The History of Movement and Habitation in the Haliburton Bioregion, 1860-1996

The History of Movement and Habitation in the Haliburton Bioregion, 1860-1996

Mackay, Scott

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

TPB-540

1996

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Settlement patterns and the development of roads

Working with the objectives of the Haliburton Highlands Bioregional Atlas Project, this paper considers the notion that "roads are inter/intra connections for movement in the life-world, that roads and culture are linked, that roads have an effect on land-use, and that land has an effect on roads and road-use."

The paper begins with a chronological and historical analysis of the development of roads and settlement patterns in the Highlands touching on the lumbering industry and the effect of the Canada Land and Emigration Company's program of colonization roads. Working with a series of maps which provide time slices of pre-1860, 1875, 1901, 1913, 1930, 1941, 1964, and 1995, a geographical analysis is presented comparing data on the number of settlements, road density, number of highways, and population existing at each time snapshot.

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