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Historical perspectives

Preface

Border Zone or "Middle Ground"?

A History of Connections

The First Middle Ground

A New Borderland

The Canal Era

Niagara Falls

The Importance of the Border

Boom Times

The End of Boom Times

The Irony of Regional Peace

Time Line

Sources Consulted


Executive summary

Narrative


Workshop / discussions


Wall survey


Meeting notes


Newsletters


Conferences


Brownfield exchange
1999 (364Kb)
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Brownfield exchange
2000 (3690Kb)
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The rethinking presentation


The rethinking book


Content


Participants


A good regional dialogue


Presentations


Precedents


 


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Sources Consulted

Baglier, Janet. “The Niagara Frontier: Society and Economy in Western New York and Upper Canada, 1794 ­ 1854.” Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993.

Banham, Reyner. A Concrete Atlantis: United States Industrial Buildings and European Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.

Berton, Pierre. Niagara: A History of the Falls. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992.

Braider, Donald. The Niagara. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

Craig, Gerald. Upper Canada: The Formative Years, 1784-1841. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1963.

Creighton, Donald. Canada’s First Century, 1867-1967.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1970.

Eberle, Scott and Grande, Joseph. Second Looks: A Pictorial History of Buffalo and Erie County. Norfolk/Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1987.

Engel, Gerrit. Buffalo Grain Elevators. Verona: EBS, 1997.

Goldman, Mark. High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983.

Graham, Lloyd. Niagara County. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1949.

Howard, Robert. Thundergate: The Forts of Niagara. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968.

Jackon, John. St. Catharines Ontario: Its Early Years. Belleville, Ontario: Mika Publishing Company, 1976.

Jackson, John. The Welland Canals and Their Communities: Engineering, Industrial, and Urban Transformation. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Jackson, John and Burtniak, John. Railways in the Niagara Peninsula. Belleville, Ontario: Mika Publishing Company, 1978.

Jasen, Patricia. Wild Things: Nature, Culture, and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Johnson, J.K. Historical Essays on Upper Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1975.

Johnson, J.K. and Wilson, Bruce. Historical Essays on Upper Canada: New Perspectives. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University Press, 1989.

Martin, Virgil. Changing Landscapes of Southern Ontario. Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1988.

McCalla, Douglas. Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

McGreevy, Patrick. Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

McIlwraith, Thomas. Looking for Old Ontario: Two Centuries of Landscape Change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

McKinsey, Elizabeth. Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Moore, Christopher. The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement. Toronto, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1984.

Pentland, H. Clare. Labour and Capital in Canada, 1650-1860. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1981.

Pitegoff, Peter, ed. “Buffalo change & community: A symposium.” Buffalo Law Review 39:2 (Spring 1991): 313-607.

Power, Michael and Butler, Nancy. Slavery and Freedom in Niagara. Ontario, Canada: Niagara Historical Society, 2000 [1993].

Severance, Frank. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1903.

Shipley, Robert. St. Catharines: Garden on the Canal. Windsor, Canada: Windsor Publications, Ltd., 1987.

Sternberg, Ernest. “Staging a natural wonder,” Chap. In The Economy of Icons: How Business Manufactures Meaning. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999.

Thomas, Owen. Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula. Thorold, Ont: The Corporation , 1996.

Wallace, Anthony. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New York: Vintage Books, 1969.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Wyckoff, William. The Developer’s Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Young, N. Richard. “Welland to World War I: A case study of economic development and population expansion in the Niagara peninsula.” In John Burtniak and Patricia Dirks, eds., Immigration and Settlement in the Niagara Peninsula: Proceedings of the Third Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference. St. Catharines, Ontario: Brock University, 1981.

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