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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... settlers were in fact needed as the lure to draw Huron traffic down the Ottawa to the point at which Mohawk hijackers could seize the cargo to trade with their Dutch trading connection to the south , hence the name " beaver wars " for ...
... settlers to the vicinity over the next decade , salved American resentments over the return of Louisbourg the year before . In the same decade of the 1750s , however , the stream of American settlement was more fully poised to flow ...
... settlers for their land , they subsequently provided them with the calicoes , broadaxes and other necessities of farm - making . The terms of credit were fairly generous since the merchants had to await the farmers ' first cash crop of ...