John Clarke
Professor
Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Biography I graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1965. I received my M.A. in historical geography from the University of Manitoba in 1966. Between 1966 and 1970 I completed a doctorate and a post-doctoral year at the University of Western Ontario. I came to Carleton in 1971 to teach first year and a course in historical geography. My research field is the historical geography of pre-Confederation Canada. I am especially interested in Upper Canada: land and land policy, land prices, the perception of land quality, ethnicity and land, ideology and land and Indian land claims.
Research Interest
Rural settlement in Canada Land Prices in Ontario in the Nineteenth Century Agriculture in Ontario in the Nineteenth Century
Publications
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Clarke, John and John Buffone. “Colonial Land Policy: The ‘New System’ in Upper Canada in 1825†(Ottawa: Carleton University Department of Geography Discussion Paper no. 12, 1994 ) 46 pp.
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Clarke, John and John Buffone., “Social Regions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ontario,†Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. 28, 55 (1996), pp. 193-217.
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Clarke, John and John Buffone., “Manifestations of Imperial Policy: The New South Wales System and Land Prices in Upper Canada in 1825,†Canadian Geographer , vol. 40, 2 (1996), pp. 121-36.
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Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada (Kingston and Toronto, McGill-Queen’s Press) 2001.
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Ordinary People of Essex: Environment, Culture and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada, 1788-1850. McGill-Queens University Press (forth-coming 2010).
