The Canadian Fruit-culturist, Or, Letters to an Intending Fruit-grower [microform]
The Canadian Fruit-culturist, Or, Letters to an Intending Fruit-grower [microform]

Author: James Dougall

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022440678

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This horticulture and agriculture book is a guide for fruit-growers who seek practical advice on the location, soil preparation, planting, and after-cultivation of orchards, vineyards, and gardens. It provides clear and simple instructions on the cultivation of different fruit varieties, their characteristics, and analysis of soil for growing conditions. It is an indispensable resource for farmers, horticulturists, and those interested in the practical aspects of fruit and vegetable gardening. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Educating the Neglected Majority
Educating the Neglected Majority

Author: Richard A. Jarrell

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0773599258

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Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell’s pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada’s most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded to the rapid changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Identifying the resources that the state, philanthropic organizations, private schools, moral reform societies, and churches harnessed to implement technical education for the rural and industrial working classes, Jarrell illuminates the formal and informal learning networks of Upper Canada/Ontario and Lower Canada/Quebec at this time. As these colonial societies moved towards mechanization, industrialization, and nationhood, their educational leaders looked to US and British developments in pedagogy and technology to create academic journals, evening classes, libraries, mechanics’ institutes, museums, specialist societies, and women’s institutes. Supervising these varied activities were legislatures and provincial boards, where key figures such as E.-A. Barnard, J.-B. Meilleur, and Egerton Ryerson played dominant roles. Portraying the powerful hopes and sometimes unrealistic dreams that motivated energetic and determined reformers, Educating the Neglected Majority presents Ontario and Quebec’s response to the powerful industrial and demographic forces that were reshaping the North Atlantic world.