How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century (Volume 1) (McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series)

Synopsis

Nineteenth-century Farm Families Needed Land For The Next Generation. Their Quest Shaped Agricultural Settlement Across Canada. This Overview Of Rural History In Quebec, Ontario, And The Prairies Provides A New Perspective On The Ways In Which Agriculture And The Family Farm Were Central To The Country's Expansion And Essential To Understanding Social, Political, And Economic Changes.--,How Agriculture Made Canada Shows How Differences Between The Agricultural Development Of Quebec And That Of Ontario Had A Decisive Influence On The Settlement Of The Prairies. Peter Russell Demonstrates That Farming Families Eventually Ran Out Of Land Against The Edges Of The St Lawrence Lowlands. While Quebec-based Habitants Reached Their Region's Limits Earlier, Ontario Encouraged People To Migrate West. Russell Argues That The Thousands Of Relocated Ontario Farmers Changed Manitoba's Bilingual Openness To An Exclusively English-speaking Province That Then Assimilated East European Arrivals. Thus, If Not For The Agricultural Crises In The Canadas, Manitoba Might Have Been At Least As Francophone As Anglophone.--