The Empire Of The St Lawrence

Author : Donald Creighton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516819

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The Empire of the St. Lawrence by Donald Creighton Pdf

Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost English Canadian historian of his generation. In it, he examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and he argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada's economic and national development. Creighton tells the story of the St. Lawrence empire largely from the perspective of these Canadian merchants, who, above all others, struggled to win the territorial empire of the St. Lawrence and to establish the Canadian commercial state. Christopher H. Moore, historian and Governor General Award winner, has written a new introduction to this classic text.

Author : Donald Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1080898554

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The Empire of the St. Lawrence by Donald Creighton Pdf

Author : Donald Grant Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492240444

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The Empire of the ST. Lawrence by Donald Grant Creighton Pdf

Author : Donald Grant Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015027927568

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The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850 by Donald Grant Creighton Pdf

Author : Donald A. Wright
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442620308

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Donald Creighton by Donald A. Wright Pdf

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it “had happened,” he said, “the day before yesterday.” And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and – at least on one occasion – the British government. Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural lines in the 1960s and 1970s, Creighton defended a British definition of Canada at the same time as he began to fear that he would be remembered only “as a pessimist, a bigot, and a violent Tory partisan.” Through his virtuoso research into Creighton’s own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.

Author : Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1897446039

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The Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists on the Upper St. Lawrence and Bay of Quinte in 1784 by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank Pdf

Author : Murray Shor,Joyce Shor Johnson
Publisher : Shor2 Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0991523709

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St Lawrence Ripples by Murray Shor,Joyce Shor Johnson Pdf

St. Lawrence Ripples The column, St. Lawrence Ripples, provided an opportunity for a young urban product of New York City to personally explore the fascination of small town rural life in early 19th century America seen through the eyes of those who lived it. New York State's North Country, including the Adirondack region, is still a distinct, beautiful area far removed from the common perception of the Empire State.

Author : Vicki Holmes
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525544668

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Three River Valleys Called Home by Vicki Holmes Pdf

Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family’s story begins in 1755 as they leave the Rhine Valley for a better life in America. Once there, they move to the Mohawk River Valley in New York, where they build a home and raise 10 children. Despite the effects of the French Indian War, the Eamers flourish and happily find their lives intertwined with their neighbours and fellow immigrants for almost two decades. However, no family’s story occurs in isolation, and eventually the Eamers find themselves at the mercy of the political and historic events of the American Revolution. Choosing to side with the Crown, they are forced to flee their home at the hands of neighbours and soldiers. What follows next is representative of many Loyalists’ experiences. The Eamer family is forced to make a 370-km (230-mile) trek to Montreal, where they must live in a refugee camp for three years before finally being granted their own land in the St. Lawrence Valley for their loyalty to the King. Told by one of Philip and Catrina’s descendants, Three River Valleys Called Home is historical fiction based on a real family and true events. Although some of the interactions and dialogue may be imagined, they are firmly planted in the harsh realities that many immigrants faced and pay tribute to the true grit of the settlers who built North America. While this book will have special meaning for the thousands of descendants of the Eamer family (and the other families who made up their community), their story will touch anyone with a history of immigration in their family tree.

Author : Jennifer Lackey
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778724301

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Jacques Cartier by Jennifer Lackey Pdf

Brief biography of the French explorer who was the first European to explore the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, the St. Lawrence River and the lands that bordered them.

Author : Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:317305989

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The Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists on the Upper St. Lawrence and Bay of Quinte in 1784 by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank Pdf

Author : Claire Elizabeth Campbell,Edward MacDonald,Brian Payne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773559837

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The Greater Gulf by Claire Elizabeth Campbell,Edward MacDonald,Brian Payne Pdf

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history – marine and terrestrial – of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. Contributors include Rainer Baehre (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Bouchard (Folger Institute), Claire Campbell (Bucknell University), Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), Edward MacDonald (University of Prince Edward Island), Matthew McKenzie (University of Connecticut), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Brian Payne (Bridgewater State University), John G. Reid (St. Mary's University), and Daniel Soucier (University of Maine).

Author : Jean-François Lozier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780773553453

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Flesh Reborn by Jean-François Lozier Pdf

A groundbreaking view of how Indigenous communities emerged in the heartland of New France.

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802081967

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The Fur Trade in Canada by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

A classic work of Canadian historical scholarship, first published in 1930. In his new introduction, A.J. Ray states that this book is argueably the most definitive economic history and geography of Canada ever produced.

Author : Donald Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:490230519

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Dominion of the North by Donald Creighton Pdf

Author : T. R. Glover,D. D. Calvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107425651

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A Corner of Empire by T. R. Glover,D. D. Calvin Pdf

First published in 1937, this book presents a historical study of Kingston, Ontario. The text discusses the origins of Kingston, its role in military conflicts, its position as a trading centre and the foundation of Queen's University, among other topics. Illustrative figures are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Canada and North American history in general.