Its purpose is to aid the Atlas Project in determining a process towards the completion of the final Atlas. It studies the existing literature on geographic regions, landscapes and bioregions as well as mapping natural and cultural landscapes.  Focus groups interview techniques were used to gather the Highlands residents' ideas and input towards the cultural aspects of their communities and the Highlands themselves.   ]]> Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]> This is a report by the project coordinator summarizing her work on the Bioregional Atlas and the establishment of a framework for the actual creation of the atlas to follow. The atlas is to focus on both the human and non-human communities of the Haliburton Highlands and will include cultural, ecological, political, social, historical, biological, geological, and economic factors. This report sets out the objectives, outlines the products achieved over the summer, provides extensive bibliographic information, details the direction for each of the 30 map plates, presents budget proposals, and lists recommendations for those taking up the production of the atlas.

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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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