HIST 2500 Chapter Notes -Capitalism, Class Consciousness, Slavery Among The Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
10 Feb 2014
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Interested in seeing the land as a tourist. British travellers wrote about experience in canadian north and west as exotic and picturesque with some danger. William francis butler ventured to red river and his book great lone land reinforced view that canada was. Quqbex as romantic and thousand islands and niagara attractions. Transcontinental railway, transforming the experience of travel. Travel for travel sake became affordable for the middle classes. The railway preceded settlement, rather than following it. Mid 1880 the prairie population boom was sill a decade in the future. If the railway was going to profit, passengers were going to have to be convinced to travel on it. Cant export the scenery so we"ll have to import the tourists. Canadian pacific began campaign to convince travellers that they must visit canada, esp western canada. Posters, pamphlets, maps, books through europe and us. Promote rocky mountain west as attractive for visitors.
