{"product_id":"northern-ontario-in-historical-statistics-1871-2021-expansion-growth-and-decline-in-a-hinterland-colonial-region-9780776641669","title":"Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871-2021: Expansion, Growth, and Decline in a Hinterland-Colonial Region","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on original historical tables, \u003ci\u003eNorthern Ontario in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Statistics, 1871-2021 \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an overview of major long-term population, social composition, employment, and urban concentration trends over 150 years in the region now called \"Northern Ontario\" (or \"Nord de l'Ontario\"). David Leadbeater and his collaborators compare Northern Ontario relative to Southern Ontario, as well as detail changes at the district and local levels. They also examine the employment population rate, unemployment, economic dependency, and income distribution, particularly over recent decades of decline since the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough deeply experienced by Indigenous peoples, the settler-colonial structure of Northern Ontario's development plays little explicit analytical role in official government discussions and policy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorthern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871-2021\u003c\/i\u003e, therefore, aims to provide context for the long-standing hinterland colonial question: How do ownership, control, and use of the land and its resources benefit the people who live there? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeadbeater and his collaborators pay special attention to foundational conditions in Northern Ontario's hinterland-colonial development including Indigenous relative to settler populations, treaty and reserve areas, and provincially controlled \"unorganized territories.\" Colonial biases in Canadian censuses are discussed critically as a contribution towards decolonizing changes in official statistics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Leadbeater (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Leadbeater\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., 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 \u003ci\u003eResources, Empire and Labour: Crises, Lessons and Alternatives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Ottawa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868342325522,"sku":"9780776641669","price":67.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83fbf259-abf1-4500-aa0e-c8dd2cd8a6aa.jpg?v=1737729187","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/northern-ontario-in-historical-statistics-1871-2021-expansion-growth-and-decline-in-a-hinterland-colonial-region-9780776641669","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}