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The reluctant land : society, space, and environment in Canada before Confederation

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  • Author: Harris, Cole
    Date:
    Copyrighted
    2008
    Summary:

    Describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the late 1860s and early 1870s.

    Contents:
    • Lifeworlds, circa 1500
    • The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-1632
    • Acadia and Canada
    • The Continental Interior, 1632-1750
    • Creating and bounding British North America
    • Newfoundland
    • The Maritimes
    • Lower Canada
    • Upper Canada
    • The Northwestern Interior, 1760-1870
    • British Columbia
    • Confederation and the pattern of Canada.
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, History and geography
    Subject(s): Canada | Land settlement patterns | Historical geography | Human ecology | Human geography
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, UBC Press
    Language(s): English