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The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Oft-ignored in the study of Canadian history or dismissed as a vestige of colonial status, the governor general's office provides essential historical insight into Canada's constitutional evolution. In the nineteenth century, as today, individual governors general exercised considerable scope in interpreting their approach to the office. The era 1847-1878 witnessed profound changes in Canada's relationship with Britain, and in this new book, Barbara J. Messamore explores the nature of these changes through an examination of the role of the governor general. Guided by outmoded instructions and constitutional conventions that were not yet firmly established, the governors general of the time -...
Biographical sketches of the fifty-one men who have served as governors-general of Canada during the French (1608-1760) and British (1768-1931) regimes.
Based on the diaries of Henry Herbert Molyneux, fourth Earl of Carnarvon, this book sheds new light on Conservative politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Few political diaries of this scale and significance have survived and they reveal him to be a shrewd observer of events.