Roads to confederation. The Making of Canada, 1867. Volume 1 / edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian [and four others] ; with a foreword by Meric S. Gertler, Rhonda L. Lenton, and Mamdouh Shoukri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krikorian, Jacqueline, editor.

Shoukri, Mamdouh, writer of foreword.

Lenton, Rhonda L., writer of foreword.

Gertler, Meric S., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, New York ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Summary:

In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written in French are translated for the first time for publication in this collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the study of Confederation and provides material that considers the nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and communities who have been traditionally excluded from the literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several leading articles that set out different ways to understand the nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

ROADS TO CONFEDERATION The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 1

I Introduction: The Study of Confederation

II Other Voices, Other Stories

A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations

“Displacement and Assimilation” Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

“Gender and the Confederation Debates”

“French Canada and Confederation: The Acadians of New Brunswick”

III Ideas of Confederation

Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?

Reference re. Secession of Quebec Supreme Court of Canada1

The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament

Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760–1896

“Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment”

“1787 and 1867: The Federal Principle and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered”

IV One New Nation, Two Founding Nations or a Compact of Provinces?

“Conservatism and National Unity”

“The Genesis of Provincial Rights”

“Confederation: A Pact or a Law?”

“Nature of Confederation” Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (Tremblay Report)

“Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present”

The Invention of a Myth: The Pact between Two Founding Peoples

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4875-1500-6

1-4875-1499-9

OCLC:

1257324829