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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... newcomers north of Fundy felt particularly remote from Halifax , they petitioned for provincial status of their own and were accommodated accordingly in 1784 with the creation of New Brunswick apart from Nova Scotia . At the same time ...
... newcomers since 1760 , and diminishing opportunities for summer voyaging due to the decline of the fur trade closed the door on supplementary income from that source . Crisis loomed large . Of course , economic change affected the ...
... newcomers did not land penniless and in rags . Declining economic circumstances in Ireland , the principal place of origin of Canada's immigrants since 1815 , brought an average of 20 000 newcomers each year with several peaks over 60 ...