Description:
Northern Ontario can be understood as a hinterland-colonial region. This book offers an overview and statistical reference source for Northern Ontario on population, employment, and urban concentration since 1871.
Brief description: Dr. David Leadbeater was raised in BC and Alberta. He taught in the Economics Department at Laurentian University from 1989 until 2021. His teaching and research interests are in the economic development of Canada, urban and regional economics, labour economics, and colonialism and economic theory. He holds degrees from the University of Alberta, Oxford University, and the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Resources, Empire and Labour: Crises, Lessons and Alternatives and Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury.
Review Quotes: David Leadbeater sheds light on demographic and socio-economic change in Northern Ontario in order to confirm the persistent, pervasive trends affecting the region since 1871.--Rachel Barber "https: //onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cag.70000?msockid=3a932818a9d96d8921093ce4a8f36cff"