| Description |
1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1 Acknowledging landscape -- Part I: Building old Ontario -- 2 The evolving vernacular -- 3 Natural and human history -- 4 Surveys and place names -- 5 Building materials and arts -- Part II: Reading individual features -- 6 Houses -- 7 Revealing details -- 8 Community buildings -- 9 Barns -- 10 Fences -- 11 Power and mills -- 12 Graves and monuments -- Part III: Examining clusters of features -- 13 Farms -- 14 Roadsides -- 15 Transport systems -- 16 Townscapes -- Part IV: Finding limits -- 17 Boundaries -- 18 Decay and renewal -- APPENDIX A: Structure and outside finish -- APPENDIX B: Halls -- APPENDIX C: A fence typology -- NOTES -- SUGGESTED READING -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
| Summary |
McIlwraith walks the reader through the southern Ontario landscape, showing how its field patterns, house designs, village layouts, and road structures reveal two centuries of development and change |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human geography -- Ontario, Southern
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Human geography
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Southern Ontario
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442676817 |
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1442676817 |
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