The image on the cover suggests many of the most prominent themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both separation from and links to the United States. What is not visible in the image is the human diversity that today may well be the province's most distinctive feature. In 1870, of course, such diversity would have been unimaginable to Ontarians, the majority of whom traced their roots to the British Isles. Nevertheless, as Peter Baskerville points out, Ontario was never the homogeneous entity that many Canadians have imagined. Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power is generously illustrated with roughly 150 paintings, drawings, and photographs that shed their own light on Ontario's social, economic, and political evolution.
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A specialist in pre-Confederation and nineteenth-century Canadian history. He teaches in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-author of A Concise History of Business in Canada.
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This review is from: Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power (Illustrated History of Canada / Oxford) (Paperback)
This was a very easy book to read, it wasn't the kind of book that dragged on about nothing important. I'm not the kind of person that sits down and reads non-fiction but I've now read most of this book...instead of writing my paper. The books starts by talking about native Canadians and ends up with Ontario's developments up to the year 2000. I found it very helpful that the book talks about how the north and south developed together based on natural resources and industry but also separately with consideration to culture.
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Twenty thousand years ago, ice completely covered the land that would become Ontario. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Canada, Five Nations, Upper Canadian, First Nations, Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, Six Nations, United States, Grand Trunk, Lower Canada, George Brown, New France, North America, Colonial Office, Great Western, First Peoples, Rice Lake, Canada West, Fort Frontenac, New York, Bay of Quinte, Hudson's Bay Company, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada East, Georgian Bay New!
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Twenty thousand years ago, ice completely covered the land that would become Ontario. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Canada, Five Nations, Upper Canadian, First Nations, Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, Six Nations, United States, Grand Trunk, Lower Canada, George Brown, New France, North America, Colonial Office, Great Western, First Peoples, Rice Lake, Canada West, Fort Frontenac, New York, Bay of Quinte, Hudson's Bay Company, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada East, Georgian Bay New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Patterns of the Past by Judy Hall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Historical Statistics of Canada by M.C. Urquhart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations by Edward S. Rogers in Back Matter
- Department of Agriculture: Forest Service: [Hc]: [1992-93]: House of Commons Papers: [1992-93] by Great Britain on page 139
- Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J M S Careless by David Keane in Back Matter
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