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The Story of Canada
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Donald Creighton
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Donald Creighton
Through his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.
Donald Creighton
A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it “had happened,” he said, “the day before yesterday.” And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and – at least on one occasion – the British government. Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
Creighton examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada's economic and national development.
John A. Macdonald
John A. Macdonald's flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. 'Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English' - Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
The Story of Canada
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Canada
A bilingual, multicultural, and multinational nation, Canada borders the United States, reaches into the Arctic, and stretches across six time zones. Drawing on Canadian history, politics, and literature, Donald Wright explores the Canadian story and identity, from the arrival of the first Indigenous peoples to contemporary climate politics.
