The Northward Expansion Of Canada 1914 1967

Author : Morris Zaslow
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005510

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The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967 by Morris Zaslow Pdf

Volume XVII 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 concluding volume of his study of the evolution of the Canadian North since Confederation in 1867, Morris Zaslow details with encyclopedic scope the accelerating change typical of the second half of that era. In this period the frontiers of agriculture and industry swept northward from near the international border to their economic limits. In the search for oil and natural gas, these limits were also close to the country’s physical limits. Assisted by new roads, extended railways, improved river transportation, and the new airplane, settlers, prospectors, and developers cleared land, sought mineral treasures, opened enterprises, and established permanent settlements in areas formerly used for hunting and trapping by Native peoples. At the same time, the institutions of society and government familiar to southern Canadians followed at a more measured pace. Although this northward expansion was temporarily curbed by the Great Depression and wartime, the Second World War brought a new kind of northern development. The exploring expedition during the early-20th century aside, Canadian sensibilities and sovereignty in the Far North were more upset by the presence of United States forces engaged in joint defence projects during the war and in high-technology surveillance in the tense years of the Cold War. All of these activities reduced the possibility for Native peoples to continue to follow their old ways, already compromised by wildlife exploitation and environmental degradation. In the face of challenges from white hunters and resource developers, Native peoples in Canada’s North suffered from ineffectual efforts or benign neglect by government. Unprepared for the social and economic revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, they were overwhelmed by the rush of events. Professor Zaslow follows their problems sympathetically and examines the efforts of recent governments to help them adapt to the new conditions. First published in 1988, Professor Zaslow’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.

Author : Morris Zaslow
Publisher : McClelland and Stewart
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 0771090803

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The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870-1914 by Morris Zaslow Pdf

Author : Sherrill E Grace
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569539

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Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill E Grace Pdf

Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : J.L. Granatstein
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005534

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Canada 1957-1967 by J.L. Granatstein Pdf

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 : Alan Bowker
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459722828

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A Time Such as There Never Was Before by Alan Bowker Pdf

Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.” The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands. What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.

Author : Frank Tester,Peter Kulchyski
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842716

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Tammarniit (Mistakes) by Frank Tester,Peter Kulchyski Pdf

Through an examination of the roles of relief and relocation in response to welfare and other perceived problems and the federal government's overall goal of assimilating the Inuit into the dominant Canadian culture, this book questions the seeming benevolence of the post-Second World War Canadian welfare state. The authors have made extensive use of archival documents, many of which have not been available to researchers before. The early chapters cover the first wave of government expansion in the north, the policy debate that resulted in the decision to relocate Inuit, and the actual movement of people and materials. The second half of the book focuses on conditions following relocation and addresses the second wave of state expansion in the late fifties and the emergence of a new dynamic of intervention.

Author : Morris Zaslow
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005503

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The Opening of the Canadian North 1870-1914 by Morris Zaslow Pdf

Volume XVI 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. This pioneer study traces Canada’s northward expansion in the years after Confederation. In the forefront of the movement were fur-traders, missionaries, and gold-seekers. Behind them came provincial and federal governments, concerned for their authority, and anxious to develop the riches of the North. Under the Laurier government (1896--1911) the advance quickened, and the roles of the Geological Survey, North-West Mounted Police, and Departments of the Interior, Indian Affairs, and Marine and Fisheries, gained new importance. Professor Zaslow, in examining the opening of social, cultural, economic, and industrial frontiers, chronicles the outstanding achievements, as well as the far-reaching failures of the period. A country which, by Confederation in 1867, had barely extended beyond the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence Lowlands region, had by 1914 occupied the prairies. Aided by new transcontinental railways, its people had begun moving into the forests of the Middle North along a front that extended from Lake St. John to Dawson, and the Arctic frontier beyond received increasing attention. But the governments failed in their treatment of the Indigenous population, and in their eagerness to foster development they allowed the resources to be exploited blindly, for and by foreign interests in the main. These were exciting, complex years; in Professor Zaslow’s words, “years of apprenticeship, when Canada began to come to grips with the facts of its northern nature.” First published in 1971, Zaslow’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.

Author : Liza Piper
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858625

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The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada by Liza Piper Pdf

Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies took root in the North, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers' imprint. This book reveals the history of human impact upon the North. It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring subarctic environmental change. Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also addresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.

Author : George F.G. Stanley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003394

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New France 1744-1760 by George F.G. Stanley Pdf

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 : John S. Marsh,Bruce W. Hodgins
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459718357

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Changing Parks by John S. Marsh,Bruce W. Hodgins Pdf

This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks. Contributors include an impressive assembly of noted park experts ranging from academic authorities and government parks personnel to concerned nonpolitical park supporters. Since the establishment of Banff National Park in 1885 and Algonquin Provincial Park in 1893, parklands have been part of Canada's heritage. Where other protected areas, such as forest reserves, heritage rivers and greenways, have also been created, a more comprehensive view of the creation and management of conservation areas and marshland is discussed. Cooperative approaches to park management recognize the regional context of parks with respect to local communities, as well as the inclusion of more diverse groups of people, particularly Aboriginals. This work encourages the general public to take an interest in our priceless park heritage.

Author : Jacqueline D. Krikorian,David R. Cameron,Marcel Martel,Andrew W. McDougall,Robert C. Vipond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781487521882

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Roads to Confederation by Jacqueline D. Krikorian,David R. Cameron,Marcel Martel,Andrew W. McDougall,Robert C. Vipond Pdf

Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 1 includes material on the competing visions of the nature of the 1867 project, on the ideas underpinning the British North America Act, 1867, and on some of the peoples and communities Confederation scholars have traditionally ignored.

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774864053

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The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent by Patrice Dutil Pdf

Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together well-established and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.

Author : Neil Gower
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039145481

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A Metis Man's Dream by Neil Gower Pdf

Where there’s a Gill, there’s a way. Gordon Gill is a gentle, hard-working Métis man whose journey began on his Iroquois-Cree grandfather’s trapline and evolved into a successful business career. His story is one of change and the passing of not just one, but several eras in the development of Canada’s North and the evolution of the Indigenous struggle. A Métis Man's Dream: From Traplines to Tugboats in Canada's North details the history he met, and made, along the way. Vision, chance, and generosity played integral roles in Gill’s evolution from cook’s helper on the tugboat MV Malta to founding two groundbreaking companies, Northern Arc Shipbuilders and Northern Crane Services. Gill emerged and flourished despite challenging personal injuries, poverty, reading difficulties, and residential schooling. He weathered the ups and downs of northern conditions, the crush of Canada’s National Energy Policy, and changes in culture, economics, and opportunity with a resiliency and way of looking at things that is both visionary and resolutely Métis. Gill is a man of many eras, having experienced many historic firsts and lasts, including experiencing the final days of the Indian Day School of Hay River, and directing the design and fabrication of the first short-throw tugboat in the NWT, the MT Gordon Gill. Neil Gower brings together all of this and more in his thoughtful, sensitive compilation of Gill’s remembrances of the changes he has seen in his lifetime.

Author : P.B. Waite
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003479

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Canada 1874-1896 by P.B. Waite Pdf

Volume XIII 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 1874 Canada was only seven years old, still a vast agglomeration of territories joined together only by a paper constitution and some useful common interests. The Intercolonial Railway that would stitch the Maritime Provinces to Quebec and Ontario was still unfinished; the Canadian Pacific Railway was still a chaos of unknowns. To sustain Canada was to take great energy and persistence. By 1896, however, Canada had developed the basis for a distinctive national existence. From arguments between the provinces and the Dominion over borders to religious disputes in Quebec, Manitoba, and the Maritimes, to the second Riel rebellion, during these two decades Canada faced the challenge of consolidating its sparse and scattered elements, and succeeded in drawing its immensity close enough together to withstand the pull to join the United States. Professor Waite has written a history that engages politics, poetry, and personalities. His conviction that it is people who make history brings to life some of the most dynamic people this country has ever known: Macdonald, Blake, Mackenzie, the Tuppers, father and son, and more austere figures like Tardivel and D’Alton McCarthy. Professor Waite has written a scholar’s history in the best sense: informative, readable, lively, not without humour, and unafraid of telling the truth. First published in 1971, Peter B. Waite’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 : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003424

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Lower Canada 1791-1840 by Fernand Ouellet Pdf

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.