| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. By John Clarke. (Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 747 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.)

The nexus between land and power in the Old World created one of the allures of the New World, where settlers considered the availability of land an entrée to wealth and status beyond their reach elsewhere. John Clarke explores the means by which people in Upper Canada acquired land, and the political, social, and economic foundation upon which the landed elite built their authority, between 1788 and 1850. Clarke argues that familial connections and economic interconnectedness helped buoy one's fortunes on the Canadian frontier, but "the economic and thereby political base of most, if not all, power was landed wealth" (p. xxxiii). Although the availability of land and credit meant Upper Canada was the "best poor-man's country," ownership of sizable landholdings opened the door to public office and political control over land distribution (p. xxxiv). . . .

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