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Vast in scope but confined by circumstances such as who went where and when, the social landscape of Canada evolved steadily from the end of the fifteenth century to about the last third of the nineteenth century. Harris (geography emeritus, U. of British Columbia) analyzes the changing patterns of Canadian settlement and the ways in which people related to the land. He shows how Europeans in a non-European space supplanted indigenous perceptions of the land and its purpose, and why geographical factors dictated how much settlement stayed so far south. He relates that long string of settlement, pegged to arable land, contrasted with the Us experience. he describes the experience of Acadia, Newfoundland, the Maritimes, lower and upper Canada, the northwestern interior and British Columbia established regionally-based societies, economies and relationships, and how those differences created modern Canada. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)