McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies – serie
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23 produkter
Lives of Lake Ontario
An Environmental History
Häftad, 2026
266 kr
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Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities.In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane …
Miramichi Fire
A History
Häftad, 2020
458 kr
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On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur …
Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent
The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898
Av J.I. Little
Häftad, 2021
438 kr
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The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's …
Cultivating Community
Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario
Av Jodey Nurse
Häftad, 2022
454 kr
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For close to two hundred years, families and individuals across Ontario have travelled down country roads and gathered to enjoy seasonal agricultural fairs. Though some features of township and county fairs have endured for generations, these community events have also undergone significant …
Being Neighbours
Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960
Inbunden, 2022
1621 kr
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Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making …
Being Neighbours
Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960
Häftad, 2022
512 kr
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Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making …
Lives of Lake Ontario
An Environmental History
Inbunden, 2024
353 kr
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Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowded its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities.In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane …
Rough Poets
Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
Inbunden, 2024
1424 kr
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Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath …
Rough Poets
Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath …
Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada's Norfolk County, 1792–1851
Av Colin Read
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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After the American Revolution, many Loyalists moved north, where the British colonial government awarded them generous land grants on favourable terms. The intention behind these grants was to create a landed gentry in Upper Canada that would safeguard the colony's political security and build …
Price of Gold
Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife
Häftad, 2025
396 kr
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Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environmental effects and left a troubled legacy.When two mining companies in Yellowknife began processing …
Not a Simpler Time
Essays in Canadian Rural and Economic History
Häftad, 2026
454 kr
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Although the great majority of Canadians lived in rural communities until the early 1900s, rural life has often been dismissed as marginal to the country’s economic development. Not a Simpler Time challenges this view, arguing that the strategies, skills, and work of rural families were the …
Consumers in the Bush
Shopping in Rural Upper Canada
Häftad, 2015
454 kr
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General stores are essential to the image of a colonial village. Many historians, however, still base their stories of settlement on the notion of rural self-sufficiency, begging the question: if general stores were so common, who were their customers? To answer this, Consumers in the Bush draws on …
Time and a Place
An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island
Av Edward MacDonald, Joshua MacFadyen m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada's "garden province" are appealing because they …
Permanent Weekend
Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification
Av John Michels
Häftad, 2017
497 kr
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North of the heart of Ontario's scenic Muskoka District are the Almaguin Highlands, a loosely organized collection of villages, townships, and municipalities. In the mid-1800s, the region was home to loggers and farmers, as well as seasonal residents in simple cottages and camps. Since then, the …
Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
Failures of Principle and Policy
Av Max Foran
Inbunden, 2018
540 kr
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Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of Canada's government and society to protect wildlife from human exploitation, Max Foran's The …
Flax Americana
A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent
Häftad, 2018
454 kr
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Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint – critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded …
At the Wilderness Edge
The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast
Av J.I. Little
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a …
Miramichi Fire
A History
Inbunden, 2020
1448 kr
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On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur …
Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent
The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898
Av J.I. Little
Inbunden, 2021
1434 kr
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The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's …
Cultivating Community
Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario
Av Jodey Nurse
Inbunden, 2022
1506 kr
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For close to two hundred years, families and individuals across Ontario have travelled down country roads and gathered to enjoy seasonal agricultural fairs. Though some features of township and county fairs have endured for generations, these community events have also undergone significant …
Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
Häftad, 2014
396 kr
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North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly …
Nature, Place, and Story
Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada
Inbunden, 2017
468 kr
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National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of a bigger story: the occupation and transformation of nature into nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there …
