Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

J.I. Little is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University.

• Introduction1 ‘Like a fragment of the old world’: The Historical Regression of Quebec City in Travel Narratives and Tourist Guidebooks, 1776-19132 Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s3 West Coast Picturesque: Class, Gender, and Race in a British Colonial Landscape, 1858-714 Scenic Tourism on the Northeastern Borderland: Lake Memphremagog's Steamboat Excursions and Resort Hotels, 1850-19005 Seeing Elemental Nature: An American Transcendentalist On and Off the Coast of Labrador, 1864-656 Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham’s Quebec Essays in Harper’s Magazine, 1883-897 ‘A fine, hardy, good-looking race of people’: Travellers, Tourism, and the Scots Identity on Cape Breton Island, 1859-19208 Picturing a National Landscape: Images of Nature in Picturesque Canada9 Our Lady of the Snows: Rudyard Kipling’s Imperialist Vision of Canada10 A Country Without a Soul: Rupert Brooke’s Gothic Vision of CanadaAfterword: An Unknown Country?

"...Little’s essays suggest that nineteenth-century tourism provides a significant vantage point for understanding the interplay of different discourses and performances of ‘nation’ that occurred within the Dominion’s borders."- Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto (Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19) "Why visit Canada but for its awe-inspiring natural spaces and picturesque villages? J.I. Little’s collection of essays details how travel writers from Britain, the United States, and Canada situated landscape at the center of Canadian identity and Canada’s purpose in the world. A collection of eight revised and two new essays carry the reader over 150 years and across what has become Canada, revealing ways in which writers connected identity to colonial landscape transformation." - Rebecca Mancuso (American Review of Canadian Studies) "Little’s contribution comes from looking deeply at how a wide variety of landscapes in the provinces that are now Canada have been fashioned. The deep study of specific landscapes makes this collection a rewarding read."- Eleanor Bird, Lancaster University (British Journal of Canadian Studies)