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James Mavor : Un précurseur de la géographie canadienne
Author(s) -
Warkentin John
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12082
Subject(s) - successor cardinal , social geography , politics , ethnic group , empire , immigration , historical geography , geography , economic geography , human geography , regional geography , economy , economic history , sociology , political science , history , anthropology , archaeology , law , economics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
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.