Rural Life in Canada - 9780802061454

Rural Life in CanadaThe Church and the Farm Problem, 1913\nAuthor(s): John MacDougall, Craig Brown\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802061454, 978-0802061454\nSynopsis\nThe study of the problems of rural life that were thought to underlie eastern agrarian discontent in the first quarter of this century was published originally in 1913 under the auspices of the Board of Social Service and Evangelism of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. It has been republished in an attempt to counter the bias of social historians who tend to emphasize the industrial and urban problems of a changing society. Most Canadians lived in a rural environment not so many years ago and their problems -- depletion of the rural population and its economic and social causes and consequences -- are surveyed here in the special context of the work of the country church. \nThe 1911 census had shown Canada's rural life to be in peri.