HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Clear Grits, English Canada, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
23 Apr 2016
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Confederation and its discontents: the day of humiliation in yarmouth, ns. July 1st, 1867, british flags are flying half mast, there is a precession headed by a dilapidated wagon carrying musicians, they are playing pro-confederation songs, union is strength, an effigy of charles. Tupper was suspended by his neck and later set on fire with a live rat. Nova scotia was not pro- confederation: confederation as liberal-capitalist moment. Nationalist historians of english canada see confederation as courageous political leader who grasped the country. Pro-confederates in quebec explain it as it would allow them to get a divorce from upper canada. Quebec would get its own government and capital if they voted for confederation. Confederation was another moment in the making of liberal capitalism. Political change that placed canada under the control of liberals and under the economic control on small group of strategists.
