Historical Dictionary of Canada

by Stephen Azzi, Barry M. Gough

Overview

Canada has become a leader among the modern nations of the world. It has emerged as a modern industrial nation, and as a key player in the resource, commodities, and financial institutions that make up today’s world. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Canada contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. It includes over 700 cross-referenced entries on a wide range of topics, covering the broad sweep of Canadian history from long before European contact until present day. Topics include Indigenous peoples, women, religion, regions, politics, international affairs, arts and culture, the environment, the economy, language, and war. This is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Canada. It introduces readers to the successes and failures, the conflicts and accommodations, the events and trends that have shaped Canadian history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538120330
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/15/2021
Series:	Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	724
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Stephen Azzi is director of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton University, where he is associate professor of political management, history, and political science. He is author of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (1999) and Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada–US Relations (2015), as well as several articles on Canadian, American, and Italian history.

Barry M. Gough is professor emeritus of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, and adjunct professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario. His Canada (1975) was published in the Modern Nations in Historical Perspective Series (Prentice Hall), edited by Robin W. Winks. He’s the author of several books First across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1997), Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath (2002), and Fortune’s a River: Collision of Empires in Northwest America (2007).

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff)

Preface

Acknowledgements

Reader’s Note

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Maps

1. Canada
2. Eastern North America, 1763
3. First Nations of Eastern North America
4. San Juan Boundary Dispute
5. The Alaska Boundary
6. Nunavut

Chronology

Introduction

The Dictionary

Appendix: Governors General, Prime Ministers, and Colonial Governors of Canada

Bibliography

About the Authors