The Illustrated History of Canada

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The Illustrated History of Canada
from Key Porter Books

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Know Thy Neighbor
  I live on the US side of the Canadian border & have spent months of my life on the Canadian side...which has always engendered a huge curiosity about Canadians. Who are these people? What makes their politics tick? Why are their media and intelligentsia so anti-American? What is this Anglo-French thing & will it ever be solved? And who are all those people the streets in Toronto are named after, anyway?
  So I started by reading this book.
  It might more properly be called: Several... more info

• Excellent History; Diverse Perspectives
  This is an excellent history of a fascinating country. The editor, Craig Brown, uses different chapter authors to bring a variety of perspectives to Canadian history while still editing the chapters into a cohesive whole with a consistent voice and detailed internal references. The ability to turn these diverse perspectives into a sensible history is a significant achievement, and this book deserves its status as a classic.
  In part, the need for cohesion does limit the ability to pull in some... more info

• The Politically Correct, Ontariocentric Version
  The book starts out with praise for Native wife-swapping and ends with praise for the National Energy Program. I'm not kidding.

  In fairness, there is a lot of competent history writing in between, but certainly not the authoritative version it claims to be.

• Great background info for your Canadian genealogy
  I have family roots from the 17th Century in Quebec and from the 19th Century in Ontario. I wanted to know more about their lives so I bought this book. Pretty broad spectrum of needs on my part and this book worked quite well. A description of the daily lives of the "habitants" is nestled in with the overall history of Canada. It's great. Using the index, I can easily skip around and read the pages relevant to my genealogy. Although I found no reference to any of my 500 plus ancestor-relatives, I do feel... more info

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