Liberty, Equality and Tourism: D. C. Harvey, Prince Edward Island, and the Power of Tourism/History, 1931–1956

Daniel Cobb Harvey (1886–1965) was one of the most renowned of the twentieth-century historians of Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Although he served from 1931 to 1956 as the provincial archivist of Nova Scotia, he was throughout his entire adult life passionately committed to the history of his native Prince Edward Island. An ardent proponent of bringing the British liberal enlightenment to all Canadians, Harvey worked assiduously from the 1920s …