GEOG 2040Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Pattison Cockburn, Lower Canada, Natural Environment
13 Feb 2016
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Settlements involved a lot of chopping down trees. People commissioned to make plots of land. Converting wilderness through physical labour into european visions of. Early ontario an agricultural frontier (wood: 4) Settlers interacted with lands in the way they knew to survive. They knew the crops and animals, they brought them all here. Remade upper canada with their ideological ideas and ways from europe. Battling for survival after 1790 (wood: 11) Settlers did not understand how to live with the ecosystems that were here. Idea of lands being a waste if lands are not used. Natural environment profoundly and purposefully changed during the century. Created in 1791 in part to accommodate british loyalist from the united states following the american revolution. Lasted until 1841 when upper and lower canada were reunited as the new. Province of canada (separated again into ontario and quebec at confederation in.
