The History of Canada, Second Edition

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
ISBN 9781592376100......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 11
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Flags and Emblems......Page 17
Participants to the First Ministers’ Constitutional Conference......Page 26
Fathers of Confederation......Page 27
Prime Ministers of Canada......Page 28
Governors General of Canada......Page 31
Maps......Page 33
Against Formidable Odds......Page 42
An Overwhelming Landscape: The Geography of Canada......Page 49
Canada’s Political System......Page 54
Canada’s Economy......Page 57
The Peoples of Canada......Page 59
Canada in a New Century: A Product of Its Past......Page 61
Canada Before the Contact Period......Page 64
Migration of Native Peoples to Canada......Page 67
Native Groups, Economies, and Cultures......Page 68
Norsemen: Exploration and Settlement......Page 71
The New World: Early Exploration......Page 72
Cartier’s Voyages: An Attempted French Foothold......Page 73
Champlain and the Establishment of New France......Page 75
Acadia: Early French-English Rivalry in Canada......Page 78
A European Foothold in the New World......Page 79
The French Design for the New World......Page 80
New France to 1663......Page 81
New France by 1663......Page 83
The Rise and Fall of New France......Page 86
Royal Control and Governance......Page 88
The Peoples of New France......Page 90
The Seigneurial System......Page 91
The Fur Trade......Page 93
Towns and Trade......Page 95
Contest for the Continent......Page 96
New France: Strengths and Weaknesses......Page 97
Colonial Wars to the Conquest......Page 98
The Seven Years’ War and the Conquest......Page 100
The Acadian Expulsion......Page 101
The Conquest......Page 103
The Conquest’s Impact......Page 104
New France Becomes Quebec......Page 106
Britain at the Helm......Page 108
The Quebec Experiment......Page 110
The American Revolution......Page 111
The Arrival of the Loyalists......Page 113
British North America at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century......Page 114
The War of 1812......Page 116
Rebellions in the Canadas......Page 119
Life in British North America......Page 122
Boundary Issues and Trade with the United States......Page 127
British North America at Midcentury......Page 129
A Critical Juncture......Page 130
The Impulse for Confederation......Page 132
The British North America Act: A Constitution for a Dominion......Page 138
Challenges for a New Dominion......Page 141
Western Expansion......Page 143
Politics, The Economy, and International Affairs......Page 148
Late Nineteenth-Century Canada: A Nation of Contrasts......Page 151
Canada’s Century?......Page 154
Conservatives and Liberals......Page 156
Immigration and Western Expansion......Page 158
Canada and the British Empire......Page 160
Canada and the United States......Page 161
Canada and the Great War......Page 163
Women and the Vote......Page 169
Canada in the Twenties: Roaring or Whimpering?......Page 170
Workers and the Economy......Page 173
Canadian Culture in the 1920s......Page 175
Canada and the Triangle in the Postwar Era......Page 176
Canada Through War and Peace......Page 177
Canada Comes of Age......Page 180
A Global Depression......Page 182
Governmental Responses to the Depression......Page 184
The Human Dimension of the Great Depression......Page 187
Political Storms: Left, Right, and Center......Page 189
Another Global Conflict......Page 192
Canada at War......Page 195
The Home Front......Page 198
Canada in the Immediate Postwar World......Page 203
A New World......Page 204
Political Changes in the Late 1940s......Page 206
The Postwar Economy......Page 207
Politics: Liberal Style......Page 209
The Conservative Plan: Diefenbaker’s One Canada......Page 210
The Middle Power Ideal......Page 212
Korean War......Page 213
Suez and Peacekeeping......Page 214
Continental Defense and Relations with the United States......Page 215
Life in Cold War Canada......Page 217
A “Quiet Revolution”?......Page 221
Canada in the Mid-1960s: A Tumultuous Time......Page 225
Competing Nationalisms......Page 228
The Liberals and the Social State......Page 230
Canadian Nationalism Triumphant......Page 232
Bilateralism or Multilateralism?......Page 234
Trudeaumania......Page 236
Trudeau’s Foreign Policy......Page 238
Quebec and the Question of Sovereignty......Page 239
The Parti Québécois and Sovereignty-Association......Page 241
Trudeau’s Travails and the Clark Interlude......Page 243
Quebec’s 1980 Referendum......Page 244
A New Constitution......Page 246
Constitution Act (1982)......Page 247
The Close of the Liberal Era......Page 249
The End of Cold War Canada?......Page 250
The Challenges of Nationhood......Page 252
The Conservative Impulse......Page 254
A Distinct Society?......Page 255
Going with the Flow: Free Trade......Page 257
Canada and the World at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century......Page 259
Canada and the United States: Defense and Sovereignty Issues......Page 261
Canada’s Complex Face......Page 263
Chrétien and the Return of the Liberals......Page 267
Quebec and the Question of Sovereignty......Page 268
Western Thunder: the Reform Movement......Page 270
Canada’s Regions and Provinces at the Century’s End......Page 271
Canadians Look to a New Century......Page 273
Canadians Greet a New Century......Page 276
The Nuances of Modern Politics......Page 278
The Cycles of Capitalism and Trade in a New Century......Page 283
A Foreign Policy in the Post–Cold War Era......Page 287
Canadian Citizens Exercise their Rights......Page 297
Contemporary Canadian Culture......Page 299
Canada and the Twenty-First Century......Page 301
Notable People in the History of Canada......Page 304
Timeline of Historical Events......Page 320
List of Documents......Page 326
The Vancouver Winter Olympics and the Press......Page 329
Joe Canadian Rant......Page 333
Champlain’s Assessment of Native Peoples......Page 335
The Old World Becomes the New World......Page 337
A Portrait of Life in New France......Page 339
A Church Perspective on Women and Their Clothing......Page 343
A Military Perspective During the Seven Years’ War......Page 345
The Acadian Experience......Page 347
One Loyalist’s Perspective......Page 349
Mackenzie’s Call to Arms......Page 351
A Perspective of Life in the Backwoods......Page 353
The Argument in Favor of Confederation......Page 357
The Argument Against Confederation......Page 361
The British North America Act......Page 365
Louis Riel on Trial......Page 369
Sifton’s Rationale for Immigration......Page 373
The Necessity for Victory......Page 377
An Argument Against Conscription......Page 381
A Case for Women’s Suffrage......Page 385
Letters from the Heartland......Page 389
The CCF Platform......Page 393
A Portrait of the Fighting Forces......Page 395
A Japanese-Canadian Perspective......Page 397
Smallwood’s Argument for Confederation......Page 401
Diefenbaker and Nuclear Weapons......Page 403
Recommendations of the Massey Report......Page 405
A Voice of the New Quebec......Page 407
The Underside of Canadian Society......Page 409
Keenleyside’s Letter......Page 413
Perspectives of History and the Sovereignty-Association Question......Page 417
Charter of Rights and Freedoms......Page 421
An Argument Against Free Trade......Page 423
First Nations Charter......Page 425
A Voice of New Canadians......Page 427
An Environmentalist’s Perspective......Page 431
A Celebration of Canada’s Role in Afghanistan......Page 435
Canada’s Position on Arctic Sovereignty......Page 437
Canadian Insights Using Humor......Page 441
Bibliographic Essay......Page 445
Index......Page 449