Making Ontario: Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway

By J. David Wood

Book Overview

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. Ontario was a going concern before the railway came - the railway simply streamlined the increasing trade with an international market that drew on Ontario for a multitude of farm products and a continuing output from the woods. Making Ontario provides a detailed focus on the theme of environmental modification at a time of great changes, liberally illustrated with analytical maps based on archival research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773520481
• ISBN13: 9780773520486
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"