Award-winning author Donald Creighton was a Red Ensign nationalist and firm supporter of the British Empire. At the time of writing this book, in 1970, he had come to believe that Canada was a lost cause. When everyone else was celebrating Canada's centennial, he was busy writing his own lament
for a nation. Canada's First Century paints a large and complex canvas of historical rise and fall: a great transcontinental nation is built, but it is eventually undone as Canada turns its back on the British Empire and embraces a continental role alongside the United States. A courageous and
contentious book for its day - Creighton is intensely anti-American and highly critical of Quebec nationalism - it was met with criticism, but, as Donald Wright points out, Canada's First Century initially outsold Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and, for a time, even the Bible.
A beautifully written, in-depth introduction by Donald Wright explores Creighton's larger understanding of Canadian history, his preoccupation with Canada's role in the Empire, and his major contribution to economics and geography as a key feature of history.
Introduction to the Wynford Edition
List of Illustrations
1. Confederation and Expansion
2. National Decisions
3. Time of Troubles
4. A Nation on Trial
5. The End of Colonial Security
6. The Consequences of Success
7. The Great Divide
8. Unrest and
Dissent
9. The Mackenzie King Millennium
10. The Crash
11. The Politics of Evasion
12. The Return to Colonial Status
13. The Rule of the Professionals
14. Point of No Return
15. Obscure Destiny
Epilogue: Ottawa, 1967
Books for Further Reading
Index
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Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada's leading historian. A member of the University of Toronto's Department of History, Creighton wrote a dozen books including The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence, the two-volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, and The Road to
Confederation. For his outstanding contributions to Canada's intellectual life, he received many awards and honours, including the Tyrrell Medal, the Governor General's Award, the Molson Prize, and honorary degrees from universities across the country. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and a Companion of the Order of Canada.
The Road to Confederation - The late Donald Creighton and Donald Wright
The Unknown Country - The late Bruce Hutchison and Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
The Struggle for the Border (Reissue) - Bruce Hutchison
Introduction by Vaughn Palmer
No Passport - The late Eugene Cloutier
Translated by Joyce Marshall
Regions Apart - Edward Grabb and The late James Curtis
French Canada in Transition - Everett Hughes
Introduction by Lorne Tepperman and Foreword by Nathan Keyfitz