Agriculture and Farm Life in the Niagara Peninsula
Description
- Creators
- John Burtniak, Editor
- Wesley B. Turner, Editor
- Media Type
- Text
- Image
- Item Types
- Books
- Photographs
- Description
- Full Title: Agriculture and Farm Life in the Niagara Peninsula, Proceedings, Fifth Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference.
Book; 154 pages. This book is a combination of academic papers from the fifth annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference held at Brock University. These papers discuss “the evolution and importance of agriculture in the Niagara Peninsula.” The papers also “provide some insight into the variety of agriculture found in the peninsula and the reasons, physical and human which have influenced its development.”
- Notes
- - There is a specific focus on the evolution of the
Niagara Grape Industry in the first paper.
- The eighth paper examines climatic change in the
Niagara Region throughout history
- Pages 26-28 have graphs that detail historical
trends in grape production, growth and wine
consumption in Niagara
- Pages 140 - 147 have graphs that compare farming
trends in the communities of Welland and Lincoln
from 1900 to the early 1960’s
- The is a map of the Niagara Region on the final
page
- A variety of pictures of historic buildings,
farms, vineyards and other things appear
throughout the book.
- Date of Publication
- 17 Apr 1983
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ronald C. Moyer Owen R. Soctt Alan Skeoch Robert W. Cabert Pleasance Crawford J.H.H. Phillips John A. Moldenhauer B.W. Thompson Paul E. Champman
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Public LibraryEmail:localhistory@notlpl.org
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