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Author: Judith Fingard
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 088780490X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree distinguished authors tell the story of Halifax, from its beginnings as a British settlement to counter the French establishment at Louisbourg, to its present-day status as one of Canada's most appealing cities.
Author: William G Godfrey
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0889208069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid–eighteenth–century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo–Irish–Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of old-world connections and patrons which at times facilitated his advancement. John Bradstreet was born in Nova Scotia and died in New York. He was a major participant in colonial North American military events ranging from the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 to the British campaign against Pontiac in 1764. Early in his career he became lieutenant–governor of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and eventually rose to the rank of major–general in the British army, while linking his military performance to a relentless pursuit of profit and preferment. He was a man consistently on the periphery of both English and American societies; yet his career reveals a great deal about the mid–eighteenth–century trans–Atlantic world and about the dilemma of proponents of Empire who were viewed with increasing suspicion in both mother country and colonies. The author draws upon British, American, and Canadian archival sources, taking advantage of Bradstreet’s prolific correspondence to support and develop his narrative.
Author: Phillip Buckner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1442699167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history. This cohesive collection investigates many of the most hotly contested questions surrounding the Conquest: Was the battle itself a crucial turning point, or just one element in the global struggle between France and Great Britain? Did the battle's outcome reflect the superior strategy of General James Wolfe or rather errors on both sides? Did the Conquest alter the long-term trajectories of the French and British empires or simply confirm patterns well underway? How formative was the Conquest in defining the new British America and those now living under its rule? As this collection makes vividly clear, the Conquest's most profound consequences may in fact be quite different from those that have traditionally been emphasized.
Author: Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Canadian Institute
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan Everett Marble
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0773509887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAllan Marble describes the practice of medicine and surgery in Nova Scotia during the province's period of early settlement in the last half of the eighteenth century. Investigating such matters as the role of the state in providing medical care, the structure of the medical community, and the physical conditions people had to endure, he situates his discussion in the context of more general Nova Scotian history.
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1550026127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays underlines the reality that the "Canadian way of war" is a direct reflection of circumstances and political will.
Author: Geoffrey Plank
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0812207106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population. The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history.
