Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter iii
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: A Context for Upper Canada and its Settlement xvii
6. Distribution, Site and Morphology of Prehistorical Settlements in the Toronto Area 6
7. A Military Colony in a Wilderness: The Upper Canada Frontier 32
8. Transportation in the Landscape of Early Upper Canada 51
9. The Impact of Nineteenth Century Agricultural Settlement on the Land 64
10. An Introduction to Forest Exploitation in Nineteenth Century Ontario 78
11. Early Settlement in Contrasting Areas of Peterborough County, Ontario 117
12. The Canada Company and Land Settlement as Resource Development in the Guelph Block 141
13. Kingston in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Urban Decline 159
14. Cobourg and Port Hope: The Struggle for Control of “The Back Country” 183
15. Epilogue 197
16. Some References on the Historical Geography of Upper Canada 200
17. List of Contributors 211
18. Index 214