Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, by Dale Barbour

By Dale Barbour

through the first half the 20th century, Winnipeg seashore proudly advertised itself because the Coney Island of the West. positioned simply north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 viewers an afternoon and served as an immense intersection among periods, ethnic groups, and maybe most significantly, among genders. In Winnipeg seashore, Dale Barbour takes us into the guts of this turn-of-the-century lodge region and introduces us to a couple of the folk who labored, performed and lived within the inn. via pictures, interviews, and newspaper clippings he offers a full of life background of this lodge sector and its spectacular function within the evolution of neighborhood courtship and relationship practices, from the commoditization of the relationship event via the Canadian Pacific Railway's “Moonlight Specials,” during the improvement of an complicated leisure region that inspired public relationship, and to its eventual loss of life amid the ethical panic over sexual behaviour in the course of the Fifties and ‘60s.

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