GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AND HISTORY OF CANADA

Abstract

Annotation: The first section of this two-part paper describes my historical  geographical career, particularly the topics and issues I have pursued and the changing intellectual environment in which they have been situated. The second section offers a summary interpretation of the emerging human geography of early-modern Canada  followed by some reflections on its contemporary implications. This interpretation stresses the extent to which boundaries and discontinuities marked early Canada, and  contrasts a pinched Canadian experience with the land with a far more expansive American one. It shows how deeply difference was constructed and ingrained in the  Canadian past, and suggests some challenges and opportunities that follow from this inheritance.