Making Ontario
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0773518924 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The strength of the book is its capacity to draw together the considerable body of diverse scholarly writing that has been produced over the past two decades and to set his into a framework that permits the reader to see Ontario's first generation of settlement for what it was." Peter Ennals, VP Academic and Research, Mount Allison University. "Making Ontario is a highly interesting synthesis of Ontario's colonization and of the implementation of the constituent elements that would lead to the province's socioeconomics Wood's significant synthesis, and approach of historical geography is a valued spatial contextualisation, illustrating the subtleties involved in Ontario's development during the first half of the 19th century." Jean-Claude Robert, Department of History, Université du Québec à Montréal.
"Useful; Useful; 3.5 Stars A specialized and interesting book on the transformation of southern Ontario in the first half of the 19th century. The author is a historical geographer and the structure of the book reflects his disciplinary orientation in positive and negative ways. The positive features are that this book is based on a serious effor. .5 Stars" according to R. Albin. A specialized and interesting book on the transformation of southern Ontario in the first half of the 19th century. The author is a historical geographer and the structure of the book reflects his disciplinary orientation in positive and negative ways. The positive features are that this book is based on a serious effor
The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously out of the confusion and uncertainty following the American Revolution, as a quickly chosen refuge for some 10,000 Loyalists who had to leave their former homes. Making Ontario provides a detailed focus on environmental modification at a time of great changes. It is liberally illustrated with analytical maps based on archival research.. The scale of the change from forest to cropland profoundly affected what had been for many decades a rich environment for life forms, from large herbivores down to microscopic creatures. Wood traces the various threads that went into creating a successful farming colony while documenting the sacrifice of the forest ecosystem to the demands of progress, progress that prepared the ground for the railway. In Making Ontario David Wood shows that the most effective agent of