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A Life on the Line : Commander Pierre-Etienne Fortin and his Times
Brian Stewart
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Pierre-Étienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-Île amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidemic, led a mounted police troop during the infamous Montreal riots of 1849 and, as commander of the armed schooner La Canadienne, policed the Gulf of St. Lawrence from 1852 to 1867, when thousands of New Englanders and Nova Scotians swarmed over the fishing grounds. His official life as magistrate and mid-level bureaucrat often exemplified tensions of early nationhood: those between elites and colonists; and those arising from the nationalistic impulse to impose law and order on the wilderness. The interests, issues and sympathies at work on Fortin in the founding period remain compelling today: job creation versus environmental protection, free trade with the U.S., the exploitation of Canadian fisheries, relations with aboriginal peoples, and the political status of Quebec within confederation.
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List of Illustrations
Page 9-9
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Preface
Page 10-13
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I: The Commander and La Canadienne
Page 14-29
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II: Fortins Ancestors and his Youth
Page 30-43
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III: Fighting Plagues and Mobs
Page 44-59
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IV: The Commander and His Domain
Page 60-73
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V: Sellout of the Gulf
Page 74-87
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VI: Magistrate and Policeman
Page 88-99
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VII: A Company Man?
Page 100-117
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VIII: The War of the Candle Snuffers
Page 118-125
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IX: Naturalist and Conservationist
Page 126-137
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X: Conservation versus Jobs
Page 138-147
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XI: "Our Rivers Taken from Us"
Page 148-157
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XII: Fighting with the Bureaucrats
Page 158-165
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XIII: Fortin, the Conservatives, and Confederation
Page 166-179
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XIV: A Constituency Man
Page 180-197
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XV: Final Days
Page 198-211
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Sources
Page 212-221
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Index
Page 222-231
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-----PLACES AND TOPICS
Page 222-226
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-----PERSONS
Page 227-230
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-----VESSELS
Page 231-231
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Title
A Life on the Line
Subtitle
Commander Pierre-Etienne Fortin and his Times
Contributors
Brian Stewart
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
1997-05-15
Pages
xi, 218 p.
Print ISBN
9780886293154
eBook ISBN
9780773584877
LC Subjects
Politicians - Québec (Province) - Biography.
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Biography.
Audience
Professional and scholarly
Series
Carleton Library Series 188
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