Canada`s Rural Majority – Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940
Canada's Rural MajorityHouseholds, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940\nAuthor(s): Ruth Sandwell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802088468, 978-0802088468\nSynopsis\nBefore the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canadas 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.\n\n Canadas Rural Majority is an engaging and accessible history of this distinctive experience, including not only Canadas farmers, but also the hunters, ga.
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