About John Warkentin John Warkentin is a professor emeritus of geography at York University and the author of various books on Canada, including A Regional Geography of Canada: Life, Sand, and Space. Books by John Warkentin So Vast and Various Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by (author) John Warkentin Kelsey Papers, The by (author) Henry Kelsey edited by John Warkentin