Truly our own: Canadian geography 50 years after/Un symbole national: le Géographe canadien apres 50 ans

Kobayashi, Audrey

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01162.x

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

2001

DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01162.x

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Truly our own: Canadian geography 50 years after/Un symbole national: le Géographe canadien apres 50 ans

Audrey Kobayashi

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The Geographical State: The Development of Canadian Geography

Barnes

2007

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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The purposes of this paper are to discuss the historical emergence of academic geography in Canada, and how it has been tied closely to the nation-state. Canadian geography is not simply a slice from a pre-existing disciplinary block but has been actively formed and moulded by a set of evolving national imperatives determined and coordinated by the state. Justification for this larger argument derives from science studies which aver that context, in this case the national one of Canada, enters into the very lineaments of knowledge. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first is a conceptual discussion drawn from science studies of the relation between national context and disciplinary knowledge. The second sets out the historical development of Canadian geography from the seventeenth century until the inaugural meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in 1951. The final section reviews the subsequent 50 years of Canadian geography by focusing on four important moments within the discipline's history, each of which reflects in various forms the nation-state: the quantitative revolution, humanistic geography, the development of GIS, and immigration and the Metropolis project.

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The Geographical State: The Development of Canadian Geography

Barnes

2007

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Country report: Glimpses of social and cultural geography in Canada and Québec at the turn of the millennium

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Gilbert

2005

Social & Cultural Geography

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‘Partially provided’: geography at the University of Toronto, 1844–1935

Warkentin

2008

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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In universities, as in everyday life, there is a fundamental need for geographical knowledge, even when no formal departments exist to provide instruction. This need was true in the University of Toronto during the decades before Griffith Taylor was appointed in 1935 to the first university Chair in geography in English‐speaking Canada. Using matriculation and annual university course examinations, university calendars and the papers of President Falconer and Professors James Mavor and Harold Innis, I trace the development of geography at the University of Toronto from the mid‐nineteenth century to the arrival of Taylor. Courses taught in selected aspects of physical and human geography in the Departments of Geology, Political Economy and History are particularly significant. Underlying this instruction, and also the desire to establish a geography department, was an acute awareness of the fundamental importance of geography to help understand a large regionally complex homeland, and a wider world.

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Truly our own: Canadian geography 50 years after/Un symbole national: le Géographe canadien apres 50 ans

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

The Geographical State: The Development of Canadian Geography

The Geographical State: The Development of Canadian Geography

Country report: Glimpses of social and cultural geography in Canada and Québec at the turn of the millennium

‘Partially provided’: geography at the University of Toronto, 1844–1935

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