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Uppermost Canada The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 / R. Alan Douglas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglas, R. Alan.
- Series:
- Great Lakes books.
- Great Lakes books series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French-Canadians--Ontario, Southwestern--History.
- French-Canadians.
- United States--Relations--Canada.
- United States.
- Canada--Relations--United States.
- Canada.
- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.)--History.
- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.).
- Ontario, Southwestern--Ethnic relations.
- Ontario, Southwestern.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ontario,Southwestern.
- Detroit Region (Mich.)--History.
- Windsor Region (Ont.)--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Detroit Region (Mich.)--History.
- Windsor Region (Ont.)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Wayne State University Press 2018
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: About Uppermost Canada
- Introduction: Improvements Handsome and Extensive
- 1. Connections
- 2. 1812: Yankee Doodle Upset
- 3. 1813: John Bull Set Back
- 4. 1814: Winning Isn't Everything
- 5. A Most Irksome Command
- 6. Personalities
- 7. Communities
- 8. Rebels and Yankees
- 9. Men of Capital
- 10. Adapting to the Land
- 11. Adapting to the People
- Conclusion: Descent with Modification
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814344491
- 0814344496
- OCLC:
- 1111974997
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