So Vast and Various : Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries PDF
by John Warkentin
Part of the Carleton Library Series series
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John Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor-general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J.D.
Rogers, a British barrister and scholar; Harold Innis, the great economic historian; R.C.
Wallace, a geologist with administrative experience in the North; Bruce Hutchison, a brilliant BC journalist with deep regional insights; and Thomas Berger, who presided over a Royal Commission on northern development in the 1970s.
Warkentin's introduction reveals how their descriptions and interpretations of Canada's areas helped provide the perceptions that influence contemporary conceptions of the country - both its regions and as a whole.
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- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2010
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780773591011
