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Three weeks in Quebec City : the meeting that made Canada / Christopher Moore.
- Title
- Three weeks in Quebec City : the meeting that made Canada / Christopher Moore.
- Author
- Moore, Christopher, 1950-
- Publication
- Toronto : Allan Lane, 2015.
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- Description
- viii, 262 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An account of how 33 delegates from five provincial legislatures met in Québec City in 1864 to debate how a new nation would be formed.
- Series Statement
- History of Canada
- Uniform Title
- History of Canada (Toronto, Ont.)
- Alternative Title
- 3 weeks in Quebec City
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- October 10, 1864 : la vieille capitale -- Before the conference 1 : John A. Macdonald's worst summer -- Before the conference 2 : George Brown's best summer -- Before the conference 3 : the veto power of George-Étienne Cartier -- September in Charlottetown : John A. bounces back -- Monday, October 10 : Étienne Taché in the chair -- Monday, October 10 : Viscount Monck's dinner party -- Tuesday, October 11 : how to run a constitutional conference -- Wednesday, October 12 : what federalism means -- Thursday, October 13 : nations and empires -- Friday, October 14 : an upper house -- Saturday, October 15 to Sunday, October 16 : the work to be done -- Monday, October 17 : representing the regions -- Tuesday, October 18 : the senate defined -- Wednesday, October 19 : were the confederation makers Democrats? -- Thursday, October 20 : the mechanics of democracy -- Friday, October 21 to Monday, October 24 : Ottawa and the provinces -- Sunday, October 23 : the work still to be done -- Tuesday, October 25 to Wednesday, October 26 : what Quebec needed -- Tuesday, October 25 to Wednesday, October 26 : rights and courts -- Tuesday, October 25 : the old Indian chief -- Wednesday, October 26 : the money -- Thursday, October 27 : roads east and west -- Thursday, October 27 : the rush for the trains -- From the Quebec Resolutions to the British North America Act -- Brown, Cartier, Macdonald : who should lead the confederation?
- ISBN
- 9780670065257 (bound)
- 0670065250 (bound)
- OCLC
- 899761604
- SCSB-11515303
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library