{"product_id":"canadian-shield-the-rocks-that-made-canada-9781554551408","title":"Canadian Shield: The Rocks That Made Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeing a Canadian carries with it a tangible sense of living on the edge of a vast barren interior. Only named as such in 1883, the Canadian Shield is an empty immensity of lakes, bogs, rivers, forest and protruding ribs of hard Precambrian crystalline rock that covers more than half of the total land area of Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the geologic evolution of the Shield, its first tentative exploration by humans starting 11,000 years ago as the last great ice sheets withdrew, its changing economic fortunes as Europeans penetrated its remote rocky vastnesses for furs and metals, and its transformation in the twentieth century into a national icon to Canadians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegarded as 'barren' and of no value, much of the Shield was given away in 1670 to a single London-based fur trading company, the Hudson Bay Company, who jealously guarded its northern domain until 1867. This two hundred year long monopoly created a virtual government over a huge piece of North America. Without the HBC, much of it would have passed into American hands and there would have been no 'Canadian' Shield or country called Canada. As a nation, we are indebted to hard rock. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Eyles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fitzhenry \u0026amp; Whiteside\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.97h x 9.92w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781554551408","brand":"Fitzhenry \u0026 Whiteside","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45284699832457,"sku":"9781554551408","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9003753a-766c-4de0-bc62-7332fee3ce0e.jpg?v=1771919608","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/canadian-shield-the-rocks-that-made-canada-9781554551408","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}