Canada
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Phillip Buckner looks at the characteristics of a double wave of colonisation between 1700 and 1900, which gave Canada its unique character. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers Henry Hudson's attempted discovery of the Northwest Passage. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 8
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Marking the 250th anniversary of General Wolfe’s victory over the French at Quebec, Jeremy Black considers the strategy employed by British forces in their struggle to gain and hold Canada. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 6
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York Membery remembers John By, the brilliant British military engineer responsible for building the 175-year-old Rideau Canal.
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Archaeologist Keith Branigan uncovers clues revealing the patterns of emigration from the Isle of Barra to British North America, from 1770 to 1850.
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R.C. Macleod re-tells the story of the force that began by policing the Klondike and ended by spying on separatists and 'subversives'. |
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Penelope Johnston discovers four Martello Towers in the Great Lakes, Canada.
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Penny Johnston on a campaign to rebuild a historic Canadian church
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Phillip Buckner looks at the characteristics of a double wave of colonisation between 1700 and 1900, which gave Canada its unique character. |
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Barry Gough offers a Canada-eye-view on the commemorations and controversy of the Columbus Quincentenary.
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The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England. |
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Penelope Johnston describes China's revered North American hero |
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Penelope Johnston on an early-19th century story of slavery and Canadian multicultural policy
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Penelope Johnston on feelings of pride in North America. Published in History Today, Volume: 39 Issue: 8
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Throughout Europe, the end of the First World War brought in its wake disillusion, civil unrest and even revolution. As Daniel Francis explains here, it was the same story in Canada in 1919. Published in History Today, Volume: 34 Issue: 4
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We belong to that little group of peoples destined... for a special role, the tragic role. Their anxiety is not whether they will be prosperous tomorrow, great or small, but whether they will be at all... Lionel Groulx, Quebec historian Published in History Today, 1980
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