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

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

    9781487521882

    Paperback / softback, published 5 November 2017

    400 pages
    22.7 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

    "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)

    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.

    I Introduction: The Study of Confederation

    II Other Voices, Other Stories

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

    III The Ideas of Confederation

    1. Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?
      Peter H. Russell
    2. Reference re. Secession of Quebec
      Supreme Court of Canada
    3. The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament
      Janet Ajzenstat
    4. Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896
      Yvan Lamonde
    5. Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment
      Samuel V. LaSelva
    6. 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?

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