As a Nipissing University professor of history, Murton published an examination of the B.C. government's efforts to control and shape rural development in the early 1900s, Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia (UBC Press 2007).

[BCBW 2007] "Agriculture"


Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia