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'Roughing it in Comfort': Family Cottaging and Consumer Culture in Postwar Ontario.

This article draws upon recent studies of anti-modernism to explore the relationship between consumer culture and family cottaging in Ontario during the quarter century following the Second World War. It examines both the actions and ideas of actual postwar cottagers, as revealed primarily through o...

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Published in:Canadian Historical Review Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 234 - 263
Main Author: Stevens, Peter A.
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press Jun2013
Subjects:
Vacation homes
Oral history
Voluntary simplicity movement
Consumption (Economics)
History of Ontario, Canada
Families
History
Twentieth century
Ontario
Canada
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