This indispensable new guide to Canadian history is comprehensive, authoritative, and -above all- companionable. It the essential guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, people, and places that have shaped Canadian life from earliest times to the late twentieth century.
In more than 1,600 entries, the country's leading historians describe and analyse events in political, military, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history, drawing on the latest scholarship. Topics such as gambling, potlatches, abortion, hockey, capital punishment, jackatars, and
shipwrecks find a place alongside more traditional entries like prime ministers and suffragists, exploration and fur trade, railways and responsible government. Politicians, soldiers, scientists and industrialists, feminists, social activists and religious leaders, all make an appearance. Vikings
and Basque whalers, Jesuits and filles du roi, the Huron Feast of the Dead, privateers, charivaris, the Acadian grand derangement, the Metis buffalo hunt, rebellions, the On-to-Ottawa trek, bunkhouse men and bush pilots, the battle at Vimy Ridge, gold rushes, Spanish influenza, Frontier College,
corvettes, trade unions, midwives, Automatistes, the Mad Trapper, La Bolduc, free trade and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all contribute to the fascinating story which is Canada's history.
Entries are arranged from A-Z and fully cross-referenced, with a complete index to guide readers to related topics. This new companion, from a publisher with an unrivalled reputation for authoritative reference works, provides learned, accessible, and up-to-date studies of the key subjects and
personalities in Canadian history. Lively and informative, no Canadian should be without it.
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.003
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780195435047 0195424387
- LCCN
- F1026
- LCCN Item number
- O93 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxv, 748 p. :)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00223342 (OCoLC)56727324 (CaOOCEL)432148
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Preface 6
- Note to the reader 9
- Contributors 12
- The Oxford Companion to Canadian History 38
- A 40
- B 96
- C 134
- D 207
- E 227
- F 247
- G 287
- H 312
- I 339
- J 364
- K 372
- L 380
- M 410
- N 461
- O 496
- P 507
- Q 558
- R 564
- S 596
- T 643
- U 664
- V 677
- W 684
- Y 715
- Z 720
- Maps 722
- Monarchs 732
- Governors general of Canada 733
- Prime ministers of Canada 734
- Provincial premiers 735
- National anthems 744
- Index 746
- A 746
- B 748
- C 751
- D 756
- E 757
- F 759
- G 760
- H 762
- I 763
- J 765
- K 765
- L 766
- M 767
- N 771
- O 772
- P 773
- Q 776
- R 776
- S 778
- T 781
- U 783
- V 783
- W 784
- X 785
- Y 785
- Z 785
