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Book The Peoples of Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. M. Bumsted
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press Canada
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Peoples of Canada written by J. M. Bumsted and published by Oxford University Press Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bumsted has provided a fresh look at Canadian history, illuminating it for the present time, in a text that is readable, richly detailed, and generously illustrated. Volume 1 describes the First Peoples before contact with the earliest European visitors, and then discusses exploration; settlement in the St. Lawrence Valley and the Atlantic regions, the Conquest and its aftermath; the development of British North America in the Dominion of Canada; and the expansion of Canada's domain andits economy.

Book Conflict and Compromise

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  • Author : Raymond B. Blake
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-05-18
  • ISBN : 1442635576
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Conflict and Compromise written by Raymond B. Blake and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been a continual process of negotiation and a need for compromise which has enabled Canada to develop into arguably one of the most successful and pluralistic countries in the world. The authors have drawn from all genres characterizing the present state of Canadian historiography, including social, military, cultural, political, and economic approaches. In doing so their aim is to challenge readers to engage with debates and interpretations about the past rather than simply to study for an exam. The second volume begins with the nation-building project that got underway in 1864 and ends in the present. The book is illustrated with over 60 images, maps, and figures, all designed to support its mission to provide intellectual curiosity.

Book A Few Acres of Snow

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  • Author : Thomas Thorner
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442600292
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book A Few Acres of Snow written by Thomas Thorner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Few Acres of Snow allows readers to experience early Canadian history in the words of those who first explored, created, and documented the nation. Providing coast-to-coast representation and featuring a diverse range of social groups, the editors offer a refreshing look at the major events leading up to and including Confederation. Throughout, they rely on a careful selection of personal, formal, and legal documents to tell the story, including early travel narratives, literary writings by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, government reports on slavery in Canada, official letters on Irish immigration, and newspaper articles and speeches on the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. In this trim new edition, each document is introduced with biographical information about the creator. Brand new chapters discuss the Loyalists in Nova Scotia, the War of 1812, and the Beothuk. Also new is a guide to critically reading and engaging with historical documents.

Book Canadian History

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  • Author : John Douglas Belshaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Canadian History written by John Douglas Belshaw and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Aboriginal and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field. The material is pursued in a largely chronological manner to the early 19th century, at which point social, economic, and political change are dissected. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation provides, as well, a reconnaissance of historical methodology and debates in the field, exercises for students, Key Terms and a Glossary, and section-by-section Key Points. Although this text can be modified, expanded, reduced, and reorganized to suit the needs of the instructor, it is organized so as to support learning, to broaden (and sometimes provoke) debate, and to engage students in thinking like historians. Written and reviewed by subject experts drawn from colleges and universities, this is the first open textbook on the topic of Canadian history."--BCcampus website.

Book Conflict and Compromise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond B. Blake
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-05-18
  • ISBN : 1442635533
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Conflict and Compromise written by Raymond B. Blake and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume begins with the history of Canada's Indigenous inhabitants prior to the arrival of Europeans and ends with the nation-building project that got underway in 1864.

Book Pre Confederation Canada

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  • Author : John L. Finlay
  • Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Pre Confederation Canada written by John L. Finlay and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two well-known historians, this text presents a detailed chronological account of Canadian history from the country's earliest beginnings as a wilderness frontier to its emergence as an independent nation. The story unfolds from a power and politics perspective and picks up the themes of social and economic history. It incorporates recent research and historical debates, and reflects current interpretations of native peoples.

Book Canada s Odyssey

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  • Author : Peter H. Russell
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-05-08
  • ISBN : 1487514484
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Canada s Odyssey written by Peter H. Russell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests". It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. Featuring the scope and vivid characterizations of an epic novel, Canada’s Odyssey is a magisterial work by an astute observer of Canadian politics and history, a perfect book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Book The Peoples of Canada

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  • Author : J. M. Bumsted
  • Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book The Peoples of Canada written by J. M. Bumsted and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of two volumes, along with The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Canada from Confederation to the present. This second edition bolsters the social history content, while maintaining the political framework and includes much more material on Aboriginal peoples, women, and ethinic minorities.

Book Readings in Canadian History  Pre Confederation

Download or read book Readings in Canadian History Pre Confederation written by R. Douglas Francis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Founding

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  • Author : Janet Ajzenstat
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0773575936
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Canadian Founding written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.

Book Foundations

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  • Author : Margaret Conrad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780321491107
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Foundations written by Margaret Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian History is a sample reader of pre-confederation Canadian history, with a careful balance of regional representation. The sections of the text are grouped in overlapping time periods that have become more-or-less conventional for the study of the pre-Confederation period: Beginnings to 1663; France in America, 1663-1756; British North America, 1749-1821; Maturing Colonial Societies, 1821-1867; and Industrializing Canada, 1840-1867. With updated material to ensure a modern appeal, including 18 new readings, this book will give history students a balanced sample of some of the best and most recent readings dealing with the history of Canada before Confederation.

Book The Causes of Canadian Confederation

Download or read book The Causes of Canadian Confederation written by Ged Martin and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian History  Beginnings to Confederation

Download or read book Canadian History Beginnings to Confederation written by Martin Brook Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Book Reappraisals in Canadian History  Pre confederation

Download or read book Reappraisals in Canadian History Pre confederation written by Carl Murray Wallace and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada. This book was released on 1993 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Law in Canada  Volume One

Download or read book A History of Law in Canada Volume One written by Philip Girard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.

Book Interpreting Canada s Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. M. Bumsted
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780195427790
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Interpreting Canada s Past written by J. M. Bumsted and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized both chronologically and thematically, this pre-Confederation reader encourages students to explore Canada's history through authentic primary documents and critical academic articles. Each chapter begins with an introduction that offers context for the documents that follow andincludes an extensive list of questions for consideration and related readings. Fully revised and expanded, this fourth edition includes over 35 new primary and secondary documents, as well as an enhanced treatment of visual history with more figures, maps, photographs, and art, offering students acomprehensive view of pre-Confederation Canada. Interpreting Canada's Past: A Pre-Confederation Reader, fourth edition is the first volume of a two-volume set of readers that has been created to accompany J.M. Bumsted's two-volume text The Peoples of Canada and his single volume text A History ofthe Canadian Peoples. This celebrated collection is an essential resource for students and instructors of Canadian history.

Book Before Ontario

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  • Author : Marit K. Munson
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 0773589201
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book Before Ontario written by Marit K. Munson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, Before Ontario provides both an outline of Ontario's ancient past and an easy to understand explanation of how archaeology works. The authors show how archaeologists are able to study items as diverse as fish bones, flakes of stone, and stains in the soil to reconstruct the events and places of a distant past - fishing parties, long-distance trade, and houses built to withstand frigid winters. Presenting new insights into archaeology’s purpose and practice, Before Ontario bridges the gap between the modern world and a past that can seem distant and unfamiliar, but is not beyond our reach. Contributors include Christopher Ellis (University of Western Ontario), Neal Ferris (University of Western Ontario/Museum of Ontario Archaeology), William Fox (Canadian Museum of Civilization/Royal Ontario Museum), Scott Hamilton (Lakehead University), Susan Jamieson (Trent University Archaeological Research Centre - TUARC), Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum), Anne Keenleyside (TUARC), Stephen Monckton (Bioarchaeological Research), Marit Munson (TUARC), Kris Nahrgang (Kawartha Nishnawbe First Nation), Suzanne Needs-Howarth (Perca Zooarchaeological Research), Cath Oberholtzer (TUARC), Michael Spence (University of Western Ontario), Andrew Stewart (Strata Consulting Inc.), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier University), and Ron Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc).