, 57, 59, 63

government regulation, 96

Grainger, Martin Allerdale, 220

Grand Trunk Railway, 59, 261

Great Western Railway, 177

guano trade, 43

Gulf Islands, BC, 206

gypsum, 31-33, 45-47, 49n16

H

Haldrup, Michael, 240

Halifax, NS, 56, 58

Hanna, William, 86, 89, 95, 100n19

Hants County, NS, 42-43, 52n56

Hantsport, NS, 49n12, 52n55

Harding, H.S., 36

Harkin, J.B., 111

Harris, Cole, 221

Heinmiller, Timothy, 139

Hémon, Louis, 309

Henry, Christina, 103-106, 109-110, 114-115, 121, 122n2

high modernism, 127, 133, 144-145, 145n5

negotiated, 133

highways, 111, 115, 118-119, 189, 290-292, 300-305. See also names of specific highways

Highway 2, 137-138

Highway 401, 137-139, 190, 192

hiking, 121, 285-289

historiography, 3-5, 11-12

Homer, George Henry, 87-90

Hornsby, Stephen, 30, 51n40

horseback riding, 289

horses, 103, 107-108, 110, 117, 119-120, 289

hotels, 68-71, 85. See also tourist resorts, and names of specific hotels

Howe, Joseph, 40

Howe Sound, BC, 206, 216-218

Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), 104-108, 123n11

hunting, 69-70, 293, 313

Huntsville, ON, 83, 96

hydroelectricity, 128, 145

Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPCO), 129, 133-135, 164

I

ice, 6, 14, 55, 83, 106, 144

ice roads, 6, 106-109, 119-120

Imperial Oil, 96

Indian Residential School Commission, 119

Indigenous Peoples. See First Nations.

industrial sites, 139, 178, 181, 185-186

representations of, 211-212, 218

Ingleside, ON, 131

Innis, Harold, 4-5, 10, 18

Intercolonial Railway, 6, 14, 55-75, 144, 259

internal combustion engine, 82, 94, 98, 108

invasive species, 143-144

iron and steel, 59, 67

Iroquois control dam, ON, 129, 143

Iroquois, ON, 131-135

J

Jabberwock Canoe Club, 235

Jakle, John, 70

Jasen, Patricia, 84, 285

Jasper, AB, 252, 257, 264-268

Jasper Park Lodge, 264-265

Johnson, Pauline, 231

Jones, Christopher E., 12

Jones, J. C., 38-39

Joint Board of Engineers, 129

Julia and Spartan (ship), 53n66

K

Kahnawake, QC, 135-136, 143

Keefer, T.C., 2, 13

Keighley, Sydney, 106

Kidd, Bruce, 234

Kings County, NS, 52n57

Kingsport, NS, 29, 49n12

Kootenay National Park, 288, 292-294

L

Lac La Ronge, SK, 104-106, 114, 119-121, 122n2

Lady Alexandra (ship), 216

Lady of the Lake (boat), 86

Lake Athabaska, 115

Lake Champlain, 235

Lake George, NY, 231

Lake Joseph, ON, 84-86, 91

Lake Muskoka, ON, 84-86, 95

Lake O’Hara Camp, 288

Lake Rosseau, ON, 79, 84, 86, 89-91, 97

Lake St. Lawrence, 131, 137, 142

Lake Superior International Highway Project, 311

lampreys, 143

landfills, 152, 162-166, 188

landmaking, 135, 142, 162-166

landscape associationism, 211, 241, 277, 288

Larsen, Jonas, 207

Latjai, Emory, 157

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 15

Lawrence, W. D., 27, 33-40, 47, 54n74

Legget, Robert F., 153-156

legislature, Nova Scotian, 40

leisure, 7, 14-16, 112-113, 119, 199, 251-254, 265

Leslie Street Spit, 164-165

Lévesque, Guillaume, 13-14

Little Red River Reserve, SK, 116

Liverpool, UK, 38

Lloyds (insurance company), 44

localism, 30, 49n10

logging, 32, 45-46, 90-91, 208, 212, 213, 215, 216-217, 220. See also forestry

Long Sault, ON, 131-135

Long Sault dam, 129, 131

Long Sault Parkway, 135

Loo, Tina, 133

Lost Villages, 131, 135, 139

Louter, David, 12, 300

Lower, Arthur, 4

Lundlie, O.M., 113, 115

Lunenburg, NS, 52n56

M

MacDonald, Sir John A., 279

MacDonald, Lady Agnes, 279

MacEachern, Alan, 19n1

Mackay, J.A., 105

Mackay, Jim, 220

Mackenzie King, William Lyon, 114

McCalla, Douglas, 81

McCallum, A., 36, 47, 54n74, 54n75

McCallum, H.E., 160

McCann, Larry, 52n57

McCarthy, Tom, 11-12, 81

McCloskey, M.C., 109-10

McDonald, Charles, 114

McDougall, Alexander, 34

McKay, Donald, 33

McKay, Nan, 103, 109-110, 114, 121, 122n2

McLuhan, Marshall, 10

McNab, Sir Allan, 18

mail-order, 87

Maitland, NS, 6, 15, 27-48, 51n40

population, 37, 44, 53n62

Maitland, Peregrine, 31

Malden Landfill, 188-189

Mancke, Elizabeth, 81

manufacturing, 178, 181-183, 186, 191, 192.

Marx, Leo, 11, 211

mastery over nature, 131, 135, 277-280. See also high modernism

Matapédia, QC, 61, 310

Mennonites, 120

Merchant’s Bank of Halifax, 44

Metlakatla, BC, 211

Michie’s, 92

middle class, 234, 253, 285-286, 290, 294, 309

and nature, 67-68

Miller, Roscoe D., 311

Minas Basin, NS, 35

mining, 115

Mink (boat), 89, 97, 100n19

Mira, NS, 68

Mitchell, Hillyard, 105

mobility, collective, 94, 96

concept of, 3, 9-10, 81, 122n4, 230-231, 299-300

personal, 94-95, 98

mobility corridors, 121

Monteith, Joseph, 47, 54n74

Montreal, 135, 140-141

Montreal Lake, SK, 103-106, 109, 115-117, 120, 123n11

Montreal River, SK, 104

Moore, Marvin, 40

Moraine Lake Camp, 288

Morrisburg, ON, 131

Moses-Saunders dam, 129, 131-132, 140

Motor Queen (boat), 96

Mount Royal (Montreal), 261

mountains, 55, 207-209, 266, 276-279, 284, 288. See also names of specific mountain ranges

mud, 23, 111-113, 135, 161

Muir, John, 204, 290

Mulligan, David, 251, 270

“mulligan” (golf term), 251

muskeg, 106-109, 117, 119

Muskoka and Georgian Bay Navigation Company, 87

Muskoka Club, 84

Muskoka Lakes Association (MLA), 87-88, 92-94

Muskoka Lakes Navigation and Hotel Company, 97

Muskoka region, ON, 6, 79-98, 241, 309

N

National Battlefields Commission, 262

National Geographic, 310

national parks, 113-115, 282-290. See also Banff National Park, Kootenay National Park, Prince Albert National Park, Yoho National Park

National Parks Branch, 111, 292, 295

National Research Council (NRC) Division of Building Research, 156

natural resources, 128, 139, 178

Natural Resources Intelligence Service, 124n36

New Highway to the East (brochure), 279

Newminko (boat), 97, 100n19

North American Free Trade Agreement (1994), 192

North Bay, ON, 311

North by West in the Sunlight (brochure), 208, 212

Norwood Golf Club, 258

Nova Scotia Railway, 32

Nymoca (boat), 86, 89

O

Ocean Falls, BC, 215

Ojibway ON, 180-181, 188-189

Ojibway Park, 189

O’Keefe, Georgia, 317

Ontario Good Roads Association, 302

Ontario Hydro, 135

Ontario Motor League, 303-304, 308

Ontario, Northern, 304, 310-314

outdoor recreation, 71-72, 136, 288-290, 309, 313-314

P

panoramic perception, 235, 279

parks, 135, 143, 159, 165-166. See also national parks, and names of specific parks

pastoral aesthetic, 266

path dependencies, 11

Pearce, William, 282

peasant life, as Quebec tourist attraction, 309, 315-316

peddlars, 99n5

Pelletier, Eugène, 313

Pennell, Margaret, 304

Percé Rock, QC, 309, 315

Perron Boulevard, 310, 311

Persia (ship), 34, 36

Peru, 43

picturesque aesthetic, 207, 210, 233

pilotage, 204, 216, 220, 243

Piper, Liza, 14, 115

Pittsburgh, PA, 85

Plains of Abraham, 262

planners, 132-134, 137, 312-313

pollution, 97, 140, 161, 186-188, 193, 198n36, 211, 252, 254, 260

Port Carling, ON, 86, 89, 95

Port Sandfield, ON, 86

Pottinger, David, 66

Potts, Edwin, 86

Potts, Fanny (Ann Hathaway, pseud.), 86, 89, 92, 100n17

Powell River, BC, 209

Power Authority of the State of New York (PASNY), 129

Prince Albert National Park, 113-117, 120

Prince Albert region, SK, 103-122

Prince Albert, SK, 103, 109, 116, 121

Prince Edward Island

ban on automobiles, 262

golf courses, 258-262

shipbuilding in, 46

Prince Rupert, BC, 211-212, 215

Prowse, Edward, 85

Putnam, William, 30

Q

Quebec Automobile Club, 304

R

Radium Hot Springs, BC, 288

Raibmon, Paige, 240

railways, 2, 11-18, 24, 40, 81, 177-178, 225n48, 235, 258-263, 279. See also names of specific railways

construction of, 60

and geology, 155

passenger cars, 236, 279-281

relocation of, 134

Rayner Construction, 160-161

Reciprocity Treaty (1854), 177

Red Deer Lake, SK, 113

resource workers, 206-209, 212-213, 224n20

Revillon Frères, 108

Reynolds, W. Kirby, 65

Rhyno, Roy, 49n15

Riley, Leena, 95

road building, 156, 163-165, 258-259, 302-311

roads. See automobiles: roads for, cart roads, colonization roads, corduroy roads, highways, ice roads, road building, road salt, roadside landscaping, and names of specific roads

Roads Department (Quebec), 302-304

road salt, 189

roadside landscaping, 304, 312, 317

rocket cars, 1

Rogers, Captain John, 94

Roper, Edward, 279

Rosedale (Toronto), 159-162

Ross, Adolphus, 103

Ross, Donald, 265

Rosseau, ON, 87

rowboats, 79, 86, 100n18

Roy, Alexander, 47, 54n74

Royal Montreal Golf Club, 258, 261

Royal Ontario Museum, 156-159

Royal Quebec Golf Club, 258, 261-262

Royal York Hotel, 269

Rumsey, William, 96

Rushton, Stuart, 212, 216

Ryan, Simon, 207

S

sailing ships, 28, 30

salmon canneries, 212-213, 218

Sandford, Mrs. W. E., 88, 94

Sandwich, ON, 177, 184- 189

Sandy Lake, SK, 117

“sanitary city,” 152, 168n2

Saskatchewan, northern, 6, 14, 103-122

Saskatoon, SK, 122n2

Savary Island, BC, 209

Scarcliffe boarding house, 95

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 203, 220, 235-236, 300

Schriever, W.R., 156

Scott, Harley E., 91

Scott, James C., 127

seasonality, 11-14, 56-58, 74, 83, 104, 116, 120-121, 144, 201

Seigniory Golf Club, 263, 269

sensuous experience of environment though mobility, 133, 136, 200-204, 237, 267, 285, 289-290, 300

Service (magazine), 304

Shapiro, Aaron, 111

Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club, 263

Shaughnessy, Thomas, 264

Shelburne, NS, 52n56, 52n57

shipping, 27-54, 135, 140-143, 164, 203-228

shipbuilding, 34-35, 51n40, 52n57. See also Price Edward Island: shipbuilding in

economic impact of, 37, 47

ships. See sailing ships, shipping, shipbuilding, steam launches, steamboats, steamships, and names of specific ships

Shubenacadie River, NS, 31-35, 45-46

skiing, cross-country, 12

Sladen, Douglas, 279

Smith, John W., 184

Smith, Lamond, 258, 271n15

Smith, W. M., 35

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930), 185

Snedeker, Florence, 237

snow, 11, 55-59, 76n6, 107

clearing, 62

fences, 60, 74

plows, 60, 74, 107

snowsheds, 60-61, 74

soil, 151, 153, 161

soils, quality of, 84, 89, 92

somatic power, 84

speed, 201

sporting culture, 234, 243, 251

Spruce River, SK, 117

spruce trees, 27-28, 34-37, 41, 46-47

Squamish, BC, 206, 217

St. Andrews, NB, 263, 269

St. Andrews, Scotland, 254

St. Lambert, QC, 251

St. Lawrence River, 13, 55-58, 127-129, 139-141, 144

St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, 7, 14, 18, 140-145, 164

St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 129

St. Lawrence (ship), 34

Stanley, Meg, 133

Stanley Mission, SK, 104-106

staples thesis, 81

Stave Island, ON, 237

steam launches, 94

steamboats, 6, 81-86

steamships, 42, 235, 238, 249n51

Stephen, Arnold, 95

streetcars, 153, 178, 258, 262

storms, 56, 62-63

Studeny, Christophe, 300

Sturgeon River Forest Reserve, 113-118, 125n39

sublime aesthetic, 209-210, 233, 264

suburbs, 187-188

subway, Toronto, 7, 18, 151-168. See also Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)

Bloor-Danforth subway line, 162, 166

construction of, 152-157, 160-166

spoil material, 160-166

Yonge subway line, 157, 163

Sugar Island, ON, 233

summer, 201

supply boats. See steamboats

sustainability, concept of, 82, 98

Sutter, Paul, 12

Sweny, G.A., 261

swimming, 70-71

T

Tatley, Richard, 85

The Pas, MB, 122n2

Thompson, Stanley, 255-256, 264-265, 269

writings on golf course design, 256

Thomson, Tom, 313

Thomson, William E., 264

Thornley, Betty, 289-290

Thornton, Henry, 264

tides, 35, 203

timber permits, 105

tonnage, of ships, 36-39, 44, 50n25, 52n56

Toronto Golf Club, 255-261

Toronto Harbour Commission, 163, 165

Toronto, ON, 92, 151-166, 255-261. See also subway, Toronto, and names of specific businesses, institutions, neighbourhoods, organizations, parks, roads

Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), 153-166. See also subway, Toronto

cooperation with geologists and soil scientists, 156-157

totem poles, 210, 215, 219

tourism, 8-9, 25, 64-75, 83-85, 103-106, 109-121, 200-204, 238, 252, 262-268, 276. See also automobiles: tourism via, peasant life, as Quebec tourist attaction

therapeutic, 217, 225n51, 285.

tourist brochures, 65-72, 206, 212-218, 234-235, 266-268, 277-293, 296n6, 303-318

tourist gaze, 272n36

tourist resorts, 71, 217, 252, 262-263, 282

tourists, American, 303, 316-317

trade,

Canada-U.S., 177, 181-185

global, 36-38, 47-48

international, 136, 140, 191

protectionism, 185

traffic congestion, 137, 153, 186, 190, 193

travel writers, 301, 316-317

Treaty 6, 105

Trefrey, T. S., 36

Trinity-Bellwoods Park (Toronto), 166

trucking, 184, 192

Trudeau, Pierre Elliot, 16

tunnels, 178, 190, 281

Tweedale, Aitken, 208-210

U

Union Steamship Company, 7, 204

day cruises, 216-218

decline of, 218-220

tourist resorts, 217

University of Saskatchewan, 103

University of Toronto, 154-156

urban borderlands, 177, 185-187, 252, 257-258, 262, 308

urban planning, 131-133, 188-189

urban renewal, 188

urban sprawl, 188, 252, 259-260

Urry, John, 65, 122n4, 272n36

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 129

US Steel, 181, 186

V

Van Horne, William, 282-284

Vancouver, BC, 204, 217-218, 263

Venture (ship), 208

Victoria, BC, 258, 262-263, 269

Victoria Golf Club, 258, 262-263

W

wagons, 103

wakes caused by boats, 96

walking, 134, 251, 265, 285-286, 289

Wanderer (ship), 33

Wapta Camp, 288

Waskesiu, SK, 105, 113, 116-117, 120-121, 123n11

Welland Canal, ON, 143

Wells, Christopher, 12

Western Union, 44

Weymouth, NS, 29, 51n41

wharves, 91, 97, 238, 241

Whidden family, 30, 32

White, Richard, 90

Whiting, John M., 95

“wilderness,” 57, 67-68, 72, 84, 208, 245n1, 285, 313

wildlife, 69-70, 293-294

William D. Lawrence (ship), 40-43

William G. Putnam (ship), 36

Wilson, Norman D., 153

Windsor, NS, 52n55

Windsor Area Transportation Study (1963), 189

Windsor, ON, 7, 18, 177, 186-191

Windsor Urban Transportation Study (1980), 198n38, 198n45

winter, 14, 55, 59-64, 76n6, 83, 104-109, 144, 202. See also carioles, cross-country skiing, ice, ice roads, snow

World War II, 128, 153, 186-187, 218

Y

Yoho National Park, 288

Yonge Street (Toronto), 153

Z

zebra mussels, 143

Zug Island, MI, 186

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