Author: Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : G.T. Haszard
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Union of the British Provinces
Author: Publisher: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : G.T. Haszard
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Rebels on the Great Lakes
Author: John BellPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459700988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1863–1864, Confederate naval operations were launched from Canada against America, with an unexpected impact on North America’s future. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans engaged in a secessionist struggle. Among the attacks were three daring naval commando expeditions against a prisoner-of-war camp on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie. These Confederate operations on the Great Lakes remain largely unknown. However, some of the people involved did make more indelible marks in history, including a future Canadian prime minister, a renowned Victorian war correspondent, a beloved Catholic poet, a notorious presidential assassin, and a son of the abolitionist John Brown. The improbable events linking these figures constitute a story worth telling and remembering. Rebels on the Great Lakes offers the first full account of the Confederate naval operations launched from Canada in 186364, describing forgotten military actions that ultimately had an unexpected impact on North Americas future.
Canada and the Crown
Author: D. Michael JacksonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 1553392051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Stephen Harper's Conservative government has reversed the trend of its predecessors by giving the Crown a higher profile through royal tours, publications, and symbolic initiatives. Based on papers given at a Diamond Jubilee conference on the Crown held in Regina in 2012, Canada and the Crown assesses the historical and contemporary importance of constitutional monarchy in Canada. Established and emerging scholars consider the Canadian Crown from a variety of viewpoints, including the ways in which the monarch relates to Quebec, First Nations, the media, education, Parliament, the constitution, and the military. They also consider a republican option for Canada. Editors D. Michael Jackson and Philippe Lagassé provide context for the essays, summarize and expand on the issues discussed by the contributors, and offer a perspective on further study of the Crown in Canada. Contributors include Richard Berthelsen, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Bolt (Office of the Judge Advocate General), James W.J. Bowden, Stephanie Danyluk (Whitecap-Dakota First Nation), Linda Cardinal (University of Ottawa), Phillip Crawley (CEO, The Globe and Mail), John Fraser (Massey College), Carolyn Harris (University of Toronto), Robert E. Hawkins (University of Regina), Ian Holloway (University of Calgary), Senator Serge Joyal, Nicholas A. MacDonald, Christopher McCreery (Office of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia), J.R. (Jim) Miller (University of Saskatchewan), Peter H. Russell (University of Toronto), David E. Smith (Toronto Metropolitan University), and John D. Whyte (University of Regina).
The Union of the British Colonies. A Brief Account of the Several Conferences Held in the Maritime Provinces and in Canada, in September and October, 1864, on the Proposed Confederation of the Provinces, Etc
Author: Edward WHELAN (Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Canada Transformed
Author: Sarah GibsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771057202
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
To coincide with the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, this is the first-ever selected collection of his most important and defining speeches. Published in collaboration with The Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Commission, and endorsed by all of our living Prime Ministers, this is a beautifully produced book that deserves to be in all Canadian homes, schools, and libraries. The Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Commission set out several years ago to collect, annotate, and footnote all of our first Prime Minister's speeches. Rather shockingly, this had not been done before; the speeches of even the most minor of US presidents are available in print and e-book form. Obviously, such a collection is a must for libraries and educational institutions across the country as a matter of historical record, but the speeches also make for great reading. His words have a Churchillian feel to them -- direct, decisive, visionary, and very often funny. Sir John A. is marvellously quotable, and through these speeches you understand how our country was formed, what its challenges were and often continue to be, and why our first PM was perhaps the best we'll ever have.
Trade and Commerce
Author: Malcolm LavoiePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228016487
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In recent decades, the economic framework of Canada’s Constitution has been a subject largely neglected by judges, scholars, and commentators. Trade and Commerce fills this gap by bringing to light a lost understanding of how the Constitution structures economic relations. As Malcolm Lavoie reveals, the Constitution includes foundational commitments to property rights, local government autonomy, and the principle of subsidiarity. At the same time, it creates a platform for integrated national markets with secure channels for interprovincial trade. This economic vision remains a vital part of Canada’s constitutional order and is relevant to a purposive interpretation of the Constitution. But contemporary legal discourse has begun to lose touch with this vision, with regrettable consequences in a number of different policy areas. Exploring the implications of the economic Constitution in the context of contemporary issues – including disputes over interprovincial trade and jurisdictional tensions between federal, provincial, and Indigenous governments with respect to the environment and the economy – Trade and Commerce restores economic ideas to the forefront of constitutional thinking in Canada.
Bibliotheca Canadensis
Author: Henry James MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Maritimes and Canada Before Confederation
Author: William Menzies WhitelawPublisher: Oxford University Press Canada
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the 1860s the Maritime Provinces and the Province of Canada were separated by strong regional, economic, and cultural differences, but the menacing aspects of the American Civil War and the prospect of the withdrawal of British Imperial troops compelled them towards each other for security. Professor Whitelaw discusses relations between the British North American colonies during a time of struggle between incipient nationalism and rugged individualism.