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 The Western Interior of Canada A Record of Geographical Discovery, 1612-1917 by (author) John Warkentin So Vast and Various Interpreting Canada's Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by (author) John Warkentin