The Forked Road
Canada 1939-1957
Volume XVIII 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.
Canada’s declaration of war against Germany in 1939 marked the beginning of a significant period in the history of the nation. By the end of the Liberal regime in 1957 the country had undergone immense growth in human and material resources. The experience of the Second World War had been followed by participation in the Korean War and the Cold War. The Great Depression…
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November 1, 2016D.G. CREIGHTON (1902--1979), former chairman of the department of history, University of Toronto, was the advisory editor of the Canadian Centenary Series. A graduate of the Universities of Toronto and Oxford, he was the author of John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician; John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain; Dominion of the North; The Empire of the St. Lawrence, and many other works. Holder of numerous honorary degrees, LL.D. and D.LITT., he twice won the Tyrrell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, the University of Alberta National Award in Letters, the University of British Columbia Medal for Popular Biography, and the Molson Prize of the Canada Council.
The Forked Road
Donald Creighton
Canada 1957-1967
J.L. Granatstein
Canada 1922-1939
John Herd Thompson, Allen Seager
New France 1701-1744
Dale Miquelon
Upper Canada 1784-1841
Gerald M. Craig
The Critical Years 1857-1873
W.L. Morton
Canada 1896-1921
Ramsay Cook, Robert Craig Brown
The Opening of the Canadian North 1870-1914
Morris Zaslow
The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967
Morris Zaslow
Early Voyages and Northern Approaches 1000-1632
Tryggvi J. Oleson
The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663
Marcel Trudel
Canada Under Louis XIV 1663-1701
William John Eccles
New France 1744-1760
George F.G. Stanley
Quebec 1760-1791
Hilda Neatby
Lower Canada 1791-1840
Fernand Ouellet
The Atlantic Provinces 1712-1857
W. Stewart Macnutt
Dominion
Stephen R. Bown
A Nation's Paper
Edited by John Ibbitson
The Class
Ken Dryden
The Good Allies
Tim Cook
Lytton
Peter Edwards and Kevin Loring
The North Star
Julian Sher
Rogers v. Rogers
Alexandra Posadzki
The Duel
John Ibbitson
Kinauvit?
Norma Dunning
True North Rising
Whit Fraser
Above the Fold
John Honderich
The Series
Ken Dryden
The Devil's Trick
John Boyko
The Company
Stephen R. Bown