Places of Last Resort: The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940

✍ Scribed by J. David Wood

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tens of thousands of Canadian settlers faced the challenge of starting a farm in the near North in the 1910s, twenties, and thirties. In Places of Last Resort David Wood documents this last significant expansion of farm settlement in Canada and the often painful process of discovering that there was a limit to how far traditional farming could go.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Illustrations
Preface
1 The Impulse to Expand the Farm Frontier
2 New Territory, New People
3 Old Nature and the Challenges to Farm Settlement
4 Frontier Myth and Self-serving Agendas
5 Living the Marginal Experience, from Abitibi to Peace River
6 Reflecting on the Expansion into Marginal Lands
APPENDICES
A: The Frontier as Male Territory
B: The Canada Land Inventory Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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