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A Timeless Place

The Ontario Cottage

Julia Harrison author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:1st Apr '14

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A captivating look at the Ontario cottage, a place where family memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and even a few dark secrets are kept.

An exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.

As Julia Harrison’s first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison marveled at the less attractive components of cottage life: the clogged highways en route and the unrelenting investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded.

Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, Harrison studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the cottage family as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and even a few dark secrets are kept.

“Cottaging” in Ontario is a much-discussed phenomenon, and Harrison has set out to shed light on why people are so passionate about this form of domestic tourism. There is surprisingly little written on this, and her excellent book is both compelling and novel. -- Marion Joppe, co-author of Challenges and Opportunities of Incentive Travel

ISBN: 9780774826082

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

308 pages