Land, power and economics on the frontier of Upper Canada
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Montreal & Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 The Land Revealed: The Physical Background / 3
- 2 Peace, Order, and Good Government:
- The Organization of a Landscape / 35
- 3 Acquiring Indian Land in the Era
- of the Land Boards / 94
- 4 European Land Acquisition after the First
- Land Board / 155
- 5 The Market for Land: Sales in Essex to
- Mid-century / 208
- 6 Buying on Credit: The Upper Canadian
- Dilemma / 264
- 7 Who Were the Speculators and How Extensive
- Was Speculation? / 295
- 8 The Strategies of Speculators / 336
- 9 Land and Power / 379
- 10 The Corporate Sector / 424
- 11 Context and Conclusion / 443
- Appendices
- 1. Essex Soil Quality and Drainage / 469
- 2.1 Survey Documents / 471
- 2.2 Documentary Sources for the Reconstruction of the
- Crown and Clergy Reserves / 474
- 2.3 Documentary and Map Sources of Patent Data for Essex
- County, Ontario / 476
- 2.4 McKee Treaty of 1790 / 477
- 2.5 Survey Systems of Essex County and Dates of
- Survey / 479
- 2.6 Number and Type of Establishment in Each
- Centre / 480
- 2.7 List of Speculators with at Least 400 Acres in
- One Period or Three Parcels of Unknown Acreage
- or at Least Three Transactions / 481
- 7.2 Membership in Clusters, Based upon Measures
- of Similarity of Acreage Owned, Total Number
- of Transactions, and Length of Time Held / 485
- 7.3 Essex Biographical Research / 486
- 8.1 Sheriff's Deeds in Essex County, 1818-52 / 513.