A Short History of Canada - Revised

by Morton, Desmond

• ISBN13: 9780771065088
• ISBN10: 0771065086
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd

Summary

"Canadians believe that their history is short, boring and irrelevant. They are wrong on all counts." Desmond Morton, from the Introduction Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this completely revised and expanded edition ofA Short History of Canada,Desmond Morton, one of Canada's most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history. Morton is keenly aware of the links connecting our present, our past, and our future, and in one compact and engrossing volume he pulls off the remarkable feat of bringing it all together from the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans to the failure of the Charlottetown accord and Jean Chretien's third term as prime minister. His acute observations on the Diefenbaker era, the effects of the post-war influx of immigrants, the flag debate, the baby boom, the Trudeau years and the constitutional crisis, the Quebec referendum, and the rise of the Canadian Alliance all provide an invaluable background to understanding the way Canada works today.

Author Biography

<b>Desmond Morton</b> is the author of thirty-one books on Canada and is a frequent contributor to the CBC, Radio-Canada, the <i>Toronto Star</i>, the <i>Montreal Gazette</i>, and the <i>Ottawa Citizen</i>. He lives in Montreal.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Different Histories
New Nation	2	(10)
First Nations	12	(5)
Cartier's Quebec	17	(16)
English Canadians	33	(14)
United Canadas	47	(15)
Lower Provinces	62	(12)
The Great Northwest	74	(14)
Part II A Mari usque ad Mare
Confederation	88	(11)
Nation-building	99	(15)
National Policy	114	(13)
Political Revolution	127	(17)
Part III ``The Century of Canada''
Flourishing	144	(15)
Questioning	159	(16)
National Crisis	175	(16)
Dead Ends	191	(18)
The Depression	209	(19)
Part IV Middle Age, Middle Power
Mr. King's War	228	(18)
Prosperity	246	(20)
Recession	266	(16)
Confusion	282	(16)
Part V Country Shared
Liberation	298	(18)
Affirmation	316	(17)
Individualism	333	(12)
Paying the Price	345	(23)
New Choices	368	(11)
Index	379