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Historical geography, History, Land settlement patternsPlaces
Essex (County), Essex (Ont. : County), OntarioTimes
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Land, power and economics on the frontier of Upper Canada
2001, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773520627 9780773520622
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 The Land Revealed: The Physical Background / 3
2 Peace, Order, and Good Government:
The Organization of a Landscape / 35
3 Acquiring Indian Land in the Era
of the Land Boards / 94
4 European Land Acquisition after the First
Land Board / 155
5 The Market for Land: Sales in Essex to
Mid-century / 208
6 Buying on Credit: The Upper Canadian
Dilemma / 264
7 Who Were the Speculators and How Extensive
Was Speculation? / 295
8 The Strategies of Speculators / 336
9 Land and Power / 379
10 The Corporate Sector / 424
11 Context and Conclusion / 443
Appendices
1. Essex Soil Quality and Drainage / 469
2.1 Survey Documents / 471
2.2 Documentary Sources for the Reconstruction of the
Crown and Clergy Reserves / 474
2.3 Documentary and Map Sources of Patent Data for Essex
County, Ontario / 476
2.4 McKee Treaty of 1790 / 477
2.5 Survey Systems of Essex County and Dates of
Survey / 479
2.6 Number and Type of Establishment in Each
Centre / 480
2.7 List of Speculators with at Least 400 Acres in
One Period or Three Parcels of Unknown Acreage
or at Least Three Transactions / 481
7.2 Membership in Clusters, Based upon Measures
of Similarity of Acreage Owned, Total Number
of Transactions, and Length of Time Held / 485
7.3 Essex Biographical Research / 486
8.1 Sheriff's Deeds in Essex County, 1818-52 / 513.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [651]-706) and index.
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