Chapter 5: The Conquest of Canada Wildcatters: The Story of The myth about the Plains of Abraham 41 Pacific Petroleums and Chapter 6: History headlines Westcoast Transmission. [...] Walter Robinson, director of the Canadi- MY LOVE FOR CANADA was a feeling an Taxpayer Federation, on the appointment nearly allied to that which the condemned of Mary McLaren as the first female “Gen- criminal entertains for his cell—his only tleman Usher of the Black Rod,” a position hope of escape being through in the Canadian Senate that the portals of the grave. [...] For the society of allegiance NO AMERICAN who has chosen to leave admits of a diversity, the society of compact the United States and take another citizen- does not, and one of the blessings of Cana- ship will ever be a passionate nationalist dian life is that there is no Canadian way of anywhere, for what has turned us away from life, much less two, but a unity under the our own country is precis [...] WHEN GREAT BRITAIN dismantled the British Empire it gave the land back to the CANADA is not a country for the cold of original owners in Africa and Asia. [...] John Adams (1735-1826), ence for the attack of Halifax the next, and second U. S. president, fol- the final expulsion of En- lowing the 1776 defeat of an gland from the American invasion of Canada by U. S. continent.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Subtitle on cover : "My God, this is a great country Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781895589955 9781459339699
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- F1008.4
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- G73 2012eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- CONTENTS 4
- Chapter 1: The things they say. My God, this is a great country. 6
- Chapter 2: Fascinating facts: A big and diverse country. 24
- Chapter 3: Achievements and inventions: Insulin saves a billion lives. 32
- Chapter 4: America discovered. Vikings in Newfoundland. 40
- Chapter 5: The Conquest of Canada: The myth about the Plains of Abraham 42
- Chapter 6: History headlines: From 40,000 B.C. to 2012. 58
- Chapter 7: Criminal justice. Debtors die in world’s worst jails. 78
- Chapter 8: Canada in the time of cholera. Pandemic enters North America via Quebec. 88
- Chapter 9: The potato famine: 20,000 Irish die fleeing to Canada in 1847 97
- Chapter 10: Booze. When children drank whisky at breakfast. 110
- Chapter 11: The First Canada Day. Cheers and wailing greet July 1, 1867. 116
- Chapter 12: Canadian diversity: A multicultural model for the world. 120
- Chapter 13: When Canada mattered. A world leader. 125
- Chapter 14: Democracy. From Aristocracy to greatest democracy. 138
- Chapter 15: Democratic deficit. Abuse of power. 142
- INDEX 162
- A 162
- B 162
- C 162
- D 163
- E 164
- F 164
- G 164
- H 164
- I 165
- J 165
- K 165
- L 165
- M 165
- N 166
- O 166
- P 166
- Q 167
- R 167
- S 167
- T 168
- U 168
- V 168
- W 168
- Y 168
