Canadian Centre for Architecture
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This analysis of an archival map was written at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, where I held a fellowship in 2009. The article stemmed from my doctoral dissertation work, which concerns the Canadian Pacific Railway’s promotion of Western Canadian landscapes at the beginning of the twentieth century. By building up an infrastructure of rails, roads, hotels, and hostels, the railway company encouraged tourism to wilderness regions such as the Rocky Mountains.