Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada, and includes scholarship written over 145 years. Volume 2 of this collection focuses on three major themes. It presents research from the perspective of Canada’s regions, with one chapter focusing exclusively on the competing understandings of 1867 from the perspective of Quebec. Next, it includes material pertaining to the geopolitical underpinnings of 1867 that addresses the relationship between Confederation, the U.S. Civil War and American expansionism, Great Britain and war in the European theatre. Also included is leading scholarship by Stanley B. Ryerson, Adele Perry, Fernand Dumond, Ian McKay and James W. Daschuk that questions whether Confederation itself was a formative event. Together with its companion volume, this is an invaluable resource for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the historical foundations on which Canada rests.

Table of Contents:
V From Canada East to Quebec The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation Jean-Charles Bonenfant French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation Lionel Groulx The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism Eugénie Brouillet Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau Stéphane Kelly The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900 A.I. Silver The East, Ontario and the West The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867 P.B. Waite New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation George E. Wilson The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment Phillip Buckner The Maritimes and Confederation P.B. Waite George Brown J.M.S. Careless The West and Confederation W. L. Morton Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 Doug Owram The Geopolitics of Confederation Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871 John Hamilton Gray British Policy in Canadian Confederation Chester Martin Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871 C.P. Stacey The United States and Confederation Yves Roby Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869 David E. Shi 1867: A Formative Event? Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873 Stanley B. Ryerson On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 Adele Perry The Origins of Quebec Society Fernand Dumont The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History Ian McKay Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life James W. Daschuk

About the Author :
Jacqueline D. Krikorian is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. David R. Cameron is a professor of Political Science and Special Advisor to the President and Provost at the University of Toronto. Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University. Andrew McDougall is an assistant professor of Canadian politics at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Review :
"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)