The Last Cannon Shot : : A Study of French-Canadian Nationalism 1837-1850 / / Jacques Monet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Monet, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)

Based on four years of research in the French-Canadian press of the 1840s and the private papers of the main French-Canadian politicians, British officials, and Roman Catholic religious leaders, this book describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of French Canada's priests and politicians around the central issue of their people's relation to the British Crown during that period. Confederation in 1867, modern Canada, and the current tempest in French Canada cannot adequately be understood without constant reference to these men of the 1840s and the political and religious ideologies they represented. Indeed, it was in their enmities, in their friendships and loyalties that were laid the strongbi-national foundations of what Etienne Parent foresaw as 'une grande nationalité canadienne assez forte pour se protéger elle-même et vivre de sa propre vie.'

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The Debate on the Union, 1837-1842 -- 1. The People and the Press: "Le Grand Decouragement," 1837-1842 -- 2. "Poulet" Thomson and the Project of Union -- 3. Politicians and Priests, I, 1838-1840 -- 4. Politics, 1840-1841 -- 5. "Les Epoux si mal en lune de miel" April-September 1841 -- 6. Sir Charles Bagot, January-September 1842 -- 7. Thanksgiving, September 1842-March 1843 -- Part Two: The Campaign for Responsible Government, 1843-1848 -- 8. The Great Awakening -- 9. La Crise Metcalfe: Constitutional, March 1843-March 1844 -- 10. La Crise Metcalfe: Party Platforms, March-December 1844 -- 11. La Crise Metcalfe: Elections, March-December 1844 -- 12. Double Majority, November 1844-September 1845 -- 13. Politicians and Priests, II, 1846 -- 14. Lord Elgin, September 1846-March 1848 -- Part Three: The Crises over Repeal and Annexation, 1848-1850 -- 15. Les Elements de la crise -- 16. The Re-Emergence of Papineau, November 1847-May 1848 -- 17. "L'Union et la Nationalite," 1848 -- 18. The Destruction of Papineau, 1848 -- 19. Annexation,1849 -- 20. Politicians and Priests, III -- 21. The Defeat of Annexation -- Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Index