Cover

Contents

MAPS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE: CULTURES AND COEXISTENCE, TO 1720

1 Early Societies: Sequences of Change

2 The Sixteenth Century: Aboriginal Peoples and European Contact

3 1600–1650: Fish, Fur, and Folk

4 1650–1686: 'Un pays qui n'est pas fait'

5 1686–1720: Imperial Intrusions

PART TWO: THE ENCOUNTER WITH IMPERIAL MILITARISM, 1720–1820

6 1720–1744: Cod, Louisbourg, and the Acadians

7 1744–1763: Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples

8 1763–1783: Resettlement and Rebellion

9 1783–1800: Loyalist Arrival, Acadian Return, Imperial Reform

10 1800–1810: Turning the Century

11 1810–1820: War and Peace

PART THREE: THE CONSOLIDATION OF COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1820–1867

12 The 1820s: Peace, Privilege, and the Promise of Progress

13 The 1830s: Adapting Their Institutions to Their Desires

14 The 1840s: Decade of Tribulation

15 The 1850s: Maturity and Reform

16 The 1860s: An End and a Beginning

NOTES

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

CONTRIBUTORS

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