A History of the Canadian Peoples

The late J.M. Bumsted was a professor at the University of Manitoba. He also taught at both Simon Fraser University and McMaster University. His research areas included the history of Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, and cultural history. Bumsted was also the author of The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History, 4e (OUP 2014), and The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History 4e (OUP 2014).Michael Bumsted has a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, where he taught a number of introductory anthropology courses. His research areas include material history and focus around the Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade. Michael has researched alongside his father for most of his life and won the 2001 Edward C. Shaw Award Young Historians award for his essay, "From the Red to the Nile: William Nassau Kennedy and the Manitoba Contingent of Voyageurs in the Gordon Relief Expedition, 1884-1885."

• List of MapsPrefaceIntroduction: Understanding History1: The Beginnings: Indigenous Histories in North America NEW2: Europe Arrives3: Europe Settles In: Newfoundland, Acadia, New France4: Struggling for a Continent, 1667-17595: Becoming and Remaining British, 1760-18156: Relying on Resources, 1816-18407: Becoming a Nation, 1840-18858: Becoming Modern, 1885-19139: Two Wars and a Depression, 1914-194410: Prospering Together, 1945-196011: Edging Towards the Abyss, 1958-197212: Coming Apart, 1992-200113: Freefalling into the Twenty-First Century, 1992-2001EpilogueReferencesIndex

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