Preface -- Territory, networks, and tools -- Dr. Jean-François Gaultier: New France's climatologist -- Clearing and cultivation: eighteenth-century climate improvement -- British-American weather observers to 1830 -- McCord and the Montreal Natural History Society -- Nineteenth-century scientists question climate amelioration -- Meteorology and the military -- The magnetic crusade and the founding of the Toronto Observatory -- Medical meteorology -- The establishment of the Meteorological Service of Canada -- The McGill Observatory and the professionalization of meteorology -- What do three centuries of observations tell us? -- Extraordinary seasons -- Glossary
Summary
Investigates the work of early Canadian weather observers who were schooled and working in the scientific tradition inherited from Europe, the scientific community they built, and their attitudes toward climate change.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2018)
