Author : R. E. Gosnell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1331316456
The Story of Confederation: With PostScript on Quebec Situation (Classic Reprint) by R. E. Gosnell Pdf
Excerpt from The Story of Confederation: With Postscript on Quebec Situation The published volume is extremely valuable as a record and for certain observations by one of the makers of Confederation, but it covers only the organic stage of Union - from the Charlottetown conferences to the actual culmination in 1867, and Confederation is still in the making. It has had treatment in the magazines and in several small volumes not purporting to be more than readable reviews of the bringing about of the B.N.A. Act, the Magna Charta of Canada as a dominion, but none of the publications to which I have referred covers the wide field which Mr. Gosnell has surveyed in his book to which this is a foreword. There have, of course, been several useful and able commentaries upon Confederation from the constitutional point of view, largely based upon judicial interpretation and particularly upon decisions of the Privy Council. With fifty years of perspective, we should now be in a position to judge more or less accurately of the merits of the work of the architects of the federal structure, and to view successfully federal relations under a variety of trying strains and over a wide extent of territory. It is true that as a result of conditions arising out of this war Confederation has yet to stand its severest test, but there is every hope that sectional and racial considerations, which are the lions in the pathway, will not be permitted to prevail. Mr. Gosnell modestly claims to have written only a journalistic review of Confederation. This may be true, but it is the kind of review which appeals to the ordinary reader who wishes to arrive at a serviceable knowledge of the subject, and in that, I think, consists its merits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
