Main entry:

Ontario Historical Society.

Title & Author:

Profiles of a province; studies in the history of Ontario; a collection of essays commissioned by the Ontario Historical Society to commemorate the centennial of Ontario.

Publication:

Toronto, Ontario Historical Society, 1967.

Description:

xiii, 233 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Pt. I. The making of a province -- The United Empire Loyalists / J. J. Talman -- The reform movement in Upper Canada / Fred Coyne Hamil -- Upper Canada and the conservative tradition / S. F. Wise -- The districts of Upper Canada, 1788-1849 / George W. Spragge -- The Anglo-American Magazine looks at urban Upper Canada on the eve of the railway era / Frederick H. Armstong and Neil C. Hultin -- The genesis of Ontario politics in the province of Canada, 1838-1871 / Paul G. Cornell -- Confederation: the atmosphere of crisis / C. P. Stacey -- Pt. II. The political scene -- Democracy and the Ontario Fathers of Confederation / Bruce W. Hodgins -- Edward Blake: a portrait of his childhood / Catherine Hume Blake, ed. By Margaret A. Banks -- The Mowat era, 1872-1896: stability and progress / A. Margaret Evans -- The Ontario boundary question / Morris Zaslow -- James P. Whitney and the University of Toronto / Charles W. Humphries -- The evolution of a Victorian liberal: N. W. Roswell / Margaret Prang -- The Tory Hepburn / Neil McKenty -- Pt. III. Aspects of Ontario's economy -- An introduction to the economic history of Ontario from Outpost to empire / H. A. Innis -- Foundations of the Canadian oil industry, 1850-1866 / Edward Phelps -- The impact of hydro on Ontario / R. N. Beattie -- The changing patterns of tourism in Ontario / R. I. Wolfe -- Agricultural settlement on the Canadian Shield: Ottawa River to Georgian Bay / Florence B. Murray -- Pt. IV. The Ontario outlook -- The Upper Canadian religious tradition / John S. Moir -- Educational leadership in Ontario, 1867-1967 / Robert M. Stamp -- Captain Charles Stuart, abolitionist / Fred Landon -- The old buildings of Ontario / W. S. Goulding -- Landscape painting in Upper Canada / J. Russell Harper -- A pallid picture: the image of Ontario in modern literature / William H. Magee.

Summary:

A collection of essays commissioned by the Ontario Historical Society to commemmorate the centennial of Ontario.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

Subject:

Ontario History.
Ontario Histoire.
Ontario

Form/genre:

Circular 15 titles.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 66222
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:91-B2693
Status: Available