- Title:
- Colonising Space and Producing Territory: John and Elizabeth Simcoe and Water, Power, and Empire in Upper Canada, 1791-1796
- Creator:
- Murphy, Romalie
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- Canadian History
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Upper Canada
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This dissertation examines how John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and his wife, Elizabeth, manifested imperial expressions of power, sovereignty, security, and population within the new colony in the 1790s. There are also three chapters that focus on how territorial and route surveying played a critical role for both Simcoes, serving as a scientific foundation for reframing Upper Canada as a territory and a population. It does so by offering a re-examination of both their well-known private and public correspondence written in this decade, and also some select paintings and maps through which their ideas of governance and political and cultural visions were expressed. The dissertation's reading and contextualisation of this archive is informed by Michel Foucault's lectures on governmentality, critical cartographic histories, and imperial and colonial historiographies, all of which are brought into conversation with historical studies of Upper Canada.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Murphy, Romalie. 2019. "Colonising Space and Producing Territory: John and Elizabeth Simcoe and Water, Power, and Empire in Upper Canada, 1791-1796", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_27.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.