Cottage country in transition
Subtitle: a social geography of change and contention in the rural-recreational countryside
By: Greg Halseath.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Community life -- Case studies.; Urban-rural migration -- Case studies.; Rural development -- Case studies.; Cultus Lake Region (B.C.) -- Rural conditions.; Rideau Lakes Region (Ont.) -- Rural conditions.
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, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.