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A History of Canadian External Relations (Revised edition), Volume 1 : The Formative Years to 1914

1966

Volume I, containing the first eleven chapters of the original edition, covers the period up to the outbreak of w ar in 1914; volume II, containing chapters twelve to eighteen and the bibliographical essay mentioned above, covers the years from 1914 until the entrance of C anada into the second world war. [...] It was the peculiar fate of C anada to receive the stam p of two of the European great powers; while by the fortunes of international politics the in ward drives of Spain and Russia were arrested. [...] The first chapter tells of the forcible removal of the French o f Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to the colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. [...] In the libraries o f the citizens of Quebec and M ontreal works on religion and the Latin classics rubbed shoulders with contem porary literature and the critical writings of the philosophes.9 A fter New France was politically separated from its motherland the cultural tie remained, and French influence was felt both directly through imported books and indirectly in the writings of French Canadi [...] In the form er the municipal councils were set up to take over the functions of appointed officers, and in the provincial capitals parliam ents were called to follow the ancient traditions of the m other of parliaments.
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Authors

G. P. de T. Glazebrook

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
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327.71
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Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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9780773595101 9780773500433
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F1029
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G55 1966eb
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1 electronic text (271 pages)
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Ottawa, Ontario
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(CaBNVSL)slc00235021 (OCoLC)893231437 (CaOOCEL)448478
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Title proper/short title
Formative years to 1914
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