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Author: P. Baskerville Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 077358076X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 559
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The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a commercial to an industrial era.
Author: P. Baskerville Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 077358076X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 559
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The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a commercial to an industrial era.
Author: Julien Mauduit Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0228009952 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
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Most Canadians assume they live under some form of democracy. Yet confusion about the meaning of the word and the limits of the people’s power obscures a deeper understanding. Constant Struggle looks for the democratic impulse in Canada’s past to deconstruct how the country became a democracy, if in fact it ever did. This volume asks what limits and contradictions have framed the nation’s democratization process, examining how democracy has been understood by those who have advocated for or resisted it and exploring key historical realities that have shaped it. Scholars from a range of disciplines tackle this elusive concept, suggesting that instead of looking for a simple narrative, we must be alert to the slower, untidier, and incomplete processes of democratization in Canada. Constant Struggle offers a renewed, sometimes unsettling depiction, stretching from studies of early Indigenous societies, through colonial North America and Confederation, into the twentieth century. Contributors reassess democracy in light of settler colonialism and white supremacy, investigate connections between capitalism and democracy, consider alternative conceptions of democracy from Canada’s past, and highlight the various ways in which the democratic ideal has been mobilized to advance particular visions of Canadian society. Demonstrating that Canada’s democratization process has not always been one that empowered the people, Constant Struggle questions traditional views of the relationship between democracy and liberalism in Canada and around the world.
Author: Brian Young Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773561099 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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The end of the Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-8 assured the survival of the Seminary. Assuming a reinforced social and ideological role in industrializing Montreal, the Seminary benefited from new corporate powers, rights of recruitment, and income, while its expanding social role ensured its protection by an appreciate bourgeoisie. Emphasizing economic rather than religious history, Brian Young's study compares the Seminary's pre-industrial forms of income to its new capitalist revenues from land sales, subdivision developments, bonds, and rentier income from office, warehousing, and urban-housing properties. Its changing income required new forms of management and the priest-manager was eventually assisted by an accountant, architect, surveyor, clerk, and several notaries and lawyers. The Seminary played a central role in the development of popular schools in Montreal, and in financing and directing social institutions such as hospitals, newspapers, libraries, and national societies, the Seminary of Montreal legitimized the changing class structure of industrializing Montreal.
Author: R.T. Naylor Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773575464 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 644
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When Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was first published, it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world, not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights in early nineteenth-century Newfoundland is incomprehensible without an understanding of events as distinct as the Afro-American slave trade or the Napoleonic Wars; the opening of the natural resource frontier of British Columbia makes sense only if seen as another manifestation of the same historical forces that fired the opening shots in the Opium wars in China; and the fate of Canada's native peoples may have been different in form but not in essence from that of the aboriginal inhabitants on almost every continent.
Author: Eric Ross Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773563059 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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As in his popular earlier book Beyond the River and the Bay, the bulk of the story is told by a character of Ross' invention, Ian Alexander Bell Robertson. Robertson, an Edinburgh gentleman born at the end of the Scottish enlightenment, acquired a deep sympathy for the displaced crofters and agricultural labourers of the Scottish Highlands. He lived in Quebec City between 1840 to 1842 to prepare a study of the Canadas intended either as a guide for the immigrant or, as Ross feels more likely, a record of the colonies at the moment they united and embarked on a promising future together. While Ross himself sets the work in historical context and explains the use of a fictitious author, it is Robertson, a keen observer, who describes in detail numerous aspects of Canadian life in 1841: transportation, communications, social institutions and customs, life on the new farms, and the relationship between the French and English residents of the colonies -- a relationship which in many ways resembles that of today. Throughout the book, Ross has interspersed snippets of information and illustration to supplement Robertson's writings. Scrupulously researched and easily accessible, Full of Hope and Promise will interest anyone wishing to know more about everyday life in Upper and Lower Canada at the time of the 1841 Union.
Author: Brian Gobbett Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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In addition to presenting brief descriptions of more than 1,000 historical monographs dealing with Canada, the bibliography introduces the reader to several historiographic debates and places key works within that context.
Author: P. Baskerville
Author: P. Baskerville
Author: Champlain Society
Author: Julien Mauduit
Author: Brian Young
Author: R.T. Naylor
Author: Eric Ross
Author: John Clarke
Author: University of Victoria (B.C.). Public History Group
Author: Brian Gobbett
Author: Ontario. Parliament. House of Assembly