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Canada Watch Spring 2016: Debating the Confederation Debates of 1865

The latest Canada Watch publication, Debating the Confederation Debates of 1865, has now been uploaded. The articles published are as follows:

  • Reconsidering the Debates over Canadian Confederation, Colin M. Coates and Philip Girard
  • The Atlantic Provinces and the Confederation Debates of 1865, Philip Girard
  • An Example for the World? Confederation and French Canadians, Marcel Martel
  • Confederation as an Intra-Christian Pact, David Koffman
  • Revisiting the 1865 Canadian Debates on Confederation: Rights and the Constitution, David R. Cameron, Jacqueline D. Krikorian, and Robert C. Vipand
  • Confederation and Taxation, Elsbeth Heaman
  • Canadian Confederation and Democracy, Dennis Pilon
  • “Canada was…just like a farmer”: Confederation from the Perspective of Agrarian Society, Colin M. Coates
  • The Nature of Confederation, Sean Kheraj
  • A Workingman Watches, Craig Heron
  • Gender and the Confederation Debates, Kathryn McPherson
  • Confederation comes at a cost: Indigenous Peoples and the Ongoing Reality of Colonialism in Canada, Gabrielle Slowey
  • Using History to Justify Confederation, Marlene Shore
  • The Robert Harris Group Portrait, Ged Martin

The Spring 2016 Issue can be accessed here at the following link: https://www.yorku.ca/research/robarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/466/2016/06/CW-2016-Spring-web.pdf.

We welcome you to read previous Canada Watch issues as well and we look forward to future submissions!