Places of last resort : the expansion of the farm frontier into the boreal forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940 /

Northerly locations were desperately sought out after more accessible land further south was taken up. Wood identifies the demographic characteristics of the surging population of land-seekers, showing how some aspects echoed those of earlier settlers. The northern settlers of the interwar years gra...

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Main Author: Wood, J. David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
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