The reluctant land
Subtitle: society, space, and environment in Canada before Confederation
By: Cole Harris ; with cartography by Eric Leinberger.
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780774814492; 9780774814508
Subjects: Land settlement patterns -- Canada; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Canada -- History -- 1763-1867; Canada -- Historical geography; Canada -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1763 (Nouvelle-France); Canada -- Histoire -- 1763-1867 (Régime anglais); Canada -- Géographie historique
Description: Describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the late 1860s and early 1870s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lifeworlds, circa 1500; title: The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-1632; title: Acadia and Canada; title: The Continental Interior, 1632-1750; title: Creating and bounding British North America; title: Newfoundland; title: The Maritimes; title: Lower Canada; title: Upper Canada; title: The Northwestern Interior, 1760-1870; title: British Columbia; title: Confederation and the pattern of Canada.