Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871-2021: Expansion, Growth, and Decline in a Hinterland-Colonial...

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Professor David Leadbeater (Laurentian University) Pat Marcuccio

Northern Ontario in Historical Statistics, 1871-2021

Expansion, Growth, and Decline in a Hinterland-Colonial Region

Professor David Leadbeater (Laurentian University), Pat Marcuccio, Charlene Faiella, Graduate of Laurentian University , Tomasz Mrozewski (Digital Publishing Librarian, York University)

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University of Ottawa Press
27 August 2024

Social research & statistics; Population & demography

Series: Canadian Studies

"Although deeply experienced by Indigenous peoples, the settler-colonial structure of Northern Ontario's development plays little explicit analytical role in official government discussions and policy. This ""moose in the room""-hinterland-colonial conditions-deserves much greater attention.

This study provides original tables on Indigenous relative to settler populations, treaty and reserve areas, and provincially controlled ""unorganized territories."" It examines colonial biases in the census data as a contribution towards decolonizing changes in official statistics.

More broadly, it offers an overview of major long-term population, employment, and urban concentration trends since 1871 in the region now called ""Northern Ontario"" (or ""Nord de l'Ontario""). Based on original historical tables, the study discusses patterns of change at not only Northern Ontario regional level relative to Southern Ontario but also at the district and community levels.

Further, the study examines employment-population ratios, unemployment, and economic dependency, particularly for recent decades of decline since the 1970s, and it questions narrowly demographic explanations of population decline. Attention is given to the misuse and variety of dependency ratios in understanding Northern demographic conditions.

This research was based at Laurentian University in Sudbury and is a background study in the Northern Democracy Initiative."

By: Professor David Leadbeater (Laurentian University)
Contributions by: Pat Marcuccio, Charlene Faiella, Graduate of Laurentian University, Tomasz Mrozewski (Digital Publishing Librarian, York University), Caitlin Richer
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780776641676
ISBN 10: 0776641670
Series: Canadian Studies
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 27 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

David Leadbeater (Author) Dr. David Leadbeater was raised in BC and Alberta. He taught in the Economics Department at Laurentian University from 1989 until 2021. His teaching and research interests are in the economic development of Canada, urban and regional economics, labour economics, and colonialism and economic theory. He holds degrees from the University of Alberta, Oxford University, and the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Resources, Empire and Labour: Crises, Lessons and Alternatives and Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury.