Interpreting Canada's Past : A Post-Confederation Reader

Interpreting Canada's Past: A Post-Confederation Reader is a supplemental book and the second of two volumes. It includes both primary and secondary documents. This volume is designed to accompany J.M. Bumsted's two-volume textbook The Peoples of Canada or his single-volume text A History of the Canadian Peoples.

This edition contains two primary documents and two historical interpretations in each chapter, except in Chapter 7, which contains six examples of visual primary documents and two historical interpretations, making the book much shorter than the third edition. Thus it will be easier for instructors to incorporate these readings into coursework. Each chapter also includes an introduction to help contextualize the documents, a list of questions for consideration, and a list of suggested further readings.

J. M. Bumsted (retired) was Professor of History at St John's College, University of Manitoba, for over 30 years.

Len Kuffert is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. His current work is on radio in English Canada.

Michel Ducharme is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His current research is focussed on British North American colonies (1749-1873); Canada and the Atlantic World, the history of Quebec; and liberalism and nationalism in Canada and Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.