Canada 1896-1921
A Nation Transformed
Volume XIV of the Canadian Centenary Series
Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.
The age of Laurier and Borden in Canada spanned a quarter of a century of dramatic growth, during which the burgeoning dominion altered radically in size and quality. A population increase of over three million, the creation of two western provinces, the opening of the north and the northwest, new levels of foreign trade and foreign investment -- these advances constituted the tangible aspects of…
RAMSAY COOK (b. 1931) is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. He studied at the University of Manitoba, Queen’s University, and the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of Toronto and spent a year as visiting professor of Canadian studies at Harvard University. His articles appeared in numerous journals, including the Canadian Historical Review, which he edited from 1963 to 1968. He is the editor or author of several books, including Canada and the French Canadian Question and Maple Leaf Forever.
Canada 1896-1921
Robert Craig Brown
Perpetual Motion
Graeme Gibson, Afterword by Ramsay CookROBERT CRAIG BROWN (b. 1935) was professor of history at the University of Toronto, where he studied after graduation from the University of Rochester. He also taught at the University of Calgary. He was former associate editor and editor of the Canadian Historical Review and his work appeared in historical journals and a number of anthologies of historical essays, as well as in Canadian Forum andCanadian Literature. He is the author of Canada’s National Policy, 1883-1900, co-author of Canada Views the United States, and co-editor of The Canadians, 1867-1967, among others.