The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories 1870-97 (2nd Edition)

Lewis H. Thomas (Author)

9780802063274

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1978

318 pages
23.4 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

‘This is an excellent book, combining careful scholarship with lucid prose in the telling of an unusually interesting story,’ Norman Ward, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science

When Canada acquired the Hudson’s Bay Company territory in 1870 the federal government was faced with the challenge of governing an area comprising more than half the nation. Following the creation of the province of Manitoba, Parliament provided a territorial government for the vast region of northwest Canada and northern Quebec and Ontario. This classic study of the political development of the area now comprising the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan describe the complex process of territorial struggle and constitutional change which marked the transition from the administration of imperial authority to the establishment of responsible government in western Canada.