Chapter 6: Cottage Country

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.