Ontario
Subtitle: image, identity, and power
By: Peter A. Baskerville.
Series: Illustrated history of Canada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Ontario -- History; Ontario -- Histoire; Ontario -- History
Description: "The image on the cover of this volume suggests many of the most common themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both separation from and links to the United States. It also omits much of the human conflict and human diversity that marks the province's past. As Peter Baskerville points out, Ontario was never the uniform entity that many Canadians have imagined. For example, the sharp physical division between north and south was reflected in the complex relations that existed between the Iroquoian peoples of the south and the Algonkian peoples of the north long before the first European settlers arrived." "Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power is generously illustrated with some 150 paintings, drawings, and photographs that shed their own light on Ontario's social, economic, and political evolution."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter One CHANGE AND EXCHANGE: 9000 BCE-1500 CE; title: Chapter Two CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION: 1580-1653; title: Chapter Three CONTESTED TERRAIN AND CULTURAL MIXING: 1653-1763; title: Chapter Four THE 'MEN WITH HATS': 1763-1791; title: Chapter Five RURAL LIFE: 1791-1871; title: Chapter Six TOWARDS A CANADIAN POLITY: 1791-1867; title: Chapter Seven ONTARIO IN THE NEW DOMINION: 1867-1905; title: Chapter Eight THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL ONTARIO: 1905-1923; title: Chapter Nine BOOM, BUST, AND WAR: 1923-1943; title: Chapter Ten MODERN ONTARIO: 1945-2000.