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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the million square kilometres that stretch from the rocks of the Canadian Shield to the fertileland around the Great Lakes from the time of the arrival of the First Peoples when interactionbetween cultures commenced social political and economic life has never ceased evolving. Thisbook is about that process.There are many Ontarios each with its own history. The impact of place on any individualor group?and their impact on it?is always filtered: by gender occupation age ancestry thetimes circumstances and relationships with other groups. A miner at Silver Islet on LakeSuperior in the late nineteenth century would understand his world quite differently than woulda manager or owner of the mine?or an Ojibwa dispossessed of ancestral lands.Whatever the context from the family to the province or country power relations constrictdefine and enable behaviour. Leaders may appeal to regional identity to further their agendas-Ontario’s have often excelled at that art?but no politician can represent all interests. Powerbegets resistance and the Ontario of those who resisted is as much a part of this history as arethe visions held by those in power.The images in this book give glimpses of the myriad social relations that have infused mean-ing into the notion of Ontario. Be it a painting photograph cartoon or map each is a productof its time a construction to be read. Of each we must ask Who created it? In whose interest?And if power had been in other hands how might it have been different?