About J. David Wood J. David Wood is professor emeritus of geography, York University, and the author of several books, including Making Ontario: Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation before the Railway. Books by J. David Wood Places of Last Resort The Expansion of the Farm Frontier into the Boreal Forest in Canada, c. 1910-1940 by (author) J. David Wood Perspectives on Landscape and Settlement in Nineteenth-Century Ontario edited by J. David Wood
