Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada, and includes scholarship written over 145 years.

Volume 2 of this collection focuses on three major themes. It presents research from the perspective of Canada’s regions, with one chapter focusing exclusively on the competing understandings of 1867 from the perspective of Quebec. Next, it includes material pertaining to the geopolitical underpinnings of 1867 that addresses the relationship between Confederation, the U.S. Civil War and American expansionism, Great Britain and war in the European theatre. Also included is leading scholarship by Stanley B. Ryerson, Adele Perry, Fernand Dumond, Ian McKay and James W. Daschuk that questions whether Confederation itself was a formative event. Together with its companion volume, this is an invaluable resource for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the historical foundations on which Canada rests.

Jacqueline D. Krikorian is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.


David R. Cameron is a professor of Political Science and Special Advisor to the President and Provost at the University of Toronto.


Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University.


Andrew McDougall is an assistant professor of Canadian politics at the University of Toronto Scarborough.


Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.