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Author McIlwraith, Thomas F

Title Looking for old Ontario : two centuries of landscape change / Thomas F. McIlwraith
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Acknowledging landscape -- 2. The evolving vernacular -- 3. Natural and human history -- 4. Surveys and place names -- 5. Building materials and arts -- 6. Houses -- 7. Revealing details -- 8. Community buildings -- 9. Barns -- 10. Fences -- 11. Power and mills -- 12. Graves and monuments -- 13. Farms -- 14. Roadsides -- 15. Transport systems -- 16. Townscapes -- 17. Boundaries -- 18. Decay and renewal -- Appendix A. Structure and outside finish -- Appendix B. Halls -- Appendix C.A fence typology
Summary Looking for Old Ontario guides the traveller through the vernacular landscape of the province, to look in a new way at barns and fences, jails and post offices, inns and mills, canals and railways, roadsides, cemeteries, and much, much more. To McIlwraith's trained eye, even the most ordinary features of the cultural landscape can communicate social meaning. He shows us how to date a house. He explains the popularity of brick in the province. He notes the economical use and reuse of materials and ponders their meaning. He helps us look with fresh eyes at 'the unexceptional, the ordinary, the vernacular, ' for it is there, he believes, that we may uncover the character of those who have built and rebuilt old Ontario. This book will be useful to general readers anywhere who are interested in recognizing the broader meanings of their communities' heritage, as well as the students of geography, history, and planning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human geography -- Ontario, Southern
Landscape assessment -- Ontario, Southern
Buildings -- Ontario, Southern -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
Buildings
Historical geography
Human geography
Landscape assessment
Landschaft
Architektur
Volksarchitektur
Géographie sociale -- Ontario (Sud)
Paysage -- Ontario (Sud) -- Histoire.
Constructions -- Ontario (Sud) -- Histoire.
Paysage -- Évaluation -- Ontario (Canada)
Geschichte 1800-1997.
SUBJECT Ontario, Southern -- Historical geography
Subject Southern Ontario
Ontario
Ontario (Sud) -- Géographie historique.
Ontario (Canada)
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442676817
1442676817