Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Reflections
5. Seeing an Unliterary Landscape 15
6. Canadian History and Historians 26
7. Province and Region
8. Marginal 41
9. Life at Third Crossing 48
10. The Canadian Métis 61
11. Agriculture in the Red River Colony 69
12. The Significance of Site in the Settlement of the American and Canadian Wests 87
13. Voices of Protest
14. Clio in Canada: The Interpretation of Canadian History 103
15. The Western Progressive Movement, 1919-1921 113
16. The Social Philosophy of Henry Wise Wood 131
17. The Bias of Prairie Politics 149
18. A Northern Nation
19. The Relevance of Canadian History 163
20. British North America and a Continent in Dissolution, 1861-71 186
21. Confederation, 1870-1896 208
22. The “North” in Canadian Historiography 229
23. Quebec, Nationalism, and Conservatism
24. Canadian Conservatism Now 243
25. The Dualism of Culture and the Federalism of Power 254
26. The Possibility of a Philosophy of Conservatism 266
27. Canada: The One and the Many 285