Particular types of nature-based tourism programs, including multi-day children’s overnight/residential summer camp canoe tripping programs in North America, often (re)produce (neo)colonial constructions of nature and the “wilderness.” The purpose of this paper is to expose how wilderness is constructed and circulated in the context of a particular summer camp’s canoe trips in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Within this paper, we identify how specific legacies of colonialism are maintained and redeployed through the practices and representations of summer camp canoe trippers. Specifically, analyses show how canoe trippers (re)produce and (re)enact the wilderness as seemingly empty, untouched, and pristine spaces. Drawing on a Foucauldian-styled discourse analysis, this research exposes recurrent power relations that normalize, re-inscribe, and enable unjust wilderness discourses on Canadian summer camp canoe trips.

特定类型的基于自然的旅游项目，包括北美多日儿童过夜/住宅夏令营独木舟之旅项目，通常（重新）生产（新）殖民自然和“荒野”建筑。本文的目的是揭示在加拿大安大略省阿尔冈昆省立公园的特定夏令营划独木舟旅行的背景下，荒野是如何构建和传播的。在本文中，我们确定了如何通过夏令营独木舟旅行者的实践和表现来维护和重新部署殖民主义的特定遗产。具体而言，分析显示了独木舟旅行者如何（重新）生产和（重新）将荒野打造为看似空旷、未受影响和原始的空间。借鉴福柯式的话语分析，这项研究揭示了经常化的权力关系，