TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forkey Neil S
TI  - Shaping the Upper Canadian frontier: environment, society, and culture in the Trent Valley 
SN  - 1552380491
AV  - FC3095.T7 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Calgary
PB  - University of Calgary Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Ontario
KW  - Trent River Valley
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Trent River Valley Ont
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 139-154; 1. Introduction -- Ecological Locale: The Trent Valley as a Living Place -- Human Cultures: The Settlement and Resettlement of Trent Valley -- Nature and National Narrative in Canada -- 2. Changes in Mississauga Lands: Ecology and Economy, 1790s-1830s -- Mississagua Lands -- Resistance -- Adaption and Persistence -- Toward Resettlement -- 3. Creating New Home Places: Anglo-Celtic Migrants, 1820s-1850s -- Ecological Locales: Ireland -- Human Cultures: Ireland -- Making a Home Place: Ecological Locales and Human Cultures of the Trent Valley -- 4. Damning the Dam: Ecology and Community in Ops Township -- "The largest mill-dam in the world" -- The Natural Setting -- Second Nature: Toward a Home Place -- Second Nature: The Pre-industrial Context -- Second Nature: The Trent Canal, Purdy's Mill, and Threats to Home Place -- Crafting a Defence of Public Rights -- Nature Responds -- Conclusion -- 5. The Road from Bobcaygeon: Lumber and Colonization, 1850s-1870s -- The Natural Setting -- Second Nature: Regional Expansion and the Lumberman's Vision -- Second Nature: The Settlers' Reality: Occupational Pluralism on the Northern Frontier -- Local Knowledge: Road Construction and the Folly of Settlement -- Postscript: Toward an Era of Conservation -- Conclusion -- 6. The Trent Valley Oracle: Catharine Parr Traill -- Natural History: Catharine's Early Years -- Second Nature: Homing in the Backwoods -- Second Nature: The "Canadian Gilbert White" -- 7. Conclusion
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