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Presbyterianism was not only the largest and most influential Protestant denomination in the Maritimes during much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also one of the largest and most influential Protestant denominations in Canada. While t

Presbyterian Church --- Christian sects --- History. --- Maritime Provinces --- Canadian Maritimes --- Maritimes, Canadian --- Atlantic Provinces --- Social conditions. --- History

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This book provides the first full account of a major social and political movement of the interwar years in Canada: the campaign for "Maritime Rights" which erupted in the Atlantic provinces after World War I. Ernest R. Forbes traces the history of the movement from its origins in the decline in relative status and influence of the Maritimes that accompanied the rise of the West and the growing dominance of the Central Canadian metropolises. Maritimers saw their political influence reduced, the underpinnings of their economy - especially in the critical areas of tariffs, freight rates, and subsidies - whittled away, and Canada defined in terms that seemed to exclude them. Adopting a strategy characteristic of the progressive movements of the period, they attempted through organization and agitation to restore their position. Farmers, fishermen, manufacturers, and organized labour articulated their demands through the provincial press, boards of trade, union locals, educational conferences, and mass delegations to Ottawa. Professor Forbes challenges traditional assumptions in his emphasis upon a vigorous Maritime progressivism that transcended party affiliations. All the political parties tried to use the protest movement, but none had created it, nor had it a specific founder or leader. The agitiation was in fact a spontaneous expression of the economic and social frustrations of the Maritime people. Although their efforts were largely defeated by the conflicting interests of stronger regions, and by the King government's adoitness in defusing protest through a policy of study and delay, the author believes that the aroused Maritimers had succeeded in establishing their difficulties in the public's mind as a national problem.

Regionalism --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Maritime Provinces --- Politics and government. --- Canadian Maritimes --- Maritimes, Canadian --- Atlantic Provinces --- Federal government --- Fédéralisme --- History --- Histoire --- Provinces maritimes --- Politique et gouvernement

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Carefully crafted from oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources, Obligation and Opportunity opens a window into the world of the women who moved from the Maritimes to New England for work. Urged to stay through tales of danger and woe in the newspapers, they still left by the thousands, and in numbers larger than those for men. Beattie examines the rural families they left, the urban environment they entered in Boston, and the different occupations they filled. She sheds new light on the response of rural families to economic change and the effects of gender on choices for young women. She demonstrates that first-generation emigrants, who left out of a need to find work and send money back home, eased the way for second-generation emigrants, who left to seek opportunities in the big city. Obligation and Opportunity offers new insights not only for everyone interested in the history of the Maritimes and Boston but also for scholars and others interested in family history, women's studies, labour history, and migration studies.

UNSPECIFIED --- Single women --- Family & Marriage --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- History --- Maritime Provinces --- Employment --- Emigration and immigration. --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Canadian Maritimes --- Maritimes, Canadian --- Single people --- Women --- Atlantic Provinces --- Economic conditions.

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In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of Acadia/Nova Scotia and New England in this era, but it was also a relationship shaped by wider continental and oceanic connections. The essays in this volume deal with topics such as colonial habitation, imperial exchange, and aboriginal engagement, all of which were pervasive phenomena of the time. John G. Reid argues that these were complicated processes that interacted freely with one another, shaping the human experience at different times and places. Northeastern North America was an arena of distinctive complexities in the early modern period, and this collection uses it as an example of a manageable and logical basis for historical study. Reid also explores the significance of anniversary observances and commemorations that have served as vehicles of reflection on the lasting implications of historical developments in the early modern period. These and other insights amount to a fresh perspective on the region and offer a deeper understanding of North American history.

HISTORY --- North America --- Indians of North America --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Americas - General --- Canada --- History --- Acadia --- New England --- History. --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Histoire --- Maritime Provinces --- Provinces maritimes --- Acadie --- Nouvelle-Angleterre --- Canada, Eastern --- New France --- Québec (Province) --- Canadian Maritimes --- Maritimes, Canadian --- Atlantic Provinces

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This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants and that could be labeled a 'sacred ecology'.

Micmac Indians --- Ethnoecology --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Government relations. --- Religion. --- History. --- Ecology --- Maritime Provinces --- Canadian Maritimes --- Maritimes, Canadian --- Atlantic Provinces --- Environmental conditions. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Mi'kmaq peoples --- Micmac Indians - Government relations --- Micmac Indians - Religion --- Micmac Indians - History --- Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Maritime Provinces --- Maritime Provinces - Environmental conditions --- Maritime Provinces - History