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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... Upper Canada and a downriver part to the east to be called Lower Canada . The emergence of Upper Canada was thus truly the New Brunswick solution carried west . There was no prior French settlement in the sense of seigneuries in the new ...
... Upper Canada was little more than a geographical extension of the State of New York from one side and of Michigan Territory on the other . The western half of Upper Canada could be regarded as an extension of the United States in the ...
... upper House , the Legislative Council , was denounced as " the most active principle of evil and discontent " in the province because it continually frustrated the elected Assembly . The upper House was " the servile tool of the ...