Canada and the Canadian Question.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910.

Contributor:

Berger, Carl.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North America--History.

North America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Canada and the Canadian question is 'one of the most effective and challenging critiques of Canada ever penned. It is an enormously illuminating series of impressions with sparkling insights into Canada's social history, political practice, cultural life, and the ambiguities of her economic growth. It represents the mature reflections of a keen intelligence which had pondered the fundamental questions of Canada's national existence and saw them in terms of the wider movements of opinion in Europe and North America.' So writes Carl Berger in his Introduction to this work. This is the classic statement of the case for the union of Canada and the United States. Frank Underhill called it 'the most completely pessimistic book that has ever been written about our country,' but added 'all modern discussions of the Canadian question still revolve around the points [Smith] raised.' This book is supremely important in Canadian nationalist thought because the author asked the question which all Canadian nationalists have since tried to answer: what positive value does the country embody and represent that justifies her existence?

Contents:

Frontmatter

An introduction

Contents

Chapter 1. The subject

Chapter 2. The French province

Chapter 3. The British provinces

Chapter 4. French Canada before the conquest

Chapter 5. French Canada after the conquest (1759)

Chapter 6. History of Upper Canada

Chapter 7. The united provinces

Chapter 8. The federal constitution

Chapter 9. Fruits of confederation

Chapter 10. The Canadian question

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1-4875-7423-1

OCLC:

1129165221