Old Ontario

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Old Ontario

• Intro
• Principles
• The Historical Environmental Context
• Shaping the Land
• Buildings Structures
• A Landscape for Living In

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Reading

• Reading Question for Week 17 (based on GN, Chap
  1)
• How does Catherine Nash propose to challenge
  previous thought about the nature of modernity?
• Reading for Week 18
• In Roy Thompson, British Columbia, read Chap. 3
  (pages 65-101).

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Anna Jameson on Colonial York (Toronto)

• But I will tell you what I did not expect. I did
  not expect to find here in this new capital of a
  new country, with the boundless forest within
  half a mile of us on almost every side --
  concentrated as it were the worst evils of our
  old and most artificial social system at home.
• York was like a fourth or fifth provincial town
  with the pretensions of a Capital. We have here
  a petty oligarchy, a self-constituted
  aristocracy, based on nothing real, or even upon
  anything imaginary.

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Lord Durham on the Upper Canadian elite

• A petty, corrupt, insolent, Tory clique

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Susanna Moodie on pioneering in Upper Canada

• I had a hard struggle with my pride before I
  would consent to render the least assistance on
  the farm
• but reflection convinced me I was wrong.
• manual toil, however distasteful to those
  unaccustomed to it, was not after all such a
  dreadful hardship If we occasionally suffered
  severe pain, we as often experienced a great
  pleasure and I have contemplated a well-hoed
  ridge of potatoes on that bush farm with as much
  delight as in years long past I had experienced
  in examining fine paintings in some
  well-appointed drawing room.

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Principles

• The importance of the everyday
• Palimpsest
• Simplification

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Context

• Loyalists, American settlers, War of 1812, Family
  Compact, Rebellion, Industrialization,
  Confederation
• Maple, Elm, White Pine
• Glacial tills
• Limestone, sandstone, granite, clay

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Shaping the Earth

• Survey systems
• Townships
• Highways, Canals, Railways

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Buildings and Structures

• Georgian
• Victorian

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Georgian Houses
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Victorian Gothic Styling
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Late Victorian Arts Crafts North Bay
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Georgian StyleKingston City Hall
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Gothic Revival StyleParliament Hill
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Classical (Georgian) Style for Legal
BuildingsOsgoode Hall, Toronto
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Italianate 2nd Empire Styles
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Industrial Buildings and Landscapes
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LandscapeFarms
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LandscapeSmall Towns
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LandscapeSmall Towns
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LandscapeFunctional Town Centres