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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
SENATE
.............
P.PPOSED GRADUATE CURRICULUM
CHANGES - HISTORY
From........
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Date
.......
17, 198.
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Graduate Studies
at its meeting of November 14, 1983, gives rise to the following motion:-
MOTION:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board
of Governors, as set forth in S.83-106, the following:-
i) New course proposals -
HIST 835-5 Political and Economic History of Canada
HIST 836-5 Themes in the Social and Cultural History
of Canada
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ii) Deletion of -
HIST 840-5
HIST 841-5
HIST 842-5
British Columbia
Canada to 1850
Canada since 1850."
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J.M. Webster
Dean of Graduate Studie

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To......John Webster
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Chairman,
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Graduate Curriculum Changes -
Subject.
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SaUflderS
Chairman, Faculty of Arts
Date....
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198.
The Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee at its meeting of
October 11, 1983, approved the deletion of HIST 840-5, HIST 841-5 and
HIST 842-5 and the new course proposals for lIST 835-5 and 836-5. These
changes involve the reorganization of the Canadian History courses to
eliminate the apparent chronological ordering of the material, and sub-
stitute a grouping by subject matter. We realize that new course proposals
will be required and we will forward these in the next couple of days.
R. Saunders
SR/md
c.c. B. Palmer, History
SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
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Dr. Ross Saunders
To
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Chairman, Faculty of Arts
....... Greduate•SbdiesGornmittee.......
Change in Course Offerings
Subject
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Bryan D. Palmer,
From ........
Chairman; Grad at Stt1tesCor.
History Department
30 March 1983
Date
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Attached are the course offering changes for the graduate program
in the History Department. These changes have been approved by
the department's graduate studies committee and by the department
as a whole.
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I am forwarding these to you for
consideration in
the Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Committee.
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MEMORANDUM
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Helen Gray, Senior. -Librarian for...
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History and Political Science -
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October
#835, 836
The changes that the History Department will be making in two of its
graduate Canadian history courses will be a rearrangement of content only,
not an expansion into new areas of study. The revisions will group history
by subject rather than by era. Together the new courses will cover the
same material as their predecessors and will require no additional library
purchases.
The SFU Canadian history collection of books, journals, and source
materials of all kinds, is comprehensive and has been well able to support
the PhD programme which has been in effect since 1970. These materials
are reinforced by equally intensive collecting for Canadian economics and
the fine collections for the law, anthropology and sociology of the country
as well.
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Proposed Changes in Course Offerings, Graduate Program, 1983
I'.
After a meeting
of the
Canadian historians and consultation with the
Graduate Committee,
it is
suggested that department course offerings
to graduate students be altered.
?
The calendar currently lists History
840-5 British
Columbia, History
841-5 Canada to 1850, and History
842-5
Canada
since 1850. We propose dropping History 840-5
British Columbia and in the place of History
841-5 and History' 842-5,
substituting
the following two courses.
History
835-5
?
Political and Economic History of Canada
Covering in
some depth the essential political and economic
contours of Canadian development and the interpretive
approaches possible in examining them.
History 836-5
?
Themes in the Social and Cultural History of Canada
Covering in some depth various and/or selected social and
cultural
aspects of the Canadian past, including the histories
of native
peoples, women, the working class, ethnic groups,
regions, and art.
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Rationale for proposed changes in calendar offerings to graduate students
in Canadian history.
Courses Dropped
History 840-5, British
Columbia has been offered infrequently at best,
and it is
the consensus of those that would be teaching this course
that it should not be offered on the grounds that material covered in
this course would be covered in more broadly-based courses on the history
of Canada. However, students taking this course would be likely to be
doing theses on the British Columbia experience, and would thus be engaged
In extensive reading in the province's history as a matter of course.
Thus, to avoid overspecialization and repetition of reading this course
should be dropped.
History.
841-5, Canada to 1850 has also been offered infrequently, and when
offered
has drawn restricted
(even
for a graduate course) numbers. Because
it is
now on the books, it presents the illusion of a course offering, and
since this offering has seldom materialized we propose dropping this course.
Moreover, it is the Canadianists
contention that the chronological demarcation
of post and pre 1850 no longer adequately addresses the teaching needs and
abilities
of the faculty and students involved in the program. Thus, we
want to substitute courses that will cover the sweep of chronological and
topical processes at the core of Canadian history.
?
In proposing that
History 841-5, Canada to 1850, be dropped, we are not endorsing, implicitly
or explicitly, any notion that the pre-1850 period is unimportant and should
not be taught. ?
Rather, we are trying, in the substitutions proposed below,
to insure, in fact, that the pre-1850 period be covered in instruction.
Courses Added
History 835-5,. Political and Economic History of Canada
This course may cover much of the ground currently being developed
in
History
842-5, now on the books, Canada since 1850, and I enclose the syllabus
used by Professor Seager. ?
It will be. noted that as
ProfessorSeagei
has taught History 842-5 it has focussd on the political and economic
history of Canada since 1850, and the course covers the essential political
and economic contours of Canadian development, with some comment as well
on the social history of these years.
?
The proposed History 835-5, Political
and Economic History of Canada may follow this same format, focussing on the
post-1850 (railway age) history of Canada. But the exact chronology of
this course will be determined by the instructor, and some, faculty may
wish to extend this political and economic treatment of Canadian history
back into the epoch of the staples trade, New France, etc.
itoy 836-5, Themes in the Social and
00.1 - Aira 1 li';tu:y
of
Canada
This course is designed to address the interests, needs, and concerns of our
reaching faculty and our graduate students. A wide, range of topics may he
covered here, according to the discretion of specitic instructor/s. It is
possible that this course could be team taught, with various faculty members
directing seminars in their areas of expertise/interest. There are no

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chronological, boundaries here, it being felt that
d
epending on the topics
addressed, treatment accorded various themes will cover large blocks of
experience. We aim to provide concentrated discussion on particular
themes as well as a broad introduction to issues of relevance in understand-
ing the social and cultural history of Canada.
Finally, these courses are meant to be offered as a package, in sequence,
with one course offered in the fall, another in the spring. Unlike the past,
when only one course has been offered, then, this is an attempt to provide
our program with continuity, to give students a firm sense of course offerings,
covering a range of issues, materials, and chronological settings. It is
also an attempt to get away from the pattern developing whereby graduate
students do so much of their course work in the isolating and insular format
of the directed readings course vith'.an individual instructor.
For all of these reasons, therefore, we propose dropping from the calendar
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the currently designated Histories 840, 841 and 842, and substituting in their
stead the above-described Histories 835 and 836.
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SIX')N FRASER LJN1VESITY
New Graduate Course Pronosal ror,
CALENDAR
INFORMATION:
Department:
?
HISTORY ?
Course
umbar:HIST 835
Title: ?
Political and Economic Histor
y
of Canada
Description:
(no description in Calendar)
Credit
Hours:
5 ?
Vector:
0-5-0
Prerequiite(s) if any
: -
ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
510 ?
When will the course first be offered:
Fall,1984
How often will the
course be offered:
once_per_year
JUSTIFICATION:
See attached
RESOURCES:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:____________________________________________
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course:
none -
3 courses have been dropped
Are there sufficient Library resources (a
pp
end details):
yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b) An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to give the course.
c)
Library resources
Approved: Departmental Graduate Studies Comnittee:
Faculty Graduate Studies ConLttee:
Faculty:_
Senate Cr
Senate:
Date:
Date:
Date:
pate:
?
S
Date:

HISTORY 835-5
is ?
Fall 1983
Veronica Strong-Boag
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF CANADA
S
History
8
1
41_5 surveys selected issues in the historiography and
themes of Canadian political and economic history with an emphasis on the
20th century. A major goal will be to equip students to teach a college
level course In the field.
?
Substantial amounts of reading are expected
for the biweekly seminars. Students are asked to develop a good sense
both of the general issues raised by the readings as a whole and the
specific problems treated by individual books and articles.
Evaluation will be based on participation in seminars
(30)
and two
pieces of written work
(35
each) dealing with aspects of Canadian
historiography. The seminar reading lists may be used as a starting
point for bibliographic purposes. Students are to write on two of the
topics outlined or parts thereof, in consultation with the instructor.
Students are expected to go substantially beyond the seminar's assigned
readings. ?
It is their responsibility to define their subject matter
in such a way that it can be fully and properly treated within 15-20
typed p3ges. The first of these essays is due the week of October 214th;
the second is expected the week of December 5th. Those students feeling
the need to consult a primer in the subject should consult Carl Berger's
The Writing of Canadian History.
Seminar Schedule
I. ?
Introduction
2. C
haracteristics of a National Political Economy
3.
The Relationship of Business and Government
4.
The Labour Movement and the State
5.
The Politics of Regionalism and Nationalism
6.
Movements of Protest
7 ?
'Big Government s
or the Social Welfare State
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Allen
Seager
#;O2Z
Tel. No. 291-3528
HISTORY 83S-5
Fall, 1982
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF CANADA
History 842 will attempt a survey of the historiography and the
main
themes of Canadian histor y
slnre 1850. ?
A malor goal
will be to?
equip the students to teach
a college-level course c1 a
similar nature.
Evaluation will be based
on participation in the weekly seminars, and
two pieces of written work
dealing with aspects of Canadian historiography.
The Weekly reading lists
may be used for bihl1orahtic
purposes, students
writing on two of the topics outlined or parts
thertof, in consultation
with the instructor.
?
The first of these essays, approximately
fifteen pages (t
y
ped) in length, will he due
by 1' November.
?
Those
students feeling the need Lo consult: a prinivr in
'
Olt- sub jtc
I.
art,
referred to
Carl flerger' s The Writing of Canadian (Ii t''r
y
. ?
As many?
items as feasible
have been placed on Library Reserves
(see attached),
but the list is
by no means exhausted. ?
Students will
find
that many of
the books and journals for
11-842 are already on rt'srv, under such course
titles
as Canadian Studies 160 or Canadian Studies 28.
The list: of topics to
he covered in tht cnnrst :o
?
(ni 10w5;
I ?
Foundations
of
a National Political Economy
2. Party, Faction. and (:nfederation
3 ?
The Politics of Federalism, 18€7-1890
4.
The National Policy
and the "Wheat Economy"
5.
New Approaches to the Nineteenth Century: Class and
Community in
Hamilton, Ontario
6.
Portest and Reform Thought Before
1914
7.
Imperialism and Nationalism in Canada
8.
The Great
War
and Canadian Society
9.
The
"Age
of Mackenzie King" Part One 1919-1929
10.
Ibid, Part
Two,
1930-1939
11.
[bid, Part Three, 1940-49
12.
Quebec
and Canada Since 1945
13.
Social history and the history of Soul itv
r
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Approved: Departr'ental Graduate Studies Co-m
.; ittee:
Faculty Graduate Studies Couittee:
te:
tc:/O/2
Faculty:
Senate C
Senate:
V ?
D.tte:_____________
SIXON FRASER UNIVERSITY
New Gradua:e Course Proiossl ror
CALENDAR INFORMATION:
Department:
HISTORY ?
Course
Nuaber:HIST_836
Title: ?
Themes in the Social and Cultural History of Canada
Description:
no description in Calendar
Credit Hours:
?
5
?
Vector:
0-5-0 ?
Prerequiite(s) if an y : -
ENROLLMENTANDSCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrolluaent:.
?
S-10 ?
When will the course first be offered:
Spring1985
How often will the course be offered:
onceperyear
JUSTIFICATION:
See attached
f
RESOURCES:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:____________________________________________
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course:_
none - three courses have been dropped
Are there sufficient Library resources (aoend details):
yes
Appended: a) Outline of the Course
b)
An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to give the
course.
c)
Library
resources

.
1984
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SFU
Bryan Palmer 291-3521
525-7941
GRADUATE SEMINAR, CANADIAN HISTORY
HISTORY 836: Themes in the Social and Cultural History of Canada
Coercion and Consent in the Canadian Past
The history of political rule in the Canadian past is associated
with specific historiographical traditions of biography, analysis of
electoral activity, and the specific policies andpracticesof the two
major parties and their third-party opponents. Similarly, the history
of economic life also has its historiographical schools, marked out by an
interpretive stress upon the staple, the business corporation, or the
power elite. Beyond such analytic ventures 1ie.a murky history of
coercion and consent, interrelated processes through which political rule
is consolidated and economic power sustained. This course takes selected
aspects of the Canadian historical experience and attempts to explore
the ways in which coercion and consent were fashioned and challenged.
It is thus conceived as an explanation of subordinate and accommodation.
Needless to say there is no explicit literature about
This
topic, and
our coverage of the Canadian past will necessarily he incomplete. But
these themes introduce us to a variety of issues of significance in the
social and cultural history of Canada and are, moreover, directly
related to the more visible history of political and economic life.
format
We will meet seven times over the course of the semester, or
roughly every two weeks after an initial discussion meeting. Specific
core readings, the equivalent of two books per meeting, will be assigned
to all seminar participants. These readings must be done, although
reasonable substitutions, discussed within the class and accepted by
the class can be made. Every student will be required to lead one
seminar, at the least, and for this seminar supplementary readings may
be done. The seminar should be an explanation of the problematic
fOr
coercion and consent within the general topic under discussion. The
readings, core and supplementary must NOT simply he summarized (we will
all have done the reading). Rather they are to provide you with ideas
and a basis for discussion, debate, and speculation. Critiques and
challenges to the readings, of course, may well be in order, but attempts
should be made to express such critiques within a broad concern for the
themes of coercion and consent.

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Course Responsibilities and Grading
All students are required to undertake the responsibility of leading
one seminar discussion. All students are also required to engage in
weekly debate and critical reflection on the literature. In addition,
students are required to produce a written piece of work. As this is
a discussion seminar, this written assignment need not be a lengthy
research essay, although students who want to undertake such a project
and feel they can complete it should consult with the instructor. For
those with no ambitions in this direction
?
20 page review essay on
the literature associated with a particular subject (Canadian material
can be integrated with non-Canadian, including empirical, theoretical,
methodological issues) germane to this course will be required. Your
grade, if this is acceptable to yOu all, will he comprised of 50%written
assignment, 30% seminar discussion and participation, and 20% for seminar
presentation. Responsibilities of MA and PhD students may vary.
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Meeting
I: Native Peoples
Core Reading: ?
Robin Fisher, Contact and Conflict.
Rolf Knight,. Indians at Work.
or
?
-
Calvin Martin, Keepers of the Game.
Sheppard Krech,Ifl, ed., Indians
-
,Animals, and
the Fur Trade.
Supplementary reading: Calvin Martin, "The European Impact on the Culture of
a Northeastern Algonquian Tribe: An Ecological
Interpretation," William & Mary Quarterly,
310anuary 1974), 3 -26, also in Goss and
Kealey social history reader, Vol. I.
Calvin Martin, "The Four Lives of a Micmac Copper Pot,"
Ethnohistory, 22 (1975), 111 - 133.
E.E. Rich, "Trade Habits and Economic Motivation amono the
Indians of North America," Canadian Journal of
Economics and Political Science, 26 (February
1960). 35 - 53.
L.F.S. Upton, "The Extermination of the Beothuks,"
Canadian Historical Review, 58 (June 1977),
133 - 153.
Cornelius J. Jaenen, "Amerindian Views of French Culture
in the Seventeenth Century," Canadian Historical
Review, 55 (September 1974). 261 - 2917
Cornelius Jaenen, "Problems of Assimilation in New
France," French Historical Studies, 4 (1966),
265 - 289, also in Bumsted, Canadian History
Before Confederation.
Cornelius J. Jaenen,"Conceptual Frameworks for French
Views of America and Amerindians," French Colonial
Studies, 2 (1978), 1-22.

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Meeting II. Work and Class Formation
Core reading: ?
Bryan Palmer, Working-Class Experience.
H.C. Pentland, Labour and Capital in Canada,
1650-1860.
Judith Fingard, Jack in Port.
Supplementary reading: Gerald M.Sider "Mumming in Outport Newfoundland,"
Past & Present, 71 (May 1976).
.Bryan Palmer,
-
"Social Formation and Class Formation in?
19th Century North America," Unpublished.
E. P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial
Capitalism," Past & Present, 38 (December 1967),
56-97.
Gordon, Edwards, and Reich, Segemented Work, Divided
Workers.
Leo A. Johnson, "The development of class in Canada in
the Twentieth Century," in Gary Teeple, ed.,
Capitalism and the National Question in Canada.
fl
Meeting III. Crime and Punishment
Core readings: ?
John Beattie, Attitudes Towards Crime and
Punishment in Upper Canada, 1830 - 1850:
A Documentary Study (Toronto: University of
Toro
nto Centre of Criminology, 1977).
Bryan Palmer, "Kingston Mechanics and the Rise of
the Penitentiary, 1833 - 1836," Histoire socialef
Social History, 13 (1980), 7 - 32.
Paul Craven, "The Law of Master and Servant in Mid-
Nineteenth Century Ontario,"
in
David Flaherty,
ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law,
175 - 211.
Douglas Hay, "Property, Authority, and the Criminal
?
Law," in Hay, et al, Albion'sFatal Tree.
Graham Parker, "The Origins of the Canadian Criminal
Code," in Flaherty, ed., Essays in the History
of Canadian Law, 249 - 280.

Meeting IV: The Family: Domestic Labour and Domestic Control
Core reading: ?
Meg Luxton, More Than a Labour of Love.
Joy Parr, ed., Childhood and Family in Canadian
History.
Supplementary reading: Bonnie Fox, ed., Hidden in the Household: Women's
Domestic Labour Under Capitalism.
Bryan Palmer, "Discordant Music: Charivaris and
Whitecapping in 19th Century North America,"
LILT, 3 (1978). 5 - 62.
BettinaBradbury. "The Family Economy and Work in an
Industrializing City: Montreal in the 1870s,"
CHA Papers (1979), 71 - 96.
Terrence Crowley, "Thunder Gusts: Popular Disturbances
in Early French Canada," CHA Papers, (1979):
11 - 31.
James Henretta, "Families and Farms: Menta1it in
Pre-industrial America," William & Mary
Quarterly, 35 (January 19781, 3 - 32.
Meeting V: The Word
Core reading: ?
Allison Prentice, The School Promoters.
Paul Rutherford, A Victorian Authority.
Supplementary reading: Russell Hann, "Brainworkers and the Knights of Labor:
E.E. Sheppard, Phillips Thompson, and the
Toronto News, 1883 - 1887," and Harvey J. Groff.
"Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs
and the Working Class in the Nineteenth Century."
both in Kealey and Warrian, ed., Essays in Canadian
Working - Class Historj.
Frank Watt, " Literature of Protest," in Literary History
of Canada, I, 473 - 492.
Ramsay Cook, "The Professor and the Prophet of Unrest,"
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada,
4th series, 13 (1975), 228 - 250.
David Alexander, "Literacy and Economic Development in
19th Century Newfoundland," Acadiensis, (Autumn
1980), 3 - 34.
Paul Rutherford, "The People's Press: The Emergence.
of the New Journalism in Canada, 1869 - 1899,"
CHR, 56 (June 1975), 167
?
191.

rieenng vi: me State: Carrot & Stick
Core reading: ?
James Struthers, No Fault of Their Own.
Paul Craven, An Impartial Umpire.
Leo Panitch, "The role and nature of the Canadian
State," in Panitch, ed., The Canadian State,
3 - 27.
Desmond
iiiItia
Morton,
in
"Aid
supf.
to the
of SOLIa1
Civil
Power;
Ode ?
Th
1
?
?
-
nii
1i4
CHR, LI (1970), 407 - 425.
Supplementary reading: Paul Craven & Torn Traves, The Class Politics of the
National Policy, 1872 - 1933," Journal of
Canadian Studies, 14 (Fall 1979).
Don •Macgillivray, "Military Aid to the Civil Power:
The Cape Breton Experience in the 1920s."
Acadiensis, III (Spring 1974), 45- 64.
S. W. Horra1, "The Royal North West Mounted Police
and Labour Unrest in Western Canada, 1919,"
CHR, LXI (1980), 169 - 190.
R. H. Roy, "The SeaForths and the Strikers: Nanaimo,
August 1913," B.C. Studies, 43 (1979), 81 - 93.
Michael B. Katz, 'The Origins of the Institutional State"
Marxist Perspectives, 4 (Winter 1978) 6 - 22
also in Kat,,
i.oicet,
and Stern. The Social
Organization of Larly Industrial Capitalism,
349l.
Week VII: The Sociology and Anthropology of Power .ad Property
Core reading:
?
Hugh Brody, Fflps and Dreams.
Wallace Clement, Class, Power, and Property.
Katz, Doucet, and Stern, The Social Organization of
Early Industrial Capitalism,
pp.
131 - 157.
C. B. Macpherson, Property: Mainstream and Critical
Positions,
pp
.
199 - 207.
Supplementary reading: David H. Breen, TheCanadian Prairie West and the
Ranching Frontier, 1874 - 1924, Part I, pp. 3 - 98.
R.C.B. Risk, "The Last Golden Age: Property and the
Allocation of Losses in Ontario in the 19th
Century," University of Toronto Law Journal,
27 (1977), 199 - 239.
R.C.B. Risk, "The Law and the Economy in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Ontario," in Flaherty, Essays in the
History of Canadian Law, 88 - 131.
. ?
David Gogan, "The Security of Land: Mortgaging in
Toronto Gore Township, 1835 - 1885," in F.H. Armstrong,.
ed., Aspects of Nineteenth Century Ontario, 35 -
E.P. Thompson, "The Grid of Inheritance," in JackGood
Joan Thirsk, and E.P. Thompson, ed., Family and
Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe
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