A uniquely beautiful record of Canada's early development, this volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada explores the relationship between what is now Canada and its people, from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The early traces date back some 12000 years. From this starting point at the end of the late Wisconsinan glacial maximum, the atlas provides an unprecedented outline of Canadian prehistory and the early historic period. The first 18 remarkable maps describe the settlements, cultural development, agriculture, and economic systems of the Indian and Inuit peoples of Canada and their predecessors.
The volume goes on to illuminate the social and economic impact of European exploitation, trade, and settlements, looking in detail at relations between Europeans and native peoples. Richly detailed plates describe the movements of the new arrivals, the fisheries around Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence, the French colonization in Acadia and the St Lawrence valley, the development of agriculture, the growth of towns, the expansion of the fur trade, and its impact on the various native nations and on the West generally.
Unlike most historical atlases, which focus on geopolitical events and their territorial consequences, this volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada and its two companion volumes emphasize the circumstances of ordinary life. Much attention is paid to the small agricultural settlements and early towns in which Canadians lived during this period. Large-scale maps show individual settlements; small-scale maps explain how the patterns of distribution and trade shaped the growth of these settlements and, in turn, of Canada.
An extraordinarily rich picture of our past emerges from the combination of text and graphic material in this volume, an illustration of Canada's early development that no other document has ever offered. With the other two volumes of the atlas, it presents a splendid visual record of the roots of our society and the evolution of the intensely regional, culturally diverse nation we know today.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 14
- Preface 16
- Acknowledgments 19
- Prehistory 20
- 1 THE LAST ICE SHEET, 18 000–10 000 BC 27
- 2 THE FLUTED POINT PEOPLE, 9500–8200 BC 29
- 3 SOUTHERN ONTARIO, 8600 BC 31
- 4 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AFTER 9000 BC 33
- 5 THE PLANO PEOPLE, 8500–6000 BC 35
- 6 CULTURAL SEQUENCES, 8000–4000 BC 37
- 7 CULTURAL SEQUENCES, 4000–1000 BC 39
- 8 CULTURAL SEQUENCES, 1000 BC–AD 500 41
- 9 CULTURAL SEQUENCES, AD 500–EUROPEAN CONTACT 43
- 10 BISON HUNTERS OF THE PLAINS 45
- 11 PEOPLING THE ARCTIC 47
- 12 IROQUOIAN AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT 49
- 13 THE COAST TSIMSHIAN, ca 1750 51
- 14 PREHISTORIC TRADE 53
- 15 COSMOLOGY 55
- 16 NORSE VOYAGES AND SETTLEMENT 57
- 17 ECOLOGICAL REGIONS, ca AD 1500 59
- 17A DESCRIPTIONS OF ECOLOGICAL REGIONS 61
- 18 POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE 63
- The Atlantic Realm 66
- 19 EXPLORING THE ATLANTIC COAST 71
- 20 THE ATLANTIC REALM 73
- 21 THE MIGRATORY FISHERIES 75
- 22 THE 16TH CENTURY FISHERY 77
- 23 THE 17TH CENTURY FISHERY 79
- 24 ÎLE ROYALE, 18TH CENTURY 81
- 25 THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, 18TH CENTURY 83
- 26 TRINITY, 18TH CENTURY 85
- 27 ST JOHN'S 87
- 28 THE FISHERY IN ATLANTIC COMMERCE 89
- 29 ACADIAN MARSHLAND SETTLEMENT 91
- 30 ACADIAN DEPORTATION AND RETURN 93
- 31 PRE-LOYALIST NOVA SCOTIA 95
- 32 MARITIME CANADA, LATE 18TH CENTURY 97
- Inland Expansion 100
- 33 THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY, 16TH CENTURY 107
- 34 SETTLEMENTS AND MISSIONARIES, 1615–1650 109
- 35 THE GREAT LAKES BASIN, 1600–1653 111
- 36 FRENCH EXPLORATION 113
- 37 RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF TRADE, 1654–1666 115
- 38 EXPANSION OF FRENCH TRADE, 1667–1696 117
- 39 TRADE AND EMPIRE, 1697–1739 119
- 40 FRANCE SECURES THE INTERIOR, 1740–1755 121
- 41 FRENCH INTERIOR SETTLEMENTS, 1750s 123
- 42 THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR 125
- 43 THE BATTLES FOR QUEBEC, 1759–1760 127
- 44 INDIAN WAR AND AMERICAN INVASION 129
- The St Lawrence Settlements 132
- 45 THE FRENCH ORIGINS OF THE CANADIAN POPULATION, 1608–1759 137
- 46 RESETTLING THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY 139
- 47 NATIVE RESETTLEMENT, 1635–1800 141
- 48 CANADIAN NORTH ATLANTIC TRADE 143
- 49 THE TOWNS 145
- 50 THE TOWN OF QUÉBEC, 18TH CENTURY 147
- 51 THE SEIGNEURIES 149
- 52 THE COUNTRYSIDE 151
- 53 THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY 153
- 54 EXPLOITATION OF THE GULF OF ST LAWRENCE 155
- 55 THE HOUSE, 1660–1800 157
- 56 THE WOODEN HOUSE 159
- The Northwest 162
- 57 RUPERT'S LAND 167
- 58 EXPLORATION FROM HUDSON BAY 169
- 59 INDIAN MAPS 171
- 60 BAYSIDE TRADE, 1720–1780 173
- 61 COMPETITION AND CONSOLIDATION, 1760–1825 175
- 62 TRADING POSTS, 1774–1821 177
- 63 TRANSPORTATION IN THE PETIT NORD 179
- 64 FUR-TRADE SETTLEMENTS 181
- 65 PEOPLES OF THE BOREAL FOREST AND PARKLAND 183
- 66 NEW CALEDONIA AND COLUMBIA 185
- 67 EXPLORATION IN THE FAR NORTHWEST 187
- Canada in 1800 190
- 68 EASTERN CANADA IN 1800 193
- 69 NATIVE CANADA, ca 1820 195
- Notes 198
