Looking for old Ontario : two centuries of landscape change / Thomas F. McIlwraith.
1997
GF512.O57 M35 1997
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Title
Looking for old Ontario : two centuries of landscape change / Thomas F. McIlwraith.
Author
ISBN
9781442676817 (electronic bk.)
1442676817 (electronic bk.)
0802007082 (bound)
0802076580 (pbk.)
9780802007087
9780802076588
1442676817 (electronic bk.)
0802007082 (bound)
0802076580 (pbk.)
9780802007087
9780802076588
Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
GF512.O57 M35 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)666906036
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Print version: McIlwraith, Thomas F. Looking for old Ontario. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997
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