For a generation or more there have been few books that brought together in accessible form the raw materials of Canadian history. In many minds the impression has taken root that those materials are uninteresting. This collection demonstrates the contrary and that these raw materials provide extraordinarily engaging and informative insights into the richness of Canadian history.
This new edition of the first volume of Broadview's two-volume anthology of documents in Canadian history, A Few Acres of Snow, presents many new documentary sources on pre-Confederation Canadian history, combined with the most compelling passages from the first edition. Each chapter offers a group of source materials on particular themes or events, beginning with reports of First Nation contacts published in the Jesuit Relations and ending with the drive to Confederation. Documents bring vividly before the reader the experience of the Acadian Expulsion, the Siege of Quebec, Irish immigration during the famine years, life in the Ontario backwoods in the early nineteenth century, and the British Columbia gold rush. Included are document groupings that focus on the history of Canada's various regions; on social, cultural, political and intellectual history; on the experiences of women, of Native peoples, of immigrants and labour.
Thor Frohn-Nielsen, who assisted on this project, also works in the History Department at Kwantlen.
Special Combination Price: Please note that a special discount price is available when this book is ordered shrinkwrapped together with A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt: Documents in Post-Confederation Canadian History.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 21
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- First ed. published 1997 under title: "A few acres of snow" : documents in Canadian history, 1577-1867 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- F493 2003eb
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Table of Contents
- A Few Acres of Snow 1
- A Few Acres of Snow 3
- Documents in Pre-Confederation Canadian History 3
- Not Another Edition 10
- Introduction 11
- Notes 13
- Chapter One 15
- So Blind and So Ignorant Looking into Other Eyes 15
- Introduction 15
- Discussion Points 17
- Documents 18
- . Jesuit Relations 18
- Jesuit Relations 25
- New Relations of Gaspesia 26
- New Relations of Gaspesia 31
- Some NewVoyages to North America 33
- Some New Voyages to North America 36
- Readings 40
- Chapter Two 43
- Advantages and Inconveniences The Colonization of Canada 43
- Introduction 43
- Documents 46
- Discussion Points 46
- True and Genuine Description of New France Commonly Called Canada 49
- Readings 67
- Chapter Three 68
- An Afflicted People The Acadians 68
- Introduction 68
- Discussion Points 71
- Documents 72
- Description of Nova Scotia 72
- Readings 84
- Chapter Four 86
- The Ruin of Canada Last Decades of New France 86
- Introduction 86
- Discussion Points 88
- Documents 88
- Narrative of the Doings During the Siege of Quebec and the Conquest of Canada 99
- Readings 104
- Chapter Five 105
- The Abundant Blessings of British Rule Quebecs New Administration 105
- Introduction 105
- Discussion Points 108
- Documents 108
- Quebec Mercury Le Canadien 116
- Travels Through Lower Canada and the United States of North America in the Years 1806 1807 and 1808. 118
- Letters from Canada Written During a Residence There in the Years 1806 1807 and 1808 122
- Readings 129
- Chapter Six 130
- Our Robinson Crusoe Sort of Life Three Women in Upper Canada 130
- Introduction 130
- Discussion Points 132
- Documents 132
- Roughing It in the Bush 132
- Winter Studies and Summer Rambles 144
- The Backwoods of Canada 153
- Readings 160
- Chapter Seven 162
- The Long and Heavy Chain of Abuse Political Crisis in Lower Canada 162
- Introduction 162
- Discussion Points 164
- Documents 164
- Le Canadien 164
- Le Canadien 169
- The Vindicator 172
- Imperial Blue Books Relating to Canada 179
- La Revue 189
- Readings 193
- Chapter Eight 194
- An Unwanted Ebullition of Commercial Rivalry North West Company vs. Hudsons Bay Company 194
- Introduction 194
- Discussion Points 197
- Documents 197
- The Memorial of Thomas Earl of Selkirk 197
- Readings 224
- Chapter Nine 226
- Sicily of North America The Land Issue in Prince Edward Island 226
- Introduction 226
- Discussion Points 229
- Documents 229
- Emigration 229
- A Statement of the Escheat Question in the Island of Prince Edward 232
- Pine Forests and Macmatak Clearings 235
- Fortnightly Review 240
- Readings 241
- Chapter Ten 243
- Undue Credit and Overwhelming Charges Commerce in Newfoundland 243
- Introduction 243
- Discussion Points 246
- Documents 247
- Voyage of His Majestys Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador 250
- Lost Amid the Fogs 256
- Readings 260
- Chapter Eleven 262
- The Very Vitals Are Chilled Lumbering in New Brunswick 262
- Introduction 262
- Discussion Points 264
- Documents 265
- Sketches of New Brunswick 265
- Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Maritime Colonies of British America 269
- Letters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Illustrative of their Moral Religious and Physical Circumstances in the Years 1826 1827 and 1828 274
- New Brunswick 276
- Notes on North America Agricultural Economic and Social 282
- Readings 288
- Chapter Twelve 289
- They Think They Know Everything Nova Scotias Identity 289
- Introduction 289
- Discussion Points 291
- Documents 291
- A Journey Through Nova Scotia 291
- A Patriotic Call to Prepare for A Season of Peace... 300
- The Clockmaker 302
- The Industrial Resources of Nova Scotia 311
- Readings 313
- Chapter Thirteen 315
- Most Horrible and Heartless Irish Immigration 315
- Introduction 315
- Discussion Points 317
- Documents 317
- Readings 339
- Chapter Fourteen 341
- A Great Humbug British Columbias Gold Rushes 341
- Introduction 341
- Discussion Points 343
- Documents 344
- The Islander 344
- The Daily Globe 346
- Journal 348
- Vancouver Island and British Columbia 355
- Readings 370
- Chapter Fifteen 372
- The Sweet Zephyrs of British Land The Black Experience 372
- Introduction 372
- Discussion Points 375
- Documents 375
- Plea for Emigration 377
- British Colonist 382
- Pine and Palm 384
- The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West Report to the Freedmans Inquiry Commission 388
- Readings 400
- Chapter Sixteen 402
- Like Snow Beneath an April Sun Mid-Nineteenth Century Native Dissent 402
- Introduction 402
- Documents 404
- Discussion Points 404
- Readings 418
- Chapter Seventeen 420
- The Bold Scheme Confederation 420
- Introduction 420
- Discussion Points 422
- Documents 422
- Montreal Gazette 422
- Readings 450
- Sources 452
