Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799-1871
by
Catharine Anne Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The freeholding pioneer is a powerful image in settlement history - Tenants in Time tells a different story. Tenancy, though relegated to the periphery by the liberal idealization of ownership, was a common and vital part of the economy and society. Against a background of international land agitation...