Climate in the age of empire weather observers in colonial Canada - Slonosky, Victoria C. 1972- (Boston, Massachusetts American Meteorological Society, 2018)
Preface -- The landscape : the territory, scientific networks, and early thermometers -- New france's climatologist, Dr. Jean-Franðcois Gaultier -- The clearing and cultivation climate improvement theory in the 18th century -- British-American weather observers to 1830 -- Mccord and the Montreal Natural History Society -- 19th-century theories of climate change -- Meteorology and the military -- Military weather observations and the founding of the Toronto Observatory : the magnetic crusade -- Medical meteorology -- The Toronto Observatory becomes the Meteorological Service of Canada -- The beginnings of official meteorology : Smallwood and McGill, G.T. Kingston, and the Meteorological Service of Canada -- What do three centuries of observations tell us about how the climate has changed? -- Extraordinary seasons -- Glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Meteorological Service of Canada -- History; Meteorology -- Canada -- History; Meteorology -- Canada -- Observations; Meteorology -- Canada; Meteorologists -- Canada; Climatic changes -- Canada; Electronic books