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So Vast and Various
John Warkentin
其他書名
Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2010-11-01
主題History / Canada / General
ISBN077359101X9780773591011
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lj9j7nZSPeQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.