KRLS 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dual Mandate, Mountaineering, Scientific Management

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Kinesiology, Recreation, Leisure, and Sport
• Course: KRLS 204
• Professor: Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein

Document Summary

John a. macdonald - treat the patients and make more money: 1885 ottawa designated hot springs reserve, 1887 rocky mountains park act. Cornelius van horne: cpr vice president, rocky mountains + national parks + cpr = tourism, public park with private development. Cities in the new century: pm wilfrid laurier - elected 1896 - time of industrialization and modernism. Also a time of uneasiness. : city life place of stone and mortar , sense of isolation - worried about disease of the century (maybe mental health, led to return to nature - seeking outdoors. Cultural reproduction: sport, rec, and tourism in canadian rockies: fishing and hunting - winter activities, winter carnivals. Apline club of canada: middle class sport and rec, 1906 winnipeg by founders, arthur wheeler - land surveyor and mountaineer, elizabeth parker - newspaper journalist. Members - mostly middle-class urban professionals from canada, usa, international. Goals - put canada on the mountaineering map: summit nationalism, promote canada"s mountain heritage.