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July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date
that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As
the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation
encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of
First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and
the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian.
Reconsidering Confederation brings together Canada's leading
historians to explore how the provinces, territories, and Treaty
areas became the political frameworks we know today. In partnership
with The Confederation Debates, an ongoing crowdsourced,
non-partisan, and non-profit initiative to digitize all of Canada's
founding colonial and federal records, this book breaks new ground
by integrating the treaties between Indigenous peoples and the
Crown into our understanding of Confederation. Rigorously
researched and eminently readable, this book traces the unique
paths that each province and territory took on their journey to
Confederation. It shows the roots of regional and cultural
grievances, as vital and controversial in early debates as they are
today. Reconsidering Confederation tells the sometimes rocky,
complex, and ongoing story of how Canada has become Canada.
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the
first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to
managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now
Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the
place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between
Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks
Canada manages over forty parks and reserves totalling over 200,000
square kilometres and featuring a dazzling variety of landscapes,
and is recognized as a global leader in the environmental
challenges of protected places. Its history is a rich repository of
experience, of lessons learned-critical for making informed
decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health
of our national parks.
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