the cambridge history of the british empireHenry Dodwell CUP Archive, 1929 - Great Britain |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Cordillera | 7 |
Relations of the Aborigines to the Settlers | 13 |
Early French Explorations | 19 |
Champlain on the St Lawrence | 25 |
Champlain returns to Canada | 31 |
The Council of Quebec | 37 |
The Iroquois Menace | 43 |
Delay in the Maritime Provinces | 459 |
EXPANSION OF THE DOMINION ΤΟ 1880 | 463 |
I COMMUNICATIONS | 465 |
The Great Coalition and the North West | 469 |
Attitude of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island | 475 |
The Difficulties of Macdonald | 481 |
The Work of Mackenzie and Blake | 487 |
Divide et Impera | 493 |
Unpropitious Beginnings | 49 |
La Barres Failings | 57 |
The Lachine Massacre | 59 |
The Canadian Parish | 65 |
CHAPTER IV | 78 |
The Conquest of Nova Scotia | 85 |
The Disputes over Acadia | 91 |
Braddocks Defeat | 97 |
The Repulse at Ticonderoga | 105 |
Wolfe and the Brigadiers Proposal | 111 |
The Conquest completed | 117 |
Abortive Schemes for Colonisation | 127 |
Suggested Removal of the Colonists | 133 |
Beginnings of Organised Government | 139 |
The Military Regime and the English Minority | 151 |
The Tribulations of Governor Murray | 157 |
The Necessity for a new Constitution | 163 |
Legislature | 169 |
Conditions in Quebec | 175 |
Arnolds Retreat from Canada | 181 |
The Treaty of Peace and the Loyalists | 187 |
The Government and the Loyalists | 193 |
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA UNDER REPRE | 201 |
Origin of Parties in Upper Canada | 207 |
Social Life in Nova Scotia | 213 |
Maritime Rights | 221 |
Brock in Upper Canada | 227 |
The Restoration of Peace | 233 |
Public Finance a Constitutional Issue | 239 |
Rejection of the Howick Act of 1831 | 245 |
B UPPER CANADA 18151837 | 251 |
Problems of Communication | 257 |
Gourlay and the Beginnings of Reform | 263 |
The Rebellion of 1837 and its Sequel | 269 |
Moderation and Harmony | 275 |
Howe and the Issue in Nova Scotia | 281 |
CHAPTER XI | 287 |
Durhams Achievements | 293 |
Durhams Defence | 299 |
Fox and Colonial SelfGovernment | 305 |
CHAPTER XVI | 308 |
Charles Poulett Thomson Lord Sydenham | 311 |
The Crisis of September 1842 | 317 |
End of the First Union Parliament | 321 |
Discontents in 1849 | 327 |
CHAPTER XIII | 333 |
Prosperity and its Reckoning | 339 |
Constitutional Solutions | 345 |
Reformers in Office | 351 |
Responsible Government in Nova Scotia | 357 |
Reciprocity and its Effects | 363 |
CHAPTER XV | 369 |
Support by British Banking Firms | 375 |
Competition of American Routes | 381 |
Reciprocity with the United States | 387 |
Denunciation of the Treaty | 393 |
La Vérendryes Explorations | 397 |
Overland to the Western Sea | 403 |
Rival Western FurTraders | 409 |
The Selkirk Colony | 415 |
Progress of British Columbia | 421 |
Distress in 18151818 | 427 |
Indignation over French Claims | 433 |
CHAPTER XXII | 437 |
Union advocated in the Provinces | 441 |
The Civil War in the United States | 447 |
The Charlottetown Conference | 453 |
Blake as Liberal Leader | 499 |
The Abbott Administration | 505 |
The Ministry of all the Talents | 511 |
The Railway Problem | 517 |
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PRAIRIES 18671914 | 521 |
NonBritish Settlements | 527 |
The Early Problems of Manitoba | 533 |
The Gain of Responsible Government | 539 |
The Growth of Law and Order | 545 |
Adjustment of Difficulties with Canada | 553 |
The Claim for Better Terms | 559 |
Treatment of the Aborigines | 565 |
Ву W Т ЈАСKMAN M A Professor of Economics | 568 |
Donald Smith | 571 |
The North West Mounted Police | 577 |
Development of Highways | 581 |
Canal Projects | 587 |
The Government takes over the Grand Trunk | 593 |
Crop Improvement | 599 |
Fruit and Vegetables | 605 |
Manufactures | 611 |
Progress in Mining | 617 |
CHAPTER V | 621 |
Water Power Consolidation of Firms | 623 |
THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS WORKING | 625 |
Banking Problems | 629 |
The Relapse in and after 1912 | 635 |
Population and Banking Sales | 641 |
The Opening of the Fisheries | 643 |
The Depression of the Seventies | 647 |
The British Preferential Tariff | 653 |
THE MARITIME PROVINCES | 659 |
Mining | 665 |
The Struggle against adverse Conditions | 671 |
The Commercial Crisis of 1894 | 677 |
The Toll and Burden of War | 683 |
The Distribution of Legislative Powers | 686 |
Provincial Second Chambers | 693 |
The Office of LieutenantGovernor | 699 |
Development of an Imperial Organisation | 705 |
The Conference of Prime Ministers | 711 |
The South African | 719 |
Canadas Relation to Foreign Powers | 725 |
Representation at the Peace Conference | 731 |
Durability of Autonomous Rights | 737 |
Parliament faces the | 743 |
MidWar Problems | 749 |
Canadas Hundred Days | 755 |
The Unionist Government | 759 |
Canadas Relations to the Empire | 765 |
CHAPTER XXXIII | 771 |
French National Sentiment | 777 |
Regionalism Early Education | 783 |
Schools in the Maritime Provinces | 791 |
51 | 793 |
Higher Education in Upper Canada | 797 |
498 | 803 |
Architecture Music | 809 |
53 | 814 |
505 | 819 |
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