J. David Wood

Places of Last Resort (eBook, ePUB)

The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years grappled with demanding conditions, which required new adaptations. They were supported in their efforts by politicians, bureaucrats, and religious leaders who had less than innocent reasons for endorsing what were questionable settlement experiments in unopened or abandoned areas. The book includes a series of gripping case studies to illustrate both the face of failure and what appear to have been the ingredients for success in marginal areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MQUP
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780773578098
• Artikelnr.: 41460920

Autorenporträt

J. David Wood is professor of geography, York University, and the author of several books including Making Ontario: Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation before the Railway.