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Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 1

Edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, David R. Cameron, Marcel Martel, Andrew W. McDougall, and Robert C. Vipond

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Sales Date: 2017-11-05

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In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written in French are translated for the first time for publication in this collection.

In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the study of Confederation and provides material that considers the nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and communities who have been traditionally excluded from the literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several leading articles that set out different ways to understand the nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.

Marcel Martel is a professor in the Department of History at York University, where he holds the Avie Bennett Historica Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History. He is the author of Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 (2006), Le Deuil d’un pays imaginé. Rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français (1997), and co-author of Speaking Up. A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (2012).

Andrew W. McDougall is a lecturer of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

I Introduction: The Study of Confederation

II Other Voices, Other Stories

Concise History of Canada’s First Nations
Olive Patricia Dickason and William Newbigging
Displacement and Assimilation
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Gender and the Confederation Debates
Kathryn McPherson
French Canada and Confederation: The Acadians of New Brunswick
Gaétan Migneault

III The Ideas of Confederation

Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?
Peter H. Russell
Reference re. Secession of Quebec
Supreme Court of Canada
The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament
Janet Ajzenstat
Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896
Yvan Lamonde
Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment
Samuel V. LaSelva
1787 and 1867: The Federal Principle and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered
Robert C. Vipond

IV One New Nation, Two Founding Nations or a Compact of Provinces?

Conservatism and National Unity
D.G. Creighton
The Genesis of Provincial Rights
Norman McL. Rogers
Confederation: A Pact or a Law?
Richard Arès
The Nature of Confederation
Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (Tremblay Report)
Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present
Ramsay Cook
The Invention of a Myth, The Pact Between Two Founding Peoples
Stéphane Paquin

"The wide range of perspectives will be valuable to students and scholars, particularly in examining the centrality of the Confederation moment and tensions informing Canadian nationalism, or even geopolitical interest that shaped Canada in North America."
Charles Dumais, University of Toronto, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 52 no 1, March 2019

"For those of us who teach Confederation, and who often wish we could renovate our classes to better capture the multiplicity of scholarly takes, this distillation of so many important approaches to the topic will be a blessing; Donald Creighton’s road to Confederation must now be seen as just one route among many."
Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia, Canadian Historical Review

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