The Atlantic Provinces 1712-1857

Volume IX 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 sea is the basic reality of Canada’s Maritimes. Its influence -- at once a source of wealth and impoverishment, both unifying and divisive -- is the major theme of Professor MacNutt’s book, the first general history of the Maritimes.  Their rich fishing bounty, the harassment of settlers, Loyalist migration, absentee landlords, controversy over free land grants, Protestant-Catholic antagonism, and distressing economic conditions are… Keep Reading