For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas. Mining operations are a good example: they have a profound impact on local communities...

Cover -- Contents -- The Ontario Historical Studies Series -- General Preface -- Preface -- Tables -- Part One: Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What People Did -- Part Two: The Land and the New Frontiers -- 3 Agriculture, 1867-1941 -- 4 Ontario's Mining Industry, 1870-1940 -- 5 The North and the...

Reciprocity and Dispossession: Processes of Transformation -- Monopoly and Competition: Contests over Indigenous Peoples’ Labour and Land -- Honour and Duplicity: Debts of Rivals, Dreams of an Aristocrat -- Servitude and Independence: The Settler Colonial “Experiment” Begins -- Menace and...