摘要：For Canada's pLumers, geographers, and regional scientists, residential change in rural and small-town Canada is a subject of renewed interest (Oahms 1988; Hodge and Qadeer 1983; Joseph et al. 1988). One special case of residential change is the conversion of recreational residence properties to permanent residences. Such conversion generates changes in and demands on local areas, which the host community often finds difficult to manage. Conversion pressures include demands for new or improved levels of local services such as paved and widened roadways, sewers, a water supply, and garbage collection. Changing social structures resulting from conversion pressures a1so can generate conflicts over attitudes toward local norms, institutions, and economic development initiatives in rural communities. Under most existing land-use schemes, the conversion of recreational residence properties to permanent residences is difficult to manage, and most available institutional data bases do not readily track this kind of change.
