1. RURAL DEPOPULATION IN SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO.
- Author
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Watson, J.W.
- Subjects
RURAL-urban migration ,SOCIAL history ,SPARSELY populated areas ,RURAL conditions ,DEMOGRAPHY ,INTERNAL migration - Abstract
Discusses the problem of rural depopulation in southwestern Ontario. High commercialization of agriculture; Attraction of expanding cities; Declaration of provincial Minister of Agriculture Colonel Kennedy that Ontario needs fewer farmers and better farms; Cause of rural depopulation; Migration of the non-farm population; Area of poor drainage Haldimand County; Changes in farming; Eroded area of Ganaraska; Effects of depopulation on forms of settlement; Evidences of cultural lag.
- Published
- 1947
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