HIS263Y1 Lecture Notes - Pacific Scandal, Secret Ballot, Sandford Fleming
Document Summary
The major challenge facing the nation was its sense nationalism, or lack thereof. The assumed basis of national unity did not exist. Canada first movement british and protestant canada"s attempt to identify and promote a nationalism for the new dominion of canada. Ultramontane"s french/catholic group who believed in the subordination of the state to the church. The guibord affair an event when the catholic church refused to give guibord a christian burial. In 1874 the british empire ruled that burial was a civil right. The pacific scandal revealed that macdonald and carter had accepted more than ,000 in campaign funds from the canada pacific company who was a contender for the railway contract. The scandal forced macdonald to resign and a liberal government was formed. Alexander mackenzie won office with 138 of 206 seats as canada"s first liberal leader. The liberal party lacked internal unity; they built their party platform out of a common dislike for the conservatives.
