A bounded land : reflections on settler colonialism in Canada

Harris, Cole 1936- (author.).

Summary: "Canada is a bounded land --- a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized --- for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike --- when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people's experiences on the ground, he exposes the underlying architecture of colonialism, from first contacts, to the immigrant experience in early Canada, to the dispossession of First Nations. In the process, he unearths fresh insights on the influence of Indigenous Peoples and argues that Canada's boundedness is ultimately drawing it towards its Indigenous roots." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0774864419
ISBN: 9780774864411
Physical Description: print
x, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Part 1: Early Encounters -- The Fraser Canyon Encountered -- Imagining and Claiming the Land -- Voices of Smallpox around the Strait of Georgia -- Part 2: Early Settlements -- Acadia: Settling the Marshlands -- Of Poverty and Helplessness in Petite-Nation -- The Settlement of Mono Township -- Part 3: The Architecture of Settlement -- European Beginnings in the Northwest Atlantic -- The Overseas Simplification of Europe -- Creating Place in Early Canada -- Part 4: Reconfiguring British Columbia -- The Making of the Lower Mainland The Struggle with Distance -- Indigenous Space -- Part 5: Theorizing Settler Colonialism -- Making an Immigrant Society -- How Did Colonialism Dispossess? -- Postscript: The Boundaries of Settler Colonialism