
Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier
Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley
Neil S. Forkey(Author)
University of Calgary Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2003
Book
Hardback
179 pages
978-1-55238-049-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 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.
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 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
8 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 4 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55238-049-9 (9781552380499)
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Person
Neil Forkey is Senior Lecturer in the Canadian Studies department at St. Lawrence University. He specializes in North American social and environmental history.