This volume brings
together compelling
exerpts from some of the most
interesting primary source
materials of
post-Confederation Canadian
history The 17 chapters group together source materials on particular themes or events, from core topics such as the trial of Louis Riel, conscription, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, to a range of fresh topics. Documents bring vivdly before the reader the experiences of workers in 1890s sweatshops and of the counterculture in Vancouver in the late 1960s, and explore such topics as the contentious issue of drink and of drugs in the early twentieth century, and the education debate of the 1950s. Included are document groupings that focus on the history of Canada's various regions; on social, cultural, politcal and intellectual history; on the experiences of women, of Native peoples, of immigrants.
For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in a form accessible to the general reader or the student the raw materials of Canadian history, and in many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. The implicit argument of this collection is that these raw materials may in fact provide extraordinarily engaging insights into the richness of Canadian history.
A companion volume, '"A Few Acres of Snow:" Documents in Canadian History 1577-1867', was published by Broadview Press in 1997..
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