| This study explores how people throughout history have come to know and ascribe meaning to landscape and place. It focuses on the case study of the Toronto Carrying Place, a unique cultural landscape that while of great antiquity, continues to resonate with people today. This thesis draws together a wide array of theoretical perspectives, research methods, and data to create an original and innovative exploration of the Toronto Carrying Place, a series of land and water routes that connected Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay. I suggest that cultural landscapes, past and present, can be known in three ways, whether by local peoples or outsiders: people make sense of landscape by living it, by discussing it, and by imagining it. An exploration of cultural landscapes through different ways of knowing allows for a nuanced narrative, one that encompasses the various historically specific, individually experienced, and culturally constructed ways people connect and ascribe meaning to place. |
