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The Quebec Conference of 1864Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation |
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A new interpretation of a key period in Canadian political history.
Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach.
The Quebec Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada constitutional trajectory and the study of federalism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines argue that a more grounded understanding of the 72 Quebec Resolutions of 1864 is key to interpreting the internal architecture of the contemporary constitutional apparatus in Canada, and a new interpretation is crucial to appraise the progress made over the 150 years since the institution of federalism.
The second volume in a series that began with The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, this book reveals a society in constant transition, as well as the presence of national projects that live in tension with the Canadian federation.
The Quebec Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada constitutional trajectory and the study of federalism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines argue that a more grounded understanding of the 72 Quebec Resolutions of 1864 is key to interpreting the internal architecture of the contemporary constitutional apparatus in Canada, and a new interpretation is crucial to appraise the progress made over the 150 years since the institution of federalism.
The second volume in a series that began with The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, this book reveals a society in constant transition, as well as the presence of national projects that live in tension with the Canadian federation.
Details
368 Pages, 6 x 9
23 photos, 1 table
ISBN 9780773554801
December 2018
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"The essays in The Quebec Conference of 1864 analyze a variety of lesser-known contemporary understandings of the Quebec Resolutions that will be of benefit to students of the period. They also contribute to the editors' aim of providing a modified originalist perspective, whereby historical context "is crucial to comprehending the internal architecture of the contemporary Canadian constitutional edifice" (9). It is to be hoped that such an approach spurs further discussions on the broader historical context of Canadian Confederation that may even supply some of what was missing from this volume." Canadian Historical Review
Eugénie Brouillet is professor of constitutional law and vice-president of research and innovation at Université Laval, Québec.
Alain-G. Gagnon is professor of political science at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Guy Laforest is executive director of the École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ÉNAP), Québec.
Alain-G. Gagnon is professor of political science at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Guy Laforest is executive director of the École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ÉNAP), Québec.
Introduction: 1864, a Pivotal Year in the Advent of the Canadian Confederation / 3
Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, and Guy Laforest
PART ONE
The Fathers of Confederation and the BNA Act: Constitutional Visions and Models / 29
Rachel Chagnon
The Making of a Dominion: The Completion of a Conquest / 49
Marc Chevrier
Canadian Constitution-Making in the British World / 70
Phillip Buckner
PART TWO
Avoiding the “iniquitous pit of liberty”: The Centralizing Federalism of Joseph-Édouard Cauchon / 103
Éric Bédard
The Trustee, the Financier, and the Poet: Cartier, Galt, and D’Arcy McGee / 117
Guy Laforest and Félix Mathieu
A Big Group in a Small Room: Parties and Coalitions at the Quebec Conference / 142
Christopher Moore
George Brown and Oliver Mowat on the Quebec Resolutions and Confederation: Reality and Myth / 152
Paul Romney
PART THREE
Opponents of the 1864 Confederation Project: Criticism of the Future Regime / 179
François Rocher
Confederation and Corruption: The Republican Critique of the Quebec Resolutions / 220
Louis-Georges Harvey
The Economic Arguments of the Quebec Opponents of Confederation / 233
Stéphane Kelly
Papineau and the Refusal of Arrangements (1854-67) / 252
Yvan Lamonde
PART FOUR
Is Rejection of the Melting Pot a Rejection of Modernity? / 265
André Burelle
The Quebec Resolutions and the Ideas Left Behind / 282
Robert C. Vipond, Jacqueline D. Krikorian, and David R. Cameron
Principles of the 1864 Quebec Conference, Imperial Context, and Historians Joseph Royal and Alfred Duclos De Celles / 299
Claude Couture
Representations of Confederation: Research Prospects / 318
Anne Trépanier
Contributors / 355
Index / 357
Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, and Guy Laforest
PART ONE
The Fathers of Confederation and the BNA Act: Constitutional Visions and Models / 29
Rachel Chagnon
The Making of a Dominion: The Completion of a Conquest / 49
Marc Chevrier
Canadian Constitution-Making in the British World / 70
Phillip Buckner
PART TWO
Avoiding the “iniquitous pit of liberty”: The Centralizing Federalism of Joseph-Édouard Cauchon / 103
Éric Bédard
The Trustee, the Financier, and the Poet: Cartier, Galt, and D’Arcy McGee / 117
Guy Laforest and Félix Mathieu
A Big Group in a Small Room: Parties and Coalitions at the Quebec Conference / 142
Christopher Moore
George Brown and Oliver Mowat on the Quebec Resolutions and Confederation: Reality and Myth / 152
Paul Romney
PART THREE
Opponents of the 1864 Confederation Project: Criticism of the Future Regime / 179
François Rocher
Confederation and Corruption: The Republican Critique of the Quebec Resolutions / 220
Louis-Georges Harvey
The Economic Arguments of the Quebec Opponents of Confederation / 233
Stéphane Kelly
Papineau and the Refusal of Arrangements (1854-67) / 252
Yvan Lamonde
PART FOUR
Is Rejection of the Melting Pot a Rejection of Modernity? / 265
André Burelle
The Quebec Resolutions and the Ideas Left Behind / 282
Robert C. Vipond, Jacqueline D. Krikorian, and David R. Cameron
Principles of the 1864 Quebec Conference, Imperial Context, and Historians Joseph Royal and Alfred Duclos De Celles / 299
Claude Couture
Representations of Confederation: Research Prospects / 318
Anne Trépanier
Contributors / 355
Index / 357
