Author: Don Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
The Orangeman, Second Edition
Author: Don Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County Wexford who turned central Canada Orange, to explore these forces. Gowan was ambitious, malicious, and mendacious, but by the time of Confederation the Orange Order was the largest alliance of men in the country – the foundation of the coalition of conservative Protestants that sculpted Canadian politics in the century that followed. Don Akenson uses his skills as a historian and a novelist in respecting the historical record. The Orangeman is a lively and entertaining fictional biography, and in Akenson’s telling Gowan crosses swords with William Lyon Mackenzie and goes pub-crawling with the young John A. Macdonald. One never knows everything about a historical person or event; sometimes the right thing to do is to speculate sensibly and, if possible, have a little fun along the way. Akenson shows us Canadian loyalism, constitutionalism, and deference to state authority on one side of the coin, and on the flip side, the successful attempt by one group of Canadians to do down the other. This is real history, real life: as yesterday, so today.
Parliamentary Debates
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Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Pages : 1070
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House of Commons Debates, Official Report
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
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Address of the Grand Lodge to the Orangemen of Ireland. Dublin, 5th November, 1857
Author: Orange Order. Grand Lodge of Ireland
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Reports
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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A correct report of the proceedings at the election for a Representative in the room of the late Henry Grattan, for the City of Dublin, with all the speeches of H. Grattan, ... the speech of L. Plunkett, etc. Second edition ... enlarged
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Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Debates, Evidence, and Documents, Connected with the Investigation of the Charges Brought by the Attorney-general for Ireland, Against Charles Thorp, High Sheriff of Dublin, in the House of Commons, 1823
Author: Great Britain. Parliament, 1823. House of Commons
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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