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Cover13; -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 No Vacant Eden -- 2 Hugh MacLennan: Literary Geographer of a Nation -- 3 "The Kindling Touch of Imagination": Charles William Jefferys and Canadian Identity -- 4 Theory in Literary Geography: The Poetry of Charles Mair -- 5 Moral Frames for Landscape in Canadian Literature -- 6 In a Hard Land: The Geographical Context of Canadian Industrial Landscape Painting -- 7 Human Encroachments on a Domineering Physical Landscape -- 8 The North and Native Symbols: Landscape as Universe -- 9 The Forest Landscape in Maritime Canadian and Swedish Literature: A Comparative Analysis -- 10 Elizabeth Bishop from Nova Scotia: "Half Nova Scotian, Half New Englander, Wholly Atlantic" -- 11 Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Literature, Place, and Tourism in L.M. Montgomery's Prince Edward Island -- 12 La Mer, La Patrie: Pointe-aux-Coques by Antonine Maillet -- 13 Picturing the Picturesque: Lucius O'Brien's Sunrise on the Saguenay -- 14 Revisioning the Roman Catholic Environment: Geographical Attitudes in Gabrielle Roy's The Cashier -- 15 Monumental Buildings: Perspectives by Two Montreal Painters -- 16 Augurs of "Gentrification": City Houses of Four Canadian Painters -- 17 Drawing Earth; Or Representing Region Niagara: An Approach to Public Geography -- 18 The Manitoba Landscape of Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese -- 19 Deriving Geographical Information from the Novels of Frederick Philip Grove -- 20 "Cloud-Bound": The Western Landscapes of Marmaduke Matthews -- 21 Structured Feeling: Japanese Canadian Poetry and Landscape -- 22 A Loving Nature: Malcolm Lowry in British Columbia -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators. Canada was perceived and portrayed as a cold, hard, and unforgiving land. this was not a land for the fainthearted. Canada has yieled its wealth only reluctantly, while periodically threatening life itself with its displays of fury. Discovering its beauty and hidden resources requires patience and perseverance. A Few Acres of Snow is a colletion of twenty-two essays that explore, from the geographer's perspective, how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada, both landscape and cityscape. "Sense of place" is clearly critical in the works examined in this volume. Included among the book's many subjects are Hugh MacLennan, Gabrielle Roy, Lucius O'Brien, the art of the Inuit, Lawren Harris, Malcolm Lowry, C.W. Jefferys, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Bishop, Marmaduke Matthews, Antonine Mailet, and the poetry of Japanese Canadians
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