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So vast and various : interpreting Canada's regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by John Warkentin
Bib ID 5056285
Format BookBook
Description Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010 
xi, 508 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9780773537194 (bound)  0773537198 (bound)  9780773537385 (pbk.)  0773537384 (pbk.) 
Series

Carleton library series ; 219.

Full contents
  • Joseph Bouchette, The British Dominions in North America, 1831. Indian territories ; Upper Canada ; The river St Lawrence : The Great Lakes : the gulf : the canals ; Lower Canada ; Nova Scotia ; Cape Breton ; New Brunswick ; Prince Edward Island ; Newfoundland
  • George R. Parkin, The great dominion : studies of Canada, 1895. Introductory ; The North-West ; The North-West-continued ; Eastern Canada : Ontario ; Eastern Canada : the Maritime Provinces ; Eastern Canada : Quebec ; British Columbia ; Northern Canada : the great fur country; Labour, climatic determinism and migration
  • J.D. Rogers, A historical geography of the British Colonies, Canada : geographical, 1911. The far North-Land and its heroes ; The far East : Nova Scotia, the two islands and their people ; Links between far and middle East : New Brunswick and its people ; Other links between far and Middle East : peninsulas and islands of the gulf ; The core of Canada and the Middle East ; The Middle East : Quebec, or the province of two nations and one river ; The middle East : Ontario, one nation on three St. Lawrence valleys and beyond ; The middle West : prairie-land ; The many nations of prairie-land ; The far west and north-west, or the land of mountains ; The peopling and civilization of the far west
  • J.D. Rogers, A historical geography of the British Colonies : Newfoundland, 1911 (1931). Preface ; The beginnings of permanence ; Progress by land during the last period, 1818-1910 ; Fish
  • Harold A. Innis, A history of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1923. introduction ; The Pacific coast ; The Hudson Bay Drainage Basin ; On the St. Lawrence
  • R.C. Wallace, The Canadian Northland, 1930
  • Bruce Hutchinson, The unknown country : Canada and her people, 1942. Chez Garneau, Quebec ; The rock, Quebec City ; The wood choppers, Quebec ; St. Lawrence River : the ready way to Canada ; The wedge, Ontario ; Wood, Wind, and water, Nova Scotia, regionalism ; Fundy's children, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Gaspé ; The men in sheepskin coats, Manitoba, ethnic groups ; Drought and glut, Saskatchewan, the prairies ; The promised land, British Columbia ; The lotus eaters, Vancouver Island ; Cariboo Road, interior British Columbia
  • Bruce Hutchinson, Canada, tomorrow's giant, 1957. The misty island, Newfoundland ; The kingdom of Joe Howe, Nova Scotia ; The toy continent, Prince Edward Island ; The land of Peter Emberley, New Brunswick ; The lost peasant, Quebec ; The fortress, Quebec ; The homeland, Ontario ; The shield, Northern Ontario ; A little security, Manitoba ; The big farm, Saskatchewan ; The big dreamers, Alberta ; The long day, Alberta, Peace River country ; The trail's end, British Columbia
  • Bruce Hutchinson, major Canadian cities, The unknown country, 1842, and Canada, tomorrow's giant, 1957. The misty island, St. John's Newfoundland, 1956 ; Sailors' town, Halifax, 1941 ; The kingdom of Joe Howe, Halifax, 1956 ; The toy continent, Charlottetown, 1956 ; Fundy's children, Saint John, 1941 ; The land of Peter Emberley, Saint John, 1956 ; The home town, Fredericton, 1941 ; The land of Peter Emberley, Fredericton and Moncton, 1956 ; Mother of Canada and the rock, Quebec City, 1941 ; The fortress, Quebec City, 1956 ; Ville Marie, Montreal, 1941 ; The fortress, Montreal, 1956 ; Three o'clock Ottawa time, Ottawa, 1941; The cliff, Ottawa, 1956 ; The wedge, Toronto, 1941 ; The homeland, Toronto, 1956 ; The frontiersman, Winnipeg, 1941 ; The hub, Winnipeg, 1956 ; The big farm, Regina, 1956 ; The big dreamers, Calgary and Edmonton, 1956 ; The promised land, Vancouver, 1941 ; The big trees, Vancouver, 1956 ; The lotus eaters, Victoria, 1941 ; The big trees, Victoria, 1956
  • Thomas R. Berger, Northern frontier : Northern homeland, the report of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline inquiry, 1977. The North ; Cultural impact ; Economic.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Canada - Historical geography.  |  Canada - History - 19th century.  |  Canada - History - 20th century.
Other authors/contributors Warkentin, John, 1928-

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