The Opening of the Canadian North 1870-1914

Author Morris Zaslow

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Volume XVI 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.

This pioneer study traces Canada’s northward expansion in the years after Confederation. In the forefront of the movement were fur-traders, missionaries, and gold-seekers. Behind them came provincial and federal governments, concerned for their authority, and anxious to develop the riches of the North. Under the Laurier government (1896--1911) the advance quickened, and the roles of the Geological Survey, North-West Mounted Police, and Departments of…

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November 1, 2016

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MORRIS ZASLOW (1918--2013) taught at Carleton University, University of Toronto and was professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. He was the editor of The Defended Border: Upper Canada and the War of 1812, of the General Series of the Champlain Society, and former editor of Ontario History and the Issues in Canadian History Series. Born in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, he received his B.A. and B.ED. at the University of Alberta. After serving with the RCAF, he completed his M.A. and PH.D. in history at the University of Toronto. He wrote extensively on the history of Northern Canada, an interest sparked by childhood experiences on the Prairies in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Edmonton was the centre for bush flying and…