The Selling of Canada : The CPR and the Beginnings of Canadian Tourism

Hart, E.J.

Banff, 1983

By Altitude Publishing Ltd.
$13.00 USD
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Card Covers, 179 pages, 10x10 in [25.5x25.5 cm]. Colour reproductions and B&W photographs.

Condition

Covers rubbed, corners bumped.

Notes

The book explores how the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) played a pivotal role in shaping early Canadian tourism. Through strategic marketing, luxury travel services, and the construction of grand hotels across the country, the CPR not only promoted Canada as a majestic wilderness destination to domestic and international tourists but also helped forge a national identity. The book examines how the railway company commodified the Canadian landscape—especially the Rocky Mountains—as an exotic, pristine frontier to be experienced by wealthy travellers. This work provides a critical look at the intersection of corporate interests, nation-building, and the creation of a tourism industry in late 19th and early 20th century Canada.
ISBN

091938109x
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