Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

by Jacqueline Krikorian (Editor), David Cameron (Editor), Marcel Martel (Editor), Andrew McDougall (Editor), Robert Vipond (Editor)

Overview

Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada, and includes scholarship written over 145 years.

Volume 2 of this collection focuses on three major themes. It presents research from the perspective of Canada’s regions, with one chapter focusing exclusively on the competing understandings of 1867 from the perspective of Quebec. Next, it includes material pertaining to the geopolitical underpinnings of 1867 that addresses the relationship between Confederation, the U.S. Civil War and American expansionism, Great Britain and war in the European theatre. Also included is leading scholarship by Stanley B. Ryerson, Adele Perry, Fernand Dumond, Ian McKay and James W. Daschuk that questions whether Confederation itself was a formative event. Together with its companion volume, this is an invaluable resource for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the historical foundations on which Canada rests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487515027
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	769 KB

About the Author

Jacqueline D. Krikorian is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

David R. Cameron is a professor of Political Science and Special Advisor to the President and Provost at the University of Toronto.

Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University.

Andrew W. McDougall is a lecturer of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

V From Canada East to Quebec

1. The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation
   Jean-Charles Bonenfant
2. French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation
   Lionel Groulx
3. The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism
   Eugénie Brouillet
4. Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau
   Stéphane Kelly
5. The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900
   A.I. Silver

The East, Ontario and the West

1. The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
   P.B. Waite
2. New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation
   George E. Wilson
3. The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment
   Phillip Buckner
4. The Maritimes and Confederation
   P.B. Waite
5. George Brown
   J.M.S. Careless
6. The West and Confederation
   W. L. Morton
7. Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900
   Doug Owram

The Geopolitics of Confederation

1. Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871
   John Hamilton Gray
2. British Policy in Canadian Confederation
   Chester Martin
3. Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871
   C.P. Stacey
4. The United States and Confederation
   Yves Roby
5. Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869
   David E. Shi

1867: A Formative Event?

1. Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873
   Stanley B. Ryerson
2. On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
   Adele Perry
3. The Origins of Quebec Society
   Fernand Dumont
4. The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
   Ian McKay
5. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
   James W. Daschuk

What People are Saying About This

Patrice Dutil

"This two-volume collection serves a real purpose in bringing together the work of scholars on Confederation. I have no doubt that this collection will find its way onto the shelves of all those who have an interest in Canada's federal experience. Every school and public library should own a copy."

Guy Laforest

"Starting with the voices and stories of those who were forgotten, Roads to Confederation brings 150 years of Confederation scholarship to the public. The editors are experienced scholars and writers in the field, and they do write well here!"

Editorial Reviews

"The wide range of perspectives will be valuable to students and scholars, particularly in examining the centrality of the Confederation moment and tensions informing Canadian nationalism, or even geopolitical interest that shaped Canada in North America."

—Charles Dumais, University of Toronto, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 52 no 1, March 2019

"For those of us who teach Confederation, and who often wish we could renovate our classes to better capture the multiplicity of scholarly takes, this distillation of so many important approaches to the topic will be a blessing; Donald Creighton’s road to Confederation must now be seen as just one route among many."

—Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia, Canadian Historical Review

"Starting with the voices and stories of those who were forgotten, Roads to Confederation brings 150 years of Confederation scholarship to the public. The editors are experienced scholars and writers in the field, and they do write well here!"

—Guy Laforest, Executive Director, École nationale d’administration publique

"This two-volume collection serves a real purpose in bringing together the work of scholars on Confederation. I have no doubt that this collection will find its way onto the shelves of all those who have an interest in Canada’s federal experience. Every school and public library should own a copy."

—Patrice Dutil, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University

From the Publisher

"For those of us who teach Confederation, and who often wish we could renovate our classes to better capture the multiplicity of scholarly takes, this distillation of so many important approaches to the topic will be a blessing; Donald Creighton's road to Confederation must now be seen as just one route among many."

Canadian Historical Review - Bradley Miller

"The wide range of perspectives will be valuable to students and scholars, particularly in examining the centrality of the Confederation moment and tensions informing Canadian nationalism, or even geopolitical interest that shaped Canada in North America."

Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 52 no 1, March 2019 - Charles Dumais