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Author : William Lewis Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Canada
ISBN : LCCN:65003125
Author : W.L. Morton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003462
Volume XII of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. The Confederation of 1867 was the uncertain climax of more than a decade of ferment in British North America; its immediate consequence was the production by 1873 of the union of all the British colonies but one in the Dominion of Canada. In this fascinating account of those critical years, W.L. Morton shows just how complex were the events which produced that union. He makes clear the important roles played by both founding nations in moulding the new Dominion, demonstrating a perceptive insight into the dual nature of the Canadian identity. Not only great forces but people of genius and insight were at work in the land during that period, bringing the provinces into the great main current of the nineteenth century: unification through commerce, railways, and the growing spirit of nationality. Men like Brown and Dorion, Cartier and Tilley, Mackenzie and John A. Macdonald, holding every shade of political opinion and many of them bitter foes, arrived at the goal of Confederation by very different routes: economic prosperity and political stalemate in the Canadas, depression in the Maritime Provinces, fears of American annexation, the safeguarding of the traditional rights of French Canada, and the desire for improved communications. Confederation did not solve permanently all the problems of the time, many of which have remained to trouble Canadians of today. But by 1873, whatever might lie in the future, British North America was now Canada. First published in 1964, Professor Morton’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : William Lewis Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164395761
Author : Gordon T. Stewart
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774844895
The conditions of colonial politics in Canada between 1760 and 1848 produced features that became permanent landmarks of post-Confederation Canadian politics -- sharp partisan battles, intense use of patronage, strong one-man dominance in party leadership, and a 'statist' orientation not only in government in Ottawa but also in Ontario and Quebec. In this compelling book Gordon Stewart deals with these topics in an original way by placing Canadian politics in a comparative context against the background of political and constitutional developments in England and America between 1688 and the 1820's.
Author : W. Stewart Macnutt
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003431
Volume IX of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. The sea is the basic reality of Canada’s Maritimes. Its influence -- at once a source of wealth and impoverishment, both unifying and divisive -- is the major theme of Professor MacNutt’s book, the first general history of the Maritimes. Their rich fishing bounty, the harassment of settlers, Loyalist migration, absentee landlords, controversy over free land grants, Protestant-Catholic antagonism, and distressing economic conditions are just some of the factors which made these areas a cockpit of contending forces -- English, French, American. From the often precarious conditions of the Acadians in the highly strategic region of Newfoundland to the tested neutrality of Nova Scotia during the American Revolution, to the slow progress of responsible government in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and the defining of “Liberal” and “Conservative” in Nova Scotia, the history of attraction and repulsion towards New England is one of the fascinating features of Professor MacNutt’s narrative. While not neglecting their particularity, he clearly indicates the common features of the Atlantic provinces’ development. First published in 1965, Professor MacNutt’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Edwin E. Rich
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003455
Volume XI of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. The Great Shield of Canada, composed of Precambrian rock overlaid with pockets of shallow soil, effectively isolated nearly half the area of present-day Canada from the first European settlers. This formidable natural barrier thwarted access westward and northward from the St. Lawrence basin, and was an important factor in the three centuries of development prior to Confederation. This authoritative book deals with the rivalry between the great fur-trading concerns, as pathfinders like Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, and Simon Fraser pushed the boundaries of known land up to the Arctic and over the mountains to the West Coast. Bitter competition eventually led to the Massacre of Seven Oaks at the Red River Colony in 1816. A mandatory coalition of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Nor’Westers restored some order in 1821. The fur traders played a vital role in the concept of Confederation, not only because they penetrated uncharted regions, but because they made it normal and acceptable to live and travel in the Northwest. E.E. Rich ably demonstrates how the configuration of the land itself set the terms of the problem of penetration into the Northwest, and how exploration and the fur trade (often unwilling partners) revealed the full extent of what was to be Canada. First published in 1967, Professor Rich’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : J.M.S. Careless
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003448
Volume X of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. J.M.S. Careless looks at how the Act of Union of 1841, which was intended to create a single province and a single constitution for French- and English-speaking Canadians, actually served to entrench duality. First published in 1967, Dr. Careless’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587885
First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada's leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these elements created a sweeping chronicle of Canada from its earliest times to yesterday's news. Now The Illustrated History of Canada has been fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century, with new material on such topics as the rise of small government, the recognition of Native land claims, Canada's role in the post-Cold War "peace," and the 2011 federal election. More than ever, The Illustrated History of Canada is a must-have reference guide for all Canadians interested in the history - and the future - of our country. Contributors include Ramsay Cook (emeritus, York University), Christopher Moore (Toronto writer), Desmond Morton (McGill University), Arthur Ray (emeritus, University of British Columbia), Peter Waite (emeritus, Dalhousie University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).
Author : Gerald M. Craig
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003417
Volume VII of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. With firm authority based on expert knowledge and in a lively and straightforward manner, Gerald M. Craig recounts the events in Upper Canada from the flood of immigration in the aftermath of the American Revolution and the Act of Union in 1841 which reunited the two Canadas. During this period the great and abiding issues of Canadian history--the adjusting of French and English institutions, the relationship between church and state, and the claims of responsible government against those of imperial unity and American expansionism--were raised and hotly debated. Those crucial years were to shape the character of much of English-speaking Canada and to lay the foundation for Confederation. Never before had this turbulent era in a colony divided by political, religious, and economic rivalries been so vividly and excitingly set before the reader. Professor Craig brilliantly tells not just the story of the the Simcoes and Mackenzies, the Strachans and the Durhams but also the story of the ordinary people who cleared the land and built the farms and towns, who evolved from war and invasion, rebellion and confusion, to be neither British nor American, but distinctive in their own new Canadian personality. First published in 1963, Gerald M. Craig’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : J.L. Granatstein
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005534
Volume XIX of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. In the tenth decade of Canada’s Confederation, the expansive and unifying post-war boom gave way to rapid change and conflicting choices. These were the years of John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, years when Canada’s culture, economy, and politics took new directions and the foundations of Canada’s political and social realities were laid. J.L. Granatstein explores these crucial ten years through an assessment and analysis of people, issues, and trends. Beginning with a survey of the country in 1957, poised to grasp Diefenbaker’s grand “Vision,” the author vividly describes how the Progressive Conservative promise won the nation -- and later could not be fulfilled. In these critical years Canada joined NORAD and scrapped the Avro Arrow jet fighter; the Diefenbaker Cabinet tore itself apart over the nuclear arms question. Cultural growth and change are here portrayed as central to the nation’s history in the author’s examination of the Canada Council’s formation and its impact on the nation’s artistic and intellectual life. Politics mirrored public feelings in the mid-1960s, as governments federal and provincial addressed new kinds of problems. Unification of the armed forces, medicare, and bilingualism in the public services, especially in the context of the growing political and cultural ferment in Quebec, proved divisive as well as innovative. Utilizing government records, the private papers of important figures, and interviews with individuals at the centre of events, J.L. Granatstein offers the reader a thoughtful but exhilarating account of this turbulent period when Canada almost lost its way en route to the Centennial of Confederation. First published in 1986, Professor Granatstein’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842693
In Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-1867, Ged Martin offers a sceptical review of claims that Confederation answered all the problems facing the provinces, and examines in detail British perceptions of Canada and ideas about its future. The major British contribution to the coming of Confederation is to be found not in the aftermath of the Quebec conference, where the imperial role was mainly one of bluff and exhortation, but prior to 1864, in a vague consensus among opinion-formers that the provinces would one day unite. Faced with an inescapable need to secure legislation at Westminster for a new political structure, British North American politicians found they could work within the context of a metropolitan preference for intercolonial union.
Author : Tryggvi J. Oleson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005541
Volume I of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Professor Oleson rediscovers the journeys of the Norse people from Iceland towards Arctic Canada, five hundred years before Columbus’ exploits. These Christian Europeans settled with Indigenous Canadians, building stone settlements, trapping and exporting the prized white falcon and polar bear to the courts of medieval Europe, and producing the unique Thule people, ancestors of the modern Inuit. In fact, Professor Oleson’s research has traced the tall white “Tunnit” people of Inuit mythology to these Norse settlers. Despite the eventual fading of contact with Europe, the Norse had built an irrefutable North Atlantic route which explorers and traders of the 17th century would follow in their pursuit of the riches of Asia and their creation of a lasting bond with Europe. First published in 1963, Tryggvi J. Oleson’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : George F.G. Stanley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003394
Volume V of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. In this stirring account of the last phase of the struggle between France and England for supremacy in America, from 1744 when the War of the Austrian Succession spread into the New World until the fall of New France in 1760, Professor George Stanley shows that for the French who lived in North America the issue was not political or ideological but economic: they laboured and fought not primarily for the glory of France but for their homes, their lands, and their trade. Making brilliant use of eye-witness accounts, the author brings to life the complex military campaigns of the period and depicts with great skill the characters of the leading figures, including finally Montcalm, the European military man par excellence, ill at ease in North American warfare; Vaudreuil, the Governor, with his passionate interest in the Canadian aspect of French imperialism; Bigot, the Intendant, efficient and worldly, betraying his office by privately trading in food, specie, and wine; and the tenacious habitant of New France who, as his name implies, was neither a peasant in the Old-World sense nor a colonist in the French imperial sense. Here also are the methodical Amherst, patiently concerning himself with logistics, and the impetuous Wolfe, single-minded in his desire for the capture of Quebec. First published in 1968, Professor Stanley’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Fernand Ouellet
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003424
Translated and adapted by Patricia Claxton Volume VIII of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Professor Ouellet traces the impact of some of the changes wrought in Lower Canada at the close of the eighteenth century, after thirty years of British rule, to offer an analysis of the historical roots of nationalism and the traditional struggle for social change in the province of Quebec. First published in 1980, Fernand Ouellet’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : John Herd Thompson,Allen Seager
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003493
Volume XV of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Incorporating the research of a new generation of Canadian historians, John Herd Thompson and Allen Seager give broader dimensions to our picture of Canada during the inter-war years. Mackenzie King, J.S. Woodsworth, and R.B. Bennett come to life in their pages, but so too do provincial leaders like E.N. Rhodes, T.D. Pattullo, and Maurice Duplessis. Canada, 1922-1939 is also a story of ordinary Canadians, the men, women, and children for whom the 1920s didn’t “roar” and who bore the brunt of the Great Depression. Laurier’s boast that the twentieth century would belong to Canada became a bitter irony during the decades of discord bracketed by two world wars. Apart from the boom of the late twenties, economic instability characterized the period. Politically it was marked by regional division, the first minority governments, and the failed hopes of the Progressives and the pre-1914 social reform movements. These years saw Canada drift further from Britain’s orbit. Thompson and Seager chart the economic and diplomatic courses of Canada’s closer relationship with the United States and recount attempts of cultural nationalists like the Group of Seven and the Canadian Authors’ Association to create a “native” Canadian culture in the face of the invasion of American movies, magazines, and radio programs. Thompson and Seager have provided a balanced, authoritative history of one of Canada’s most traumatic and least understood periods. Canada, 1922-1939: Decades of Discord will supply amateur as well as academic historians with lively reading. First published in 1985, Thompson and Seager’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.