Sir John A. Macdonald: & The Apocalyptic Year 1885
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cloth, dust jacket, 327 pages ,index, bibliography, "Sir John A. Macdonald had been in politics for four decades and prime minister of Canada for three terms, but he'd never seen anything like the...
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cloth, dust jacket, 327 pages ,index, bibliography, "Sir John A. Macdonald had been in politics for four decades and prime minister of Canada for three terms, but he'd never seen anything like the apocalyptic year of 1885. The issues cascaded relentlessly: threats to the sovereignty of Canada from London and Washington; armed resistance in the North-West; the spectre of starvation among Indigenous peoples; financial crises that endangered the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR); protests over Chinese immigration to British Columbia; nationalist dissent in Quebec; a smallpox epidemic that would claim over 5,000 victims in Montreal; and fierce opposition to Macdonald's drive to expand the right to vote. It was a year like no other in Canadian history. One year in the life of the man who made Canada.
Product Info
ISBN: 1990823300
ISBN-13: 9781990823305
Publisher: Sutherland House Books
Year: 2024
Type: New
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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