Canada 1874-1896
Arduous Destiny
Volume XIII 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.
In 1874 Canada was only seven years old, still a vast agglomeration of territories joined together only by a paper constitution and some useful common interests. The Intercolonial Railway that would stitch the Maritime Provinces to Quebec and Ontario was still unfinished; the Canadian Pacific Railway was still a chaos of unknowns. To sustain Canada was to take great energy and persistence. By 1896,…
Professor PETER B. WAITE was born in Toronto in 1922 and grew up in Belleville, Ontario, and Saint John, New Brunswick. After four years in the Canadian Navy, he went to the University of British Columbia where he took his B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees. He received his PH.D. at the University of Toronto, and taught at Dalhousie University, Halifax, where he was head of the department of history from 1960 to 1968. He is the author of many articles and several books, among them The Life and Times of Confederation 1864-1867 and The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865.
