The Maximum of Mishap
Adventurous Tourists and the State in the Northwest Territories, 1926–1948
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6066263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Adcock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 99 |
| Pages | 431-452 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Histoire sociale (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2257 • E-ISSN: 1918-6576 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/his.2016.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2396475131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Directly after the Second World War, at a time when most North American governments were clamouring for tourist dollars, the Northwest Territories Council sought to discourage pleasure-seeking visitors from heading north of 60. A small but troublesome group of travellers who straddled the boundary between exploration and tourism, whom the author terms “adventurous” tourists, may help to explain northern officials’ unusual antipathy toward tourism. This article details territorial administrators’ evolving (and, in the end, not entirely successful) attempts to classify these travellers, monitor their movements, and mitigate the potential threats they posed to northern peoples and landscapes
Antipathy · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Heading (navigation · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Tourism · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |