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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Aside from a hint of edgewear, appears NEW and UNREAD. The authors are Robert Choquette, Catherine Price, and Margaret Woollard. Robert Choquette (born 1938) is a historian of religion and language in Ontario, author of L'Ontario français, historique and of works on the history of English-French conflict in Ontario — scholarly credentials that give the book's treatment of francophone Ontario particular authority. A Wellington County local history bibliography describes it simply as a good survey story of Ontario made by the Ontario Ministry.The content is organized into seven thematic sections covering Ontario's Native Peoples, the French Empire, the Loyalist Refuge, Little England, Industrial Ontario, the Struggle for Social Maturity, and Contemporary Ontario — a chronological and thematic arc that moves from precontact through to the mid-1980s. The format and length make it clearly a survey aimed at students and general readers rather than specialists, but the thematic organization is thoughtfully chosen: the progression from indigenous land to French empire to Loyalist settlement to industrial modernity to contemporary plurality maps the major transformations of Ontario's history with reasonable economy. The emphasis on social maturity as a distinct stage — following industrial development — reflects a conscious decision to treat political reform, labour history, and the expansion of rights as a recognizable phase of provincial development rather than a footnote to economic history.…