Social Transformation In Rural Canada

The rapidly changing nature of life in Canadian rural communities is more than a simple response to economic conditions. People living in rural places are part of a new social agenda characterized by transformation of livelihoods, landscapes, and social relations, inviting us to reconsider the meanings of community, culture, and citizenship. This volume presents the work of researchers from a variety of fields who explore social transformation in rural settlements across the country. The essays collectively generate a nuanced portrait of how local forms of action, adaptation, identity, and imagination are reshaping aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities of rural Canada.

First published in 1920, this book provides insights into rural life in Canada during a period of rapid economic and social change. The book examines the challenges and opportunities facing rural communities, with a particular focus on agriculture, education, and social welfare. Based on original research and first-hand experience, this book sheds light on a crucial period in the history of Canadian society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The rapidly changing nature of life in Canadian rural communities is more than a simple response to economic conditions. People living in rural places are part of a new social agenda characterized by transformation of livelihoods, landscapes, and social relations – these profound changes invite us to reconsider the meanings of community, culture, and citizenship. Social Transformation in Rural Canada presents the work of researchers from a variety of fields who explore the dynamics of social transformation in rural settlements across several regions and sectors of the Canadian landscape. This volume provides a nuanced portrait of how local forms of action, adaptation, identity, and imagination are reshaping aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities in rural Canada. Unlike many previous studies, this work looks at rural communities not simply as places affected by external forces, but as incubators of change and social units with agency and purpose, many of which provide exemplary models for other communities facing challenges of transition.

Translated and adapted by Patricia Claxton Volume VIII of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Professor Ouellet traces the impact of some of the changes wrought in Lower Canada at the close of the eighteenth century, after thirty years of British rule, to offer an analysis of the historical roots of nationalism and the traditional struggle for social change in the province of Quebec. First published in 1980, Fernand Ouellet’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in this volume add broadly to knowledge about status and prestige, authenticity and belonging, rural-urban relations, and innovation and change among rural peoples and in rural communities across the globe.

Discussion of contemporary issues often overlooks the rural component of Canadian society. The sixteen chapters written specifically for Rural Sociology in Canada emphasize the diversity of rural Canada and its farming, fishing, and northern resource communities-in conjunction with such issues as the impact of modern technologies on rural industries, populations, and communities, the environmental crisis in relation to agriculture practices and technologies, and the impact of the Free Trade Agreement on rural industries. The book is oriented to undergraduate and graduate students studying rural sociology, as well as appealing to a wider audience interested in rural life in Canada today.