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Destinies: Canadian HistorySince Confederation

Sixth Edition

by R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith


Chapter One

ConfederatConfederationion


John A. Macdonald appears seated in the

centre of this photo, taken on the first day of

the CharlottetownConference, September 1, 1864. Immediately to

the left of Macdonald stands his old political

enemy GeorgeBrown, with D’Arcy

McGee, the great orator in favour of British North

American federation, standing

directly behind Brown. A national tragedy was

McGee’s assassination on April 7, 1868, before

the Dominionwas but one year old.

Source: Library and Archives Canada/C-733.


Sir John A. Macdonald addressing a meeting in

Toronto. From the Canadian Illustrated News,

April 31, 1878. “One thinks of those audiences,

dead and gone now, the noise, the

whisky, the laughter the tobacco,

the smell of unwashed humanity: political

meetings were entertainment, the

translation of newspapers into life”

(P.B. Waite, “Reflections on

an Un-Victorian Society,” in

D. Swainson, ed., Oliver Mowat’s Ontario [Toronto: Macmillan, 1972], p. 26).

National Archives of Canada/C-68193.


The third quarter of the nineteenth

century marked the high point of

Maritime built sailing ships, to be replaced

by iron and steel vessels. The image

shows sailing ships in Courtenay Bay, New

Brunswick about

1860.Provincial Archives of New Brunswick/P5-360.


Chief areas of settlement in

Canada, 1867. In terms of their

population Ontario and Québec

dominated in the new dominion.

Source: Based on John Warkentin, Canada: A

Geographical Interpretation (Toronto: Methuen, 1968), p.

45.


First Nations Lacrosse players from the

Kahnawake community near Montreal. The First

Nations soon adapted the non-Aboriginals’

tradition of team photographs, posed,

with two players resting on their elbows

on the ground at the front, others are seated

behind, and two standing at the back.

Lee Pritzker Collection/National Archives of Canada/C-1959.


An evening with friends in Quebec in days gone

by. Family and friends provided social cohesion

in rural Canada in the nineteenth century. Note

the cross on the wall, indicating the influence

of the Roman Catholic Church in late nineteenth

century Québec.National Archives of Canada/C-1125


Queen Victoria receives Josiah

Henson atWindsor Castle,

March 5, 1877. In that same

year the Canadian government signed

treaty Seven with the first nations of

Southern Alberta, in the Queen’s name.The American Museum in

Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath, England.


Montreal mourns Thomas D’Arcy McGee.

The funeral cortege, April 13, 1868, of the

victim of Canada’s first political assassination,

believed to be the work of Irish revolutionaries.

McGee strongly opposed the Fenians,

the Irish Americans who wanted to end English rule in Ireland. He was

assassinated in Ottawa on April 7, 1868.

National Archives of Canada/C-83423, photographer James Inglis.


“Work,” a drawing that appeared in the journal

L’Opinion Publique, November 2, 1871. In the

late nineteenth century, gender inequality was as

common as class inequality. The woman

states; “You complain my dear husband, of your ten

hours of labour, I have already worked fourteen hours, and my day is still

not finished yet.”.

National Archives of CanadaC-108134.


The teachers of Mont Ste-Marie Convent School,

1889, Centre d’archives, Congregation of Notre

Dame, Montreal.

Congrégation de Notre-Dame, 2330 ouest, rue Sherbrooke, PQ,

H3E 1G8 (514) 931-5891.

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