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Pioneer Public Service : An Administrative History of the United Canadas, 1841-1867 / John Hodgetts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgetts, John, author.
- Series:
- Canadian government series ; 7.
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil service--Canada--History.
- Civil service.
- Canada--Politics and government--1841-1867.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book makes a new approach to Canadian politics describing the evolution and structure of the administrative machine which still serves the Canadian nation, and in the process it attempts to acknowledge and appraise the hitherto unsung contributions of the public servant to the welfare of a pioneer community.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- I: The Canadas: Perspectives
- II: Lord Durham Proposes
- III: Lord Sydenham Disposes
- IV: The Bureaucracy from Within
- V: The Bureaucracy from Without
- VI: The Top Command
- VII: Tightening the Purse Strings
- VIII: The Crown Lands Department: A Fair Subject of Discussion
- IX: Nature Provides, Man Divides
- X: Administering the Natural Resources: Three Problems
- XI: Public Works: Department of Transport and Housekeeper Extraordinary
- XII: A One Man Power versus the Engineers' Empire
- XIII: Indian Affairs: The White Man's AlbatrossXIV: Agriculture: Departmental Potting-Shed
- XV: Immigrants or Itinerants
- XVI: Pioneer Public Service: Retrospect
- APPENDIX
- Chronological Perspective of Public Departments 1841â#x80;#x93;1867
- Departmental Organization in 1867
- Department of Finance
- Department of Crown Lands
- Department of Public Works
- Department of Agriculture
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781487590079
- 1487590075
- 9781487591373
- 1487591373
- OCLC:
- 1091658234
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