What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity

Title

What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity

Author

Nelson, Chad

Supervising Faculty

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

Reference Number

TPB-599

Date

1994

Location of Document

U-Links Office and online

Area

Carnarvon and Haliburton County

Subject

Development conflict and transportation development

Abstract

This paper explores the issues around a development conflict in Haliburton County that was to come before the Ontario Municipal Board in 1994. The hearing concerned the rights of an aggregate extraction and paving company to remove some aggregate from a natural area near Carnarvon for use in road building outside the area and the opposition of some local residents to this plan. The subject is examined against the backdrop of a discussion of historical transportation development in Haliburton and technology and speed as cultural symbols of progress viewed from bioregional theory. The emphasis is on how the technologies of speed and advanced transportation have acted to extract culture from its natural, human and ecological contexts.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Nelson, Chad, What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity, Trent University, 1994