James Mavor : forerunner in Canadian geography

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
James Mavor, professor of political economy in the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1923, made path-breaking contributions to Canadian geography in four areas: producing a comprehensive regional report on north-west Canada (including an original map of ethnic distribution); introducing economic geography into the Toronto political economy curriculum; preparing analytical economic/social geography chapters on Canada for the Oxford Survey of the British Empire; and presenting illuminating ideas on immigration. The pioneering work described here is largely unrecognized, in part because Mavor was overshadowed by his Toronto successor, Harold Innis.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Canadian geographer, issn : 0008-3658, 2014, vol. 58, n°. 3, p. 377-, nombre de pages : 1, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Canada, Toronto, ON, Canadian Association of Geographers