Manitoba : A History / W.L. Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, W.L., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manitoba--History.

Manitoba.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

[2d edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here is a modern, authoritative, and readable history of Manitoba written by a well-known native of that province. "My native province," says Professor Morton, "has always seemed to me an unusual and fascinating place, possessed at once of a history of great interest and a deep sense of history." The narrative begins with the early year of the seventeenth century when the fur trade around Hudson Bay began, and covers every step in the growth of Manitoba from those days to the present. Interwoven are the essential themes of immigration and patterns of settlement, conflict and compromise among the many national and religious groups in Manitoba, the development of a distinctive economic and social structure, the growth of political consciousness, and the deep-seated conflict between the east-west and north-south axes.

Contents:

1. The Fur Trade of the Bay, 1612-1713

2. The Fur Trade of the Winnipeg Basin, 1714-1763

3. The Union of Coast and Plain, 1764-1821

4. The River Lot and Buffalo Hunt, 1821-1856

5. The Old Order and the Transfer, 1857-1869

6. The Resistance of the Red River Metis, 1869-1871

7. The New Pattern of Settlement, 1871-1875

8. The Growing Pattern of Settlement, 1876-1881

9. The Triumph of Ontario Democracy, 1881-1888

10. A British and Canadian Province, 1889-1890

11. The Quiet Times of the Nineties, 1891-1896

12. The First Decade of the Great Boom, 1897-1907

13. The New Manitoba of the Great Boom, 1908-1912

14. The War and Political Crisis, 1913-1917

15. The Years of Social Crisis, 1917-1922

16. The End of Farm Pioneering, 1923-1930

17. The Province and the Nation, 1930-1936

18. The Decisions War Deferred, 1937-1945

19. The Growth of Province in Nation, 1945-1955

20. Epilogue: New Growth.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1-4875-7803-2

OCLC:

1129175904