Main entry:

Megill, William J. (William Jemmett), 1907-

Title & Author:

Patterns of Canada, edited by William J. Megill. Compiled for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Publication:

Toronto, Ryerson Press [©1966]

Description:

278 pages illustrations (some color), maps 29 cm

Notes:
"Compiled for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society."
Consists mainly of articles published in the Canadian geographical journal during the past thirty-six years.
I. The pattern of the land -- What geography means to Canada / Charles Camsell -- Canada's debt to the Indians / Diamond Jenness -- Birth of agriculture in Canada / Raymond P. Gorham -- II. Spreading out the pattern -- Etienne Brule and the Great Lakes / Clifford P. Wilson -- La Verendrye : pathfinder of the west / L.J. Burpee -- Voyageurs' highway / eric W. Morse -- Christmas with Samuel Hearne / Charles W. Jeffreys -- Fraser rides the Fraser / L.J. Burpee -- III. Patterns of a nation -- The geographical circumstances of Confederation / W.L. Morton -- The people of Canada / L.J. Burpee and Marius Barbeau -- Confederation chamber / A.E. Arsenault -- La Ville de Montreal / Kennedy Crone -- Halifax : from founding to Confederation / D.C. Harvey -- Ottawa of yesterday / E.C. Guillet -- The Port of Vancouver / Tom MacInnes -- My home town / Charles Camsell -- Rafting on the St. Lawrence / D.D. Calvin -- IV. Patterns of growth -- Memories of '85 / Howard Angus Kennedy -- The poor man's trail / Marius Barbeau -- Canada at the turn of the century, 1900 / Arthur R.M. Lower -- Conquest of the Northwest passage by the R.C.M.P. Schooner St. Roch / J. Lewis Robinson -- The first trans-Canada flight: 1920 / R.V. Manning -- The Welland Canal / Lyn Harrington -- Canadian women on active service / W. Walker, M. Eaton and A. Sinclair -- V. Patterns of change -- Kitimat, A saga of Canada / Paul Clark -- The Trans-Canada Highway / Edward J. Marten -- Knob Lake on Canada's new frontier / W. Gillies Ross -- They are changing the face of Saskatchewan / Phyllis MacNeill -- Land utilization in Canada / Trevor Lloyd -- The Thompson Project / Sylvia Seeley -- Teeming Waters / Mark Ronayne -- Highway to the inland seas / James S. Duncan -- The face of the North / N.L. Nicholson -- VI. Patterns of the future / N.A.M. MacKenzie.

Summary:

Consists mainly of articles published in the Canadian geographical journal during the past thirty-six years.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

Subject:

Travel
Canada History 1867-
Canada Description and travel.
Canada Pictorial works.
Canada History 1867- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Canada Histoire 1867-
Canada Descriptions et voyages.
Canada

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Canadian geographical journal.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 141588
Call No.: PO11351 CAN; ID:87-B17809
Status: Available