Roads to Confederation : : The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2 / / ed. by Andrew McDougall, Marcel Martel, David Cameron, Jacqueline Krikorian, Robert Vipond.

• MitwirkendeR: Bonenfant, Jean-Charles,; Brouillet, Eugénie,; Buckner, Phillip,; Careless, J.M.S.,; Daschuk, James W.,; Dumont, Fernand,; Gray, John Hamilton,; Groulx, Lionel,; Kelly, Stéphane,; Martin, Chester,; McKay, Ian,; Morton, W.L.,; Owram, Doug,; Perry, Adele,; Roby, Yves,; Ryerson, Stanley B.,; Shi, David E.,; Silver, A.I.,; Stacey, C.P.,; Waite, P.B.,; Wilson, George E.,
• 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 (512 p.)

Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• V From Canada East to Quebec
• The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation
• French Canadians and the French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation”
• The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism
• Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King, and Trudeau
• The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864–1900
• VI The East, Ontario, and the West
• The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864–1867
• “New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation”
• “The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment”
• “The Maritimes and Confederation”
• “George Brown”
• The West and Confederation
• Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856–1900
• VII The Geopolitics of Confederation
• Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July 1871
• “British Policy in Canadian Confederation”
• “Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871”
• The United States and Confederation
• “Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865–1869”
• VIII 1867: A Formative Event?
• Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815–1873
• On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849–1871
• The Origins of Quebec Society
• “The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History”
• Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
• Copyright Permissions
• Contributors
• Select Bibliography