N.W. Rowell : : Ontario Nationalist /

N.W. Rowell : : Ontario Nationalist / / Margaret Prang.

In his career as corporation and constitutional lawyer, Methodist layman, Liberal politician, and internationalist, N.W. Rowell reflected and helped direct many of the forces that have shaped Canada. He was an Ontario farm boy who began a distinguished legal career in Toronto in 1891, and was subseq...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Prang, Margaret,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1975
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE
  • 1. Methodists and reformers
  • 2. The young Toronto lawyer
  • 3. Liberalism in East York
  • 4. Shaping Canada's century
  • 5. Higher criticism and Canada's destiny
  • PART TWO
  • 6. A Liberal Moses
  • 7. Leader of the opposition
  • 8. Abolish-the-bar
  • 9. Ontario and Quebec at war
  • 10. Democracy versus militarism
  • 11. The full current of the world's life
  • 12. The larger citizenship
  • 13. Saving civilization at the polls
  • PART THREE
  • 14. The organization of victory
  • 15. The coronation of democracy
  • 16. The new order
  • 17. Recrimination and reform
  • 18. No light in the window
  • 19. An honourable discharge
  • PART FOUR
  • 20. Canada in the League of Nations
  • 21. Canada, the Empire, and the new internationalism
  • 22. An observer of King Liberalism
  • 23. A new church and a new commonwealth
  • 24. Cleaning up the Liberals
  • 25. The pinnacle of the legal profession
  • 26. A darkening world
  • 27. The chief justice
  • Notes
  • Index

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