At the End of the Shift - Dundurn

At the End of the Shift

Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario

Published January 1996

Description

Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario’s northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into four sections, the early years; the era of government intervention; the present and finally the future and what can be done to maintain the commnities.

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Contributors

Matt Bray

Matt Bray works at Laurentian University and is active in the Institute of Northern Ontario Development and Research. In addition to becoming director of that organization, Matt Bray is an associate professor of history and was editor of A-Vast and Magnificent Land

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Ashley Thomson

Ashley Thomson, B.Ed, M.A., M.L.S., a faculty member in the J.N. Desmarais Library at Laurentian University of Sudbury, is the author/editor of six books including the Directory of Canadian Private Residential Schools (1986), of which this is a major revision. In 1998, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations presented Mr. Thomson with its award for being the most outstanding academic librarian in Ontario.

Book Details

ePub
January 1996
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208 pp
9781459719675
Paperback
January 1996
6x9 in
208 pp
9781550021509
ePub
January 1996
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208 pp
9781554880829