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Looking for old Ontario : two centuries of landscape change
- Title
- Looking for old Ontario : two centuries of landscape change / Thomas F. McIlwraith.
- Author
- McIlwraith, Thomas F.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GF512.O57 M35 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 400 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- Looking for Old Ontario guides the traveller through the vernacular landscape of the province, to look in a new way at barns and fences, jails and post offices, inns and mills, canals and railways, roadsides, cemeteries, and much, much more. To McIlwraith's trained eye, even the most ordinary features of the cultural landscape can communicate social meaning. He shows us how to date a house. He explains the popularity of brick in the province. He notes the economical use and reuse of materials and ponders their meaning. He helps us look with fresh eyes at 'the unexceptional, the ordinary, the vernacular, ' for it is there, he believes, that we may uncover the character of those who have built and rebuilt old Ontario. This book will be useful to general readers anywhere who are interested in recognizing the broader meanings of their communities' heritage, as well as the students of geography, history, and planning.
- Subject
- Human geography > Ontario, Southern
- Landscape assessment > Ontario, Southern
- Buildings > Ontario, Southern > History
- Human geography > Ontario
- Buildings
- Historical geography
- Human geography
- Landscape assessment
- Landschaft
- Architektur
- Volksarchitektur
- Géographie sociale > Ontario (Sud)
- Paysage > Ontario (Sud) > Histoire
- Constructions > Ontario (Sud) > Histoire
- Paysage > Évaluation > Ontario (Canada)
- Geschichte 1800-1997
- Ontario, Southern > Historical geography
- Ontario
- Southern Ontario
- Canada, Ontario > Description and travel
- Canada, Ontario > Dwellings
- Canada, Ontario > History
- Ontario (Sud) > Géographie historique
- Ontario (Canada)
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Acknowledging landscape -- 2. The evolving vernacular -- 3. Natural and human history -- 4. Surveys and place names -- 5. Building materials and arts -- 6. Houses -- 7. Revealing details -- 8. Community buildings -- 9. Barns -- 10. Fences -- 11. Power and mills -- 12. Graves and monuments -- 13. Farms -- 14. Roadsides -- 15. Transport systems -- 16. Townscapes -- 17. Boundaries -- 18. Decay and renewal -- Appendix A. Structure and outside finish -- Appendix B. Halls -- Appendix C.A fence typology.
- ISBN
- 0802007082
- 9780802007087
- 0802076580
- 9780802076588
- LCCN
- 97161352
- OCLC
- ocm35976495
- 35976495
- SCSB-538761
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library