Historical essays on Upper Canada : new perspectives / edited by J.K. Johnson and Bruce G. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Bruce G., Author.

Contributor:

Johnson, J. K. (James Keith), 1930-

Wilson, Bruce G.

Series:

Carleton library series ; 146.

Carleton library series ; no. 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontario--History.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (604 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of articles provides a fresh look at the multi-faceted history of Upper Canada. As well as new perspectives on themes in economic, social and political history, essays are included on topics of concern to contemporary scholars such as nati

Contents:

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Dispossession of the Mississauga Indians: a Missing Chapter in the Early History of Upper Canada

2. The Disposition to Settle: the Royal Highland Emigrants and Loyalist Settlement in Upper Canada, 1784

3. Geographical Aspects of Land Speculation in Essex County to 1825: The Strategy of Particular Individuals

4. Forest into Farmland: Upper Canadian Clearing Rates, 1822-1839

5. Peopling Glengarry County: The Scottish Origins of a Canadian Community

12. Bureaucracy vs. Community? The Origins of Bureaucratic Procedure in the Upper Canadian School System13. Option for Elite women in Early Upper Canadian Society: The case of the Powell Family

14. Town Fathers and Urban Continuity: The Roots of Community Power and Physical Form in Hamilton, Upper Canada, in the 1830s

15. Donald Bethune's Steamboat Business: A Study of Upper Canadian Commercial and Financial Practice

16. An Enduring Canadian Myth: Government and Family Compact

17. The Oligarchy of the Western District of Upper Canada 1788-1841

6. Migration, Pioneer Settlement, and the Life Course: The First Families7. Irish Immigrants and the Critical Yearsin Eastern Ontario: The Case of Montague Township, 1821-1881

8. The Internal Economy of Upper Canada: New Evidence on Agricultural Marketing Before 1850

9. Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s

10. Paupers and Poor Relief in Upper Canada

11. Preconditions of the Canadian State: Educational Reform and the Construction of a Public in Upper Canada, 1837-1846

18. Egerton Ryerson and the Methodist Model for Upper Canada19. Crime in the London District, 1828-1837: A Case Study of the Effect of the 1833 Reform in Upper Canadian Penal Law

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-86398-3

9786612863981

0-7735-7354-2

OCLC:

1148140230