Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural-Recreational Countryside

Greg Halseth

Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 1998.

Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural-Recreational Countryside

Description

The cottage is a powerful image of rural Canada. This image, however, often ignores the rural community that surrounds it, producing a geographically and socially divided landscape and creating friction between cottage owners and rural communities. Cottage Country in Transition is a wide-ranging exploration of the interaction and evolution of these two communities.  Using the Rideau Lakes region of eastern Ontario and the Cultus Lake area of southwestern British Columbia as case studies, this book examines the ways in which economic, political, and social power affect community change.

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