Manitoba : : A History / / W.L. Morton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Morton, W.L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Morton, W. L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)

Here is a modern, authoritative, and readable history of Manitoba written by a well-known native of that province. “My native province,” says Professor Morton, “has always seemed to me an unusual and fascinating place, possessed at once of a history of great interest and a deep sense of history.” The narrative begins with the early year of the seventeenth century when the fur trade around Hudson Bay began, and covers every step in the growth of Manitoba from those days to the present. Interwoven are the essential themes of immigration and patterns of settlement, conflict and compromise among the many national and religious groups in Manitoba, the development of a distinctive economic and social structure, the growth of political consciousness, and the deep-seated conflict between the east-west and north-south axes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. The Fur Trade of the Bay, 1612-1713 -- 2. The Fur Trade of the Winnipeg Basin, 1714-1763 -- 3. The Union of Coast and Plain, 1764-1821 -- 4. The River Lot and Buffalo Hunt, 1821-1856 -- 5. The Old Order and the Transfer, 1857-1869 -- 6. The Resistance of the Red River Métis, 1869-1871 -- 7. The New Pattern of Settlement, 1871-1875 -- 8. The Growing Pattern of Settlement, 1876-1881 -- 9. The Triumph of Ontario Democracy, 1881-1888 -- 10. A British and Canadian Province, 1889-1890 -- 11. The Quiet Times of the Nineties, 1891-1896 -- 12. The First Decade of the Great Boom, 1897-1907 -- 13. The New Manitoba of the Great Boom, 1908-1912 -- 14. The War and Political Crisis, 1913-1917 -- 15. The Years of Social Crisis, 1917-1922 -- 16. The End of Farm Pioneering, 1923-1930 -- 17. The Province and the Nation, 19 30-19 36 -- 18. The Decisions War Deferred, 1937-1945 -- 19. The Growth of Province in Nation, 1945-1955 -- 20. Epilogue: New Growth -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index