Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword Paul Johnson xi
Introduction 1
Prelude: "The Land God Gave to Cain": Original Inhabitants and Early Explorers, 874-1603 7
Part I Colony: 1603-1867
Chapter 1 Champlain, the French Monarchy, New France, and the Maritime Colonies, 1603-1754 23
Chapter 2 Carleton, American Wars, and the Birth of Canada and the United States, The British Defeat the French, the Americans and French Defeat the British, and the British and Canadians Draw with the Americans, 1754-1830 111
Chapter 3 Baldwin, LaFontaine, and the Difficult Quest for Autonomy from Britain White Retaining British Protection from the United States, 1830-1867 213
Part II Dominion: 1867-1949
Chapter 4 Macdonald and the World's First Transcontinental, Bicultural, Parliamentary Confederation. The Pacific Railway, the National Policy, and the Kiel Rebellion, 1867-1896 319
Chapter 5 Laurier, the Dawn of "Canada's Century," and the Great War, 1896-1919 397
Chapter 6 King and the Art of Cunning Caution Between the Wars, 1919-1940 501
Chapter 7 King and the Art of Cunning Caution in War and Cold War, 1940-1949. From "Premier Dominion of the Crown," to Indispensable Anglo-American Ally 599
Part III Realm: 1949-2014
Chapter 8 St. Laurent and Duplessis, Canada as a Middle Power, and Quebec in Pursuit of Autonomy, 1949-1966 727
Chapter 9 Trudeau, Levesque, and the Quebec Crisis, 1966-2000 837
Chapter 10 A Force in the World at Last, 2000-2014 959
Conclusion: Reflections and Prospects 1007
Photographic Credits 1021
Notes 1022
Bibliography 1043
Index 1068