Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian History, Vol I

by Margaret Conrad

Designed to accompany the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples and the one-volume synthesis, A National History. This book can also supplement any survey of Canadian history text or serve as a stand-alone text. Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian History offers students a sample of some of the best and most recent readings dealing with the history of Canada before Confederation. The readings are grouped in overlapping time periods that have become more-or-less conventional for the study of the pre-Confederation Beginnings to 1663; France in America, 1663-1756; British North America, 1749-1821; Maturing Colonial Societies, 1821-1867; and Industrializing Canada, 1840-1867.

538 pages, Paperback

Published June 17, 2003

About the author

A specialist in the fields of Atlantic Canada and Women's history, Margaret Rose Conrad held the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick before retiring in 2009.