Author: John Ladell
Publisher: Dundrun Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This lively look at farm history and settlement patterns in Ontario centres on over 30 farms in all parts of the province. Half of these farms have been in the family since 1784 or earlier. These family portraits show the remarkable breadth of farming in Ontario.
Annual Report of the Farmers' Institutes of the Province of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Trends in Ontario Agriculture, Farm Prices, Acreages, Crop and Livestock Production
Author: Blair Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Farm in the Family
Author: John Ladell
Publisher: Dundrun Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This lively look at farm history and settlement patterns in Ontario centres on over 30 farms in all parts of the province. Half of these farms have been in the family since 1784 or earlier. These family portraits show the remarkable breadth of farming in Ontario.
Publisher: Dundrun Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This lively look at farm history and settlement patterns in Ontario centres on over 30 farms in all parts of the province. Half of these farms have been in the family since 1784 or earlier. These family portraits show the remarkable breadth of farming in Ontario.
Cultivating Community
Author: Jodey Nurse
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009995
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For close to two hundred years, families and individuals across Ontario have travelled down country roads and gathered to enjoy seasonal agricultural fairs. Though some features of township and county fairs have endured for generations, these community events have also undergone significant transformations since 1850, especially in terms of women’s participation. Cultivating Community tells the story of how women’s involvement became critical to agricultural fairs’ growth and prosperity. By examining women’s diverse roles as agricultural society members, fair exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, Jodey Nurse shows that women used fairs’ manifold nature to present different versions of rural womanhood. Although traditional domestic skills and handicrafts, such as baking, needlework, and flower arrangement, remained the domain of women throughout this period, women steadily enlarged their sphere of influence on the fairgrounds. By the mid-twentieth century they had staked out a place in venues previously closed to them, including the livestock show ring, the athletic field, and the boardroom. Through a wealth of fascinating stories and colourful detail, Cultivating Communities adds a new dimension to the social and cultural history of rural women, placing their activities at the centre of the agricultural fair.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009995
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For close to two hundred years, families and individuals across Ontario have travelled down country roads and gathered to enjoy seasonal agricultural fairs. Though some features of township and county fairs have endured for generations, these community events have also undergone significant transformations since 1850, especially in terms of women’s participation. Cultivating Community tells the story of how women’s involvement became critical to agricultural fairs’ growth and prosperity. By examining women’s diverse roles as agricultural society members, fair exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, Jodey Nurse shows that women used fairs’ manifold nature to present different versions of rural womanhood. Although traditional domestic skills and handicrafts, such as baking, needlework, and flower arrangement, remained the domain of women throughout this period, women steadily enlarged their sphere of influence on the fairgrounds. By the mid-twentieth century they had staked out a place in venues previously closed to them, including the livestock show ring, the athletic field, and the boardroom. Through a wealth of fascinating stories and colourful detail, Cultivating Communities adds a new dimension to the social and cultural history of rural women, placing their activities at the centre of the agricultural fair.
Making Ontario
Author: John David Wood
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously out of the confusion and uncertainty following the American Revolution, as a quickly chosen refuge for some 10,000 Loyalists who had to leave their former homes. After the War of 1812 settlers began to spread throughout the inter-lake peninsula that was to become southern Ontario and by the middle of the nineteenth century expansion had led to a diversifying agriculture and an increasingly open farming landscape that replaced a mature forest ecosystem. The scale of the change from forest to cropland profoundly affected what had been for many decades a rich environment for life forms, from large herbivores down to microscopic creatures. In Making Ontario David Wood shows that the most effective agent of change in the first century of Ontario's development was not the locomotive but settlers' attempts to change the forest into agricultural land. Wood traces the various threads that went into creating a successful farming colony while documenting the sacrifice of the forest ecosystem to the demands of progress, progress that prepared the ground for the railway. Making Ontario provides a detailed focus on environmental modification at a time of great changes. It is liberally illustrated with analytical maps based on archival research. J. David Wood is professor of geography and urban studies at Atkinson College, York University.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The colony that became Ontario arose almost spontaneously out of the confusion and uncertainty following the American Revolution, as a quickly chosen refuge for some 10,000 Loyalists who had to leave their former homes. After the War of 1812 settlers began to spread throughout the inter-lake peninsula that was to become southern Ontario and by the middle of the nineteenth century expansion had led to a diversifying agriculture and an increasingly open farming landscape that replaced a mature forest ecosystem. The scale of the change from forest to cropland profoundly affected what had been for many decades a rich environment for life forms, from large herbivores down to microscopic creatures. In Making Ontario David Wood shows that the most effective agent of change in the first century of Ontario's development was not the locomotive but settlers' attempts to change the forest into agricultural land. Wood traces the various threads that went into creating a successful farming colony while documenting the sacrifice of the forest ecosystem to the demands of progress, progress that prepared the ground for the railway. Making Ontario provides a detailed focus on environmental modification at a time of great changes. It is liberally illustrated with analytical maps based on archival research. J. David Wood is professor of geography and urban studies at Atkinson College, York University.
Ontario's Cattle Kingdom
Author: Margaret Elsinor Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048660
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The story of the purebred cattle breeders' world includes nineteenth-century medical opinions and strategies for disease control, the evolution of cattle associations, and the development of state regulation.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048660
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The story of the purebred cattle breeders' world includes nineteenth-century medical opinions and strategies for disease control, the evolution of cattle associations, and the development of state regulation.
Report of the Minister of Agriculture
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Annual Report of the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm
Author: Ontario Agricultural College
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Report of the Minister of Agriculture
Author: Ontario. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
History of Agriculture in Ontario 1613-1880
Author: Robert Leslie Jones
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Ontario's agricultural development, first published in 1946, is a classic of scholarship and readability. It will appeal not only to agriculturalists and historians but also to anyone interested in life in early Ontario.