Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one
hundredth annivarsary of the founding of the Ontario Historical
Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of
Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its
objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the
study of Ontario's past. The purpose of this book is both to
commemorate and to carry on that wrothy tradition.
Introduced by Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario, and edited by
Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton MacDowell, this
distinctive volume is a landmark not only in the Society's history
but in the prince's historiography.
Eighteen scholars have pooled their talents to fashion a volume
of fresh interpretive essays that chronicle and analyze the whole
scope of Ontario's rich and varied past. New light is thrown on our
understanding of early native peoples, rural life in Upper Canada,
the opening of the North, the impact of railways, and the growth of
businesses and institutions. And there is much social study here
too, especially of the new roles for women in industrial society,
of working class experience, of ethnic groupos, and of children in
our society's past. As well, there are innovative treatments of the
conservation movement, of science's role in provincial society, and
of the relationship between society and culture in small towns.
Anyone with an interest in the history of Canada's most populous
province will find much in this coprehensive collection.
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