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Appendix A: Historical GIS Studies in Canada
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  1. Front Matter
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Turning Space Inside Out: Spatial History and Race in Victorian Victoria
  5. Mapping the Welland Canals and the St. Lawrence Seaway with Google Earth
  6. Reinventing the Map Library: The Don Valley Historical Mapping Project
  7. The Best Seat in the House: Using Historical GIS to Explore Religion and Ethnicity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto
  8. Stories of People, Land, and Water: Using Spatial Technologies to Explore Regional Environmental History
  9. Mapping Ottawa’s Urban Forest, 1928–2005
  10. “I do not know the boundaries of this land, but I know the land which I worked”: Historical GIS and Mohawk Land Practices
  11. Rebuilding a Neighbourhood of Montreal
  12. Growth and Erosion: A Reflection on Salt Marsh Evolution in the St. Lawrence Estuary Using HGIS
  13. Top-down History: Delimiting Forests, Farms, and the Census of Agriculture on Prince Edward Island Using Aerial Photography, ca. 1900–2000
  14. The Irony of Discrimination: Mapping Historical Migration Using Chinese Head Tax Data
  15. Mapping Fuel Use in Canada: Exploring the Social History of Canadians’ Great Fuel Transformation
  16. Exploring Historical Geography Using Census Microdata: The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) Project
  17. Appendix A: Historical GIS Studies in Canada
  18. Select Bibliography
  19. Notes on Contributors
  20. Index

Appendix A:
Historical GIS Studies in Canada

Books and Articles

Beard, Colleen. “Using Google Earth Technologies to Enhance Digital Map Collections: Visualizing the Historic Welland Canals.” Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Bulletin, 140 (2012): 32–38.

Bellavance, Claude et Marc St-Hilaire, eds. Le fait urbain au Québec. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval (in press).

Black, Fiona, and Bertrum MacDonald. “Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History.” Book History 1 (1998): 11–31.

———. “HGIS of Print Culture in Canada.” Historical Geography 33 (2005): 154–56.

———. “Using GIS for Spatial and Temporal Analyses in Print Culture Studies: Some Opportunities and Challenges.” Social Science History 24, no. 3 (2000): 505–36.

Brassard, Paul, Kevin A. Henry, Kevin Schwartzman, Michele Jomphe, and Sherry Olson. “Geography and Genealogy of the Human Host Harbouring a Distinctive Drug Resistant Strain of Tuberculosis.” Infection, Genetics and Evolution 8 (2008): 247–57.

Buck, Ian, David Jordan, Shaun Mannella, and Larry McCann. “Reconstructing the Geographical Framework of the 1901 Census of Canada.” Historical Methods 33, no. 4 (2000): 199–205.

Buck, P. Louise. “Snapshots of Change: Applying GIS to a Chronology of Historic Charts of the St. Marys River, Ontario and Michigan.” Prairie Perspectives 12 (2009): 1–22.

Courville, Serge and Robert Garon, eds. Québec, ville et capitale. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2001.

Courville, Serge, Jean-Claude Robert, and Normand Séguin. Atlas historique du Québec. Le pays laurentien au XIXe siècle. Les morphologies de base. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 1995.

Cunfer, Geoff. “Scaling the Dust Bowl.” In Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship, 95–122. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2008.

Dean, Joanna. “The Social Production of a Canadian Urban Forest.” In Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives, edited by Richard Rodger and Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud, 67–88. Isle of Harris, UK: White Horse Press, 2011.

Dufaux, François, and Sherry Olson. “Reconstruire Montréal, rebâtir sa fortune.” Revue de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 1 (2009): 44–57.

Dufaux, François, Matthieu Lachance, Jean Guérette, and Marc-André Bouchard-Fortin. Le monastère des Augustines de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec : une histoire opérationnelle des bâtiments. Québec: École d’architecture de l’université Laval, Ministère de la culture, des communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec, 2008.

Dunae, Patrick, John Lutz, Donald Lafreniere, and Jason Gilliland. “Making the Inscrutable, Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria’s Chinatown, 1891.” B.C. Studies 169 (2011): 51–80.

Dunae, Patrick, John Lutz, Donald Lafreniere, and Jason Gilliland. “Race and Space in Victoria’s Chinatown, 1891.” In Home Truths: Highlights from BC History, edited by Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn, 206–39. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2012.

Fortin, Marcel, and Janina Mueller. “The Library as Research Partner and Data Creator: The Don Valley Historical Mapping Project.” Journal of Map and Geography Libraries 9, no. 1–2 (2013): 157–74.

Frenette, Yves, Étienne Rivard, and Marc St-Hilaire, eds. La francophonie nord-américaine. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013.

Gauvreau, Danielle, and Sherry Olson, “Mobilité sociale dans une ville industrielle nord-américaine: Montréal, 1880–1900.” Annales de démographie historique 1 (2008): 89–114.

Gentilcore, R Louis, ed. Historical Atlas of Canada: The Land Transformed, 1800–1891. Vol. 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Gilliland, Jason. “The Creative Destruction of Montreal: Street Widenings and Urban (Re)Development in the Nineteenth Century.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine 31, no. 1 (2002): 37–51.

———. “Fire and Urban Morphogenesis: Patterns of Destruction and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” In Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lubken, and Jordan Sand, 190–211. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

———. “Modeling Residential Mobility in Montreal, 1860–1900.” Historical Methods 31, no. 1 (1998): 27–42.

———. Muddy Shore to Modern Port: Redimensioning the Montréal Waterfront Time-space.” Canadian Geographer 48, no. 4 (2004): 448–72.

———. “Redimensioning the Urban Vascular System: Street Widening Operations in Montreal, 1850–1918.” In Transformations of Urban Form: From Interpretations to Methodologies in Practice, edited by Roberto Corona and Gian Luigi Maffei. Florence: International Seminar on Urban Form, 1999.

Gilliland, Jason, and Mathew Novak. “On Positioning the Past with the Present: The use of Fire Insurance Plans and GIS for Urban Environmental History.” Environmental History 11, no. 1 (2006): 136–39.

Gilliland, Jason, and Sherry Olson. “Claims on Housing Space in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine 26, no. 2 (1998): 3–16.

———. “Montreal, l’avenir du passé.” GEOinfo (January–February 2003): 5–7.

———. “Residential Segregation in the Industrializing City: A Closer Look.” Urban Geography 31, no. 1 (2010): 29–58.

Gilliland, Jason, Sherry Olson, and Danielle Gauvreau. “Did Segregation Increase as the City Expanded? The Case of Montreal, 1881–1901.” Social Science History 35, no. 4 (2011): 465–503.

Guérard, François. “Les populations hospitalisées à l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec et à l’Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Vallier de Chicoutimi de 1881 à 1942.” Cahiers québécois de démographie 41, no. 1 (2012): 55–85.

Hayek, Michael, Mathew Novak, Godwin Arku, and Jason Gilliland. “Building a Brownfield Database with Historical GIS.” Planning Practise & Research 25, no. 4 (2010): 461–75.

Lafreniere, Don, and Doug Rivet. “Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography.” Journal of Maps v2010 (2010): 417–22.

Novak, Mathew, and Jason Gilliland. “Buried Beneath the Waves: Using GIS to Examine the Social and Physical Impacts of a Historical Flood.” Digital Studies 1, no. 2 (2010): 25.

———. “Trading Places: A Historical Geography of Retailing in London, Canada.” Social Science History 35, no. 4 (2011): 543–70.

Olson, Sherry. “Ethnic Partition of the Work Force in 1840s Montreal.” Labour/Le Travail 53 (2004): 159–202.

Olson, Sherry, and Patricia Thornton. Peopling the North American City: Montreal 1840–1900. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011.

Olson, Sherry, Kevin Henry, Michele Jomphe, Paul Brassard, and Kevin Schwartzman. “Tracking Tuberculosis in the Past: The Use of Genealogical Evidence.” Journal of Historical Geography 36, no. 3 (2010): 327–41.

Rueck, Daniel, “A Common Tragedy: Enclosure in Kahnawá:ke Mohawk Territory 1850–1900,” Canadian Historical Review, forthcoming.

Schwartzman, Kevin, et al. “Geomatics as a Tool for Bridging the Cultures of Research.” In The Added Value of Scientific Networking: Perspectives from the GEOIDE Network Members 1998–2012, edited by N Chrisman and M Wachowicz, 75–100. Quebec: GEOIDE, 2012.

Séguin, Normand, Serge Courville and Jean-Claude Robert. Le Pays laurentien au XIXe siècle: les morphologies de base. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 1995.

St-Hilaire, Marc, Byron Moldofsky, Laurent Richard, and Mariange Beaudry. “Geocoding and Mapping Historical Census Data: The Geographical Component of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure.” Historical Methods 40, no. 2 (2007): 76–91.

———. “Geocoding and Mapping Historical Census Data: The Geographical Component of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure.” Historical Methods 40, no. 2 (2007): 76–91.

St-Hilaire, Marc, Alain Roy, Mickaël Augeron, and Dominique Guillemet, eds. Les traces de la Nouvelle-France au Québec et en Poitou-Charentes Québec. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008.

Sweeny, Robert C.H. “Risky spaces: the Montreal Fire Insurance Company, 1817–20.” In The Territories of Business, Claude Bellavance and Pierre Lanthier, eds., 9–23. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2004.

———. “Property and Gender: Lessons from a 19th-Century Town.” Journal of Canadian Studies (London) 22 (2006/7): 9–34.

Sweeny, Robert, and Sherry Olson. “MAP: Montréal l’avenir du passé, Sharing geodatabases yesterday, today and tomorrow.” Geomatica 57, no. 2 (2003): 145–54.

Thornton, Patricia, and Sherry Olson. “Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century Montreal: Geographic Pathways of Contagion.” Population Studies 65, no. 2 (2011): 157–81.

Websites

Don River Valley Historical Mapping Project – http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/index.html

GEORIA: Georeferenced Databases for Accessing Historical Data – http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/georia/home.htm

Historical Atlas of Canada – http://www.historicalatlas.ca

The Historic Welland Canals: A Virtual Tour – http://brocku.ca/library/collections/maplibrary/welland-canals-exhibit

Imag(in)ing London – http://www.historicalgis.com/

Inventaire des lieux de mémoire de la Nouvelle-France- http://inventairenf.cieq.ulaval.ca:8080/inventaire/index.jsp

Montréal, l’avenir du passé – http://www.mun.ca/mapm/

Population et histoire sociale de la ville de Québec (PHSVQ) – http://www.phsvq.cieq.ulaval.ca/

Regional Environmental History Atlas of South Central Ontario – http://www.trentu.ca/library/madgic/reha.htm

Vieux-Montréal/Old Montreal – http://vieux.montreal.qc.ca/

viHistory (Victoria HGIS) – http://vihistory.ca/

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