The frontier environment and social order

"The Frontier Environment and Social Order examines the development of civil society within the forest frontier of Upper Canada, using the letters of Francis Codd, a young English doctor who settled in the Ottawa Valley in 1846, as the textual basis. The letters provide detailed evidence about frontier development: clearing the forest, establishing farming communities, and bringing civil institutions to a developing country." "This book will appeal to environmental social scientists and economists, historians, geographers and migration specialists as well as the interested reader."--Jacket.