Les activités forestières dans deux communautés agricoles du Nouvel-Ontario, 1900-1920 »
Year:
2001
Author :
Volume and number:
, 54
Collection:
, 4
Journal:
, Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française
Pages :
, 501-529
Abstract
L'examen des activités forestières à l'échelle locale au cours des deux premières décennies du XXe siècle permet à l'auteur d'ajouter une nouvelle perspective à l'étude de ces activités en milieu agricole. Les terres et les forêts de deux communautés canadiennes-françaises du Nouvel-Ontario, Blezard et Hanmer, ont été découpées sur une base cantonale et ont fait l'objet de nombreuses évaluations consignées dans deux sources gouvernementales, soit le registre des concessions forestières — plus connu des chercheurs — et le registre de coupes du district de Sudbury, document majeur, méconnu et souvent disparu dans les autres régions. Les données recueillies permettent de relativiser la place des activités de coupe sur les lots agricoles et d'esquisser l'hypothèse de trois étapes dans le déroulement de l'abattage de la matière ligneuse.
In examining forestry activities during the first two decades of the twentieth century at a local level — specifically, two French Canadian communities in the Sudbury area of "New Ontario" — the author provides new insights into the history of the industry in an agricultural setting. Drawing principally upon two provincial governmental sources often not extant or available to researchers, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (originally Crown Lands) Registry of Timber Licences and the Timber Agent's Book for the Sudbury District, the paper analyses harvesting operations in Blezard and Hanmer, and offers an hypothesis of a three-step process to explain the evolving forestry-agriculture relationship.
In examining forestry activities during the first two decades of the twentieth century at a local level — specifically, two French Canadian communities in the Sudbury area of "New Ontario" — the author provides new insights into the history of the industry in an agricultural setting. Drawing principally upon two provincial governmental sources often not extant or available to researchers, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (originally Crown Lands) Registry of Timber Licences and the Timber Agent's Book for the Sudbury District, the paper analyses harvesting operations in Blezard and Hanmer, and offers an hypothesis of a three-step process to explain the evolving forestry-agriculture relationship.
Theme :
EconomyHistory and folkloreRural SettingOntario
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