So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by John Warkentin

John Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor-general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J.D. Rogers, a British barrister and scholar; Harold Innis, the great economic historian; R.C. Wallace, a geologist with administrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773537384
• ISBN13: 9780773537385
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"