Rooted: Beausoleil Island
Let sound transport you to the shores of Beausoleil Island in the heart of Georgian Bay. Rooted: Beausoleil Island is an auditory experience that explores the history of Beausoleil Island using soundscapes, storytelling, interviews, and historic texts.
Rooted: Beausoleil Island
Chapter 6: Cottage Country
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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This chapter explores the history of Georgian Bay Islands National Park. We discuss Beausoleil Island’s transformation from a quarry to a tourist destination, and its current status as a protected landscape that is healing environmental and cultural wounds of the past.
- To learn more about Parks Canada’s reconciliation efforts, read “Mapping Change: Fostering a Culture of Reconciliation within Parks Canada.”
Rooted: Beausoleil Island is a Know History podcast.
Rooted: Beausoleil Island is recorded in London, Ontario on the traditional lands of the Attawandaron, Anishinnabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Lunaapeewak; and in Ottawa, Ontario on the un-ceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg.