books.google.ca - French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted similar appropriations with far less durable results and the area remained a heartland of French-Canadian...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Metamorphoses_of_Landscape_and_Community.html?id=88Strg-63FEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMetamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec
