Memoir/Travel Cameron, Agnes - The New North ... A Woman's Journey Through Canada (1910) | Cameron, Agnes - The New North ... A Woman's Journey Through Canada (1910) |
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Author: Cameron, Agnes Deans Title: The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey Through Canada to the Arctic Year: 1910 Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company Pages: 439 Source: Google Books Description: "By the turn of the twentieth century, travellers were using photographs, typewritten journals, and telegraphed reports, along with more traditional avenues of representation such as maps and hand-written diaries, to make their claims. Agnes Deans Cameron's 1909 book, The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic, demonstrates the use both of older representative modes such as maps, and of illustrations and narratives produced by relatively new technologies such as the portable camera and the typewriter. Cameron illustrated her travels with Kodak cameras introduced in 1888, which made photography relatively easy because they used film rather than plates, and she recorded her travel notes on a front-striking Underwood typewriter introduced commercially in 1895. Through the way that she wrote about and illustrated the process of travel, the communities she visited, and the people she encountered along the way, Cameron challenged prescriptions about women travellers of the early part of the twentieth century, revised conventional descriptions of Inuit and First Nations groups, and carved out a position as a Canadian nationalist. She also used her cameras and her typewriter, along with her map, to consolidate and expand upon the traveller's conventional claim to be first, a claim that she enlarged to include the sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory categories of gender, geography, ethnography, and nationalism" (from "Primacy, Technology, and Nationalism in Agnes Deans Cameron's The New North," 2005, Wendy Roy). External Link | Download PDF (12.6 MB)
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