- Paperback: 520 pages
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (Nov 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0773537384
- ISBN-13: 978-0773537385
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #220,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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John Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor-general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J.D. Rogers, a British barrister and scholar; Harold Innis, the great economic historian; R.C. Wallace, a geologist with administrative experience in the North; Bruce Hutchison, a brilliant BC journalist with deep regional insights; and Thomas Berger, who presided over a Royal Commission on northern development in the 1970s. Warkentin’s introduction reveals how their descriptions and interpretations of Canada’s areas helped provide the perceptions that influence contemporary conceptions of the country – both its regions and as a whole.
About the Author
John Warkentin is a professor emeritus of geography at York University and the author of various books on Canada, including A Regional Geography of Canada: Life, Sand, and Space.
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