Osborne, Brian Stuart 

Dr. Brian Osborne  Professor Emeritus  B.A., Ph.D. (Southampton, 1967)  Office: Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D312  Phone: +001 (613) 533-6042  Fax: +001 (613) 533-6122  Email:osborneb@queensu.ca

Publications: Articles In Refereed Journals

1965 Pre Nineteenth Century Agriculture in Great Britain. Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, 2: 4 5.

1965 Frying Pan Arkansas Project: The Twentieth Century Frontier of Colorado. Wessex Geographer, 6: 58 65.

1967 The Commonlands of Great Britain: A Neglected Commodity. Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, 4: 65 74.

1973 (with D.L. Reimer) Content Analysis and Historical Geography: A Note on Evaluative Assertion Analysis. Area, 5: 96 100.

1973 (with R. Hayward) The “British Colonist” and the Immigration to Toronto of 1847: A Content Analysis Approach to Newspaper Research in Historical Geography. Canadian Geographer, XVII: 391 402.

1974 The Cemeteries of the Midland District of Upper Canada: A Note on Mortality in a Frontier Society. Pioneer America, 6, 1: 46 55.

1974 The Kansas Colorado Power and Railroad Project: A Multi Functional Plan for the Development of the Arkansas Valley. Pioneer America, 6, 2: 22 33.

1974 Manorial Wastes, Encroachments and Industry in Glamorganshire. Canadian Geographer, XVIII, 3: 265 280.

1976 Patching, Scouring and Commons: The Development of an Early Industrial Landscape. Industrial Archaeology Review, 1, 1: 37 42.

1976 Social Patterns in Nineteenth Century Britain. Report on the I.B.G. Historical Geography Research Group, Spring Conference, May 1975. Historical Geography Newsletter, 6, 2: 13 15.

1978 Commonlands, Mineral Rights and Industry: Changing Evaluations in an Industrializing Society. Journal of Historical Geography, 4, 3: 231 249.

1978 Glamorgan Agriculture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The National Library of Wales Journal, XX, 4: 387 407.

1978 (with C.M. Rogerson) Conceptualizing the Frontier Settlement Process: Development or Dependency? Comparative Frontier Studies. An Inter Disciplinary Newsletter, The University of Oklahoma, No. 11 (Summer).

l980. Pedlers, Markets and Fairs: Trade on a Nineteenth Century Frontier. Canadian Papers in Rural History, 2: 59 81.

1980. Wills and Inventories: Records of Life and Death in a Developing Society. Families, 19, 4: 235 248.

1981 (with R. Harris and G. Levine). Housing, Tenure and Social Class in Kingston, Ontario, 1881 1901. Journal of Historical Geography, 7, 3: 271 289.

1983. Masters in Our Own House: A Commentary. Archivaria, 16: 60 61.

1983 (with R.M. Pike) The Postal Service and Canadian Social History. Part l: Petitions, Inspector’s Report and the Postal Archives. Postal Historical Society of Canada Journal, 35: 37 42.

1984 (with R.M. Pike) Lowering the “Walls of Oblivion”: The Revolution in Postal Communications in Central Canada, 1851 1911. Canadian Studies in Rural History, IV: 200 225.

1984. The Artist as Historical Commentator. Archivaria, 17: 41 59.

1985 (with R.M. Pike) The Postal Service and Canadian Social History: Part 2: The Locational Decision. Postal Historical Society of Canada Journal, 41: 11 14.

1984 (with R.M. Pike) The Postal Service and Canadian Social History. Part 3: “L’encouragement aux Habitudes d’Economie.” Postal Historical Society of Canada Journal, 42: 21 27.

1986 (with R.M. Pike) The Postal Service and Canadian Social History. Part 4: The Human Dimension. Postal Historical Society of Canada Journal, 43: 13 18.

1987 (with R.M. Pike) From “A Cornerstone of Canada’s Social Structure” to “Financial Self Sufficiency”: The Transformation of the Canadian Postal Service, 1852 1987. Canadian Journal of Communications, 13: No. 1, 1 26.

1988. “Fact, Message, or Symbol: Three Approaches to Literary Landscapes.” Canadian Geographer, 32: 267 269.

1988 (with E.G. Moore) “Marital Fertility in Kingston, 1861 1881: A Study of Socio Economic Differentials.” Histoire sociale, XX: 39, 9 27.

1989. “Comment on ‘The Russian Frontier on the West: Sixteenth Century Belorussia.’” Soviet Geography, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 197 206.

1989. (with R.M. Pike) “Coping with a New Communications Environment: Current Trends in Canadian Postal Policies in the Light of International Developments.” Politiques et Management Public, 6: 187 212.

1989. “The Long and the Short of it. Kingston as the Foot of the Great Lakes Terminus.” Freshwater, Vol 4, 1 19.

1990. “Organizing the East Lake Ontario Fishery.” Historic Kingston, Vol. 38, 81 93.

1990 (with P. Goheen) “Conference Report: The Seventh International Conference of Historical Geographers.” Israel, July 23 31. Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 16, No. 2, 216 218.

1990 (With R. Pike) “A Post Office for the Next Century.” Policy Options, Vol. 11, No. 10, 1990, 3 6.

1991 (with R.M. Pike) “Mass Postal Services after 150 Years: A Review Essay.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 16, 103 109.

1991. “Oral Based Learning, Literacy and Life: The International Literacy Year Oral History Project.” Journal of the Canadian Oral History Association, Vol. II, 17 22.

1992. “Persisters or Movers?: Tracking Migrants in Canadian History.” Families, 31, No. 1, 21 28.

1992. “The Canada Post Corporation and Rural Canada: An Evaluation of the Rural Conversion Program.” Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, Vol. 2, 221 225.

1995 (with M. Ripmeester) “Kingston, Bedford, Grape Island, Alnwick: The Odyssey of the Kingston Mississauga.” Historic Kingston, Vol. 43, 84-112.

1995 (with S. Wurtele) “The Other Railway: Canadian National’s Department of Colonization and Agriculture.” Prairie Forum, Vol. 20, No. 2, 231-253.

1996. “Texts of Place: ‘A Secret Landscape Hidden Behind the Everyday.’” GeoJournal, Vol. 38, No. 1, 29-39.

1996. “Figuring Space, Marking Time: Contested Identities in Canada.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 2, Nos., 1 & 2, 23-40.

1998. “Constructing Landscapes of Power: The George Etienne Cartier Monument, Montreal, 1910-1996.” Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 24, No. 4, 431-458.

1998a. “Some Thoughts on Landscape: Is it a Noun, a Metaphor, or a Verb?” Canadian Social Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, 93-97.

1998b (with M. Ripmeester) “The Mississaugas Between Two Worlds: Strategic Adjustments to Changing Landscapes of Power.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, 259-291.

2001. “In the shadows of Monuments: The British League for the Reconstruction of the Devastated Areas of France.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol.7, No.1, 59-82.

2001a. “The St. Lawrence in the Canadian National Imagination.” Études Canadiennes, No. 50, June, 257-275.

2001b. “Landscapes, Memory, Monuments, and Commemoration: Putting Identity in its Place.” Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, 39-77.

2002. “Moose Jaw’s ‘Great Escape’: Constructing Tunnels, Deconstructing Heritage, Marketing Places.” Material History Review, Spring, 16-28.

2002a. “Locating Identity: Landscapes of Memory (Bibliographic Essay).” Choice, Vol. 39, No. 11/12, 1903-1911.

2002b. “Re-presenting National Memory: Louis Riel, Traitor or Founder of Canada.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, 303-322.

2002c. (with M. Huitema and M. Ripmeester) “Imagined Spaces, Constructed Boundaries, Conflicting Claims: A Legacy of Colonial Conflict in Eastern Ontario.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, No. 25, 87-112.

2002d. “The Place of Memory and Identity.” Diversities, Volume 1:1, Summer, 9-13.

2004 (with G.B. Osborne)“The Cast[e]ing of Heroic Landscapes of Power: Constructing Canada’s Pantheon of Power on Parliament Hill.” Material History Review, Vol. 60, 35-47.

2004 (with D. Gordon) “Constructing National Identity in Canada’s Capital, 1900-2000: Confederation Square and the National Monument.” Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 30. 618-641.

2005 (With Doug Petty) “T.C. Cummings: The Kingston, Gananoque, North Bay Connection,” Historic Kingston, Vol 53, 45-61.

2005 (with Jason Kovacs) “A Tale of Two Heroes and Two Cities: The Short-Wallick Monument, Kingston and Quebec,” Historic Kingston, Vol 53, 85-101.

2005. Guest Editor, "Identifying with Landscapes/S'identifier au paysage" Special Edition, Material History Review, Vol. 62, Fall, 1-6.

2005. "Editorial," in "Identifying with Landscapes/S'identifier au paysage" Special Edition, Material History Review, Vol. 62, Fall, 78 pp

2006 "From patriotic pines to diasporic geese: Emplacing culture, setting our sights, locating identity in a transnational Canada," Canadian Journal of Communications, Vol. 31, 147-175.

2008. (with Jason Kovacs). “Cultural Tourism: Authenticity, Escaping Into Fantasy, or Escaping Reality,” Bibliographic Essay, Choice, 7-17.

2008. “Temps, espace, et modernités: Conference Report,” Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 34, No.3, 516-20.

2008. “Looking into Kingston, Framing the “Scene/Seen,” Focussing the Gaze: Some Reflections on the Kingston Portrait Collection,” Historic Kingston, Vol. 56, pp. 22-31.

2009. “The Textuality of Kingston: The Power of Imagining Place,” Pittsburg Township Historical Society Collection of Talks 2007, pp. 47-53.

2009. “John A: The Man Who Made Us (Report on Richard Gwyn talk).” Historic Kingston, Vol. 57, 2-4. 

2009. “Ineke Dijks: A Tribute.” Western Geography Vols. 17/18/19, 101-103.

2009. “A Fire in Quebec City, A Burning Question for Guelph: Who was George Wallick, the Hero of St. Sauveur?” Guelph Historical Society Vol. XLVIII, Special Edition, Historic Guelph: The Royal City, 39-50.

2010. “Authors’ Response,” Guelph Historical Society Vol. XLIX, 72-74.