Week 12 (last) in Canada in the World

1. 12- A Country from Coast
to Coast?
HIST 124 Canada in the World
30 December 2010

2. Road to Confederation
• Not straight, inevitable road
• Not a destiny

3. In the textbook
• American Civil War, 1861-65
• Reciprocity Treaty, 1854-64
• Political deadlock in United Canada Assembly
• Maritime Colonies’ economic problems

4. In the textbook
• 1864 Conferences, Charlottetown & Québec
City
• Composition of delegations
• Negociations
• Influence of French Canadian Nationalists

6. Dominion Status
• Autonomous colony
• Complete independence in 1931

7. Imagining Canada
• Ideological and intellectual factors

8. Westward
• Expansionist vision

9. Westward
• To 1770s
• 1790s-1830s
• 1850s-1867

15. Name and Motto
• Dominion of Canada
• A Mari Usque Ad Mare

16. White Protestant Male
Country
• Psalm 72:8
• «He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
and from the river unto the ends of the
earth.»

17. Natives forgotten
• Article 91.25: « Indians, and Land reserved for
Indians »