In establishing the range of an Historical Geography it is often wise, for the sake of clarity, to outline those things which are not within the scope of a particular work as well as its actual aim. It is not the aim of this thesis to present a complete historical geography of Brome Countyr nor is it intended to examine selected aspects of the history of the country, simply placing them in their geographical setting in order to show the influence of environment. Rather,its role is to reconstruct the economie landscape of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at meaningful points of cross-section and to ·show how that landscape evolved in its many facets from a virgin wilderness to its present condition. Its purpose is furthermore to provide a source from which can be learned how the present-day problems which face Brome County arose and, with this knowledge as background, how these problems might be overcome. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118315 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Booth, John Derek. |
| Contributors | Innes, F. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Geography.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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