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Rural Life in Canada: The Church and the Farm Problem, 1913
ISBN: 9781487575977
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology ; History ; Political Science;

The book is a vivid example of the public concern of Canadians over the impact of industrialization and urbanization upon their farming population.

JOHN MACDOUGALL was born in Ormstown, Quebec, in 1859. He studied at McGill, graduating with 'highest honours in philosophy' and the gold medal in English, and at Presbyterian College in Montreal. After some years as a missionary in China he returned to Canada to begin a long career in the service of rural PresbyteriansBrown Robert :

Robert Craig Brown, FRSC , is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto.