In the 1960s; Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but; as Time Travel shows; they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of history than they reflected historical fact. These museums became important components of post-war government economic growth and employment policies. Shaped by political pressures and the need to balance education and entertainment; they reflected Canadians struggle to establish a pan-Canadian identity in the context of multiculturalism; competing nationalisms; First Nations resistance; and the growth of the state.
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