Uppermost Canada : : the Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850
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Preface: About Uppermost Canada -- Introduction: Improvements handsome and extensive -- Connections -- 1812: Yankee Doodle upset -- 1813: John Bull set back -- 1814: Winning isn't everything -- A most irksome command -- Personalities -- Communities -- Rebels and Yankees -- Men of capital -- Adapting to the land -- Adapting to the land -- Adapting to the people -- Conclusion: Descent with modification.
"Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The international boundary, running invisibly through the Detroit River settlement since 1796, continues to be invoked by residents of the two shores, but only when they find it convenient to do so. The phrase "Uppermost Canada, "denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison."
"The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory aristocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all, however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District, with its close interpersonal and commercial links at the easiest crossing in the Great Lakes system, endured without apparent change longer than any of the others."
"Uppermost Canada will be invaluable to students of regional and Great Lakes history, international relations, and American and Canadian studies."--Jacket.
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Great Lakes books series
PUBLISHED
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: xii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0814328679
9780814328675
SUBJECTS
French-Canadians -- Windsor Region -- History.
Windsor Region (Ont.) -- History.
Detroit Region (Mich.) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Windsor Region.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Detroit Region.
Windsor Region (Ont.) -- Ethnic relations.
Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History.
Canada -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Canada.