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Steel City
From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is presented in the nineteen essays that make up this volume, all by geographers associated with Hamilton's McMaster University. Change is the essence of the story. Each contributor focuses on one aspect of the past, present, or future landscapes of Hamilton, and places it within the context of change in the region. The first series of essays explores physical landscapes – geology and relief, climate, soil...
The Double Reed
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Labouring Children
Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities. Between 1868 and 1925 eighty thousand British boys and girls, mostly under fourteen, were apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants in rural Canada. A surprising feature is the involvement of the Evangelicals, who considered that they were giving children from poor homes a fresh start in the world, yet who were otherwise famed for their emphasis on the virtues of close family ties; and conversely, the parents of the children, largely labourers, who were at the time regarded as too ground down by econom...
Making and Adjusting Single Reeds
Subjects include breaking-in cutting reeds from tubes, cane equipment, miscellaneous "ideas and suggestions," sources for cane and equipment, bibliography.
This Side of Heaven
What motivated a group of men in southwestern Ontario to enter the Donnelly farmhouse in 1880 and bludgeon the family to death? Feltes' rigorously Marxist approach situates the murders in a compelling web of economic, social, and geographical structures.
The Science of Defying Gravity
A middle grade STEM novel about an 11 YO girl who enters a science fair to win the chance to attend Space Camp and achieve her dream of becoming a movie director in space.
