The End of the Road: An Ethnographic Account of Tourism Along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway

• Main Author: Lamontagne-Cumiford, Mathieu
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Inuvik; Mackenzie Delta; Tuktoyaktuk; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/986917/; https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/986917/1/Lamontagne-Cumiford_MA_F2020.pdf

Based on fieldwork conducted over three months in the Mackenzie Delta communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, this thesis explores tourism in the Western Arctic as a product of a newly completed all season highway. The new Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway (ITH) connects the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, a communi...