viii, 664 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 27 cm.

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Part Landscape heritage of the first nations and colonists -- The Oldest land in the world : the natural landscapes of canada -- Turtle Island : landscapes of Canada's first nations -- Maritime approaches : the first Europeans -- Sacred Land in the New World : the colonial heritage of new France --...

Part II The Nineteenth century : challenges of an urban and industrial landscape -- The Making of Canada's rural landscape -- The Greening of the urban landscape -- Public and private gardens of the nineteenth century -- Taming the industrial city : City Parks and Rural Cemeteries -- Taming the Indu...

Part III Years of challenge, 1914-1945 : landscape innovations in times of war and depression -- Landscapes of memory : memorials of the First World War -- Private gardens of the Twenties and Thirties -- "The City Efficient" : changing currents of urban development -- Embers in the shadows : remarka...

Part IV Birth of the modern landscape, from 1945 to the present day -- Brave new landscapes : the postwar era -- Urban renaissance -- Birth of an environmental conscience -- Beyond modernism : new currents in landscape, 1975-2000 -- Landscapes for a multicultural society -- The Twenty-first Century...