Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Landscape: Scientists, Practices, and Theories
1. Territory, Networks, and Tools
2. Dr. Jean-François Gaultier: New France's Climatologist
3. Clearing and Cultivation: Eighteenth-Century Climate Improvement Theory
4. British-American Weather Observers to 1830
5. McCord and the Montreal Natural History Society
6. Nineteenth-Century Scientists Question Climate Amelioration
Part II. Meteorology Takes Shape
7. Meteorology and the Military
8. The Magnetic Crusade and the Founding of the Toronto Observatory
9. Medical Meteorology
10. The Establishment of the Meteorological Service of Canada
11. The McGill Observatory and the Professionalization of Meteorology
12. What Do Three Centuries of Observations Tell Us?
13. Extraordinary Seasons
Biographical Sketches
Index