Kennedy has edited a somewhat larger collection, "Documents of the Canadian Constitution", 1759-1915 (1918).The later Sessional Papers and Hansards or Parliamentary Debates are easily accessible.Files of the older newspapers, such as the Halifax "Chronicle" (1820 to date, with changes of title), Montreal "Gazette" (1778 to date), Toronto "Globe" (1844 to date), "Manitoba Free Press" (1879 to date), Victoria "Colonist" (1858to date), are invaluable."The Dominion Annual Register and Review", ed.by H.J.Morgan, 8 vols.(1879-1887) and "The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs", by John Castell Hopkins (1901 to date), are useful for the periods covered.
For the first chapter, Sir Charles P.Lucas, "A History of Canada", 1765-1812 (1909) and A.G.Bradley, "The Making of Canada" (1908) are the best single volumes.William Wood, "The Father of British Canada" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1916), records Carleton's defense of Canada in the Revolutionary War; and Justin H.Smith's "Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony" (1907) is a scholarly and detailed account of the same period from an American standpoint.Victor Con's "The Province of Quebec and the Early American Revolution" (1896), with a review of the same by Adam Shortt in the "Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada", vol.1 (University of Toronto, 1897), and C.W.Alvord's "The Mississippi Valley in British Politics", 2 vols.(1917)should be consulted for an interpretation of the Quebec Act.For the general reader, W.S.Wallace's "The United Empire Loyalists"("Chronicles of Canada", 1914) supersedes the earlier Canadian compilations; C.H.Van Tyne's "The Loyalists in the American Revolution" (1902) and A.C.Flick's "Loyalism in New York during the American Revolution" (1901) embody careful researches by two American scholars.The War of 1812 is most competently treated by William Wood in "The War with the United States" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1915); the naval aspects are sketched in Theodore Roosevelt's "The Naval War of 1812" (1882) and analyzed scientifically in A.T.Mahan's "Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812" (1905).
For the period, 1815-1841, W.S.Wallace's "The Family Compact"("Chronicles of Canada", 1915) and A.D.De Celles's "The Patriotes of '37" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1916) are the most concise summaries.J.C.Dent's "The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion" (1885) is biased but careful and readable."William Lyon Mackenzie", by Charles Lindsey, revised by G.G.S.Lindsey (1908), is a sober defense of Mackenzie by his son-in-law and grandson.Robert Christie's "A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada", 6 vols.(1848-1866) preserves much contemporary material.There are few secondary books taking the anti-popular side: T.C.Haliburton's "The Bubbles of Canada" (1839) records Sam Slick's opposition to reform; C.W.Robinson's "Life of Sir John Beverley Robinson" (1904) is a lifeless record of the greatest Compact leader.Lord Durham's "Report on the Affairs of British North America" (1839; available in Methuen reprint, 1902, or with introduction and notes by Sir Charles Lucas, 3 vols., 1912) is indispensable.For the Union period there are several political biographies available.G.M.Wrong's "The Earl of Elgin" (1905), John Lewis's "George Brown" (1906), W.L.Grant's "The Tribune of Nova Scotia" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1915), J.
Pope's "Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald", 2 vols.(1894), J.Boyd's "Sir George Etienne Cartier" (1914), and O.D.Skelton's "Life and Times of Sir A.T.
Galt" (1919), cover the political developments from various angles.A.H.U.Colquhoun's "The Fathers of Confederation"("Chronicles of Canada", 1916) is a clear and impartial account of the achievement of Confederation; while M.O.Hammond's "Canadian Confederation and its Leaders" (1917) records the service of each of its chief architects.
For the years since Confederation biographies again give the most accessible record.Sir John S.Willison's "Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party" (1903) is the best political biography yet written in Canada.Sir Richard Cartwright's Reminiscences (1912)reflects that statesman's individual and pungent views of affairs, while Sir Charles Tupper's "Recollections of Sixty Years" (1914) and John Castell Hopkins's "Life and Work of Sir John Thompson" (1895) give a Conservative version of the period.
Sir Joseph Pope's "The Day of Sir John Macdonald" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1915), and O.D.Skelton's "The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier" ("Chronicles of Canada", 1916) between them cover the whole period briefly.L.J.Burpee's "Sandford Fleming" (1915) is one of the few biographies dealing with industrial as distinct from political leaders.Imperial relations may be studied in G.
R.Parkin's "Imperial Federation, the Problem of National Unity"(1892) and in L.Curtis's "The Problem of the Commonwealth"(1916), which advocate imperial federation, and in R.Jebb's "The Britannic Question; a Survey of Alternatives" (1913), J.S.
Ewart's "The Kingdom Papers" (1912-), and A.B.Keith's "Imperial Unity and the Dominions" (1916), which criticize that solution from different standpoints.The "Reports" of the Imperial Conferences of 1887, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1911, 1917, are of much value.Relations with the United States are discussed judiciously in W.A.Dunning's "The British Empire and the United States" (1914).Phases of Canada's recent development other than political are covered best in the volumes of "Canada and its Provinces", a History of the Canadian people and their institutions, edited by A.Shortt and A.G.Doughty.
A useful guide to recent books dealing with Canadian history will be found in the annual "Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada", published by the University of Toronto (1896to date).
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