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Author Harris, Cole, 1936-

Title The reluctant land : society, space, and environment in Canada before Confederation / Cole Harris ; with cartography by Eric Leinberger.

Publication Info. Vancouver : UBC Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  F1026 .H348 2008    Available  ---
Description xxii, 486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Lifeworlds, circa 1500 -- The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-1632 -- Acadia and Canada -- The Continental Interior, 1632-1750 -- Creating and bounding British North America -- Newfoundland -- The Maritimes -- Lower Canada -- Upper Canada -- The Northwestern Interior, 1760-1870 -- British Columbia -- Confederation and the pattern of Canada.
Subject Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term To 1763 (New France)
Subject Canada -- History -- 1763-1867.
Chronological Term 1763-1867
Subject Canada -- Historical geography.
Historical geography.
Land settlement patterns -- Canada.
Land settlement patterns.
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