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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 |
The Interprovincial Conference of 1862 | 445 |
The Coalition in Canada | 451 |
The Quebec Resolutions | 457 |
Early Canadian Interest in the West | 465 |
Negotiating the Transfer of the North West | 471 |
Newfoundland rejects Union | 477 |
The Election of 1872 | 483 |
Defeat of Mackenzie | 489 |
La Barres Failings | 49 |
The Lachine Massacre | 59 |
The Canadian Parish | 65 |
Finance and Currency | 71 |
Braddocks Defeat | 79 |
The Conquest of Nova Scotia | 85 |
Reinforcements reach Canada | 99 |
The Repulse at Ticonderoga | 105 |
Wolfe and the Brigadiers Proposal | 111 |
The Conquest completed | 117 |
Sir Humphrey Gilberts Annexation | 123 |
Abortive Schemes for Colonisation | 127 |
Suggested Removal of the Colonists | 133 |
Beginnings of Organised Government | 139 |
Annexation of Labrador | 145 |
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 |
Significance of the Act | 199 |
Dorchester and the War with France | 203 |
Party Conflict at Quebec | 209 |
Developments in New Brunswick | 215 |
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 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 279 |
Howe and the Issue in Nova Scotia | 281 |
CHAPTER IV | 286 |
CHAPTER XI | 287 |
Durhams Achievements | 293 |
Durhams Defence | 299 |
PAGE | 301 |
Fox and Colonial SelfGovernment | 305 |
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 |
19 | 337 |
Prosperity and its Reckoning | 339 |
Constitutional Solutions | 345 |
23 | 347 |
Reformers in Office | 351 |
Responsible Government in Nova Scotia | 357 |
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Reciprocity and its Effects | 363 |
CHAPTER XV | 369 |
Support by British Banking Firms | 375 |
Competition of American Routes | 381 |
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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 |
Early Proposals for Union | 439 |
The Canadian Pacific Railway | 495 |
Laurier as Liberal Leader | 501 |
The Thompson and Bowell Governments | 507 |
33 | 513 |
The Reciprocity Agreement | 519 |
CHAPTER XXII | 521 |
35 | 522 |
NonBritish Settlements | 527 |
37 | 529 |
The Early Problems of Manitoba | 533 |
The Gain of Responsible Government | 539 |
The Growth of Law and Order | 545 |
The Esquimalt Graving Dock | 551 |
The Martin Government | 557 |
The Oriental Problem | 563 |
Sea Dogs of the Maritimes | 569 |
By J HOLLAND ROSE Litt D Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval | 575 |
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA | 581 |
Canal Projects | 587 |
The Government takes over the Grand Trunk | 593 |
Crop Improvement | 599 |
Fruit and Vegetables | 605 |
39 | 609 |
Manufactures | 611 |
Progress in Mining | 617 |
Water Power Consolidation of Firms | 623 |
Banking Problems | 629 |
41 | 630 |
The Relapse in and after 1912 | 635 |
43 | 641 |
The Depression of the Seventies | 647 |
Commerce during the Great | 655 |
THE MARITIME PROVINCES | 661 |
Prince Edward Island | 667 |
Opening of the West Coast | 673 |
Removal of the French Incubus | 679 |
Education | 685 |
Initiative and Referendum | 689 |
The Judicial System | 695 |
Provincial Executive Power | 701 |
The Imperial Council | 707 |
Imperial Communications | 713 |
The South African War | 719 |
Canadas Relation to Foreign Powers | 725 |
Representation at the Peace Conference | 731 |
Durability of Autonomous Rights | 737 |
Parliament faces the War | 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 |
Beginnings of Higher Education | 789 |
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Schools in Upper Canada | 795 |
Work and Influence of the Schools | 801 |
Literature and the Fine Arts since Confederation | 807 |
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