GEO 793 Lecture 3: Week 3 Readings
7 Oct 2016
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Representing nature in elizabeth posthuma simcoe"s diary: an examination of toronto"s colonial past the british colonial presence in canada was focused more on wildness than the novelty of different plant species. Instead of being an entirely different setting that was exotic, upper. Canada (now ontario) seemed to be imagined as england before civilization," although stretched out over a greater geographic extent. As such, this pre-culture ideal easily became a discourse that was embedded in the history of the english landscape. Clearing trees for pastures, and setting up mills to process these trees for log cabins became rationalized as the obvious thing in the discourse of english knowledge as the correct knowledge. As indigenous scholars have discussed, this claimed and colonized knowledge of the land began a process of cultural domination and exploitation that has had devastating effects for local and global environments.
