Front Matter | Historical GIS research in Canada

Historical

GIS Research

in Canada

Canadian History and Environment Series

Alan MacEachern, Series Editor

ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)

The Canadian History & Environment series of edited collections brings together scholars from across the academy and beyond to explore the relationships between people and nature in Canada’s past. Published simultaneously in print and open-access form, the series then communicates that scholarship to the world.

Alan MacEachern, Director

NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement

http://niche-canada.org

No. 1 ∙ A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011 Edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell

No. 2 ∙ Historical GIS Research in Canada Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin

University of Calgary Press

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Historical GIS research in Canada / edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin.

(Canadian history and environment series, 1925-3702 ; 2)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55238-708-5 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-55238-756-6 (open access pdf).—

ISBN 978-1-55238-744-3 (eDistributor pdf).—ISBN 978-1-55238-750-4 (html).—

ISBN 978-1-55238-751-1 (mobi)

1. Historical geographic information systems—Canada. 2. Canada—

Historical geography. 3. History—Data processing. I. Fortin, Marcel, 1967-,

editor of compilation II. Bonnell, Jennifer, 1971-, editor of compilation

III. Series: Canadian history and environment series ; 2

G70.217.H57H57 2013 910.285 C2013-907480-5 C2013-907481-3

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

This book has been published with support from NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment, using funds received through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Strategic Knowledge Clusters program.

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