Joseph Howe, Volume II: Volume II, the Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873

By J. Murray Beck

Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization scheme encompassing an inter-colonial railway between Halifax and Quebec; a quixotic mission of recruitment in the United States for the British armies in the Crimea; the embattled leasdership of an unstable provincial administration in the early 1860s; and the hard-fought campaign to prevent passage of the British North America Act. Disillusioned by the indifference of British politician to his long-standing advocacy of a refurbished British Empire in whose government colonial leaders could share, Howe turned his energies to making the new Canadian federation work. A whole-hearted supporter of Confederation in his later years, Howe displayed an irrepressible vitality that Professor Beck sees as the trademark of the man.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773504478
• ISBN13: 9780773504479
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 448 Pages