The Structure of Canadian HistoryDesigned for courses on Pre and Post Confederation History of Canada. Finlay/Sprague is the only combined Pre/Post Confederation introductory textbook available in the Introductory Canadian History market. As a combined text, it offers a significant price advantage over competing split volumes. This text takes a political and sociological approach to Canadian history, and has been updated to include recent analysis of historical events. Written within in a solid chronological framework, the text provides a clear, comprehensive survey of the subject and good integration between traditional and new approaches to history. This text will prepare students well in the basic chronologies of Canadian history while providing the most up-to-date tools for research through its weblinks. |
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... Brunswick apart from Nova Scotia . At the same time , for similar reasons , Cape Breton Island was raised to the dignity of provincial autonomy and kept it until 1820 , when the island was reunited with its nearest neighbour . The ...
... Brunswick actually lost pop- ulation in the decade after 1784. Shelburne , Nova Scotia , to cite what is admit- tedly the most extreme example , shrank from nearly 10 000 persons in the mid - 1780s to nearly the status of a ghost town ...
... Brunswick and else- where . At the precise moment that the threat of Fenian attack was most critical in New Brunswick , the Lieutenant Governor , A. Arthur Gordon , manoeuvred local politicians into an election despite the decisive ...