CONFEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY

    Essay Topic: CONFEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY
    These 8 articles (attached) provide political background to Confederation and the immediate economic policies – National Policy – following Confederation to enable you to examine the economic causes of Confederation. 
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    1)Donald Creighton, "The Economic Objectives at Confederation". 1937.
    2)Glazebrook, G. de T. “Confederation and Transportation”, Revista de Historia de América, no. 65/66 (Jan. – Dec., 1968), pp. 41-51.
    3)Donald V. Smiley, “Canada and the Quest for a National Policy”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 8, no. 1 (March, 1975), pp. 40-62.
    4)Andrew Smith, “Toryism. Classical Liberalism, and Capitalism: The Politics of Taxation and the Struggle for Canadian Confederation”, Canadian Historical Review, 89, 1 (March, 2008), pp. 1-25.
    5)Fowke, Vernon. “The National Policy – Old and New”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. Vol. 18, no. 3 (Aug. 1952), pp. 271-286 but read only 271-278
    6)Smith, Peter J. “The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 20, no. 1 (March, 1987), pp. 3-29
    7)Martin, Ged. “Launching Confederation: Means to Ends, 1836-1864”, The Historical Journal, vol. 27, no. 3 (Sept., 1984), pp. 575-602 
    8)Vipond, Robert C. “1787 and 1867: The Federal Principal and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered”, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 22, no. 1 (March, 1989), pp. 3-25.
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