Canada Before Confederation
A Study on Historical Geography
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1991
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773582354
- Publish Date
- Apr 1991
- List Price
- $37.95
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This classic study in modern historical geography reflects the changing regional character of that part of North America that was to become Canada. "A pioneering bench-mark for future researchers, recognized for its scholarly as well as its literary qualities." Journal of Historical Geography.
About the author
Cole Harris is a Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of several books, including Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (UBC Press, 2002), which was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, and The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada Before Confederation (UBC Press, 2008), which won the Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. He lives in Vancouver, BC. To this day Harris and his family maintain a summer home on property originally staked out by his grandfather.