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Author Halseth, Greg, 1960-

Title Cottage country in transition : a social geography of change and contention in the rural-recreational countryside / Greg Halseth
Published Montreal, Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998
Montreal, Qu e. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Cottages, cottaging, and cottage ownership -- Community change in the rural-recreational countryside -- Rideau lakes and Cultus lake study areas -- Respondent profiles -- Housing change and conversion pressures -- Community groups -- Local Government structure
Summary "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, Greg Halseth examines the ways in which economic, political, and social power affect community change." "Written in an accessible style, Cottage Country in Transition will be of great interest to rural geographers, planners, sociologists, and community researchers as well as to rural residents and cottage owners."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index
Notes English
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Subject Rural development -- Canada -- Case studies
Community life -- Canada -- Case studies
Urban-rural migration -- Canada -- Case studies
Recreation areas -- Social aspects -- Canada -- Case studies
Urban-rural migration -- Case studies
Rural development -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
Community life
Recreation areas -- Social aspects
Rural conditions
Rural development
Urban-rural migration
SUBJECT Canada -- Rural conditions -- Case studies
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00363939
ISBN 9780773567191
0773567194
1282855050
9781282855052
9786612855054
6612855053