Making Ontario
Subtitle: Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780773518926
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Social history; History - General History; Farm Management; Forest Ecology; Ontario, Southern; History: World; Ontario; Canada - General; Environmental Science; Agricultural colonies; History; Land settlement; Land use
Description: "The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously as some 10,000 Loyalists moved there following the American Revolution. After the War of 1812 settlers began to spread throughout the interlake peninsula and by the middle of the nineteenth century a mature forest ecosystem was increasingly replaced by farms. The scale of change from forest to cropland profoundly affected the environment. Liberally illustrated with analytical maps, Making Ontario details environmental change before the appearance of the railway."--BOOK JACKET.