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Record Nr.

UNINA9910907101403321

Autore

Leadbeater David

Titolo

Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871–2021 : Expansion, Growth, and Decline in a Hinterland-Colonial Region / / David Leadbeater; ed. by Pierre Anctil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , [2024]

2024

ISBN

0-7766-4168-9

Edizione

[Digital  ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Canadian Studies ; ; 10

Disciplina

317.13/1

Soggetti

Settler colonialism - Ontario, Northern

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography

Electronic books.

Ontario, Northern Statistics

Ontario, Northern Population Statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Appendix Tables -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Colonial North of Ontario and Official Statistics -- CHAPTER 3 General Population Increase and Decline since 1871 -- CHAPTER 4 Source Populations and Social Composition in the Settlement and Evolution of Northern Ontario -- CHAPTER 5 The Evolution of Population and Employment across Districts inNorthern Ontario -- CHAPTER 6 Urban Concentration of Population and Employment Conditions -- CHAPTER 7 Issues of Disparity, Distribution, and Economic Dependency in Northern Ontario -- CHAPTER 8 Conclusion -- APPENDIX Supplemental Tables -- Table Notes and Data Sources -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Although deeply experienced by Indigenous peoples, the settler-colonial structure of Northern Ontario’s development plays little explicit analytical role in official government discussions and policy. This "moose in the room”—hinterland-colonial conditions—deserves much greater attention. This study provides original tables on Indigenous



relative to settler populations, treaty and reserve areas, and provincially controlled “unorganized territories.” It examines colonial biases in the census data as a contribution towards decolonizing changes in official statistics. More broadly, it offers an overview of major long-term population, employment, and urban concentration trends since 1871 in the region now called “Northern Ontario” (or “Nord de l’Ontario”). Based on original historical tables, the study discusses patterns of change at not only Northern Ontario regional level relative to Southern Ontario but also at the district and community levels. Further, the study examines employment-population ratios, unemployment, and economic dependency, particularly for recent decades of decline since the 1970s, and it questions narrowly demographic explanations of population decline. Attention is given to the misuse and variety of dependency ratios in understanding Northern demographic conditions. This research was based at Laurentian University in Sudbury and is a background study in the Northern Democracy Initiative."--