The Maximum of Mishap: Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926-1948
Directly after the Second World War, at a time when most North Americangovernments were clamouring for tourist dollars, the Northwest TerritoriesCouncil sought to discourage pleasure-seeking visitors from heading north of 60.A small but troublesome group of travellers who straddled the boundary betw...
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ftjhssh:oai:hssh.journals.yorku.ca:article/40462 2023-05-15T17:46:42+02:00 The Maximum of Mishap: Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926-1948 Adcock, Tina 2016-06-01 application/pdf https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40462 https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2016.0003 eng eng Les Publications Histoire sociale - Social History Inc. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40462/36645 https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40462 doi:10.1353/his.2016.0003 Copyright (c) 2016 Histoire sociale / Social History Histoire sociale / Social History; Vol. 49 No. 99 (2016) 1918-6576 0018-2257 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2016 ftjhssh https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2016.0003 2022-11-27T13:45:09Z Directly after the Second World War, at a time when most North Americangovernments were clamouring for tourist dollars, the Northwest TerritoriesCouncil sought to discourage pleasure-seeking visitors from heading north of 60.A small but troublesome group of travellers who straddled the boundary betweenexploration and tourism, whom the author terms “adventurous” tourists, mayhelp to explain northern officials’ unusual antipathy toward tourism. This articledetails territorial administrators’ evolving (and, in the end, not entirely successful)attempts to classify these travellers, monitor their movements, and mitigate thepotential threats they posed to northern peoples and landscapes.Tout juste après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, à un moment où la plupart desgouvernements d’Amérique du Nord réclamaient à grands cris la venue detouristes, le Conseil des Territoires du Nord-Ouest tenta de dissuader les visiteursen quête de plaisir de mettre le cap sur le nord du 60 e parallèle. Un groupe devoyageurs, peu nombreux mais difficiles, qui chevauchaient la frontière entreexploration et tourisme et que l’auteure qualifie de touristes « aventureux »,contribue sans doute à expliquer l’antipathie inhabituelle des autorités du Nord àl’égard du tourisme. Le présent article expose en détail l’évolution des tentativesdes administrateurs pour catégoriser ces voyageurs, suivre leurs déplacementset atténuer les menaces possibles qu’ils faisaient peser sur les populations et lespaysages nordiques, te Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Territoires du Nord-Ouest Cris Histoire sociale/Social History (E-Journal) Conseil ENVELOPE(-67.433,-67.433,-67.596,-67.596) Northwest Territories Histoire sociale/Social history 49 99 431 452 |
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Directly after the Second World War, at a time when most North Americangovernments were clamouring for tourist dollars, the Northwest TerritoriesCouncil sought to discourage pleasure-seeking visitors from heading north of 60.A small but troublesome group of travellers who straddled the boundary betweenexploration and tourism, whom the author terms “adventurous” tourists, mayhelp to explain northern officials’ unusual antipathy toward tourism. This articledetails territorial administrators’ evolving (and, in the end, not entirely successful)attempts to classify these travellers, monitor their movements, and mitigate thepotential threats they posed to northern peoples and landscapes.Tout juste après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, à un moment où la plupart desgouvernements d’Amérique du Nord réclamaient à grands cris la venue detouristes, le Conseil des Territoires du Nord-Ouest tenta de dissuader les visiteursen quête de plaisir de mettre le cap sur le nord du 60 e parallèle. Un groupe devoyageurs, peu nombreux mais difficiles, qui chevauchaient la frontière entreexploration et tourisme et que l’auteure qualifie de touristes « aventureux »,contribue sans doute à expliquer l’antipathie inhabituelle des autorités du Nord àl’égard du tourisme. Le présent article expose en détail l’évolution des tentativesdes administrateurs pour catégoriser ces voyageurs, suivre leurs déplacementset atténuer les menaces possibles qu’ils faisaient peser sur les populations et lespaysages nordiques, te |
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The Maximum of Mishap: Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926-1948 |
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The Maximum of Mishap: Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926-1948 |
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