Canadian History: Pre-Confederation

Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Contents
Dedication
About the Book
Acknowledgments
Author\'s Notes
Preface
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Chapter 1. When Was Canada?
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The Writing of History
	1.3 Making Histories
	1.4 The Current State of Historical Writing in Canada
	1.5 Summary
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Chapter 2. Aboriginal Canada before Contact
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 History without Archives
	2.3 The Aboriginal Americas
	2.4 The Millennia before Contact
	2.5 Languages, Cultures, Economies
	2.6 Summary
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Chapter 3. The Transatlantic Age
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Beginnings of Globalism
	3.3 The Seafaring World of the 15th and 16th Centuries
	3.4 England and France in the Age of Discovery
	3.5 The Columbian Age
	3.6 France in the Americas
	3.7 Summary
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Chapter 4. New France
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Acadia
	4.3 Canada, 1608-1663
	4.4 Wendake/Huronia and the Fur Trade
	4.5 The Heroic Age of New France
	4.6 Canada, 1663-1763
	4.7 Canada and Catholicism
	4.8 Louisiana and the Pays d\'en Haut
	4.9 War in the Pays d\'en Haut
	4.10 Summary
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Chapter 5. Aboriginal Canada in the Era of Contact
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 The Columbian Exchange
	5.3 The Widowed Land
	5.4 Strategic Encounters
	5.5 Strategic Alliances
	5.6 Belief and Culture: The Wendat Experience
	5.7 The Five Nations: War, Population, and Diplomacy
	5.8 Summary
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Chapter 6. Intercolonial Rivalries, Imperial Ambitions, and the Conquest
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The British Colonies, ca.1600-1700
	6.3 Competing Mercantile Economies
	6.4 International Fisheries
	6.5 The Plantation Colonies
	6.6 Contrasting Farming Frontiers
	6.7 Triangular Trade
	6.8 The Fur Trade in Global Perspective
	6.9 Colonial Conflict to 1713
	6.10 Acadia 1713-1755
	6.11 The Seven Years\' War
	6.12 Summary
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Chapter 7. British North America at Peace and at War (1763-1818)
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Pyrrhic Victories
	7.3 Government
	7.4 Revolutionary British America
	7.5 Interwar Years: The Atlantic Colonies
	7.6 Interwar Years: The Canadas
	7.7 Slavery
	7.8 The War of 1812
	7.9 Summary
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Chapter 8. Rupert\'s Land and the Northern Plains, 1690-1870
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Northerners
	8.3 Intrusions during the 17th Century
	8.4 Commerce, Collusion, and Conflict in the 18th Century
	8.5 The Montrealers versus the HBC
	8.6 Fur Trade Wars
	8.7 Cultural Change on the Plains
	8.8 Fur Trade Society and the Métis
	8.9 Community and Crisis at Red River
	8.10 The New HBC and the New Nation to 1860
	8.11 Environmental Apocaplyse
	8.12 Summary
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Chapter 9. Economic Transformation and Continuity, 1818-1860s
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 The Dismal Science
	9.3 British North America between the Wars
	9.4 The Lower Canadian Economy
	9.5 Building the Wheat Economy in Upper Canada
	9.6 The Atlantic Colonies
	9.7 The Canal Era
	9.8 Economic and Social Change
	9.9 Manufacturing, Railways, and Industry: Early Days
	9.10 Reciprocity and Free Trade
	9.11 Summary
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Chapter 10. Societies of British North America to 1860
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Demographics
	10.3 Immigration
	10.4 Country Life
	10.5 City Life
	10.6 Social Classes
	10.7 Gender Roles
	10.8 Race and Racism
	10.9 Education
	10.10 Leisure and Recreation
	10.11 Summary
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Chapter 11. Politics to 1860
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 Politics 1818-1860
	11.3 Upper and Lower Canada
	11.4 The Tory Oligarchy
	11.5 Ultramontanism and Secularism
	11.6 Republicanism in Canada
	11.7 The Press
	11.8 Labour and Its Discontents
	11.9 Early Reformism and Reformers
	11.10 Rebellions, 1837-38
	11.11 Durham and Union
	11.12 Responsible Government
	11.13 Seats of Government
	11.14 The 1850s
	11.15 Aboriginal Politics at Mid-Century
	11.16 Summary
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Chapter 12. Children and Childhood
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 Childhood in a Dangerous Time
	12.3 Childhood in New France and Lower Canada
	12.4 Childhood in the West
	12.5 Children at Work
	12.6 Childhood under Attack
	12.7 Children as Historic Actors
	12.8 Summary
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Chapter 13. The Farthest West
	13.1 Introduction
	13.2 Aboriginal Societies in the 18th Century
	13.3 Fur Trade and Empires
	13.4 The Canadian Cordillera
	13.5 Aboriginal Traders
	13.6 Boundary Disputes and Manifest Destiny
	13.7 Identity Crisis
	13.8 The Island Colony
	13.9 The Gold Colony
	13.10 A Shrinking Aboriginal Landscape in the 1860s
	13.11 Summary
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Chapter 14. The 1860s: Confederation and Its Discontents
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 Considering Confederation
	14.3 Confederation as a Cure-All
	14.4 Crafting a Constitution
	14.5 Atlantic Canada and Confederation
	14.6 Canada and the West
	14.7 On the Brink of Industrialization
	14.8 Summary
Appendix
Appendix - Glossary
About the Author and Contributors
Versioning History