This pre-Confederation reader encourages students to explore Canada's history through authentic primary documents and critical academic articles.
J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship between white settlers and Native Canadians from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to present times.
Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of the French Canadians involved in the fur economy, the Indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants.
The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.