Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

by Alan Gordon

In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of history than they reflected historical fact. These museums became important components of postwar government economic growth and employment policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774831545
• ISBN13: 9780774831543
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher