French Canada Awakens: Patriotism and Sackcloth

By | January 1, 2004

In Foundations: Reading in Pre-Confederation Canadian History, ed. Margaret Conrad and Alvin Einkel (Toronto: Pearson, 2004), 465-479.


BOOK DESCRIPTION: Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian Historyis a sample reader of pre-confederation Canadian history, with a careful balance of regional representation.  The sections of the text are grouped in overlapping time periods that have become more-or-less conventional for the study of the pre-Confederation period: Beginnings to 1663; France in America, 1663-1756; British North America, 1749-1821; Maturing Colonial Societies, 1821-1867; and Industrializing Canada, 1840-1867.  With updated material to ensure a modern appeal, including 18 new readings, this book will give history students a balanced sample of some of the best and most recent readings dealing with the history of Canada before Confederation.

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