Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada's diverse regions. Projects include religion and ethnicity, migration, indigenous land practices, rebuilding a nineteenth-century neighborhood, and working with Google Earth.
With contributions by:
Colleen Beard
Stephen Bocking
Jennifer Bonnell
Jim Clifford
Joanna Dean
François Dufaux
Patrick A. Dunae
Marcel Fortin
Jason Gilliland
William M. Glen
Megan Harvey
Matthew G. Hatvany
Sally Hermansen
Andrew Hinson
Don Lafreniere
John S. Lutz
Joshua D. MacFadyen
Daniel Macfarlane
Jennifer Marvin
Cameron Metcalf
Byron Moldofsky
Sherry Olson
Jon Pasher
Daniel Rueck
R. W. Sandwell
Henry Yu
Barbara Znamirowski
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 910.285
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781552387085 9781552387443
- LCCN
- G70.217.H57
- LCCN Item number
- H57 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xix, 322 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234092 (OCoLC)872601338 (CaOOCEL)447261
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Series Page 3
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Contents 6
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8
- Introduction 10
- 1: Turning Space Inside Out:Spatial History and Race inVictorian Victoria 22
- 2: Mapping the Welland Canalsand the St. Lawrence Seawaywith Google Earth 48
- 3: Reinventing the Map Library:The Don Valley HistoricalMapping Project 64
- 4: The Best Seat in the House:Using Historical GIS to ExploreReligion and Ethnicity inLate-Nineteenth-Century Toronto 82
- 5: Stories of People, Land, and Water:Using Spatial Technologies toExplore Regional EnvironmentalHistory 104
- 6: Mapping Ottawa’s Urban Forest,1928–2005 132
- 7: “I do not know the boundariesof this land, but I know the landwhich I worked”: Historical GISand Mohawk Land Practices 150
- 8: Rebuilding a Neighbourhoodof Montreal 174
- 9: Growth and Erosion: A Reflectionon Salt Marsh Evolution in theSt. Lawrence Estuary Using HGIS 202
- 10: Top-down History:Delimiting Forests, Farms,and the Census of Agricultureon Prince Edward Island UsingAerial Photography, ca. 1900–2000 218
- 11: The Irony of Discrimination: Mapping Historical MigrationUsing Chinese Head Tax Data 246
- 12: Mapping Fuel Use in Canada:Exploring the Social Historyof Canadians’ Great FuelTransformation 260
- 13: Exploring Historical GeographyUsing Census Microdata:The Canadian Century ResearchInfrastructure (CCRI) Project 292
- Appendix A:Historical GIS Studies in Canada 308
- Select Bibliography 312
- Notes on Contributors 336
- Index 338
- Untitled 346
