Author: James Edward Woycke

Publisher: FCN

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0968233236

Dr. James Woycke spent more than a decade researching the history of Canadian nudism form Newfoundland to Vancouver island and in the USA. Dr. Woycke, a history professor at the University of Western Ontario, reviewed nearly a century of magazines, records and correspondence of nudist clubs and organizations. In addition to those thousands of documents, he interviewed dozens of naturists from Canadian and Canadian-American clubs. The result is a fascination look into the often controversial development of nudism as it challenged Canadian legal and social norms.