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Canada's Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940

Canada's Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940

Sandwell, R. W.

Paperback

Series: Themes in Canadian History

Canadian HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0802086160
ISBN13: 9780802086167
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Feb 15 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada's rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 - even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, isolated households and communities, and poor land, they typically relied on three ever-shifting pillars of support: the sale of cash crops, subsistence from the local environment, and wage work off the farm.

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