Roads to Confederation : : The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1 / / ed. by Andrew McDougall, Marcel Martel, David Cameron, Jacqueline Krikorian, Robert Vipond.

• MitwirkendeR: Ajzenstat, Janet,; Arès, Richard,; Cameron, David R.,; Cook, Ramsay,; Creighton, D.G.,; Dickason, Olive Patricia,; Gertler, Meric S.,; Krikorian, Jacqueline D.,; LaSelva, Samuel V.,; Lamonde, Yvan,; Lenton, Rhonda L.,; Martel, Marcel,; McDougall, Andrew W.,; McPherson, Kathryn,; Migneault, Gaétan,; Newbigging, William,; Paquin, Stéphane,; Rogers, Norman McL.,; Russell, Peter H.,; Shoukri, Mamdouh,; Vipond, Robert C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cameron, David,; Krikorian, Jacqueline ,; Martel, Marcel,; McDougall, Andrew,; Vipond, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written in French are translated for the first time for publication in this collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the study of Confederation and provides material that considers the nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and communities who have been traditionally excluded from the literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several leading articles that set out different ways to understand the nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- ROADS TO CONFEDERATION The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 1 -- I Introduction: The Study of Confederation -- II Other Voices, Other Stories -- A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations -- “Displacement and Assimilation” Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- “Gender and the Confederation Debates” -- “French Canada and Confederation: The Acadians of New Brunswick” -- III Ideas of Confederation -- Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? -- Reference re. Secession of Quebec Supreme Court of Canada1 -- The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament -- Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760–1896 -- “Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment” -- “1787 and 1867: The Federal Principle and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered” -- IV One New Nation, Two Founding Nations or a Compact of Provinces? -- “Conservatism and National Unity” -- “The Genesis of Provincial Rights” -- “Confederation: A Pact or a Law?” -- “Nature of Confederation” Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (Tremblay Report) -- “Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present” -- The Invention of a Myth: The Pact between Two Founding Peoples -- Copyright Permissions -- Contributors