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Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 -- Sources.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Sources.
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Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 -- Sources.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Sources.
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A few acres of snow : documents in pre-Confederation Canadian history / edited by Thomas Thorner ; with
Thor
Frohn-Nielsen
.
University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Call #:
971 F432
Subjects
Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 -- Sources.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Sources.
ISBN:
9781442600294
1442600292
Edition:
3rd ed.
Description:
xviii, 318 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
First ed. published in 1997 under title: "A few acres of snow" : documents in Canadian history, 1577-1867.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Ch. 1. "So Blind and So Ignorant": Looking into Other Eyes -- Ch. 2. "Advantages and Inconveniences": The Colonization of Canada -- Ch. 3. "An Afflicted People": The Acadians -- Ch. 4. "The Ruin of Canada": Last Decades of New France -- Ch. 5. "Suffering Much by Toil and Want": Loyalists in Nova Scotia -- Ch. 6. "The Abundant Blessings of British Rule": Quebec's New Administration -- Ch. 7. "All is Gloomy: The War of 1812 -- Ch. 8. "A Train of Undisguised Violence:" North West Company vs. Hudson's Bay Company -- Ch. 9. "For the Sake of Humanity": Newfoundland and the Beothuk -- Ch. 10. "Our Robinson Crusoe Sort of Life": Sisters in Upper Canada -- Ch. 11. "The Long and Heavy Chain of Abuse": Political Crisis in Lower Canada -- Ch. 12. "Most Horrible and Heartless": Irish Immigration -- Ch. 13. "A Great Humbug": British Columbia's Gold Rushes -- Ch. 14. "The Sweet Zephyrs of British Land": The Black Experience -- Ch. 15. "Like Snow Beneath an April Sun": Mid-Nineteenth Century Native Dissent -- Ch. 16. "The Bold Scheme": Confederation.
Other authors:
Thorner, Thomas.
Frohn-Nielsen
,
Thor
,
1955-
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971 F432
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