So Vast and VariousJohn Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J. D. Rogers, a British barrister and scholar; Harold Innis, the great economic historian; R. C. Wallace, a geologist with