Public Lecture: Making Muskoka

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Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920

A public lecture by Professor Andrew Watson, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, September 27, 2024, 11am EDT

11am, JOR 1410, Toronto Metropolitan University, 380 Victoria St, Toronto
pink poster with title of the talk. A photo of Andrew Watson. And a regatta scene from Muskoka in the early 20th century.

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Muskoka? Enormous summer homes dotting the shoreline of an otherwise beautiful lake? In fact, this has been the popular impression of Muskoka for well over a century. But this understanding of Muskoka obscures the lives, land, and labour of the permanent residents who have supported tourism and cottaging. 

Join the Department of History on Friday, September 27 at 11am for a public lecture by historian Professor Andrew Watson (University of Saskatchewan) who will discuss his award-winning book and explore the long relationship between rural people and tourism in Muskoka, and reveal how and why tourism was once more sustainable than it has become.

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