A "Colony of Unrequited Dreams"? Settler colonialism and the failed-settlement narrative in the Ottawa-Huron Tract, 1850-1910

In the 1850s, the government of Canada West initiated a project to colonize a vast region of the Canadian Shield known as the Ottawa-Huron Tract. Later, in his influential interpretation, Arthur Lower argued the myth of the inexorable forward movement of the settlement frontier was here shattered b...

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Main Author: Murray, Derek
Other Authors: Sager, Eric W.
Format: Others
Language:English
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9225