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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 016.971
- General Note
- Includes indexes Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781442672239 0802050166
- LCCN
- Z1382
- LCCN Item number
- C217 1994 v.1
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (506 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600786 (OCoLC)696032914 (CaOOCEL)417554
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 14
- ABBREVIATIONS 18
- Beginnings to 1600 24
- Methodological Problems 24
- Reference Works and Bibliographies 27
- Periodicals 30
- The Land and the Sea 31
- First Peoples in the Prehistoric Period 33
- European Expansion 34
- The Early Contact Period 43
- Conclusion 52
- Canada and the Pays d'en haut, 1600–1760 54
- The State of the Field 54
- Bibliographies, Reference Works, and Surveys 57
- Published Documents 62
- Periodicals 64
- Historiography 65
- The Region and Its Inhabitants 69
- Population 72
- Economy 78
- Society 85
- Politics and War 92
- Conclusion 95
- Acadia and Old Nova Scotia to 1784 97
- Bibliographies and Reference Works 97
- Periodicals 98
- General Works 100
- Early European Settlement 100
- Evolution and Growth of the Acadians 102
- Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) 108
- Louisbourg 109
- Native Studies 115
- British Nova Scotia 117
- The Expulsion of the Acadians 121
- New England Planters 123
- Nova Scotia and the American Revolution 129
- The Great Awakening 130
- Conclusion 132
- Quebec/Lower Canada 133
- Bibliographies and Reference Works 134
- Published Documents 135
- Periodicals 137
- Historiography 137
- Economic and Social History 143
- General Economic and Social Histories 143
- The Rural Economy and Society 145
- Agriculture 152
- Business 154
- Resource Industries 157
- Manufacturing and Industry 159
- Finance 160
- Transportation 161
- Social Structure 162
- Material Culture and Traditional Society 165
- Women's History 166
- Native Studies 168
- Demography and Migration 170
- Urban and Regional History 174
- Medicine 177
- Political and Military History 179
- Legal and Judicial History 187
- Religious History 189
- Culture, Science, and Education 194
- Conclusion 203
- Upper Canada 205
- Historiography 206
- General Works 207
- Bibliographies and Published Documents 209
- Periodicals 210
- The Upper Canadian Economy 211
- Native Peoples: Displacement and Dispossession 217
- The Making of a Settler Society: Immigrants, Ideas, and Social Structure 221
- A Sense of Place 228
- Social Differentiation 231
- The Elites 231
- Artisans and Labourers 234
- Gender and Women 236
- Regulation and the Social Order 240
- Church and State / Institution and Faith 248
- The Political Economy of Protest and the Administration of Order: Politics, Insurrection, and Government 250
- The Maritime Colonies, 1784 to Confederation 258
- Bibliographies and Reference Works 258
- Periodicals 259
- General Texts 260
- Aboriginal Peoples 261
- Loyalists 263
- Immigrants from the United Kingdom 266
- Blacks 269
- Acadians 270
- Women 272
- Economic History 275
- Nova Scotia 277
- Cape Breton Island 283
- New Brunswick 284
- Prince Edward Island 289
- Confederation 297
- Conclusion 299
- Newfoundland and the International Fishery 301
- Bibliographies and Reference Works 302
- Published Documents 303
- Periodicals 304
- Historiography 304
- The Fishery in the Sixteenth Century 306
- The Fishery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 307
- The European Settling of Newfoundland 313
- Beothuk and Micmac 323
- The Anglo-French Competition for Newfoundland 326
- The Fishery in the Nineteenth Century 331
- Newfoundland Politics to 1869 333
- Social History 338
- Labrador 341
- Conclusion 344
- The Northwest and the North 346
- Bibliographies and General Works 346
- Published Documents 348
- Periodicals 349
- Historiography 350
- Ancient History 353
- European Exploration 354
- The Fur Trade 357
- Mission History 362
- First Nations 365
- Métis 368
- Red River Settlement 373
- Conclusion 375
- The Pacific Coast 377
- General Works 378
- Bibliographies and Reference Works 379
- Periodicals 381
- Historiography 381
- Native Peoples Precontact 383
- European Exploration and the Maritime Fur Trade 385
- The Land-Based Fur Trade 391
- Vancouver Island 397
- British Columbia 403
- Conclusion 413
- British North America in Its Imperial and International Context 415
- Reference Works and Documentary Collections 418
- Military History 420
- External Affairs 429
- British North America and the Constitution of the British Empire 434
- Trade and Commerce 446
- Emigration/Immigration 449
- The Transfer of British Institutions 460
- Conclusion 468
- CONTRIBUTORS 470
- AUTHOR INDEX 474
- A 474
- B 475
- C 478
- D 481
- E 483
- F 484
- G 485
- H 487
- I 489
- J 489
- K 490
- L 491
- M 493
- N 497
- O 498
- P 498
- Q 500
- R 500
- S 502
- T 505
- U 506
- V 506
- W 507
- Y 509
- Z 509
- SUBJECT INDEX 510
- A 510
- B 512
- C 513
- D 514
- E 514
- F 516
- H 517
- I 517
- J 518
- K 518
- L 518
- M 519
- N 521
- O 523
- P 523
- Q 524
- R 524
- S 525
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- U 526
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