The Season-Ticket / Thomas Haliburton; Douglas Lochhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haliburton, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Lochhead, Douglas, editor.

Series:

Toronto reprint library of Canadian prose and poetry.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Canada.

Genre:

Fiction.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Season-Ticket, published in 1860, is made up of a series of articles previously contributed during 1859 and 1860 to the Dublin University Magazine. Its quality of interest lies in its major purpose: the programme of a thorough going British imperialist who advocates "a three-fold policy for developing intercommunication between the motherland and the colonies." In this work, Haliburton proposed that Great Britain subsidize transatlantic steamers between its ports and the colonies, complete the Intercolonial Railway and continue it to Lake Superior, and provide a "safe, easy, and expeditious route to Fraser's River on the Pacific." Haliburton further argues for the substitution of a permanent colonial council of appointees from the colonies in place of the Colonial Office, and he raises the possibility of colonial representation in the British parliament.

Contents:

An evening at Cork.

Walks, talks, and chalks.

Homeward bound.

A train of thought, and thoughts in a train.

John Bull and his diggins.

Black jobs and white favours.

A gallimaufry.

Our neighbours and distant relations.

The living and the dead.

The old and the new year; or, Quakers afloat and ashore.

Colonial and matrimonial alliance.

Big wigs.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487589677

1487589670

9781487595272

1487595271

OCLC:

1091705471