The Quebec Conference of 1864 : understanding the emergence of the Canadian federation / edited by Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, and Guy Laforest.
First published in French as La Conférence de Québec de 1864 : 150 ans plus tard : comprendre l'émergence de la fédération canadienne by Presses de l'Université Laval, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Representations of Confederation : research prospects / Anne Trépanier. The making of a dominion : the completion of a conquest / Marc Chevrier -- Canadian constitution-making in the British world / Phillip Buckner -- Avoiding the "iniquitous pit of liberty" : the centralizing federalism of Joseph-Édouard Cauchon / Éric Bédard -- The trustee, the financier, and the poet : Cartier, Galt, and D'Arcy McGee / Guy Laforest and Félix Mathieu, Université Laval -- A big group in a small room : parties and coalitions at the Quebec Conference / Christopher Moore -- George Brown and Oliver Mowat on the Quebec resolutions and Confederation : reality and myth / Paul Romney -- Opponents of the 1864 Confederation Project : criticism of the future régime / François Rocher -- Confederation and corruption : the republican critique of the Quebec resolutions / Louis-Georges Harvey -- The economic arguments of the Quebec opponents of Confederation / Stéphane Kelly -- Papineau and the refusal of arrangements (1854-67) / Yvan Lamonde -- Is rejection of the melting pot a rejection of modernity? / André Burelle -- The Quebec resolutions and the ideas left behind / Robert C. Vipond, Jacqueline D. Krikorian, and David R. Cameron -- Principles of the 1864 Quebec Conference, imperial context, and historians Joseph Royal and Alfred Duclos De Celles / Claude Couture -- Representations of Confederation : research prospects / Anne Trépanier.
Summary:
"Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach. The Quebec Conference of 1864: Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada constitutional trajectory and the study of federalism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines argue that a more grounded understanding of the 72 Quebec Resolutions of 1864 is key to interpreting the internal architecture of the contemporary constitutional apparatus in Canada, and a new interpretation is crucial to appraise the progress made over the 150 years since the institution of federalism. The second volume in a series that began with The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, this book reveals a society in constant transition, as well as the presence of national projects that live in tension with the Canadian federation."-- Provided by publisher.
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