This dissertation examines how changes in material culture and patterns of land use recreated the landscape of Fenelon and Verulam Townships, Ontario, between 1820 and 1900. Immigrants brought new visions of the landscape, productive techniques and forms of recreation. Though they had a clear understanding of the landscape they wanted to fashion, it was largely based on experience in Britain. As settlers and Ojibwas transformed the Kawarthas, they had to adapt this foreign culture to the conditions they found. This study explores processes of planning, surveying and distributing land; the establishment and operation of farms; manufacture of timber, lumber and other forest produce; the construction of canals and railways; hunting, trapping, ...
Various methods in exploitation of resources are investigated in this study from prehistory through ...
Early settlers in southern Ontario aspired to become prosperous land-owning farmers; they began by c...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...
Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, the Crown coordinated a revolution in l...
This dissertation examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the transformation o...
Southern Manitoba’s wet prairie region is marked by persistent problems with surface water managemen...
This dissertation examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the transformation o...
grantor: University of TorontoHistorians have rightly regarded the period from 1890 to 193...
In this thesis I recount the historical relationship between settlement and food lands in Southern O...
This study is an examination of frontier movement and economic development in a portion of the Canad...
This study investigates the land-use patterns of the Iroquoian populations that occupied south-cent...
This thesis is an exploration of Nishnaabeg geography in what is now known as Southern Ontario that ...
This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eas...
Canadians have developed a vocabulary of regionalism, a cultural shorthand that divides Canada into ...
This thesis studies change during the twentieth century at the lower reaches of the Winnipeg River i...
Various methods in exploitation of resources are investigated in this study from prehistory through ...
Early settlers in southern Ontario aspired to become prosperous land-owning farmers; they began by c...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...
Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, the Crown coordinated a revolution in l...
This dissertation examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the transformation o...
Southern Manitoba’s wet prairie region is marked by persistent problems with surface water managemen...
This dissertation examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the transformation o...
grantor: University of TorontoHistorians have rightly regarded the period from 1890 to 193...
In this thesis I recount the historical relationship between settlement and food lands in Southern O...
This study is an examination of frontier movement and economic development in a portion of the Canad...
This study investigates the land-use patterns of the Iroquoian populations that occupied south-cent...
This thesis is an exploration of Nishnaabeg geography in what is now known as Southern Ontario that ...
This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eas...
Canadians have developed a vocabulary of regionalism, a cultural shorthand that divides Canada into ...
This thesis studies change during the twentieth century at the lower reaches of the Winnipeg River i...
Various methods in exploitation of resources are investigated in this study from prehistory through ...
Early settlers in southern Ontario aspired to become prosperous land-owning farmers; they began by c...
This work focuses on nineteenth century private property deforestation and the clearing of vast port...