Shaping The Upper Canadian Frontier

Author : Neil Stevens Forkey
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056920435

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Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier by Neil Stevens Forkey Pdf

Neil Forkey makes a significant contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. Themes of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley are brought into wider perspective with comparisons to other areas of contemporary settlement throughout the British Empire and North America. Forkey begins by placing his study within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. The Trent Valley's geography, prehistory, and Native peoples, the Huron and the Mississauga, are discussed alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations and resettlement of the area. Careful attention is devoted to the life and nature writings of Catherine Parr Traill. Her descriptions of life and environmental changes in the Valley point the way to a keener understanding of Canadian attitudes about the natural world during the nineteenth century. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley is the story of the Trent Valley during the nineteenth century, one of a settler society and a microcosm for wider human and environmental changes throughout North America.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773540262

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Lion, The Eagle, and Upper Canada, Second Edition by Elizabeth Jane Errington Pdf

How an early Canadian identity came to be.

Author : William Canniff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Canada
ISBN : LCCN:72101261

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The Settlement of Upper Canada by William Canniff Pdf

Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774821049

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An Environmental History of Canada by Laurel Sefton MacDowell Pdf

Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness, abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada's contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images � deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and a thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from First Peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about � and look at � Canada.

Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : [Leicester, Eng.] : Leicester University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004986439

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The Myth of the American Frontier by Robin W. Winks Pdf

Author : Andrew Watson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867863

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Making Muskoka by Andrew Watson Pdf

Muskoka. Now a premier destination for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka uncovers the connections between lived experience and identity in rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield. This rocky section of Ontario was transformed from an Indigenous homeland to a settler community and a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers. But what were the consequences for those who lived there year-round?

Author : William Wye Smith
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550028041

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William Wye Smith by William Wye Smith Pdf

William Wye Smith, Upper Canadian poet and publisher, provided his unique perspective on pioneer life in this compilation of anecdotes from his experiences.

Author : R. Alan Douglas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344491

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Uppermost Canada by R. Alan Douglas Pdf

Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.

Author : Graeme Wynn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781851094424

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Canada and Arctic North America by Graeme Wynn Pdf

This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. From the arrival of the earliest humans to the very latest scientific controversies, the environmental history of Canada and Arctic North America is dramatic, diverse, and crucial for the very survival of the human race. Packed with key facts and analysis, this expert guide explores the complex interplay between human societies and the environment from the Aleutian Islands to the Grand Banks and from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Islands How has the challenging environment of America's most northerly regions—with some areas still dominated by native peoples—helped shape politics and trade? What have been the consequences of European contact with this region and its indigenous inhabitants? How did natives and newcomers cope with, and change this vast and forbidding territory? Can a perspective on the past help us in grappling with the conflict between oil exploration and wilderness preservation on the North Slope of Alaska? Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this unique work charts the region's environmental history from prehistory to modern times and is essential reading for students and experts alike.

Author : W. M. Canniff
Publisher : Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783846051719

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History of the Settlement of Upper Canada [Ontario] by W. M. Canniff Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author : Claire Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0774810998

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Shaped by the West Wind by Claire Elizabeth Campbell Pdf

"Claire Campbell draws from recent work in cultural history, landscape studies in geography and art history, and environmental history to explore what happens when external agendas confront local realities - a story central to the Canadian experience. Explorers, fishers, artists, and park planners all were forced to respond to the unique contours of this inland sea; their encounters defined a regional identity even as they constructed a popular image for the Bay in the national imagination."--Jacket.

Author : S. Sörlin,P. Warde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230245099

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Nature's End by S. Sörlin,P. Warde Pdf

Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.

Author : Neil S Forkey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442662261

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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century by Neil S Forkey Pdf

Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history.

Author : James Maurice Stockford Careless
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014546025

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Frontier and Metropolis by James Maurice Stockford Careless Pdf

Author : Donald B. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802094278

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Mississauga Portraits by Donald B. Smith Pdf

Donald B. Smith's Mississauga Portraits recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe who lived during this period – all of whom are historically important and interesting figures, and seven of whom have never before received full biographical treatment.