History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present, Volume 2, 7th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (February 1, 2019) © 2020

  • Margaret Conrad University of New Brunswick
  • Alvin Finkel Athabasca University
  • Donald Fyson Université Laval

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For courses on the History of Canada.

Canadian History is filled with stories of heroes, villains, betrayals, epic battles, tragedies, victories, and struggles for social justice. Are your students familiar, for example, with the story of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canada's only federal politician that has ever been assassinated? And do learner's know that Canada's national summer sport, Lacrosse, derives from the Native American sport “baggataway,” which was so violent that chiefs would use games to give warriors a taste of battle hell? Do captivating stories like these come to mind when your students think about Canadian History - are they able to conjure up their historical imagination? Or, like many people, are your students paralyzed with the thought of spending hours memorizing names, dates, and battles?

History of the Canadian Peoples has been one of the most respected Canadian history texts for many years, known for its integrated social, cultural, and political approach to history and showing students that Canadian history is interesting and eventful. The authors continue to provide an inclusive and dynamic history of Canada, including the stories of well-known Canadians as well as every day Canadians.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Heritage Minutes video clips in which key Canadian political, military, and social history events are reviewed, will lay the foundation for material to be covered and engage students - awakening an interest in them to learn more about the topics covered.
  • Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History links that allow students to review historical evidence and primary documents, and work through a historical mystery and come to their own conclusions.
  • European names used for Indigenous groups have been replaced by endonyms - names that they have given themselves. A new table lists the concordance between the Indigenous endonyms in use and the European names used in the previous edition. 
  • Enhanced images have been included throughout and almost all maps have been re-drafted, using base maps from the Atlas of Canada (Natural Resources Canada).

New and updated features of this title

  • As the world shifts to a greater reliance on digital media, it is appropriate that this resource evolves as well. This seventh edition is the first fully digital version of History of the Canadian Peoples. Instructors and students will find that, although the medium has changed, the content is fully consistent with prior editions.
  • This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. Key revisions to the content include the following:
    • European names used for Indigenous groups have been replaced by endonyms - names they have given themselves.
    • A new table lists the concordance between the Indigenous endonyms we have chosen to use and the European names we used in previous editions.
    • The comprehensive lists of selected readings for each chapter have been updated to reflect the latest historiographical trends.
    • Learning objectives have been introduced to help students to reflect on significant themes in each chapter.
    • Almost all of the maps have been entirely re-drafted, using base maps from the Atlas of Canada (Natural Resources Canada) and historical information from standard sources such as the Historical Atlas of Canada.
  • For the new seventh edition, co-authors Maragaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel, and Donald Fyson have been joined by the following Canadian historians:
    • Brian Gettler, University of Toronto at Mississauga
    • Rhonda Hinther, Brandon University
    • Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary
    • Colin McCullough, Ph.D
  1. Canada, 1867
  2. Nation-Building, 1867-1896
  3. Entering the Twentieth Century, 1896-1914
  4. The New Industrial Order, 1867-1914
  5. A Nation on the Move, 1867-1914
  6. Society and Culture in the Age of Industry, 1867-1914
  7. The Great War and Reconstruction, 1914-1921
  8. The Turbulent Twenties
  9. The Great Depression
  10. Society and Culture: The Search for Identity, 1919-1939
  11. Canada's World War, 1939-1945
  12. Redefining Liberalism: The Canadian State, 1945-1975
  13. Growth at All Costs: The Economy, 1945-1975
  14. Community, Nation, and Culture, 1945-1975
  15. Canada in the Global Economic Village, 1976-1999
  16. The Politics of Uncertainty, 1976-1999
  17. Canada in the Age of Anxiety, 2000-2018
  18. Community and Culture Since 1976

Margaret Conrad is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick. A member of Acadia University's history department from 1969 to 2002, she held Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University from 1996 to 1998 and the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick from 2002 to 2009. She has published widely in the fields of Atlantic Canadian History, Women's Studies, and Humanities Computing. Her recent publications include A Concise History of Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and, with James K. Hiller, Atlantic Canada: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is a co-author of Canadians and Their Pasts (University of Toronto Press, 2013), which explores how Canadians engage the past in their everyday lives, drawing on interviews with more than 3400 Canadians, and is coauthor with Heather MacDonald of a cookbook, The Joy of Ginger, 2nd ed. (Nimbus, 2013). A founding member of Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre, Professor Conrad has edited four books on the New England Planters, eighteenth-century settlers in Nova Scotia. She was a founding member of the editorial board of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal and served as its co-editor from 1977 to 1985. She also co-edited the Canadian Historical Review from 1997 to 2000 and was president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2005 to 2007. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995 and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.

Alvin Finkel is Professor Emeritus at Athabasca University in Alberta. He has published extensively on the history of labour, social policy, left-wing politics, and western Canada. His books include Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Working People in Alberta: A History (AU Press, 2012), Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History (Laurier, 2006), Our Lives: Canada After 1945 (Lorimer, 1997, 2012), The Chamberlain—Hitler Collusion (with Clement Leibovitz, Lorimer, 1997), The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta (University of Toronto Press, 1989), and Business and Social Reform in the Thirties (Lorimer, 1979). He is co-editor of The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region (Athabasca University Press, 2010). He was editor of Prairie Forum from 1984 to 1993 and book review editor for Labour/Le Travail from 2000 to 2011, and he has served on the editorial boards of other scholarly publications and presses, including serving as the founding chair of the editorial committee for Athabasca University Press from 2006 to 2013. He was president of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (1994—95), was president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History (2008—14), and has been president of the Alberta Labour History Institute since 2016.

Donald Fyson is full professor at the Département des sciences historiques of Université Laval in Quebec City. He is a specialist in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth century Quebec history, with a focus on social, socio legal, socio-political, and urban history. He is particularly interested in the relationship between state, law, and society, especially as seen through the criminal and civil justice system, the police, and local administration. His publications include Magistrates, Police, and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764—1837 (University of Toronto Press, 2006), also published in French (Hurtubise, 2010); From Iron Bars to Bookshelves: A History of the Morrin Centre (with Louisa Blair and Patrick Donovan, Baraka Books, 2016), also published in French (Septentrion, 2016); Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XI: Quebec and the Canadas (ed., with Blaine Baker, Osgoode Society/University of Toronto Press, 2013); and La gouvernance montréalaise: de la ville-frontière à la métropole (ed., with Léon Robichaud and Harold Bérubé, Multimondes, 2014). His current research projects include capital punishment and imprisonment in Quebec 1760—1960; families and the law in Quebec, 1840—1920; penal justice in Quebec City, 1760—1965; interpersonal violence in Quebec, 1760—1960; and the legal and social effects of the British Conquest of Quebec. He is also interested in digital history, the popularization of history, and the effects of access and privacy legislation on historical research. He is a member of the Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises (www.cieq.ca), which he co-directed from 2008 to 2013; a member of the Centre d'histoire des régulations sociales (www.chrs.uqam.ca); a member of the executive and Honorary Librarian of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (www.morrin.org); and a member of the editorial board of Social Science History.

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