Historical GIS Research in Canada

Jennifer Bonnell is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University. Marcel Fortin is the Map and GIS Librarian at the University of Toronto's Map and Data Library. He is also a sessional lecturer in both the Geography Department and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Stephen Bocking is a Professor of Environmental History and Policy in the Trent School of the Environment at Trent University. Jennifer Bonnell is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University. Joanna Dean is associate professor of History at Carleton University, where she teaches animal history and environmental history. Marcel Fortin is the Map and GIS Librarian at the University of Toronto's Map and Data Library. He is also a sessional lecturer in both the Geography Department and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Daniel Macfarlane is an assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Turning Space Inside Out: Spatial History and Race in Victorian Victoria John S. Lutz, Patrick A. Duane, Jason Gilliand, Don Lafreinere, and Megan Harvey 2. Mapping the Welland Canals and the St. Lawrence Seaway with Google Earth Colleen Beard, Daniel Macfarlane, and Jim Clifford 3. Reinventing the Map Library: The Don Valley Historical Mapping Project Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin 4. The Best Seat in the House: Using Historical GIS to Explore Religion and Ethnicity in Late-Nineteenth Century TorontoAndrew Hinson, Jennifer Marvin, and Cameron Metcalf 5. Stories of People, Land, and Water: Using Spatial Technologies to Explore Regional Environmental History Stephen Bocking and Barbara Znamirowski 6. Mapping Ottawa's Urban Forest, 1928-2005 Joanna Dean and Jon Pasher 7. ""I do not know the boundaries of this land, but I know the land which I worked"": Historical GIS and Mohawk Land Practices Daniel Rueck 8. Rebuilding a Neighbourhood of Montreal Francois Dufaux and Sherry Olson 9. Growth and Erosion: A Reflection on Salt Marsh Evolution in the St. Laurence Estuary using HGIS Matthew G. Hatvany 10. Top-Down History: Deliniating Forests, Farms and the Census of Agricultural on Prince Edward Island Using Aerial Photography, ca. 1900-2000Joshua D. MacFayden and William M. Glen 11. The Irony of Discrimination: Mapping Historical Migration Using Chinese Head Tax DataSally Hermansen and Henry Yu 12. Mapping Fuel Use in Canada: Exploring the Social History of Canadian's Great Fuel Transformation R.W. Sandwell 13. Exploring Historical Geography Using Conesus Microdata: The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) Project Byron MoldofskyAppendix AL Historical GIS Studies in Canada Select Bibliography Notes on ContributorsIndex

Significantly raises the bar . . . The contributors to this volume have made a stunning case for the use of spatial history to better understand the interactions between people and place in Canadaâs past. Ken Sylvester, The Canadian Historical Review