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Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900

Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900

Owram, Doug

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Canadian History

ISBN10: 0802073905
ISBN13: 9780802073907
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Nov 13 1992
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Through the last half of the nineteenth century, numbers of Canadians began to regard the West as a land of ideal opportuniy for large-scale agricultural settlement. This belief, in turn, led Canada to insist on ownership of the region and on immediate development.

Underlying the expansionist movement was the assumption that the West was to be a hinterland to central Canada, both in its economic relationship and in its cultural development. But settlers who accepted the extravagant promises of expanionism found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the assumption of easstern dominance with their own perception of the needs of the West and of Canada.

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